Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-20
HOUSE or D0ORN'
IS PURCHASED BY
FORMER EMPEROR
William HohenzoIIen Acquires
an Estate in Holland No
Guards Nor Walls Nor Mo-
ats to Protect the Place,
10y MORNING JOURNAL srsers, LEASED WING

tsY MORNING JOURNAL srEerst LEASED wurl
Doom, Holland, oct 19.-(By the
Associated Press. 1.-THE House OF
Doom" as the estate recently pur-
chased here by the former German
emperor has been called for centuries,
lies right in the midst of tins clean,
slow-moying ntIr Dutch village.
whose 1000 or SO Inhabitants, Wnlle
lot at all excited about it, are lookinS
forward with considerable interest y
numbering among their burghers one
William Hohenzollern formerly OF
Potsdam.
The villagers, along with most per
sons in tins section of the country,
believe that he is coming here 10 sci
tie down for life II that be his inten-
ton he has selected as voluntary
substitute for St. Helena one Of the
Irettiest spots IN Holland. There Is
nothing in the estate he has pur.
chased or in the surrounding commu-
nifty To suggest place of exile.
Doorn like Amerongen is one OF
the few Villages in Holland ON ground
that seems to be above the sea level.
Instead of canals and dykes and the
monotonOus flat land occupied by
sleepy-looking black and white cows
and pompous, fat windmills when
form the unchanging scenery of most
of Holland, the country about Doorh
while generally flat TO be sure mas
here and there a faint suspicion Of
hilock and the white stone or pms
brick roads wind quite frequently
through forest land--most of II the
private preserves Of the Dutch no
bility.
Hundreds of automobiles pass
through Doom daily during summer
season, for it is on the main highway
from Amsterdam and Rotterdam to
Arnem, which passes the Hohenzol :
elrn estate. From this road, through
a lyng Avenue OF stately Trees, is Vlsl-
BILE one side on THE House OF
Doom" There is also almost con-
slant procession of bicycling tourists
and the two main hotels, with their
white painted little veranda cafes,
aud the tensions" or boarding
houses. do rushing business all
through the season. In fact, CARING
for summer tourists seems to De
Doorn's only means of lVelhoou
The country for miles around is dot
ted with handsome villas, summer
homes of wealthy people OF AmsIer-
dam or Rotterdam, and the more pre-
tentious castles of the Dutch arlsIoc-
racy who live there all the year
round emerging daily from old time
feudal castles for carriage rides be-
hind slow but sure Dutch horses
driven by solemn looking coachmen
in tail black hats. Some of the no.
bility have automobiles; nearly every
Hollander has his bicycle
Doom is quite easy of access to the
ordinary tourist one travels by eN-
press train from Utrecht, fifteen or
twenty minute ride, to the station
Driebergen. There he boards train
of small but comfortable cars drawn
bv a steam locomotive only one size
larger than those operated for
children in American amusement
parks, and this miniature railroad,
runs down the highway, with its mar
row track at the right of the auto
mobile road, toward Doom and
Amerongen. 1t is Il thirty minute
ride from Driebergen and the Tram,
at the melancholy signal of tin norm
blown by the conductor, stops within a
hundred feet of the entrance to the
estate
There are no guards about the
estate now nor walls nor moats TO pro-
tect the house from the curious
paSSerby. IL is lOfpluueH' i4oNtN'it
to walk in the 20O-acre park without
special permission, which is not being
granted lust now, as Herr Hohen-
zollern's furniture and art treasures
fifty-one big vanloads, valued At
something over 100000, are being
stored and placed preparatory to the
moving out of the Raronness Van
Heemstra de Beaufort, on November
!, and the moving in Of the former
emperor late in December or early In
January.