The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 7, 1899, Page 20

o < 0 THY SAN ¥RANCOISOO OCALL, SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1899 PRINCESS SALM=SALM, o Rl - - - T P - - R0 - -8 -3 - THEN A PRINCESS. 0 0100 0 208 300K 08 100 0K 0 X000 000 O 0 30K S0 308 00 30 308 08 30K 306 30 306 06 306 X0 306 ¥ NURSE AND DIPLOMAT oRoR o8 223 8 -2-8-2-2-3-2-F-F:8=1-3-F-F-FopoF=RaF=oRoRois g ge Rl SERVED UNDER THREE FLAGS AND EARNED THE GERMAN IRON CROSS : PLAIN AMERICAN GIRL : : PLAIN AMERICAN GIRL : : Was a Circus Performer, Now Visiting This Gountry, g Was a Soldier, : < o L o o k=4 < o b= T, /| | plans to force his way through the en: {emy’'s lines. But one night his favorite | ssaff officer, Lopez, a second Iscario | | ed as to make him colonel of the press Regiment,” which she recruited and | ‘equipped with her own priv betrayed the camp to the Mexicans for & price, and Maximilian was overpowered, fighting desperately. Boon after he reached Ma camp Salm-Salm volunteered on a ing trip to the interior. His wife also volunteered, and appealed to the co mandant of the detachment, a gallant Belglan colonel. He agreed to take her along, providing she could keep cool, | carry a revolver and not use it until t | troops came to close quarters. severe test of coolness sue proved equal, and rode at the front with the leaders as ready and self-possessed in the fire of battle as she had been in the councils of diplomacy. When Maximilian personally abandoned the City, of Mexico and retired to the in- terior town of Queretaro, the Pri | was left behind with the German g DS CIRCUS . ximilian's out- To son. This separation from Maxim suite led to several startling and dra- matic adventures, which displayed both AMBUSNED BY T MEXICONS physical courage and diplomatic nerve. It was plain to every one that the Emperor was lost after the desertion of his French allies, but the Princess, fearing that her husband might have to share the fate of Maximilian, set about the most desperate plan to ward off the impending peril. Queretaro and the City of Mexico were | both besieged by overwhelming numbers | ess Salm-Salm made the most of each. gan in the summer of 1862 , after he had he Prince lacked the diplomacy neces- !:mrnp himself gallantly at the battle of | of Mexicans. She first proposed to the sary to make headway in the circles of | Cross Keys and lasted fully a year, When | Mexican commander that the German tal intriguers. Fortunately for him | the order for muster out, or so-called dls- | garrison in the City of Mexico should | surrender without fighting and Maximil- | 1an be, in consequence, allowed to go free. his wife was of an entirely different char- acter. She had been educated under the missal !, was hanging over his head, llable to strike his name from the army roll at French Marshal | zuidance of a Cabinet offi any moment. his wit \ | : age 2 and she recognized the possibilities of | his appointment 10’ & pormanent: g | his troops. But before this important act | fhes: PUI o0 ths ertand, Fhe FURCOT power, shielded by her husband’s title. | mang. 1 Princess made a p(‘rsungl‘:‘g: | took place Bazaine had misled Maximilian | o o cpo wos detained in the city until Proud of Her Diplomacy. Peal to Senator Ira Harrls of New York. | Into & step which sealed his doom. The| gfier dark, and on approaching the sentl- | Princess Salm-Salm wa¢ proud of her | He declared the case hopeless. represented that his| . of the besiegers she answered the 1pl t z arms had dispersed the champions of re-| op. “w 3 2 iplomacy and always said that she saved | Successful Intervention. | | publicanism; that Juarez, the i the | C’“gen‘ic-e "" ho sooe IF‘YUinad_““h tae | the Prince from threatened dismissal from “Governor Morgan,” he said, whole battalion accompanied her to New | duration of the punishment, and he only wort nemigo’ (enemy), army. f his command afte General Blenker was relieved le of Cross stern woman-hater. smiles and er b r the ba reaties wi a ur blandishments, ill be wasted upon | York. Balm-Salm was duly commissioned | colonel, and he took the regiment to the ‘West, where it served in the fleld until could counteract that order. The culprit was suffering cruelly, and the Princess severed the cords which bound him, fed | liberal cause, was a fugitive beyond the | ghoken for “amigo” (friend). border, and that only outlaws and rob- | bers were In arms against the empire. | The nel fired, but missed his mark. After the verdict of death had been | Keys owing d t o enac - | > 5 . Kevs, in 1863, owing to e etter not take the trouble.” | the war ended. him from the colonel’s mess and Sent him l’;‘::‘fi’i@‘:f;’]’g‘“:‘fl‘lg“’:fl;f(‘ld;"?'