The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-29

l Later in my German life I encounter ed him in Westphalia where he play ed polo with the Thyssens, who were my pupils and patrons. He played polo as he did everything else with little regard to the finer points of the game.
 Sometimes he took part in the ath- letic exercises which took place un- der my direction at Kabinettshaus. I found him at once overbearing and stupid; a disturbing influence wher- ever he went. One of the sports to which he was most addicted was skat- ing; and on the ice, amid the aris- toeratic surroundings of the Court Skating club, of which he was presi-, dent, he behaved in a manner which would have been tolerated from mo- body in public skating resort. Night Life of Berlin
 At the time of which I am writing Berlin was striving desperately to es- | tablish it's claim to the title of the gayest city of the world, and the night life of the city, both open and behind the scenes, was in the full blood of a feverish activity. I had exceptional opportunities for peeping behind the scenes, and there I saw continually the Crown Prince in his real element. The men with whom he associated in those hours of relaxation were old CT men than himself, and even in Der lin none of them had any kind of re- putation except the worst.
 l I can recall a dozen personal ex- periences which proved to me that among this raffish >throng 1t was the boast and the pleasure of the Crown Prince to be the most drunken and absolute member of the whole com- pany.
 The women were as notorious as the men, but in a quiet way. At that time most of them were to be found in an apparent odor of respec- liability, mixing in fashionable gath erings and recognized at the Opera or the State theatre, one had to look behind the scenes to know them for what they were-and for what they still are.
 Shortly before the war most of those women left Berlin and scattered themselves about Europe, settling here and there, and making them selves prominent in those neutral hooks and corners where men of all nations have been able to resort since Europe was stricken by war. There Is a, name for them which has clung to them on account of the mission I they fulfill so seductively; they are called "The Kaiser's Peace Doves"
 In such company the Crown. Prince dropped the mask and revealed him self for what he was-a vicious idle prince, without any of the negative virtues of the Princes of his House. They, sordid though their aims were, and repelant as were their methods of pursuing them, were bound by an iron discipline which they nexer re- faxed in Beerlin itself, whatever they may have done upon their vacations in less open and censorious cities.
 The Crown Prince, trained to that rigid discipline I will describe in an- other article, had forfeited even the scanty claim to respect he might have | retained by observing the traditions of his race. I certainly felt con- tempt for him which I never expert enced for his clumsy, dull, but con- scientious brother, Oscar.
 This threat to England was made by the Kaiser after his flight in a Zeppelin, and heard all about this 1 aerial excursion and the Kaiser's com tment at the residence of the Count Zeppelin himself.
 At the time I had an extensive practice as a sports tutor and expert in physical culture in West Germany, with halls going on at Bonn, Dus- seldorf and Cologne.
 It was one of my Bonn pupils that I owed an invitation to Stuttgart and an introduction to some very notable people there. This was member of the Meierhoff family, very influential in finance.
 Their Stuttgart residence was next door to the curious castle old Count Zeppelin had built himself on the hill I opposite that on which is perched the schloss of the King of Wurtemourg. The city of Stuttgart itself lies in a sort of basin below, ringed by a cir cle of hills.
 The Kaiser In a Zeppelirs
 My hosts were on very friendly terms with their eccentric neighbor. who at that time was one of the most famous men in Germany, Zep- pelin was fresh from a new airship triumph. His invention had been honored by a trial made by a Royal lparty, the chief members of which were the Kaiser himself and Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry of Prus- sia. We were invited to the Zeppe- lin mansion-I can find no word to describe the weird construction he had designed as residence for him. self-to hear all about it.
 One of Count Zeppelin's guest was an old acquaintance of mine, being no other than Won Jagow, the Berlin Po- lice Chief There was also present, among others whom I have forgotten, General Liman von Sanders, who af- , rewards led the Turks in their de- fense of Gallipoli. Both these men had been members of the party ac- companying the Kaiser on his Zeppe- lin flight.
 The old Count was very elated at the complete success of his undertak- ing, and presented every guest with a copy of little book privately print ed, giving details of the flight, pho tographs of the royal party and so on
 My friends were inclined to chaff
 me about that much quoted remark
 by the Kaiser. I could only retort that
 if he waited until he could land in
 England that way, he might be ul
 in the clouds very long time.
 General Liman von Sanders was
 most enthusiastic about the perform
 ance of the airshtp. He admitted tc
 the old Count that he had been scep- tical, but returned from the voyage Iconvinced that the Zeppelin invention opened the way to anew era in war