The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-05-19
Dutch Pay No Attention to Lin
tied 3~Hcur Visits of Former
"All-Highest''- ''-Workmen Put
in Baths and Fill Moat to
Rout Mosquitoes!
Hy ZOE BECKLEY.
u. E. A. Staff Correspondent.

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Doorn. Holland. May 19.-Herr Will
helm Hohenzollern has been moving
for weeks now-and he is only begin
ming
A couple of wagons, with maybe
mother carrying the cat and parrot
and sister of the parlor clock, sees the
average family out Of the old place
into the new
But consider the once "All High
est! .... b.
Between fifty and sixty huge van
loads have already arrived at Doom
House, not counting two frank and
unconcealed open trucks laden with
stock for the wine cellar.
A big maroon autO-van races back
and forth several times daily besides,
sometimes to Amerongen, sometimes
to Arnheim or Utrecht, bringing good
ness knows what.
Still--when one has dozen castle
fuls of stuff to weed out and sort over,
it is a problem to know what to leave
behind.
Barn Filled with Furniture.
A big old. concrete barn being piled
with git-andbrocade furniture and
huge amorphous bundles done in bur-
lap. evidently bibelots and curios.
These await the kaiserin's bestoWal
within the house which is now filled
with painters and decorators who are
being prayed to hurry, PLEASE, and
let the family move in.
Workmen, indeed, are all over the
place-remodeling the main doorway,
draining the ancient moat which has
been mosquito breeding place, erect
ing artificial hillocks planted with
rhododenrons wherever too clear a
view of the mansion is had from the
highway, doing hundred ond one
things toward the comfort and adOrll-
ment of the estate
For consider also in the moving
troubles of the eX-kaiser that this is
probably his final move.
Whether he likes Doom House or
not, whether the ghost Of the girl who
drowned herself in the moat years ago
elects to visit him, whether the climate
prove unsatisfactory or sightseers too
numerous, at DoOrn House he must
live, and likely die.
Expects to "Come On Soon.
TO the end that all shall be done
right to start with. the Dutch govern
ment recently granted permission to
the so-cal]ed ''prisoner' of AmerOn-
gen to visit Doom several times a
week.
Usually he comes alone, but several
times lately when the weather has
been fine, the kaiserin has accompan-
led him. Despite the frequently cir
culated rumors of her i'll health, she
shows no tracts of it.
No one knows definitely when the
Hohenzollerns will move in. May first
was the original date. But the car
penters and painters are taking her
own time. It is now said by some
that the family will come on" late in
May, by others that they can't get in
until June. One guess is as good as
another.
The people of AmerOngen and Doom
show almost incredible Indifference to
to Hohenzollern movements. Nobody
cares when they move, or whether
they ever move Or not. Nobody in
stolid little Doom takes the trouble
to go out and watch for the kaiser's
car, or scarcely to speculate on his
comings and goings. the state of COM
pletion of Doom House, or the pros
poets of change it's new ownership
will bring the sleepy village.
Doorn's Pretty Village; No Railroad!
Doom is larger and more interest
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