The sun., 1918-12-15

degenerate. Anyhow, degenerate
might be thinking of. His private
life'-that's a funny name. for 1t wher
1t was spread plain as day all ovei
Europe-wasn't where the degeneracS
showed up. l mean that 1t showed VI
in general ways; 1 mean he-he WASH
there!
Felix, the valet, told me that wha
Fritz liked to read was Nick Carter II
German TRANSACTIONS. You could Guy
EN-, ten pfennigs a number, at tn,
l!tle notions shops, just the way yo,
could here. And Fritz always had &
stack of 'em on his dressing table
Felix used TO keep his accounts fol
him. Keeping that fellows accounts
was a job for a pretty nimble head
from what Felix said about 1t. HI
had an income of $4,000.
You don't suppose that began t
suffice him, do you? When it CAV,
out he'd borrow where he could. Bank,
and money lenders generally were shy
of him; they knew him; but of course
the good shops had to give him un.
llHhltu Cicullt 81 Duy tApeIlSlNt
jewelry and furs and things on tick
and then he'd pawn or sell 'em fol
ready cash. He needed It. His dog,
and horses and girls-he had new one.
Of each kind every time you saw him
ran into a little fortune for the up
keep every year.
Half World Had Great Hopes.
"'Oho!' they used to say-the nigh
life, Berlin's half world, you under
stand-'When Fritz gets Emperor tn,
good times are coming. Thisll be -.
Well, III English they meant 1t would
be a wide open town.
my God!' was the way Felix pu
it, when Fritz succeeds to the thron,
Germany will go bankrupt in a year
He said Fritz's creditors, lined up fouI
abreast, would have reached to China
And as for the Kaiser---he used to tall
Fritz over with the valet very freely
he once screamed out, The boy wants
to turn the Royal Opera House into
cockpit
And that's your commander-'Arm!
Group of the German Crown Prince
and so on-who made the horribl,
blunders at Verdun," Moore com
ments grimly. Somebody made 'em
all right, but it wasn't he. I'd like t.
bet that he never originated a singl,
order. 1t wouldn't surprise me IL
should hear that he never even wa
there.
Il first met him about 1902" say!
Mnora Gin fhic Inhotar MALAGA 80 tb.
F'riedrichstrasse. l must tell you jus
how it came about. I'd been in Europ,
since 1898 and I'd long had a notion
there was quite an opening for a SCR
OF little orchestra with distinct Amer
lean character TO tour the fashionabi,
places and give 'em some of our rag
time, mixed with the latest popula
favorites OF their own local music, II
1900, when the Paris Exposition wa
on. found two other Americans VIII
could play and sing and saw the thini
as did, and after that, for ten year
and more, we made our trio pay. w
used to be billed as the Only Tire
that Ever Made the Shah of Persii
Laugh'-but that's not what I'm tell
ing you about.
"Once we got the thing started
was easy enough to arrange with caf
proprietors to come in and give ou
programme during the evening ant
pass around a plate. We didn't los
any rake off to the proprietor, for tn
reputation we built up made us goo,
card for him.
Il think l can claim to be the mai
h. ,Nt ~
made it catch on there a least w
only played the highest priced place
and an evenings collection would b.
a tidy sum.
ut was during our first time in Ger
many that 1 got to know the Crow
Prince. We were playing in this caf
l speak Of, in sort Of passage be
tween the main room and a smalle
room that was reserved for the mos
elect. He came staggering in. an,
when he heard us he made straight TO
US, and everything had to stop unit
he was attended to. You see he coul
play a little himself oil the guitar an
was mighty conceited about it an,
interested in professionals.
curious ABOUT the BANJO
II remember 1.-THE first thing h,
noticed was the short string, the oc
tave chord we call it, on my five
string banjo; and he was dying t
know what that was for and how
could be played. / explained to him
he asked lot OF qquestions-and the
he smiled and said: Now, boys, Civ
us a real good niger song Whel
/ the plate went around he crumple
n hundred mark bill, $25, and threw
! in.
Later he came back. by Jove, yo
chaps are good!' he said. Would yo
! come and play for me privately som
/ time if l should send for you?'
"Of course his patronage meant
lot to us. 1 said we'd be glad to com
| il we could fix it up with the pro
prietor. Leave him to me. I'll fl
him. says the Prince. and naturall
the proprietor wasn't raising an
serious objections.
He sent for us to come to a.
apartment off the Alexanderplats
where he was entertaining a new CIR
| She was a Russian and she was yer
pretty. All his girls, by the way-an
If should stop to think I suppose
could name a hundred-were eithe
Russians or French. He had no use 70
German girls OF that class, and decen
ones certainly never have had a par
ticle of use for him. Weasel Face
the society women call him-behin
his back, Of course.
II remember this girl this time wa
wearing a long fur coat. although tn
room was warm, and was loungin