The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-07-30

telephoned up to the doctors room. He
came down at once, but instead Of turn
ms toward the dining room led us to the
Forty-third street entrance to the hotel.
He called a taxcab and motioned us
into it.
ITO the Ritz-Carlton, he ordered the
chauffeur. It was raining hard and the
car moved slowly. The doctor jumped
out first as it stopped at the Madison
avenue entrance to the Ritz and led the
way with the air of one familiar with the
route to an elevator. The elevator de-
posted US in tie lobby of private suite.
A lveried servant stood by a door. DR..
Rumely hauGcd him his card and spoke
sharply to him in German. I caught the
word "Excellenz"
The servant took the card inside. A
moment later he opened the door and
bowed US in. We passed through hall,
where we left our hats, to dining room.
The table was laid for six. A rotund,
bearded man and a tall, thin man with
an upturned mustache, who clicked his
heels together when he bowed, welcomed
U.s.
DR.. Rumeiy greeted them obsequiously.
then introduced Lambin and myself to
Or. Dernburg and Captain Albert.
I recognized Captain Albert instantly,
although DR.. Rumely had introduced him
as "Dr. Albrecht." His naughty. mill.
tary bearing, the scars of his Heidelberg
duels, that only served to emphasize and
hr;u tha str o1o cpf M
his features, make his face one that it is
impossible to forget.
Il am glad to see you again." I said
1T is now eleven years since we met"
Captain Albert appeared puzzled
"Were you then in Berlin:" he asked.
"No, you were in America" I replied
Whatever his answer, it was lost in the
general conversation, as DR.. Rumely and
DR.. Dernburg We're by this time talking
rapidly.
We seated ourselves at the Breakfast
ia Bile, after a wait of a few minutes fol
an expected sixth guest, some one whose
name was mentioned but who did no
appear and whom do not now identify
It was an excellent breakfast, of man!
courses-all but the coffee. The coffee
was typically German.
There was much rapid fire converse
ton across the breakfast table. l do no
remember much of it, for my mind wa
busy trying to piece together what
h knew about Captain Albert. He ha'
seemed surprised that l remembered
y meeting him in America in 1904. Surely
r many thousands Of people must hav
;. met him at that time-what was ther
a about his previous activities in tn
q United States that made it an annoy
: .nce to him to have them recalled at thi
r time?
d Breakfast ON Significant Date.
- 1t must be remembered that on the dat
- of this breakfast, the first week In May
= l1o15, nothing had occurred to disturb tn
n friendly relations between the Unite
II States and Germany. Public opinion a
~ to the merits of the war was divided
q lin the East strongly anti-German, in tn
X West preponderatingly pro-German. ID
r Dernburg was circulating freely about tn
. United States, ostensibly as the repre-
" ~
turing in crowded halls to audiences tina
cheered his references to the successes c
German arms. Attention had not bee
focused upon the activities of Won Berr
ID storff, Won Papen, Boyd and the res
&c of the criminal crew that were doing tn
" Kaiser's dirty work in America. Car
u tain Alberts name had hardly been mer
-, toned publicly in any connection. tn
y people of the United States were in utte
Ct ignorance of what was going on anon
them.
let The Lusitania at that moment was sti
III in mid-ocean, racing eastward toward ne
D. doom! America had not yet found he
e. soul.
Ny previous meeting with Captain A
81 bert had been at the St. Louis World
IS Fair, in 1904. I remembered wildly
Is dinner given by DR.. Theodor Lewald, tn
le German Imperial Commissioner to the e,
K position, to Sir Hugh Gilzean-Read, the
the editor Of the Manchester Guardian
IS All the newspaper representatives in S
"a louis were invited, and it happened tina
lie I sat opposite Captain Albert, whose ii
10 terest in American journalism was eve
Re then discernible from the questions q
r. asked of the newspaper men about him.
a remembered, too, Captain Al
y bert's interest in the work that the
II German commission was doing Of
registering the German-Ameri-
Is cans. This work was directly un-
I. der Captain Albert's charge. In
lie room in the great German pavilion
n was a table with chairs, pens and
ink, and to those who visited the
e place an attendant presented folio
I sheets like the pages of hotel
l register for their signatures.
d comfy If you are Of German
l blood" the attendant explained.
i "This is Das Goldenes Buch der
U Deutschen in Amerika-the Golden
Book Of Germans in America-and
8 after the exposition these sheets
9 will be bound together In a great
= volume and presented to our
IS Kaiser as token Of remembrance
= from his absent sons"
n Hundreds of thousands of names wer'
: inscribed in the book; each person sign