The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-10-08

! Writing OF thrs" things and lookin"
! OFT from 4 SkySCrap"r i'll New YORK
| these details Of. court life seem ErrJ
| frivolous and far away. tSut an am
| hHssHdor IL compelled IN become part or
! this system. Tn" most important CON
! vcrSaIiona with III" emperor sometimes
| take place n court functions: anu inc
| amba Ssnrlnr and his secretaries OFTEN
| gather their mosI useful bits Of inf"r-
! nation over tea cups ar with III" cigars
! after dinner.
ASd" from IN" Sacr: court season.
/ i5t.rlin is rath": GGll bismarck rhHrar-
! trri.rd il nS l. desert OF bricks and
I newspapers.
In addition 10 making visits 10 the
| royalties. custom required ME Ia CAL
first upon The imperial chancellor nn1
! the Minister Of Foreign Affairs. inc
other minister's are supposed Ia call
first. although | b. lirv" III" r"d"uhtahl"
Ven Tirp!iH claimed 2. different rule. 50.
during the first wintr". gradually
mad" III" ACQUAINTANCE" Of those persons
wtn sway n" drStincS Nf IN" German
empire and It's seventy millions.
hincd with the emperor and had
| long CONVERSATIONS with him on New
Years dcy and AT ia" two court balls.
! Germans Tried n Excite Suspicion OF
; Japan.
AL during tho winter Germans from
! Tho highest down tried To imur"ss re
: with tho ;,rrai danger which they said
I, Threatened America with .lapan. The
military ami naval attaches ANA ! were
lolrl that IN" German information SyS-
tom sap: n"wS that Mexico WIS full nt
.I;;i,lur<, cni"rn!s anl America OF jap
nrrsc spies. Possibly much of the pref
udicc IN America against IN" Japanese
r,,r,::s,s whom we later learned 10
know So well
II IS noteworthy that during inc
Who'll" At my winter in Berlin | was nor
officially nr senl..offiCially afforded IN
, rrpnrIuniiy To mcrt any Of the members
, Of Tho RcrhstHE or any of Inc l"a""rS
; in tho business world TIL" great NOR
chants whose ncTuninc" | made. ms well
! as IN" literary and ariISiir n""p!'
! Ind - seek out hnCnuS" most OF ih"m
! were not iInf- fn"hig. ! did nor com"
. in cnn,nr' With them Mt amy court lui'-
lions. official dinners nr even IN w
. houses ut ti'r court mobiles or mos" C"t-
nrrIna with ihs government
\ ycr, interesting rhHrnrtor whom l
RIOT during III" first winter and "tt"n
rorynrsod with was Primo" ilonk"'-
bnnurrsmarrk Primo" DonnrrSmnr'k.
who died December. 1915. nj the ag" 81
\6 years was the richest NAL" SuhJ"cl
in Germany. The richest subjcrt h"'hs
FRAU won Kr;ipp-Bohlen. tn" heir"sS "i
tho Krupr cannon foundry. II" was inc
first German Of l.nrrain" during the war
OF $50. and he had q finger IN All III
the pnliticnl and commercial actl'''''H
nf Germany for more than half cen
iurv. H.. told me. on on" OCCASION INA.
-, had advocated rHaCtin o war IN
.1-m,,itv of thirty milliards from France
ortcr tho war OF 1870. and said mat
France could easily pay tt--nnd thhl "
lik. SUN. or much more. should be e1-
acted os an indemnity nj the conclusion
If the World War OF 1871.
Tho Prince said that he had always
advocated 4 protectiv" tariH TOT akr,
cultural products In Germany. as wei
nc announcement Of tho German man
urarturinr interests: that agriculture
,vo1 necessary to the country In nrdcr
=, nruyidc strong soldiers for war. ana
manufacturing industries were ne"nea
,o rrnvide money to pay for tho army
and navy and their equipment he
n,,dc me promise to take his second son
ia America in order that he might See
American life and the great iron ana
, coal districts Of Pennsylvania.
or ,.uursr. most Of these conversations
,ool rIocr before the World War. After
two wears nf that war and IA prospects
Of pnyinE the expense or the wnr from
thn Indrmniiirs tn he cXacted from the
; rucmics Of Germany gradually melted
away, the Prince quite naturally deNel-