The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-26
Duke Ernest Augustus and Wife
to Spend Several Days at
Hubertusstock.
ny LA MARQUES DE roN1ESoy.

HubertuSStoCk.
BY LA MARaUIEs DE ToN1ENoY.
III IJBERTUSSTOCK, where Duke Err
nest Augustus, of Brunswick and
his bride, the only daughter of
tho Kaiser, who were married on Sat
urday at Berlin. are to spend the first
portion OF their honeymoon. Is known
among the members of tho Emperor's
FAMILY and encourage as Honeymoon
housc For the three married
brothers of tho bride each OF them
spent the first fortnight following their
wedding at Hubertusstock. where tho
privacy is all that tho young couples
ca IL is not chateau, as some
people seem to imagine but n biz ovar-
Slo"h' two-storied chalet Surrounded
oy number of smaller wooden dwnIl-
ing houses OF picturesque design. in
o,se mus. OF dense forest of huge
extent and swarming with game
| 1t is the favorite OF all the Kais.-,
shooting lodges, by reason OF it's proxi-
NIFTY to the capital: and whenever h.
ieeis In need OF complete rest or
.soIhtion he invariably retires TO Huber
tusstock. Formerly 1t required q driya
OF at least three hours from tho SIN.
tioh on the main line in order to reach
the lodge. But some years ago the
emperor caused n small private rail
road to be constructed from the trunk
me 10 small station within a few
hundred yards of the so-caIled
JaGdschloss. AS no train runs on this
private line excepting by the EN-
peror's personal orders, and the forest
is strictly preserved by vigilant game
keepers. no unauthorized person can
obtain access to the lodge. which is
| thus completely cut off from the oIter
world, save by wire.
II Is because of the solitude OF tho
place that during the early stages of
the insanity Of Frederick William "
| OF Prussia, he was taken ont nv his
attendants TO Hubertusstock in the
! nope that the entire absence OF all ex-
citement, and the freedom from any
disturbing element. would avert the
recurrence of his attack OF mania.
! Inc emperor sometimes spends an
entire fortnight at Hubertusstock. and
II has frequently been asserted that
he takes advantage OF the complete alb
sence from public observation which
/ he then enjoys to make secret trims
abroad. IL was his absence at this
place for period OF ten days, when
! the Car was at Paris n decade or
/ SO ago that led TO the very crcum-
stantial story about his having been
In the French capital in the styictest
lncognito for several days during the
| Russian Empcrors stay on the banks of
Gated 10 William over the phone, caused
\ him TO send 10 the Gar at the great
/ French military station OF Chaloas a
telegram from Hubertusstock. not as
usual in cipher. but In ordinary Ian
/ guaee, which was published in the
! French and German papers.
/ The lodge is within a few hundred
yards of the Werbcllin Lake But the
feature OF these preserves is the ceIc-
brated Schorfhaide. great heath stu
ated in clearing OF the forest, which
every year in the month of Novem-
her. becomes the meeting place of many
thousands Of stays. They come from
all parts OF Germany, from Austria, and
even from Russia. this being rendered
possible by the proximity TO one another
of the great estates of the territorial no.
bility, so that IL would be feasible to
march almost from the Adriatic to the
| Baltic without ever leaving forest
| glades.
This annual assemblage Of stays on
| the Schorfhaide has been taking place
every autumn for untold centuries. In
| fact. mention thereof has been found
in documents moro than IL thousand
years old. The meetings afford an eX-
traordinary sight, and are the scenes
! of numerous single combats to the
death between royals" the other stays
and deer standing round as if to form
n huge amphitheatre, and gravely
watching the duel without making any
attempt to interfere.
All sorts of theories have been nut
forward with regard to the annual
concourse of stays ON the Schorfhaide.
| Veteran foresters of experience, how
ever. insist that it Is nothing more nor
less than n species of great animal
congress, at which the various antler-
ed tribes meet for big palaver, to
decide matters affecting the policy and
! leadership of their various clans. Far
| fetched as this theory may seem at
first. sight, IL is evident that there is
/ something of the kind that brings stays
! and their mates from the remote
forests OF Galicia on the Austro- Rus
! sian frontier, from tho vast Lichten-
! stein game preserves to tho south of
! Vienna, from the still larger sporting
property of Belyer. In Hungary be-
| longing to Archduke Frederick. all the
way 20 tho Schorfhaide, In order to
! flock together by thousands.
It has been a matter OF forest ethics
and of the law of the chase from time
liInmemorinl. to abstain from disturbing
| this animal convivum of stays as 1t
| Is called, and while 1t lasts not
single shot is to he heard In the
| forests around Hubertusstock In fact,
| November has on this account become
n species of close season there, no ono
interested in sport wishing to do any
thing that could In the least degreo
Interfere with this, so far as T know.
altogether unique custom in the animal
world The meetings. however. have
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