The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-27
INTERNED PLOTTRRS
LIVE LUXURIOUSLY
Wealthy Aliens May Buy Any
thing Except Sugar and Lib
erty at Oglethorpe.
LIKE CLUB FOR HERREN
Many Enemy Propagandists
Have Private Rooms, Fitted
With Every Comfort. :
Special Despatch 10 The Sun.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. Oct. 26.-Aside
from the fact that one has to be
German to belong to the exclusive Sc.
in the interment camp at Fort Og,e-
thorpe &C., It seems from cursory
visit that life there isn't so very hard.
no matter for-what offence against the
Government OF the United States these
men have been Imprisoned.
This inner circle is composed of those
who have money as distinguished from
those who have not. and they have
money to buy anything they want ex-
cept sugar and liberty. True. there are
few social distinctions dear to the
German heart, and Herr Hazel OF the
! ". w. is OF course not on the same
footing rs Herr Hugo Schmidt. of the
Deutsches Bank, but the main differ
euce between Herr Hazel and Herr
Schmidt is that Herr Schmidt is wealthy
and has Injuries and Herr Hazel is not
wealthy and does without.
All Vicious Against U. =.
Perhaps that might not mean 80 much
IL
internment camp at Fort Oglethorpe is
The camp at Hot Springs, where are
sailors and officers of the German mer-
chant service informed since the be-
ginning OF the war. is on an entirely
different plane.
Fort Oglethorpe Is under the direct
supervision Of the War Department and
ii inmates are looked upon as prison
ees of war They are the plotters, the
ALI fn H. ,t-4~
gandists who have been caught, many
OF them, red handed at their work.
u Is for this reason that the luxuries
and exclusiveness of certain small
coterie in the camp seem significant
There are apparently German prisoners
and wealthy German prisoners. and
aside from the fact that they all obey
military regulations, arise. go to bed
and have their meals at the same time
all the ordinary things of life divide
them. One set perforce eats the army
food. the other. IL it chooses, may buy
all kinds of dellcacies which tickle the
Prussian palate. A prisoner, IL he Is
wealthy. may even buy his own private
room, but II he hasn't wealth he Is out
Of luck ard has to share the barracks.
In this more fortunate set are abou,
hundred men. such as Adolf Paven.
stedt and Hugo Schmidt, through whose
HdHuS pAsSeQ IrluCn OF me money tina
was used in this country to further
German propa ganda. Schmidt was rep
resentative in this country of the
Deutsches Bank and millions were sent
out by him at the order of Count Won
Bernstorff, the German Anba ssador
where they would do the most German
good.
Pavenstedt was connected with the
Transatlantic Trust Company. and. was
one of the links in the chain by which
Bolo Pasha got the money with which
he attempted TO corrupt French papers
on his return TO his country Bofo was
shot but Payenstedt lives very we'll.
Carl Heynen Is There.
There also are FREDERICK Stallforth
the friend OF Franz Won Rintelen, a Ger
man banker before the war and prom
!nent in this city and Mexico. Karl Neu-
riond, wealthy importer. and Rudolph
Hecht, a banker; Baron George Won See
beck and Fritz Kuhn are also of the
elect Carl Heynen. who was the Kaiser's
personal business agent and an official
Of the Hamburg American Line: DR..
Karl Muck. the former leader OF the
Boston Symphony Orchestra. and DIR.
Hans Heinz Ewers. who wrote a poem
hot MI Eai