The Glenwood post., 1917-10-20
With the Kaiser on His
Private Yacht.
ERMANY'S greatness is due
to beef, beer and Bis
marck," declared the kai-


ser to me with laugh, as
l sat one summers afternoon with him
in the business cabin aboard the Ho-
henzolIern. -H
We were going on our annual cruise
up the Norwegian fjords as far as
; Hammerfest, and even farther north,
to the island of Spitzbergen, if weather
permitted. %. ,,.- r... .a -,r-
1t is strange how often small things
occupy great minds. The reason of
the emperor's good humor that after
noon was because he had learned that
the cafe-restaurant in Potsdam Of
which he was proprietor had paid
handsome profit. The place is called
THE Historic MIL" and was and still
ID naAHaged BY Herr MoritE, one Of the
old stewards OF the Neues Palais. The
emperor, on purchasing the place,
called old Moritz and ordered him to
serve the best coffee procurable in
Potsdam. And, even today, anybody
can 60 there and pay 80 pfennigs for
cup that Is unequaled in all Germany.
IN consequence, the place is well pat
ronized, and on many occasions his
majesty will halt upon his walks and
sample it. H r.r-
> A Mania for Travelling.
At that moment the emperor was
busy making up his diary for the forth
coming month, a diary of constant
travel. Such mania has the kaiser
for travelling that upon occasions he
. has been known to sleep in the impe-
rial railway saloon kept at the Wild
park station at Potsdam, ready for an
early journey next morning. On such
occasions the whole railway traffic is
dlsorganized, for express trains must
not run on that line. There must be
no shunting or whistling lest it dis
tWb the imperial sleep, and SO on. In
deed, the socialists once made pub
lie protest against the emperor's habit
of holding up traffic by preferring to
sleep in a railway car to reposing in
his own bed half mile distant.
That summers afternoon as we
sat together, nnd while he smoked his
very rank cigar, he dictated certain
entries into his private diary.
Suddenly he grumbled about the ex-
penses of journey which he had to
make to Vienna to see the sovereign
whom he SO openly ridiculed, Francis
Joseph.
II must be there on September the
eighteenth" he said. even though
I hold the old idiot and his empire In
the hollow of my hand, suppose l
must grace his capital with my pres
ence. But begrudge the money, Helt-
zendorff. have no further influence
to gain in Austrih-Hungary. 1t is in
England that my future work lies. Ev-
cry mark spent there is to our advan-
~tage. We shall have much yet to do
in Germunizing Great Britain"
The kaiser and his imperial spouse
were a parsimonious pair in most d.
rections. Only when 1t was in the In
iterests of the empire were they lavish
I'M their expenditure: The German
public have never yet realized that
since William II assembled the throne
they have paid 10000 900 marks into
the civil list, and Of these 13OOOO,OOO
have been expended upon pageant of
winglorious splendor, with staff of
1,boO persons, that goes to make the
all.hfghest the great war lord. 'T VOC
The general public have no concep-
tinu of the extent Of the German i'm
perial, court. the immense suite Of la
diss and gentlemen In waiting. mar
al,ais, equerries, masters Of the hunt,
chamberlains, treasurers, overseers Of
ne plate, gentlemen Of the cellars,
xunpl chargers, chief chefs, With the
. erowdr of sfootmen, rcoachmeu.t chauf.
feurs, xrooms and imperial couriers.
And most Of them were usually q
grumbling crowd. being upon starva-