{;“ul;‘?“:: nounced the Princess was permitted to 1 General Fremont, his superior ¢ courageous wife hastened | to his quarters. Salm-Salm never heard s tws and acte 0 its | gee. Maximilian and her husband in 2 he removal of the general M“ the lgera ot hanie o ‘fl S;n wa In New York Sfciety. of the incident until after the war was | Provisions before it became a law. T_he‘ prison, and she at once began to plot for rs of his military family without| = 5 : 4 Y. She an-| During the winter of 1863-84 the Prince | gyver, for the adjutant was afraid to re- | Cmperor opposed it, and after four vic-| their rescue. A bribe was arrang. 1 atton, and an order was issued to ed he !nrflnnfm of sitfing down and | and his consort became most conspicuous | vey) the truth, and the poor fellow was | timS had been shot virtually rescinded It. | there was no cash to m them out, according to the rules t !l the Governor found a Ger-|in New York social life. They graced all | go grateful to the Princess that he| ‘when the French withdrew Maximillan | Incited by her tireless e s army. This was not a dismissal, :nd all of them re-entered the service. ad a commander and No military functions, sword presentation was ball, reception or promptly obeyed the obnoxious order, and a success without into her hands in | informed Juarez,~chief claimant to the disputed Presidency, that he would aban- | dollar notes upon the imperial hou milian gave two one hun pans Lo, e SR the colonel supposed that the punishment | siden et Prince Salm-Salm was chief of staff to ind for Prince Salm-Salm | their company. He was the lion and she | had brought him to terms. don the empire if Juarez would promise | Austria. Had there been $1000 i el General Blenker and held the rank of reximent the -belle of the hour. One of their diver- ety o Westso | amnesty to the imperialist leaders in| plan might have been carried nsaly olonel yugh the efforts of his wife v A fow hours later | sfone was spiritual seances, which attract : 5 | Mexico. Juarez refused. Maximilian de- | As it was, the notes were too dang a etained that and was assigned to desired commission, and | ed wide attention at that time. A medlum | , Before coming to America the Prince | cided to remaln and protect his adher-| as evidence. Salm-Salm and the Empe- - e colonelcy of the Eighth New York, n resigned honorably, to | celebrated among the non-professional "‘*F',‘_b?j" a lfluld}" 'r:' his native country | ents. A strong conservative party, repre- | ror were hopeless of escape, but the keen neral Blenker's original comm, 40 again us colonel of the Eighth. | communicants with the spiritual world | 1y THsaa ole0 :r ‘t: ";‘"?t of Ay‘)‘f_"“‘- | senting the church, urged him to stay.| witted woman, who was for a time free ¥ er's staff offic The regiment was one of the few en | embraced in her circle the Princess Salm- | 3%, “HierPrie Mexico was at its hetang | 1ie Put himself at the head of the army | to approach officers and guards, knew & Sathi bollove s two vears, and tz._y 63 was discharged | Salm. The manifestations were purely a when thHetwaily tte I'nll“d ;('l it ’_‘»“- ‘1 | and. centered all his energy to carry on | that gold, and gold only, would open the S ade. whom they The Prince was again with- | matter of scientific study. Before the . ec States ended. | the war. Carlotta, his spouse, went to| Mexican prison bars. In the co- ‘Salm,” pronoun: c sand. Th e colonelcy of the | and Salm-Salm offered his sword to the winter ended the Prince was ordered West Eurdpe