The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 22, 1919, Page 13

ag Ae, pe? | le [JAPAN BUILDS VAST MERCHANT FI EUROPE’S EX-KINGS IN SAFE REFUGE) Section Two | Whole Flock of ’Em Are Enjoying Life in Switzerland Palaces ; BY HAROLD FE. BECHTOL Buropean Manager of N. E. A ZURICH, Switserland, ‘22.—Switzeriand, the dethroned kings, — subjectiess r@ters and blueblooded refugees, has mere royal inmates than ever before. Almost every week a new one sneaks across the border Into exile. Many are living incognito, The Swiss say more than half the dozens of former German and Austrian kings are loafing about somewhere. Some are standing on the roofs erying “Pity us!" Some are dissipating in luxurious places on money they never did any- thing to earn. The royal asylum is taking the aspect of a permanent tion with regular boarders. on drinks, ex-royalty is rec self to a long stay in t As King Constantl dmits, the king business is lean pickings Constantine, Ludwig, Karl and all the lesser royal lights can't un Gerstand it. They are subjectiess: Gountryless. Nobody wants to be fuled any more. But don't waste any tears None of them is hard up or triend- less. The leavings of royalty seem to have a way of taking care of their own. Anyhow— These exiles live in the most de- lightful spots of delightful Switzer. land. 4 They have more and better food in one meal than the average Amer. fean or Swiss has in two. FRIENDS AND FAMILIES KEEP LONBLINESS AWAY ‘They are not lonely—most of them have their entire families with them;| Others have their friends along. They are all surrounded by ad miring hangers-on who sympathih, flatter and cheer them up. They have at call anywhere from six to 60 servants apiece. Those who don't live in mountain casties, or lakefront bungalows! hidden away on grounds worth $30,- 900 an acre, live in beautiful suites or luxurious tourist hotels. At Territet, on the eastern point of Lake Geneva, I found the hotels full of German and Austrian royalty, , living like millionaires and dissipat: | Ing nightly. They sit about the mag Rificent lobbies and smoking rooms until well toward morning, drinking heavily and sympathizing with each other. Often they drink so much they/ have to be assisted to their roome. One woman, until recently a reign ing duchess, I had pointed out to me three times as the cutup of the| Party who drank so much she had to be carried to Mer apartment Ludwig of Bavaria, on the other hand, tives quietly, though magnifi-| cently, with his daughter, Princess Hildegarde, and «difie close friends At the Castle of Salis in the moun- tains of Eastern Switzerland near Chur. He takes walks daily, is proachable, frequently has his pic ture snapped, and is in anything but hard straits. Karl of Austria came fleeing into Switzerland several months ago with his wife, Zita, three children and an army of servants, escorted by Col, »p- Strutt of the British army The Swiss government didn’t know fear whether to admit him or not ing at first the opinion of the world B Swiss offictals say Britain intervened, said his life was in danger and got him in KARL OF AUSTRIA HAS TWO RETREATS Part of the time he lives in state at Wartegg castle, part of the time in 4 beautiful yellow mansion on the shore of Lake Gen: ab 20 miles from (¢ a. He is there now. hunting, fishing, walking and climbing. A few days ago I went out to his mansion from Geneva. He wouldn't be interviewed, but his aides poured out propaganda. He was such a g00d democratic king, they said, it seemed a pity nobody would let him rule them They complained that he was con fined in hunting to this one estate. They had been notified, they said, that Paderewskt’s chalet was adjoin: | ing and that if he shot anything on the pianist’s grounds it might mean some kind of a war between Poland and Austria, And just betause of | his love for Austria b her in trouble, wouldn't g an even have to stay on his own grounds to shoot The amusing thing about it ts that somebody is kidding him aderewski's home, I found when it later, fa miles up ral estates separate from Karl's exile home In company with other correspond- ents I talked with ex-King Constan f an hour in bis luxur it tine for th fous suite at the Hotel National at} Lucerne. His attitude was that kings mo longer have any power to do harm, so why should not people be nice and keep them and provide funds and thrones and let them run their courts? Asked about the king business! now, he replied that divine right an “exploded idea.” never did believe in divine Fight and neither did any other house in Europe, it he did} the | man and Austrian royalty,” said Tino ‘The former czar never did, I know} [how democratic he was personally, | but he seldorg knew what those about Constantine's, manner was any thing but kingly. Everybody in the room had more poise, better expres | sion and more grace, He kicked his legs nervously, laughed in high pitch and talked so rapidly that his words ran together Constantine fears an attempt on his life and he moves frequent ly from resort to resort, always well | | guarded | Tirpits, of the U-Doats, hides well }if he is in Switserland, as reports may His son, who works tn @ Zur ich bank, says he ts tn Germany MAX OF BADEN ARRIVES IN HASTE | Max of Baden is reliably stated to have arrived in haste one night recently in @ egg ne that brought m across Lake