Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-02

| two branches OF art appear on terms
OF camaraderie,' remarked Adjutant
Won Moltlle, and everybody laughed.
The surprised Adonis, Baron Won
W, of the Body Hussars. was
| invited to the Emperors circle at
| the banquet in the officers mess that
| followed the parade, and His Majesty
amused himself royalty at his ex-
pense, as. indeed, he treated the
! whole expedition as a huge joke, ar
ranged to afford him u novel enter
| tainment."
Kaiser Slept at Railroad Stations
! Travelling was such mania with
| the Kaiser, that, when business of
| state or the fact that there was no
| body or nothing to visit forbade his
! going abroad. he occasionally spent q
night in his railway carriage, stalled
! at Wildpark Station, only five min
utes from the Neues Palais, on the
plea that on the following morning
he must be in Berlin at some un-
earthly hour.
| He INDUCED in this queer pastime
with increasing regularity until one
night, when, about to drive to the
station from some festivity held at
| the Marble Palace, the Kaiserin took
! courage to threaten an invasion of
his bachelor quarters, which, she in
| sisted, must possess some special at
| traction.
| As Her Majesty was not quite wrong
! in this, William dcsiSted from fol-
! lowing his inclination then and for
! several months, his compliance being
all the more disagreeable to him, as
! the Empress was in an interesting
A., condition.
But Her Majesty's interference was
not only justified, it was likewise
wcll-timed for just then there was
under way formidable conspiracy
! among the royal servants, who, un-
| derpaid as they were and nourishing
a sneal<ing spirit of insurrection. had
conspired to inform a member of the
| Reichstag opposition of the fact that
! His Majesty was in the habit of using
a public depot for his sleeping apart
ment.
In that way they expected to get
even with William for compelling
them to spend so many nights i'm
their clothes. OF course. Parliament
! has no business 10 inquire into the
sovcrcign's manner of spending his
nights, but the public was doubtless
| interested in the accompanying cir
! cumstanCc that, when His Majesty
] lis
traffic was seriously interfered with
| in order that the "Allhighest' sleep
| be not disturbed.
over a hundred officials and
| workmen stay awake tonight to IA
| cilitate the kaiser's fad for occupy
| ing his car" said Count Eulenburg to
me one evening, when the Kaiser
was setting out for his wheeled bou-
| doir.
impossible! hundred per-
sons?"
"A hundred or more the lists
have gone through my hands. Reflect
a moment on the work involved:
| Freight trains must be sidetracked,
and passenger trains are compelled
to reduce their speed, while the ordi-
nary signals, steam -whistling and
| ringing of bells, have to he abandon
ed, and the number of employees
doubled. to forestall mishaps."
If disgruntled servants had told
this story to the Socialist. the inevita-
| BILE discussion might have seriously
interfered with the Kaisers enjoy
ment of the Wilhelm Canal opening
festivities then about to begin.
Uneasy When at Home.
William stayed at home when
there was no one to visit, | said, and
may add that willing victims of i'm
perlal travelmania grew scarcer year
by year. How well ! rem ember the
kaiser's return from his first North
land trip, when he spoke most crit
ingly of his visit to Copenhagen. and
how he had succeeded in wheeding
King Christian and Queen Louise.
They can be of great service to
me with Gar Alexander" he said,
"and l promised to stay with them a
nf 1oN
to or from Northland."
Never Knew When He Wasn't
Wanted
All of us around the royal board, |
officials and guests, looked at one an
other in astonishment, for the pow
erty OF the reigning family of Den |
mark is notorious Indeed, almost
everybody at Court had heard the
Kaiser, at one time or another, quote
Field Marshal Count Moltke's OBJ |
servation in one of his letters to his
brother Adolph:
Poor King of Denmark. The
founder OF Il new dynasty, he began
his reign by losing one-half of the |
realm! Sweeping reductions were in |
evitable, indeed, it is doubtful if this |
state can continue to exist as an in
dependent kingdom
DcSlueS, IL was an open secret that |
the Gar. when visiting his father-in-
law, paid for his accommodation like
the millionaire he was,-for his and |
for that of all his relatives making |
Denmark their summer home and re- |
Jolclng in the annual family reunions |
The Kaiser knew that; he had even |
obtained confederation of the story |
in Stockholm, as it turned out bY and |
by; was he, then, determined to be-
come one of the Cars pensioners |
or did he not care whether he en-
barrassed his venerable brother of
Denmark, half of whose inheritance |
Prussia had swallowed up?
Reference to the minutes of tho
journey reveal the fact that at the
state dinner in Castle Amalienborg,
the Kaiser. answering King Chris
tian's toast, literally said: II submit
my sincerest thanks for Your Ma
lesty's welcome, and hope that / NAV
be permitted to visit Your Majesty
frequently in the same way"
1t was the last toast spoken that
evening, and the members of the
kaiser's suite do not know whether
the implied question was honored by
an invitation in private. Certain if
Is, however, that His Majesty had no
1urther occasion Ito eat the Danes
out of house and home" for. AL
though the Court of Copenhagen was
annually advised of His Maiestv's
contemplated northern trips. if al
ways acknowledged the noti6oo+;ox |