The Washington herald., 1915-03-21


family album. where they may look
upon nineteen rulers of the House of
HohenzoIIern. in whose hands a re-
mote wilderness became one of tn
richest and most powerful countries
Louise and Frederick the Great-A
stroll down the martial Inter den Lin
den. the front path of the Kaiser.
has stood unassaiIed longer than any
other in Europe.
Next sunday there will be another
article in this series of sketche. sof
the great backgrounds of the war, n.
MIR. Morgan saw them in the course of
his recent journey along the route Of
NapolcOn's campaigns.
When you 20 TO Berlin, the Kaiser,
like a thoughtful host. shows YOU the
family album, which he keeps on the
center table of his imperial capital.
This center table is the Thiergarten.
which is in the midst of the busy CITY.
and the volume is bound not in red
plush with brass clasps. but in the
beautiful green of that old royal deer
avenue OF Victory there, you turn the
leaves of the album and unfold the
marble portraits of nineteen of the
khIs"rs predecessors. which he has
set up in that Sieges Alice
There are soothing Berliners who
boldly risk the pains and penalties of
with its double row Of HohenzoIlerns
III" Avenue of Dolls" Yet several of
me statues are imposing enough, and
IN" rest are no more funny than some
OF The pictures in your own family
album.
~ one end Of the Sieges Alice.
Golden figure of Victory spreads its
arms atop tall column. which springs
from a hawthorn bed in front of the
immense Parliament house of the
Kelchstas. at whose portal Bismarck
stands in twenty feet of bronze grasp
ing his sword with one hand while the
other holds down the constitution of
me empire as if TO keep it from being
hIoWn away in the gale raised by the
legislative debaters. That. however is
AT the back of the Kaiser's album To
starr at the beginning. we must go
10 the opposite end of the Avenue of
Victory.
4 Pawn Ticket ana a Howftzer.
W" come at once upon the figure of
Frederick, the first elector of Branden-
burg and the pioneer Hohenzollern in
t te parts. This square headed old
fellow came up from the walled town
OF NuremburS shortly before I415
holding in one hand a pawn ticket
an. draEEing cannon with the other
Ihos" two things have remained
through 500 years almost equally
characteristic of the family-thrift and
pugnaCity.
= Since the day when a young Hohcn
zoiiern. with nothing but his javelir
ana he bun Jerkin on his back, set
our from Inc ancestral castle of Ho-
h"nZollern.-"high tollery" or toll place
to seek his fortune in the world, $50
wears had passed when Frederick ap-
reared III Brandenburg with his how
Through those two centuries and a
half the Hohenzollerns had been Bur
graves Of Nuremberg. In that ancient
city, which was famous station on
The overland highway between the
East and. the West before the dis
covery of a trade route around the
continued its toll taking habit so dill
gently that it waXed amazingly rich.
The Hohenzollerns of Nuremburg
seem always to have had money to
lend. and by foreclosure they steadily
added to their estate. Thus they pick
ed up Anspach and Raireuth before
deemed pawn ticket. 1t is calculated
that when Frederick foreclosed on this
latter estate IT stood him fully $1,000
600. Although ii covered II 900 square
miles, il was doubtful investment
1t was a wild tract of country lying
entirely off the main roads of travel
between the Slavs and the Teutons,
it's sandy and be- sy solitudes were in
tested by a Slavic tribe of Wends
These and people sbs Were as poor as their
ing and shooting. their favorite game
consisting of merchants who ventured
to cross %ssu the bSggE jungle on their
Hamburg or tho Rhine country.
This hazardous but somewhat profit
3 trn$n ' rad s, Thch was called living
hibited by Frederick. Thus the first of
the multitude of things "verboten' in
~" realm Of the Hohenzollerns was
highway robbery. There you have an
other persistent family trait
Tho robbers. of course. clamored
acainst any. governmental interference
when. however. Frederick opened with |
his 2i-pounder-it was the first cam
non that ever shook those wiIds-the |
towers of the rohber barons tumbled /
about their heads.
The HohenzoIIcrns Move to Town.
uohenzollcrns in the Sieses Alice dis |
closes the cffigy of Fredcrick's son, |
UImcsake and successor. The Berlin |
"rs more than 400 years ago named |
HIM Frederick Irontceth because he bit |
= hole in their resisting wall and \
would have bitten off their rebellious
their behavior. Then Frederick moved
into town from the country and the
IIohenzollerns proceeded to settle
down in Berlin.
Now come to the third of the
Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg-tall.
spare hook -nosed Albert Achilles. so
fdlieu ny reason OF MS repute for
Valor in war. Next. big and fat, with
head thrown back. is the great talker
of the family-hence Johann Cicero
Now. sour-looking. big-nosed Joas6im
Nestor; next. heavy -jowIed Joachim
Hector. and now John George, who
though he died at 20. did not live long
enough by few months to see his
twenty-third child cutter the world
Not so much TO look upon is Joachim
Frederick. but something to think on |
For ii was in his electorate that the
Hohenzollerns pushed out beyond
Brandenburg and gained their first
foothold on the Rhine, while in the
opposite direction they came into pos
session of the Prussian name
The Brandenburg Hohenzollerns al
ways We're ready to make trade
With various other branches of the
family they agreed to bequeath Bran
denburg in case they themselves ever
failed of heirs: in return for which
their cousins. in case of such fail
ure in their lines. covenanted to leave
their estates to the Brandenburg
house. Thus the latter gained East
Prussia, or as Ii was then called SIM
ply Prussia, Po-Russfa or nearby Rus
STA.
In the same generation and-fn tb.l