Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-14
NORTHCLTFFE KEEPS
PRIVATE SPY BUSY
How One of His Men Sat Down
to Dine With the
Kaiser

one of the most illuminating features OF
the new book, MY Secret Service" George
II. Doran Company, written by an anouy-
nous journalist for the London Daily Mail,
is the insight given into Lord Northcliiie'9
marvellous system of obtaining "insidc in
formation" as to the situation on the contl-
nent of Europe.
Tho author of MY Secret Service
actually attended the famous banquet at
Nish last January, when the Kaiser met
Ferdinand Of Bulgaria and NJ. Radosladolf
the Bulgarian Premier The correspondent
sat less than Is yards away from the royal
pair. Here is his description Of the scene:
THE Kaiser sat on King Ferninand's
right, and on the latter's left sat General
Won FalJenhaym chief OF the German Cen
eral staff, while the Bulgarian Premier was
placed on the right of the Kaiser. AS look
back on the scene l see again the Kaiser not
only perpetually coughing. but looking SO
tired that l wondered afrcsh what great
purpose 1t was that brought him from a
sick bed in Berlin to the little Serbian
town with its dim petroleum lamps, He
looked a pathetic figure as he sat coughing
as though his throat were choked with some
virulent, irritating substance.
"All through the meal l could scarcely
take my eyes from the haggard face of the
author of the world-war, who looked
little like a war-lOrd. His hair was ter
ribly white, darkened little at the parting
where the roots showed. His cheeks were
scored with many lll4GS, ana when L con-
jured up a vision of the healthy-lOOking
Kaiser l had seen eight years previously
in Amsterdam / could not help marveling at
the change The only thing about him
that was not changed was his upright de-
pertinent. He stood up firm and erect his
pose that of an emperor, contrasting
strangely with the heavy awllwardness OF
his brother monarch"
An amusing anecdote of the late Jean
1 I Il.
author of Dear Enemy" and Daddy
Long-Legs" by Moutrose ]. Moses. II
seems that Miss Webster counted among
her prOteges not only orphans but con-
viCts, who frequently came TO pay their re-
spects to her after they had once more be-
come members of society. on one occasion,
receiving n call from notorious cN-burElar
she found ii necessary to leave him alone
for few minutes in the dining room. with
all the silver on the sideboard. Thinking,
however, to ease somewhat the strain upon
her guests good behavior she warned him
that all the bright articles which dazzled
before him were plate"
+. Horace Rose, whose Golden Glory"
just published by George II. Doran Com
pany, won a $4,000 prize offered for the best
novel Of Africa, tells most interesting story
Of the way in which his book was written,
As editor Of the Natal Witness and a busy
journalist, Mr., Rose had little leisure to de-
vote 10 Ile WflIluE OF ICLlOn, even Win n
tempting prize TO spur him TO unusual effort.
The plot came to him easily enough, but he
was hard put to 1t for a title, and when he
had written the first two chapters in three
hours, this difficulty stood like n lion in his
path and he found it Impossible 20 make fur
ther progress till IL was removed
He spent n day in desperate wanderings
and thinlSings and an evening at a vaude-
willie performance in which he could take no
interest then, in the middle Of a gramo-
phone turn, the title suddenly occurred 10
him, and his difficulties melted away. There
after with intervals when inspiration de-
serted him and he felt that the tale would
never be done, working at 1t mainly between
8 p. m. and the next morning, he wrote
the whole story of 10000 words inside six
weeks, and considers that his success re- |
warded him handsomely for his labors.
Captain Lincoln C. Andrews. L. s. A., |
first American Governor of Leyte, Philippine |
Islands and a veteran Of the Cuban and |
Philippine campaigns, spent a year in Mex !
leo, in 1906, becoming familiar with the |
northern provinces in particular Captain |
Andrews, whose Fundamentals Of Military |
Service" recently published by Lippincotts |
is the textbook in use at PlattsbuTg and |
ether training camps, has been recalled from |
the Philippines for service with the Ameri- |
can army on the Mexican border.