Constance, But he He ts! has also out of sight expect wt any day at hie old favorit haunt, a mountain hotel near St. Moritz | y the infante of Spain, | lives here in Zurich In a boarding house! But the “boarding house” is | & mansion overlooking the city, with | beautiful garden and high walls. | The Swiss say he is in Switzer. | land arranging investments for the| | King of Spain against the day when | | he too may be an ex-king In exile in | the royal asylum 4 |__Alphonso’s wife, a granddaughter lof Queen Victoria, is a first cousin | | of almost every king and ex-king in| Europe. Her friends say she used | to weep and ery: “Why doesn’t some- | one stop this terrible war? What! am I to do? I love my people on} both sides.” \ | Alphonso is a kodak fiend and a | crack aviator. He runs about Zurich | | bareheaded and rides up and down to his “boarding house” in a nickela- ride public funicular Reports say Bethmann-Hollweg is| }s00n coming to live in his castle on! | the edge of Lake Thun near Inter-| laken. Scheidemann, since his gov-| ernment refused to sign the peace! | treaty and he resigned, has been in | retirement in Zurich and Lugano, But so far, only one ruler with @ job—if he may be called a ruler | has appeared. He's the prince! counsellor of Holland. | | And he picked for his vacation—| Zermatt, one of the few stops in the “world's playground,” where| there is no royal refugee! | j | | | | The “ex's” cornered. seem to have the season WILSON'S TRIP IS UNCERTAIN | White House Denies Reports | | That Journey Is Abandoned | | WASHINGTON, Aug. {United | Press.)—President Wilson's proposed | jtour of the country was again com. | Ing to the front in treaty discussions | today, as a result of developments | since Tuesday, when the president | met the senate foreign relations com. | mittee, Reports coming mostly from the | apitol that the president's trip had | been abandoned, are denied at the White House, altho it is admitted | that plans are still indefinite. Developments have not been suc as to encourage the belief that the president would t le to get the treaty and league of nations co nant ratified without an appeal di reet to the people, It is pointed out | president's supporters. Some developments cited are = White House conference #0 far apparently has changed no sen ator's attitude toward the treaty jaltho administration supporters a | still confident that results will be to the treaty’s benefit The Pittman resolution, embody: | ing reservations to be adopted sep: | tely from the ratificatfon act, which the president has indicated is as far as he go toward is at present willing to a compromise, has been pigeonholed The senate foreign relations com mittee has di 1 to go ahead with rings that will de the'treaty, despite the aration by the presi that the country cannot get | bask to normal before the pact Is | | ratified This argument—that normal con ditions and lower prices await pea ia regarded the | de nt is most Mkely oes on the proposed tour as one the presl to stress, if he |Near East irk to Be Announced ATHENS, Aug. 21—(Delayed.) | Dispatches from Constantinople to- |day said the American mission to |the Near Kast was en route to Paria, where it will submit a report to the |peace conference on the wishes of the subject races of Turkey. On this rer may rest the decision jwith rv to an American man except the Ger-|date in the Near Kast, y 99 SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, AUGUS" The Seattle Star dai Pages 13 to 24 —Y Some of the “Ex-es” of Europe in Their Swiss Retreats * Constantine Has a Fine Place, but He’s s Lonesome | anreconciled. »—~ | Is Faithful tf —— Ke ——— LX KING LLOWG Max of Baden, cessfully to steer ho e Ludwig of Bavaria, most demo- cratic and contented of the lot, finds Castle Salis no irksome spot, and to be PRINCES PHULOEGAROE Ludwig's daughter, Princess Hilde- grade, is with him to see that no : discomforts or loneliness comes his Permits himself frequently way. photographed. LONDON }ON EDITORS RAILWAY STRIKE DISCUSS LEAGUE ISOLATESL.A, LOSTIN Interest Revived by Wilson | Switchmen Stop Traffic on|Clancey Lewis an Talk to Senators Three Steam Roads the Job, ha his family arrived h daughter, LONDON, Aug. 22.—(By United] LOS AN Cal, Aug. 22—~) BRINNON, Aug After being Press)—Revived interest in the) Three separate railway strikes of _ : nt Sivan : men ee a | league of nations and e proc By i ss ount La Crosse for a week with | tence fe Bap ox grt aml railway switchmen of the Southert| out any food save a small amount sulted here from President Wilson's | Pacitic, Santa Fe and Salt Lakelof sugar, Clancy M. Lewis, secre testimony before the senate foreign |*ystem steam lines last night re-|tary of the Manufacturers’ Associa relations committee. sulted in the complete severance of| tion of Seattle, his son Palmer, and) The allies’ concealment of secret! to, Angeles from steam raiiroad|* tend, Harold A Potts, were res treaties strengthened Wilson's moral | jcued Wednesday by a man named position, says the Manchester Guar. |C°mnection with the rest of the na-/gchiuss, of ‘Tacoma. | dian, which wonders why the presi-| 0D z Lewis and his party started out] dent did not use his position more| Caf* are lined on the tracks this/on Aug. 11 with sufficient food to fully [morning and being switched by of |iast them 10 days They became ‘The paper supposes he was forced |*!clals of the railroads lost when trails became obliterated toma a difficult choice between| The_strik grew out of the pres-| because of forest fires. They wan the acceptance of some very untavor.