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SU?DAY MOHNING, AUGUST 17. 1919. THE NZWS AM) OBSERVER. 15 1 t t The Private Life of the Kaiser From the Papers and' Diaries of the Baroness Ton LarUch Raddern, th Kaiser and Kaiserin'a Late Major, Domo, Chief of the Royal Household at Berlin and Potsdam. (Centiaaed from last Sunday.) i I have tomstime slated that th Im perial Germany Court wu "financially embarrassed." I will, show that th EaiMr wa both miaerly la patty mat . ten and aa ttneoatrollabl tpendjthrlft. E was 'paaay wise and pound fool ha; "robbed Pater to pay Paul;" a wa atlagy.wita hit friends and lux ariou wits aimelf! ; Ha waa niggardly with hi family aad extravagant where hi own. wishes vara' concerned. I will ahow that at timet he hept the eourt ia downright -poverty; hit er rant la actual want, aad hit owa family Vimped." Hia waa a strange mixture of person alitie, indeedthe little man whote ambition and freed led him to attempt to conquer the world. Kaiaer'a Wait $t,OM,Mt a Tear. "But bow U it possible f aakt the reader whote "Stateiman'i Year-Book" tellt him that the Kaiser ha aa income af but $4,000,000 per year, and who re members, perchance, William's boastful speech ia which he eaid he waa the big gest landowner ia Germany. Whether the latter assertion ia true I eaanot aay, but those four millions were a shining reality and unencumbered, save for the obligation to pay fire ap panages of 118,000 each per annum to Prussian princes. That left William (3,900,000 a year to "bleu himself with," beside hia private income of $30,000 ner month. : The $50,000 formed the nucleut of Bis Majesty' private purse, and was always spoken for three months in d tance for hit uniform and toilet ac counts, kit private journeys and amuse ment. The civil list discharged the cost of representation, the needs of the Kai serin "and the children, all the expenses of the household and provided fundi for the maintenance of the royal the' tre. rjalaeet and cardons. Out of a much smaller official Income William I. saved aa immense fortune, though be kept up a separate court for hit Queen for thirty years, and, for a Prnseiaa, was exceedingly liberal towaro ladies that engaged hit fancy. WIIHm la Alwavt In Debt. The present Kaiser actually wound un vcar after .year with a tremendous deficit, and his eourt, outwardly splen did aad richly eadowned, wat more penurious tins that of the meanest prince of the empire. Indeed, my maid assured me that at Buekenburg, when the monarch re' reived only as many mark as the I'rrs ident of the United States gets dollars per year, the grooms were better fed and lodged tnn under-stewaras in run Ham. The reason for this is obvious enough. The Kaiser ha no conception whatever of the value of money and ordered for himself anything that pleased Mm, wnat he saw and read about, without paying h least d to the pecuniary eonse aneneea. If he desired tn article, it tauat be procured In the quickest possi ble manner." I had noticed for tome time that a wrtaia dealer ia flowers on Unter den Linden nerved me with excessive teal, though my purchase were not exten aiva be anv means. My carriage no sooner stopped at hi door when this man rushed out, bowing and scraping and adding to my titles some I never dared hope to acquire. I also observed that he charged me less than the prices marked. "Your Ladyship belongs to the court." Slow la PayUc His Bills. "But," 1 said, "others do, and I have teen the carriage of the Countess von B bait a considerable time- in front of yir store before one of the em ployee cams to ask ner pleasure. i"Wsll- aaid tht floriat. Son belong to the eonrt and pay cash. For that reason I would rather tell you a 3-mark bouquet than a 60-mark flower piece to us may you mention or (and he low ered hi voice) to evea the Emperor er Empress. ; , , . 1 I am a well-to-do man. thank the Lord; but when It come to waiting a year and a half before one's bUl are paid by the royal treasury I feel like cursing my appointment. And the worst of it is the All-Highett example It fol lowed bjr almost everybody connected with the eourt." Had No rixed Income. But nothing illustrates the unsettled state of the royal finances more thor oughly than the fact that the Kalterin had no eertaia income of her own. Her court-marshal was obliged to fight for every dollar required beyond the ordinary pay of servants and-help wnn me .Raiser t eourt and house mar shals, who often refused to grant neces sary funda until Augusta Victoria's ex press eommandi compelled them to honor the disputed bill. A rather amusing Incident of that tort happened a few months after the enthrenization, when my mistress or dered me to buy a little bed, together with the necessary elothes, for Prince Oscar (born July 27 that year). It wtt my good fortune to find at Mosse Brothers, Jaeger 8trasse, tht exact ar ticle Her Majesty wanted, and when the bed wat sent up the wat greatly pleased. 'We will keep it right here." she said, "and, that there may be no mis understanding, take the bill and order it paid immediately." "And aince when are ladies of the eourt authorized to make purchases without previous estimate by this of ficer" asked the Baron, after listening to my request. "I don t know1 I answered, "and be sides, I have nor come here to answer riddles." "Then," said the house marshal, Icily, 'accept my compliments, together with the information that this bill is irreg ular, extravagant and unnecessary; hence it will not be paid. The baby can sleep lit his cradle six months longer; by that time we shall be able to buy him a bed in the regular way." ' Then it is your pleasure that the little Prince be taken out of the new bed and put back into the cradle t" "It will do him no harm, and give me much satisfaction. Deficiency Ia William's Mentality This matter of finance and business is clearly a deficiency in William's men tal makeup; ns some people lack a sense of locality, so the Emperor happens to be destitute of a proper comprehension of values. Maybe that explains in part, at least, the Kaiser's callousness during the grent war. When Ludcndorff explained to him that his projected July offensive would eost a million German lives at the very least, Wilhelm said: "Go ahead," with no more emotion than he might display when he ordered hit bath. And this recalls an experience had by a relative of the editor of these mo raoirs. When Napoleon arrived at Dresden after the retrest from Mos cow, Mr. Fisher's grandfather, the Coiuto de Bjmeon, Prinme Minister of Jerome Napoleon, went to the capital of Saxony to confer with the great Emperor. As De Rimeon entered Napoleon's room the Empsror grabbed him by the cost, and said: "OfT with you to Paris. I want 325, 000 men within the next six weeks. You arrange that." 'De Simeon tried to protest: ''But your majesty has just lost a million men." "A million men this for your mil lion men," eried Napoleon, and, snsp- ping hi fingers, he pushed De Simeon out of the, door,' bidding him 'aot to lose a moment. " '. Off aad oa I heard of eases of pov erty, evea of destitution, ia thr ser vants' families, for which they dared not ask for relief ia the most likely place, of their matter er mistress, who canted it to be known- one and for all that they mutt sot be aanoytd with their servants' personal concern. " In the bountiful Christmas season, I thought turely their Majestic would make up for.lt.- Picture, the, say amaxemeni -when I heard the Kaiser sty to Her Majesty at the beginning of Holy Week;, "I have cautioned Heist ner (a privy- councilor, who admlni' tered the royal pune) to pay. the cus tomary 10 mark ($2.50) only to thee lackey and maid who wait upon me personally. It will be well for yon to instruct Baron vea Mlrbaeh timilarly, or you will run th. risk of feeing a whole tribe of men and girl who are merely second or third assistant1 William valtts, I beard later on, re reived 40 mark ($10) from their Impe rial matter at Chriatma gratuity; all hi other attendants, man aad women, bad to be content with the customary 10 marks "for ginger-bread. Miserly With HI Servant. "And that U.th only drink money th Kaiser dispense, all the year 'round," complained the wife of one of the wardrobe men, who did my plain sewing, "outside of Christmas, he never stems to have a eopper for ki body- servant, although himself eet:outly la want ef stlmoiaats in eitee drinaa four or five egg eogaaea ia the Coarse of tht day), it sever strike him that hi overworked apeadaata might feel Ilk stepping across tn way to to eaa- teea aad 'crook aa am.'' .,' v, . William, who 1 notniag u not a slave to tradition, revived a habit of 'several" of hi aaeeatore namely, to troll oat of hi palac gate a aa ordi nary mortal esc a year, oa holy aight, whs he downed ' a nbdaed civilian dress aad when a adjutant or aay on of th body service was allowed to fol low him a general order that, however, did aot apply to th secret police, which wer made acquainted with th Kai ser' every outdoor move beforehand, and had it guardian nagela abont wher ever aad wheavr ho wat ia the ope. 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