to plead with the powers, with o suspected her intrigue, a it were spell ther German regiment, | with his command and the Princess Was | moned an bo was Eomime on et A¢ | Napoleon and with the Pope, and to se- guard to Juarez s first met the ¢ flered to him. But the ranks were |'lost to New York soclety from that time, (,"nf ", % w"—;,d,m;'»mlm: o ;l. ’d Ile‘ ure her own vast private fortune to sup- | dent, had fought agal 2 amped at Hunter's Chapel of several hundred men. Prince | However, the good wishes of & host of | in the City of Mexice, rendy t0 ahare the | POTt her husband’s cause. The French | Maximilian's reign. ot laaven Ml CaUE G R A GE W aat Salm was offered the position if he | friends followed her during all her fateful Al AN ads Stred or e Hisbaal ,m:i had alienated the people. The volunte; Saved Her Husband’s Life. b the Princess n enough to complete the | wanderings. In the West she joined the pleks Binperor tbthe: and ‘ were inferior, the strongest Juarez was so impressed by the brave s Im could nc everal of his plans failed. | corps of army nurses and gave the suffer- in the sixties, as the world | hastening to the uplifted st little American woman that he promised P . \eral Blenker BaiRE give up. He had a wife, boys in biue the benefit of her skill | knows, was lMterally “gone to the dogs. | Juarez, who permitted prom to spare her husband in any event, and m £ Mexicc taff rode about the camp or to the tagynious and contriving, and he appealed | iy diplomacy. If there were any supplies It represented among tne nations moth- | Plunder of the people. A few foreign resi- | he granted to Maximilian a respite of w m. 2 \.‘ w ashington ¢ istons of cerem 'vmwrr ? et to be had the irrepressible nurse cut red ing but hopeless debts, broken pledges | 4ents that chose to remain were all that| two weeks for the hearing of counsel in She has worn the soldiers’ uniform of | the Princess, who was a brilliant horse- | She found in Washington a couple of | tape and secured them, law or ng 1w and a long, black list of unavenged op.| Maximilian could count upon. Bribes and behalf. The Princess collected and s At : oped at the head of the cay- | hund ed recruits. After a long | One day s i e pressions, persecutions and crueltice, | threats impaired the fidelity of the sbursed funds for the incidental ex- nas wounded twice in war. side of the Prince and the tle of diplomatic dexterity she secured | discipline the Prince himself ery State in the realm was torn by | tives. b el ol el S through lines _The pecullar beau r“ ed of these belonged to | Sjtting in his tent while he was ahsent, bloody revolution. There was o chief, Maximilian’s End. y all as the factotum of the doomed »f an engine | warm Southe the Governor of that State, | she heard sounds of distress issuing from | no order, no justice. The people ruled The end came with awful suddenness, | man. Although the foreign representa- 4 st 1 because she | temperame rency to he was willing to the guardhouse near by. She soon traced themselves. An army sent by Napoleon | Bazaine, on withdrawing, gave the mon- | tives in Mexico could demand admission } rgotter \pdog rumor that she was a daughter of w York regiment pro- | the cries to a soldler who had been | to protect French subjects had scattered | ar a stab b ding vivas for | to the SEEEH sreet HuoN0e sl Pres a public | Mexico. She was always spoken vided it was & man who was not a | gagged with a bayonet in his mouth. His the Mexican soldiery. Juarez, the latest | Juarez. Maximilian abandoned the capital | If S0 sed, ‘they were panic stricken ever after- | camp In Washington, as well New York “bumpkin,” as he pleased to | offense was his refusal to obey an order | dictator, was a fugitive: Marshal Bazaine | and brought up at Queretaro, where, with | and afraid to raise a finger. The Empe- 1 to her as k soclety, as Prince Salm- term it. The Princess assured him that | of Colonel alm, then in command | of France was at the head of affairs and | six thousand against thirty thousand, he | 0T said to the Princess, when Escobedo ican wife, but at that