The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-21

functions. but I did not come in close contact with him. I remember seeing Ihim once in his car as he was about to enter Brandenburger Tor on his way up Unter den Linden. The fa- miliar sound of his fathers motor be- hind him caused him to draw up to one side and stand at salute until the kai. ser had passed on ahead. It was just an illustration of the force of mili- tary discipline which was bred in the bone of the crown prince. He simply did not dare drive up Unter der Linden first, knowing the Kaiser was follow ing him.
 While the crown prince seemed to respect military requirements. he paid little attention to the civil regulations. He was the despair of the traffic po- licemen and the taxi drivers and pri- vate chauffeurs, as were also the upon driving around safety zones to the left instead of the right and usual ly came within an ace of colliding with other cars. The crown prince was a reckless driver at best. On one occa- sion he was going so fast through a lefty street that his car climbed the sidewalk and he crashed into a lamp post His car was smashed but he escaped injury.
 I saw him on several occasions stop
 his motor or pull up his horse for the purpose of giving a coin to child or y-looking passerby on the street, a form of ostentatious charity which ap- pealed very strongly to him. Among other qualities which he inherited from his father was a love foc posing in public He never allowed an oppor- tunitv to pass to make favorable inn pression with the people, and one read al daily of ic ri Either the representatives of tho Ger man press must have been omnipresent ! or the imperial press agent was un- usually efficient. On one occa sion when still quite young, the crew n prince rode his horse I'D the hundred | steps of the palace at Sans Souci, not | a particularly difficult feat but the newspapers and magazines made all | they could out of it.
 l Although I did not see the crown
 prince again professionally until 1915, l the crown princess came to me in 1913. and from that time on paid me more | or less regular visits. She was a | woman of great charm and intelligence, and although she was more Russian | than German in her ideas. and for l sometime after her marriage was rather generally criticized on that ac- count, she soon becap'e extremely pop ular and today is very much admired by the German people
 LOVED FRENCH CITIES
 In her youth much of her time had been spent on the French Riviera and
 she had found French associations and customs more to her liking than Ger man. Wien rrepainig for her nuptials she spent lhore time iE l'aris than she did in Berlin, most of her shopping
 being done in the Trench capital Che l complaint was freely laade that a French trosseau was hardly appro- priate for the Wife-to be of a German crown prince.
 These adverse criticisms were soon | lived down, however, and the crown l German court circles, tn which she brought youthful animation and esprit which had been notably absent l before her advent
 l She was one of the most democI tic and informal of my royal patients l l remember one day when I was work ing on Princess Hatfield, we heard a l loud Hoo Hoo" from the anteroom The crown princess had heard that the 1 Princess Hazfeld, who was great chum of hers was in my office and
 had followed her into my place un- 1 announced.
 1 On another occasion, I had just fin
 ished my days work and was writing | a letter, when "a dog ran into the room walked out to ascertain who had let | the animal in and found that the crown princess and Princess Hatfield had walked into my office. Desiring tc
 make an appointment for the following week and passing my place, they hai
 stepped in for that purpose in the most
 informal way. The dog, which belonged I to the crown princess,i had found its way l into my room to announce the arrival o1 his royal mistress.
 PRINCESS HATFIELD l The Princess Hatzfeld, I may mention 1 was an extremely intelligent and beauti
 full woman, and because of her intimacy with the crown princess, I took a keer l interest in the views she expressed iron
 time to time. Her mother was an Amer. | ican.
 1 When she called on me on one occa sion after the war had started, I re | peated to her the gist of conversation
 I had had a few days before with hel | father, Excellenz Won Stumm. He in l formed me that he had been trying tC
 convince all Germans of influence tha | it would be serious mistake to anney
 Belgium
 | From morning to night, I have beer l trying to teach our people some sense, l he had declared. ''With the history o Poland and Alsace-Lorraine in mind why should we take more responsibilitie. on our shoulders by retaining Belgium The Lord only knows we have our hands | full as. it is. I don't see and I nevel 1 have seen how Germany can possibl, 1 win this war"
 Your father seemed to be very pes
 smistic regarding the outlook" I tolc J her.
 The sad thing about it. she re piled, lis that father is always right
 never knew him to make a mistake
 in Judgment
 GROWN PRINCE CHANGED
 When the crown prince called to SC, me again I was surprised to find { considerable change in his general ap pearance. Although, of course, he wa: i 10 years older, he had aged more thai l would have expected. There were line! l on his face which made him look olde l than his 33 years.
 ] In the outer world he was general, | believed to be one of the leading spirit.
 of the military party in Germany, bu among his own people he was not cred
 ited with sufficient ability or influence to be much of a factor. Indeed with
 in the past year he had been criticized | rather severely in army circles for hi indifference to the crisis in which hi country was involved and for not talk 1 ing the war seriously enough, and iron all I was able to observe of him during I the visits he paid me after the resump tion of our relations, these criticismi were well founded The newspapers 1 however, which were naturally inspired 1 always brought his name to the iron whenever the army he was accredited tt made any successful showing Just Q: