New Britain herald., 1919-09-10
|pst Delightful Spots in a
 Delightful Land. Are Held Down By Royal Refu- |gees.
fey've Hosts of Servants |and Plenty to Eat and
 Drink, So Why Worry
 Over Their Fate?
BY HAROLD F. BECHTOI. European Manager of N. E. A.

Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 16.-The lum of dethroned kings. subjectless ers and blue-blooded refugees, has re royal inmates than ever before. Almost every week a new one aks across the border into exile. Many are living incognito. The Swiss say more than half the lens of former German and Aus n kings are loaf1ng about some ere
 ome are standing on the roofs cry Pity us!"
 Fome are dissipating in luxurious lees on money they never did any hg to earn.
 he royal asylum is taking on the ect of permanent institution with ular boarders. Between drinks, royalty is reconciling itself to a g stay in the Alps.
 Is King Constantine admits, the B business is lean pickings. Constantine, Ludwig, Karl and all lesser royal lights can't under ld it. They are subjectless. coun- ess. Nobody wants to be ruled any -e. ut don't waste any tears
 one of them is hard up or friend
 The leavings of royalty seem to e 8 way of taking care of their "a. Anyhow
 hese exiles live in the most de- tful spots of Switzerland. hey have more and better food, in nI ,i9a Swiss has in two.
 ends and Families Keep Loneliness
 Away.
 5hey are not lonely-most of them D their entire families with them; ers have their friends along. hey are all surrounded by admir- hangers-on who sympathize, flat and cheer them up.
 hey have at call anywhere from to sixty servants apiece.
 hose who don't live in mountain les or lake front bungalows hid away on grounds worth $30,000 Lcre, live in beautiful suites of lux us tourist hotels.
 
 e Geneva, I found the hotels full 4erman and Austrian royalty, liv- like millionaires and dissipating ltly They sit about the magnifi- Hobbies and smoking rooms until toward morning, drinking heavily sympathizing with each other. Eten they drink so much they ito, be. assisted to their rooms. woman, until recently a reigning hess, I had pointed out@to me three bs as the cutup of the~party who hksso much she had to be carried er@a rtnent-
 adwig of Bavaria, on the other d, lives quietly, though magnifi- Ey,s with his daughter F rincess Hill hrde and some close friends at the le of Sails in the mountains of ern Switzerland near Chur. He Is walks daily, is approachable. uently has his picture snapped, ris in anything but hard straits. arl of Austria came fleeing into zerland several months ago with wife Zita, three children and an of servants, escorted by Col. Staof the British army.
 
 ther to admit him or not, fearing rst the opinion of the allied world. Swiss officials say Britain inter d, said his life was in danger and him in.
 hrr of Austria Has Two Retreats. Lrt of the time he lives in state at 3tegg castle, part of the time in a tifuL yellow mansion on the shore lake Geneva, about 20 miles from bva. He is there now, hunting, ag, walking and climbing.
 few days ago I went out to his sion from Geneva. He wouldn't 3hterviewed but his aides poured propaganda. He was such a good ocratic king, they said, it seemed y nobody would let him rule #Aey complained that he was con-
 in hunting to this one estate. had been notified they said that erewski's chalet was adjoining and if he shot anything on the pian- Erounds it might mean some kind war between Poland and Austria. just because of his love for Aus : he wouldn't get her in any &ole even if he did have to stay on wn grounds to shoot. # e amusing thing about it is that body is kidding him. Paderew- home, I found when l passed 1t
 is miles up the lake. Several & es separate it from KarPs exile e.
 # company with other correspond I talked with eX-King Constan- for half an hour in his luxurious
 at the Hotel National at Lu- is attitude was that kings no : Ar have any power to do harm.