time * that would. not happen even if she had to | of the brigade. The Prince®s demanded |in possession of the capital, the City |stood siege for weeks, his men lving o ave the country: S repHeve for the Em-|a term quite synonymou ime charge of the troops he The | from the adjutant general that the man | of Mexico, : B g R s b T who has really peror 4 all but secured his dea struck his fancy, and Governor | be released, but the official, of course, During the second year of Maximilian's | rode where shots were thickest. he de. | d0ne anything for me. If you go I am escape | Yates acted upon the hint. He appointed | sald that the colonel's order alone could reign the Civil War in the United States | clined 1o use bribes o protect himselt, | Utterly forsaken.” But she had no gold, She ws DR s trials be- | her captain on a regular salary, and the | be obeyed. He had fixed the nature and | ended and Napoleon, at the request of | His' gemerals deserted him and he laiq|and could get no gold, and the drama y or 81l 0100000000 0d0 06000000000 o0oboEb oD | ended in the execution of Maximilian. | FUNNY CANVASES exhibited. The Fakers announce that this they will present the winner w prize with an 0000000000000 0C000000000000CC0C0000000 COOCO000000CO0000 RARE BOOKS WORTH Juarez kept his promise and spared Salm- Salm. He returned to Prussia and re- entered the army as major in the Grena- dier Guards. | Hobson.” To the Shaw prize Miss Zella The Princess Salm-Salm entered a Ger- s | Milhau adds a consolation prize of $ 03 man hospital to study Sing: forgfeld of Prince P 72 vice. F April to June, 1870, sh e el and a mince pie for the least meritorious i G s ot B el ohn aNeD fake. The winner of the prize is obliged piled iepselCraspidronsly/from S0 clock dn | to eat the pie and the money is for doctor the morning untll 6 at night, and at the ntal battle Burlesque Picture Exhibit on the Prize Winners of the Art League fees. ures are highly misceilaneous. HE first printing press was brought Some of the First.Volumes Printed in England and This Country end of that time the surgeon in attend- y ve her a certificate as proof of One of the funny features of each year’s A ance gave | Fakers' s 5. the 3 el A re Now Worth Thousands of Dollar: her ability. The surgeon was appointed as Depicted by the Society of American Fakers. I rs' show is the catalogue. b > to the Eighth Rhenish Army Corps, and | T IS not all grind at the Art Stu- painted on, & N o e bt b i 5 “‘Doctrina Christiana,” by Juan_ Crom- | he promised to take her along, so t s ™ the aotonel, Prince Saim: | | GerSy cttll erind at the Are Stu painted on, are paper monstrosities fas- logue of the show which opens to-mor- into England by a merchant named berger in the City of Mexico in 1659, S0 | she might be near her husband, But that 1 t g i R = | lents .8 3 E ot A r d o the canvas. row contains, of course, a burlesque o Caxton, who 4 far as known there is not a cc X~ % i Salm. during the War of the Rebellion I Fak 5 e 4 n forsook his trade to f tac in ex-| 5 woman should go into the field as nurse Jaim, 8 Hasiz titles to | can Fakers, composed of league sti- - Resides the fake on Mr. Volk’s painting, that of the Society of American Artists, enjoy the favor of the Duchess of ionce; The second was ~“Doctrina | "o oinm heard of in the Prus Prin, as 1r to | dents, looks out for that ' Just as the same hand has aibiiiabae onioma bes T beRing with s enh 2 St s Breve,” by ‘Juan Zumarrags, the first| Was something unheard of in the Prus- o her roy fance. 50 aLihs Boclets ot inerlcan Ac 4 que on one of - L1 the an’t-Be-Built G Burgundy, sister of Edward IV of Bishop of Mexico. 1t v printed sian army. e oon as Soclety of American AT- the portraits Mi R O zall e & 3 3 i €0, o e 24l b % Rl o gl soon as the Soclety of American AT the portraits exhibited by Miss Adelaide lery” (Vanderbilt Gallery). A few quo England, and in 1476 imported from Cromberger in 1543, and copleS have sold | She met opposition on all sides. Atter LR E e . In_th « 18 48 the Coleman Chase. A blue ribbon is con- tations from the list will illustrate its Germany a printing outfit, which he es- A5 high as $2200. B it UL Garatmon Stk ; 1 wounded soldiers, | C2Eue. opens its exhibition the fakers spicuous in theé original. The fake playful spirit: “Bogus, George H.