Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-13

When he was last in Vienna Duchess
Sophie asked him to run on an errand
for her. As wife of his superior, Franz
Ferdinand. she might have done this if
she had been a complete archduchess.
and young Archduke Karl interpreted her
act as preJense to such rank AS that
meant excluding him. his wife, Arch
duchess Zita, and future children from the
imperial throne, he showed his resent
ment by applying TO be relieved of his
rank of orderly. The immediate result
was that Karl Franz Josef and his wife
were ignored at the court festivities.
That means that Franz Ferdinand is in
complete control of the Hofburg Palace
as well of the army. Kaiser Franz
Josef tried to soften the blow by pre-
Senting Zita with the wonderful library
Of the late Empress Eliza beth Archduke
Franz Ferdinand protested. The library,
he said. ought TO remain at the HofburS.
Karl Franz Josef and his wife Zita could
have it when they became emperor and
empress.
Karl Franz Josef's snubbing is only the
first sign of the Habsburg feud. The next
sign is the clearing of uncomfortable
archdukes out of the army. Franz Ferdi-
nand shows himself every day more mas
terful. and every day weak Kaiser Franz
Josef gives him more and more exercise
OF authority. AS result, the majority
archdukes," as they are called. are leav-
ing the army. The majority archdukes'
are those who count among the fifty
Habsburgs who are opposed to Franz
Ferdinand. They are particularly strong
among the knsmen of the late -Archduke
Karl Ferdinand. All three of this arch
dukes soldier sons held high rank in the
army: and all. though comparatively
young, are now in retirement.
The last To go was the youngest. Arch
duke Eugene Eugene is the handsomest
man. and the ablest soldier among all
the III Iabsourgs, and he is the darling
of the Viennese and Innsbruckians. He
held the post of cavalry inspector and
commander in the Tyrol. His natural
military talents were so great that ii
was said he would have been general
still earlier in life if he had not been
an archduke. Eugene's excuse for his
retirement was bad health. His health is
perfect The real reason was that he
considers himself better soldier than
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and dislikes
Franz Eordinand's way of running the
army.
was not only his attitude toward the sue
cession Question. but also Eugcnes polit-
zeal views. Eugene Is a resolute pro-Ger-
man. He is grand master of the Teutonic
order. and he dislikes both the Slavs and
the Italians In Innsbruck he was known
as the German archduke- During dem
onstrations over the Italian univcrsity
question German was killed by
EuSencS soldiers. The archdukc at
tended the funeral. Franz Ferdinand
hopes To- secure his ambitions by AN al
liancc with the Teutonophobe Slavs. so
To him Eugene's Germanophilism is Bit
get rid of the offender. 1t is now likely
that for similar reasons the Archduke
Leopold Salvador. general artillery in
spector, will resign his post.
Another indication of the feud is that
the great Habsburg family trust is being
dissolved; and the trust millions i'm money
and millions in land values are being dis
tributed among the individual archdukes
and archduchesses. Hitherto the Habs-
burgs. the most united elan in Europe
ram their vast properties through the
head Of the house.
Trusts. stocks, shares, land, factories
fisheries. salt mines and oil lands belong.
ing 10 the 124 kinsmen were all managed
by the kaiser's observation-disclosures -
Every one trusted Franz Josef and with
. reason. The properties managed by TN.
erhofmeisteramt nave increased sew.
enfold in values during the sixty-foul
years Franz Josef has reigned. Witt
. Franz Ferdinand future emperor. and
deadly enemy of two-thirds OF the arch