The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-03

Long after Sagan was con Duke de nected with the outer world Ialleyran by railroad she used to and travel by coach with six Anna Cou gaiy caparisoned horses and to Whom outriders, and whenever she Duke passed through village the TransfeYr, schools were closed to per His Germ init the children to admire Title ane the unusual spectacle. The Estates Wh citizens Of Sagan put up with the Cerma her whims and bowed to her. Threaten not only because she was a Conf;scaf. duchess, but because the
 ducal household brought
 much money into the town.
 When the Duchess Dorothea died in 1862, her son, already Duke of valencay, Talleyrand and Perigord, became also Duke of Sagan. Although a Frenchman by birth and education he took up his residence at Sagan, and embellished the park by the construction of magnificent foun- tans, after the style of Versailles. The burghers of Sagan were happy, because they expected that the Duke would spend all his money in the town. The Franco-German war dispelled this hope. The Duke returned to Paris, where he spent all the revenue from his German pos sessions, and much more His son and heir "the modern Alcibiades," followed him, and then came the present Duke, the husband of Anna Gould.
 The castle of Sagan is vast structure in the lallan Renaissance style, with courtyard be- tween two wings fronting on a terrace, under which large orangery extends It contains more than hundred rOoms most of them richly furnished in modern taste by the Dukes grand father. Some of the rooms of historical in terest, having been left In the condition in which they were used by former proprietors. among them the Loebkowitz room and the Wal lenstein room.
 large picture gallery contains many valuable paintings. One room is used a museum, where many objects of local interest are preserved, together with large collections of butterflies, stuffed animals and minerals. The park is laid out in the English style, and in front of the castle is garden where thousands upon thou sands of rose trees of all kinds are planted.
 Not far from the entrance is smaller build ing almost castle in itself, called the Cavalier House., now the residence of the manager of the estate. It has rooms for guests who cannot be placed in the palace proper. Several square miles of forest surround the park on three sides. Game abounds there-pheasants deer and hares. Here is also one of the few spots left in Germany where the sportsman finds the capercailzie. All the Kings of Prussia in the last century have shot these preserves.
 The city of Sagan is on the Bober, river hardly more than good sized creek in the Summer. but turbulent and often dangerous stream in the Spring. The town has about 12,00O inhabitants and consists, like most of the smaller German cities, of two sections, entirely different from each other. The older city has preserved much of the architecture of the mid dle ages, the narrow houses with high gables, and the market place, surrounded by arcades. The newer quarter is entirely modern and pretty. There are manufactures of cloth, linen and cotton.
 The entire duchy of Sagan covers territory of 1,211 square kilometres, 507 square miles, and has population of 65,000.
 The property is said to yield an income of nearly 100000 marks per annum, which Is enormous for Germany, being one-sixteer tn part of the Kaisers own.