—345, tablished in a building adjoining West. _ The first book printed In_tue United | then commanderof the First Army aritly Swaat fo Mexo |2 wl through it, seeking what they may shows a curiously distorted female head -September—Morning, Afternoon or Even. minster Abbey, especlally for the purpose SLates was an almanac at Cambridge In | carried on in broken German 3 he served on the staft of Max- | 1€Vour—that is to say, burlesque. Having and is entitled “The Blue Ribbon, by A. ing, Any Old Where Whittlemore, W, Of publishing his transiation of the His. 1050y Stephen Daye, who established the | T2 termaster and placed unfortunate mon. | Sciected, with instinct born of youthful Cold Chase.” Miss Lucla Fairchild Ful- Jay—Looking Anywhere—Meet Me at 4:30, tory of Troy (Recueil des Histolres de ooond mobieanes i tis country. The | Ta8 Ut or King If it could be. granted h his talented | [TTeverence the prize plotures of the exhi- ler's “Girl with a Hand Glass” has also Blue Bench on the Right—Confidential’ TToves). It was the first English book & poem entitled, “The Freemas: Geinl [htt san lirveun %o com- Primoe's life was | Pition and other sm1 ng cenvases, they come in for a fake. I Is very clever and Whishtler, Jimmy Nefl-3%, ‘The Music €ver printed, and in 135 a copy was sola e ext book was a metrical version of | mandsr’ was. the k iplomacy the Brince 8, Mo ¥a% | stratgnt proceed to paint fakes or shows a tall, white robed woman with & Room Puzzle—Find the Music. " Those DY the Earl of Jersey to Bernard Quar- D¢ PSalms called the “Bay State Psalm | Siainmets at once drew out T, D O O T aeys. | butlesaue Variatlonwiatithem: razor In one hand and a looking-glass In familiar with the exhinition of the Soclety itch, In London, for $5100 e T U aresvary rare It | e on, ar ready to join o e e oo by the . | _OPe of the most enthusiastic members the other. A large canvas by Albert Her- of American Artists Wil at once recosnize Tho mext book printed in I o, O \hs mosbivaipable books in the | FOCT N 00 eon But Salm-Saim would of the Society of American Fakers is its ter of a man i % o e printed in England w: P yeror of Austria, who granted her & pen- | D7 Yot Buddy dr. The other of. also. been S DuFlchced. Ve, wach Hilse. {ires Tetorred (o iR (e Butlosqins Bie” “The Game and Pliyel ot e Chesse Ihe.frst editionsgty rhe Canterbury | not hear of thal, and aho had to satisty Sion. Altogether thelite arrthismerichr dent, Le Bud 2L 0, u Goblés’/nive! besh ualA® ag: nizh % es,” printed by Caxton, of which only | herself with doing c She was ficers are Will W. Clarke, Carl L. Jaeger as “He Hurt Her,” and, referring to logue. 5 gh as $1300. T 2 | who rose from circus performer 10|, 4 Tpomas R. Stetson. This year's ex- dim light of the picture, “A Bne'.t"r:}}l'f ere {s fust one serious note In the The first English book both written and $8100 ard sodine <OV has sold for 500, | much depressed at th Shenad :ess, 13 In every way remarkable. R ot o L e it i Tiahe ) SYmphony of fun In which the Fakers in- printed in England(i489) was “Dictes and ~ The first edition of Robinson Crusoe | & Presentiment that her husband would 3 ibitio . 4 < IR £ Sl % oo Bk n son | ot his de u! e war o Created Sensation in New York. |league's rooms. Douglas Volk is an in- ANl the fakers are, of course, on nual exhibition and sule of fakes i3 jo be - o7iUES of the Philosophers” of which (I719) sells for $235, The first editions of | meet his ceath during the war. At th B mae w3 min Sondhaet bl | S acas et “loacies wifact whith, i Lar SSkiEs exb LUiHIRe ot linl L SO O it sl of fukes 12 ba oniyiiour coples wralkrievn Onslor thom [12E Wallonts@Compleatt Angler pattle of Weissenburg the Princess was rince Salm-Salm and his yo o \gue, 3 e ab . Shaw prize 5 f v 5 have sold for $2075. ihe first edition of | on the fleld as chief of a corps of army were the sensation here in New York for | coupled