The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-10-25
KAISER BUYS
HOLLAND HOME
Former German Emperor Sc
cures Famous Estate for
His Future Home

Doom, Holland, Oct. The
House of Doorn," as the estate re-
Gently purchased here by the former
German emperor has been called for
centuries, lies right in the midst of
this clean, slew-moving little Dutch
village, whose 5000 or so inhabitants
while not at all excited about it, are
looking forward with considerable in
terest to numbering among their bur-
ehers one William Hohenzollern, for
merly of Pottsdam.
The villagers, along with most per-
sons in this section of the country, be-
Ieve he is coming here to settle down
for life. If that be his intention he
has selected as a voluntary substitute
for st. Helena one of the prettiest
spots in Holland. There is nothing in
the estate he has purchased or in the
surrounding community to suggest a
place of exile.
Doom, like Amerongen, is one of
the few villages in Holland located
on ground that seems to be above the
sea level. Instead of canals and dykes
and the monotonous flat land occu-
pied by sleepy-looking black and
white cows and pompous, fat wind
mills which form the unchanging
scenery of most of Holland, the coun-
try about Doom, while generally flat,
to be sure, has here and there a faint
suspicion of a hillock, and the white
stone or pink brick roads which wind
quite frequently through forest land
most Of it the private preserves Of
the Dutch nobility. Hundreds of au-
tomobiles pass through Doom daily
during the summer season, for it is
on the main highway from Amster-
dam and Rotterdam to Arnem, which
passes the HDhenzolIern estate. From
this read through q long avenue of
stately trees, is visible one sire of
4The House of Doorn." There is also
constant procession of cycling tour
sts, and the two main hotels, with
their white painted little veranda cafe
and the PENSIONS 'or boarding
houses, do a. rushing business all
through the season. In fact, caring
Tor summer tourists seems to be
DOorn's only means of livelihood.
The country for miles around is
Dotted with handsome villas, summer
bones of wealthy people of Amster-
dam or Rotterdam, and the more pre-
tentious castles of the Dutch aristoc-
iaey who live there all the year round
emerging daily from old-time feudal
castles for carriage rides behind slow
put sure Dutch horses driven by sol
emn looking coachmen in tall black
aats. Some of the nobility have auto
mobiles, and nearly every Hollander
mas his bicycle.
Doom is quite easy of access to the
efalnary tourist. One travels by ex-
press train from Utrecht, fifteen
3 tWenty-minute ride, to the station
gnepergen. There he boards a train
y small but comfortable cars drawn
y 9 steam locomotive only one size
anger than those operated for chill
wren in American amusement parks,
ad this miniature railroad runs
ssWn the highway with its narrow
1aek at the right of the automobile
nd toward Doom and Amerongen.
. thirty-minute ride from Drie-
zgen, and the train, at the melan-
'aoly signal of tin horn blown by
Y conductor, stops within a hundred
'sss Of the entrance to the estate.
There are no guards about the es-
e now, neither walls nor meats to
s'0seet the house from the curious
sers-by It is forbidden, however,
y wax in the A20O-acre park without
sselal permission, which is not being
ansed Just now, as Herr Hohen-
srn's furniture and art treasures
fy-One big van loads-valued at
~aething over 81. 600 900. are being
o'ed and placed preparatory to the
wing on November / of the Bar
Van Heemstra de Beaufort,