Evening journal., 1913-05-02
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
When Kaiser Wilhelm Visit
ed J. PierpOnt Morgan
BY Uoisnd.
By Hollsnd

In the summer of 1902 the German
Emperor and the late J. Pierpont
Morgan met upon Mr. Morgan's yacht
the Corsair in the roads Of Kiel AT
ter the meeting Mr.. Morgan acknowl-
edged that he had spent an hour with
the Emperor, but all that he would
cay about the meeting was this: 81
have seen the Kaiser, and l like him.
The late Frederick w. Hollis, who
was one of the delegates represent
ing the United States at the first
Hague conference, was able after his
return to the United States in 1902,
to report to his friends what Kaiser
Wilhelm had said to his immediate
circle shortly after his meeting with
Mr. Morgan
The German emperor was tremen-
dously Impressed with Mr. Morgan"
said Mr. Hollis. 81 learned this upon
very high authority. He practically
said after the interview was over that
he not only admired Mr.. Morgan, but
liked him.
81 think" continued Mr.. Hollis,
that this was the most extraordinary
meeting between two distinguished
men-one a monarch Of Europe and
the other a simple American citipen-
since Benjamin Franklin met some of
the crowned heads of Europe. Mr..
Morgan knew when he sailed for Kiel
that the German emperor was anxious
to meet him. He furthermore knew
that the emperor regarded him as a
man who in his own sphere of activity
was as true a monarch as the emper-
or himself was.
Il was told by some of my German
friends that the emperor was always
exceedingly anxious to learn all tina;
he could about the organization of the
United States Steel Corporation, and
that be believed it a greater piece oil
work from the financial and construc-
tive point of view than was anything
that Cecil Rhodes had done in South
Africa. There had been, a short time
earlier a meeting between the En-
peror William and Cecil Rhodes, who
at that time was called the Colossus
of South Africa
AT the emperors invitation,~ Mr.
Morgan. with a number of Ameri
cans. including Clement A. Griscom
of Philadelphia, and p. A. Widener
also of that city, paid former cal
upon the kaiser, who was then upOl
the imperial yacht, the Hohenzollern
but II was made evident that Mr.
Morgan was the man whom thu
kaiser especially desired to see an'
to talk to.
"Soon after this visit the kaise
signalled the Corsair from his yach
that he was going to pay Mr.. Nor
gan a visit The two men met a.
though they were upon terms o
personal and authoritative equality
Each of the two men studied thu
other and each knew that the othe
was studying him. They were apar
from the rest of the company upcl
Mr.. Morgans yacht. Any one VIII
saw them, but did not know who the
we're, would have been sure TO thin
that they were warm personal friend
and were at the some time of hig
personal authority.
Wharf.-The emperor and Mr.. Morga
talked about, of course, was not the
known and probably never will b.
But there are good reasons for SUI
missing that the emperor was yer
inquisitive although courteously 81
being anxious to learn from Mr. MOI
gan upon what economic principl
was based his organization of III
greatest corporation of the world AM
little later, his organization of th
great ocean steamship combnatio
But the matter of immediate intere
to those who witnessed the intervie
from a little distance was the ev
dent manifestation of respect an
acknowledgment of equality whiC
the German emperor displayed viii
chatting with the man whom he r.
garded as the great leader of Amer
can business life.
Copyright 1913. by e. J. Edward
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