with his having won the shoW which Samuel T. Shaw every year pre- ;;‘;;go:?'tnbeei{gfsso,'-gn"é”}‘;\""i o, the :‘:_sn;fi rx::tn"uo?r by the Earl of Ash- i “viony of \%“{“M,df Eiintod in M6 | onctes. The e b s & few seasons during the Civil War times. | prize with nis “Woodland Mald,” has gents to the painter of the funnlest fake complish another goci object, > “°" The first i p sold for $300; the first edition of Paradise [ yo 4 . She has to him, il gl bl L L i T . rst book printed in America was Lost for $430; the first edition of Milton's | P21 Was WOUACCC FAC AR TReD 10 M e bscure origin, unconventional career | to be the fakers' Somplete works COn- | died within three hours after the bullet 1 the fortunes_of the fair American | of the best fakes o 1 B P LTI hana | ne Scrvice anfil the nd her royal lover. The Princess | Mr. Volk's prize N THE GARDEN o3 Writing, $1130. it tea Dy thel Gia when questioned about her | picture s called The highest the Order of the Iror er refuted any stories which | the *“Woodland. Old o tor e v | of three wars was th ears. Maia—No Man in ickering & Chatto | old. Love at sight and a heart given | Sight. ; of TLondon, for| The Princess now shows but few effects through the ge of the eyes to a Kehyon Cox’s large Raoul le Fevre’s “A | (¢ yor trying and adventurous life flaxen-haired, blue-eyed German Prince | decoration for the Boke of the Hool| syl ‘looks remarkably young wearing the Unfon blue marked the begin- | Criminal Courts %m.xd” by ‘Caxton | of medium hoigt}x and w ning of a life ‘romance for Agnes Le- | building s another S i biack gt | auburn than g1 fil yis clerca. She was an-unconventional, fear- | exhibit in the So- ter. Tt is onc'of the | ©! lees circus rider and a born actress, flut- | clety of American earliest books in the | T e sering in the gay circles of the capital in | Artis st riking English oaneuage| Lemon Bath as a Refresher the early days of the war. Miss Leclercq | enough to have at- longed to Bishop| At a recent recep of the Pro- Was one of a party of visitors who went | tracted the Fakers. 3 Isl(-m»” bio- | f I“\\A(jnu‘x‘n s 1 el the rounds of the camp to see the sights | Among the several graphical detalls on | Sl g i ; ces in' his | clates In the prc i one afternoon. Handsome and gallant | burlesques of it is Pandwriting greatis | lemon ‘bath which vhil Prince Salm-Salm served on the staff of increa its value. | recent trip to the his fellow countryman, General Luls Blen- | central feature a A copy of Captain | that it imparted ker. The army lay in front of Washington | burly policeman oc- John Smith's “True | and freshness to the s} that afternoon, and the Prince was among | cupying the throne Re oo {“r'rr'x';wd ‘{h ; \li_l;»m!”x‘l«h”;“‘!}\mfl{i}( ity oe the notables introduced to the independent | of justice. Another The highest price | lowed to soak in the hath w: little American girl. Though he was one showing as the of the fakes hits a paid for an Ameri- hour until all the juice is e orinted in America. | Will endeavor to give you both.” handicapped by his slight knowledge of | capital persifiage on can book last year handful of bran or two, and the English, he found the language of the eyes | “In the Garden.” s ‘3!1;;11 f[:l:\'& w‘xR}- | rullucn‘;-lm‘f;f;'”\un unsurpassable re: more expressive than tongue. The sub-title of this hman's. dermon lo e e S R T A brief camp courtship led to the altar, | jolly little skit is GBS Do D e aDi Ut e na b o T L and Miss Leclercq, the sprightly rider,| “Little Bright ASelf - Love,” which Shats 3 5 Sl SR was made the Princess Salm-Salm. Buch | Eyes.” It repre- Jas = preached at|as he bm"m:‘:m e oW and artaw, o= =3 g Boston shortly after | give me death.” & marriage would not necessarily involve | gents & pot-eyed the settlemer | : 5 5 nt of | “Acting under instructfons from my e P T SR e MR w " ks e o b | aoverment? et the Amerca oy, Mbiitien n the sttuation. And the Brin | movea at seme A Quartet of Characteristic * Canvases’ From the Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Fakers. e ‘e oevmes | €. turning the crank of his Gatling, T [ ¢ 4