The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-10-15
(From the International News Bureau.
Inc..)

(From the International News Bureau.
Can inside story OF the club life of
the Kaiser. his brother. Prince Henry.
Hindenburg and other notables has
been disclosed by Wells Edwards. an
American, who was for, IL years en-
>ployed at the Bismarck Club at Ber-
lin, the favorite haunt of the Kaiser.
(He very aptly calls his articles
tsRevelries at the Bismarck Club.
How the royalties broke away from
the restrictions Of palace and court
are Illustrated in these anecdotes.)
The club chiefly used by the Kaiser
and his friends is the famous Bis
marck in Berlin The Bismarck was
crown prince in order that he might
have q. club exclusively reserved for
himself and his intimates.
No one could obtain admission to
the Bismarck without the sanction OF
the emperor Candidates for adnis-
sion were elected not by ballot but by
O. committee OF five, three OF whom
were members of the imperial house
hold.
Dinner parties as rowdy as they
| were costly were a feature of the Bis
marck.. On these occasions either
the KAISER or some Hohenzollern
prince sat at the head Of the table.
remember shortly after I went to
| the Bismarck, Hindenburg was one
of the guests on dinner night. The
| Kaiser was not present, and Prince
Henry of Prussia presided.
| Hindenburg, as usual, drank deeply
of his favorite red Rhenish wine and
ate of every dish on a long menu. At
| the end of the dinner the general went
to sleep; he lay back on his chair.
his huge head sunk on his expansive
chest, and he snoEed loudly.
/ Hindenburg was seated next to
i Prince Henry, and on the generals
fright was Baron Ebber, a wealthy
young Bavarian who at that time was
getting rid of a fortune as quickly as
he could, and was one of the most
notorious young rakes in Berlin.
/ Baron Hbber when he saw the con-
dition of Hindenburg called for a big
bottle of Rhenish, and exclaimed;
Let us anoint him with his favorite
fluid Then amid roars of laughter
4 the baron proceeded to pour the wine
over Hindenburg's head.
But it was a dangerous jest to play
with a man of Hindenburg's disposi
ton, who has the temper of demon
| when it is aroused, especially in hi.
cups.
AS the wine trick1ed over his fact
and down his neck the general WOKE
up. He gazed about the table In &
puzzled fashion. whilst pea1s Of laugh
| ter greeted him, and no one laughed
louder than Prince Henry.
Hindenburg put up his hands. to hi
face and neck, and looked at the bot
!. tie Of wine on the table; then tn,
situation dawned on him. He glares
around the table and there was some
thing SO terribly menacing in his lool
J that the laughter died down.
!, heard someone say, '.It's all right
general; you must not mind a bit of
, | joke" I think it was Prince Henri.
Of Prussia who spoke. At any rat
, he attracted the full force of the gen
;, erals blazing wrath.
Hindenburg sprang to his feet
seized an empty champagne bottle
swung 1t up in the air over tn
princes head; then someone pulle
the prince off his chair, on the bacl
Of which the next instant the bottl
came smashing down and broke int
) pieces.
Half a dozen of, the diners the
sprang at Hindenburg, who steppe
t ! back, and lifting his chair partly OF
I. 1.-THE ground swore he would dash GU
l the brains Of the first man who stirre
a step toward him.
) Prince Henry of Prussia had in tn
: meanwhile left the room; and CAPITAL
Weissenrode of the imperial house
hold, who was the most sober ma
: present, eventually persuaded Hinden
: burg to leave the club with him, an
= he saw the general to his hotel in Ber
lin.
4 Hindenburg was subsequently ser
h / fenced by the Kaiser to six month
Il arrest at Hindenburg's house &
Hanover, which meant that the ger
* eral was not allowed to leave h
IS house during that period under per
al atty of being dismissed from til
d army.
ei Somettmes at a banquet at the B1
lmarck they would perform . Ger