|°"t Pacific Electric interurban |dered about hoping to discover able point or the possible breaking |"tTke, when several switchmen| some known landmark, but without up of the peace conference. were discharged for refusing to| success It hopes the price of all these con-|handle P. BH. freight trains, The} ‘Their shoes were completely gone cessions, paid in return for the |*Witchmen's strike followed a de jand their feet, when found, were league of nations, will not be lost, |™M4nd for their reinstatement, Com-|wrapped in canvas shreds torn The Dally Garphic, commenting on|P*8Y Officials claim they were not/from a shelter half. Their clothes Wilson's conference with the sena.|&ven time to act upon the matter.| were in shreds, Lewis Is said to tors, declares there ia one aspect with| Hundreds of disappointed travel-| have collapsed when shown some regard to the difficulty over article | crowded the Southern Pacific|food. The party is recuperating at depot here last night, All were re-\a resort at Sn eee Mate tt en. | funded money on tickets purchased. | eal duranae and sacrifices of the allies, ae eons Pipa oy will BOLD ROBBER TAKES | the editor deciares, the Monroe doc'/not guarantee that service will be| $400 AND ESCAPES| trine would not be much today, “be- sides @ sweet memory controlled by | restored today VANCOUVER, in this exile state kings, and here he is with his little Wash., a ‘onstantine of Greece has his whole family with him, and a charming villa at Zurich, but he's still He’ 's Contented | | Left Hurriedly | tried unsue German. ship of state after the kaiser threw up urriediy with SEATTLE PARTY HILLS, id Son Are| Found Almost Starved Duckabush, Aug. 22. Germany. ‘That being the case,’ An armed robber who was unmasked the paper asks, ‘‘why shouldn't] Chicago has a pugilist auctioneer | held up an employe in the Wood pool America make some sacrifices in re-|who recently knocked down a row of| room here yesterday turn for the allies’ services?” Ibrick houses with $400. and escaped } Alphonso Looking Around a Bit | of Trade Alphonso of Spain and his wife are not in the “ex” class yet, bu ® soft spot to light If the lid blows off in Spain. x { { cs Karl of Austria has Wartegg Castle on the shore of Lake Geneva | and for variety a villa some miles away. get back in the king row. * These e Kiddies Have Found Home } x | | And here are Karl's three childr as fine a place to play as Austria—and perhaps less restricted, they are “summering” in the Alps and the Swiss say they are picking ——_~— | Karl Now Has Only Two Castles i ‘* | Here he sits on the bank of | the lake in apparent contentment, a cronie on either side, but he'd like to to whom Switzerland is just | ET: Conquest Is Begun First Unit of Freight and Passenger ‘Dreadnaughts’ Arrives on Coast U. S. PROCRASTINATES BY DUDLEY BURROWS (N, E. A, Staff Correspondent) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22— Searcely noticed during the wel come of our Pacific fleet on the west coast, a brand new 10,000- ton ship, flying the Japanese flag, steamed into San Francisco bay @ few days ago. The usual ceremo nies attending the arrival of s ves- sel completing her maiden trip across the Pacific were consple uous by their absence, Possibly there might have bees more interest in the coming of the “Choyo Maru” had the American public been advised that she was a unit of a mighty fleet of mer- chant ships which Japan is new building in the hope of becoming undisputed mistress of the western ocean. Thix squat, heavy-laden “sea pig® represented the keenest rival Amer _ ica will ever have for the foreign © trade of the Orient, Siberia and the jAntipodes. And that rival is “om” the job” months ahead of Uncle Sam. The race fox the privilege of trans porting this vast export and | business of the Pacific has ‘begun and Japan has stolen @ [on America which ‘may cost | years of effort and millions of | lars to offset, if at all possible. Word comes from Tokyo that |great armada of freight and |senger vessels of the ultra type is now receiving the “ |touches" in Japanese shipyarde i @ great commercial “drive” ing to every nook and corner <9 | Pacific, | Heading this “peaceful navy" ibe at least two trans-oceanic jhounds of the Mauretania class "4 ply between Seattle and Yokohama, — negotiating the “Gré@at Circle” route — in nine days, as against 16 now — made by the fastest vessels in that service, These big turbinedriven lin is reported, will represent the word in luxury for passengers, the same time _ reserving cargo space to insure steadiness profits without sacrificing speed. Second Big Fleet. : Next in size to these mercantile “dreadnaughts” will be 10 veasela displacing 22,000 tons, each, four of — which will travel between the Orfent © and San Francisco, via Hi while six will strike for South Amer ican ports, laden with goods labeled fade in Japan.” it eritable swarm of “10,000-tom is reported to be mobilizing im anese ports for service in Ij ina, the Straita Settlements, Phillippines and the Antipodea It is rumored that Japan did not | quite “tote fair” in the matter of constructing this formidable “peace: navy” of hers—that she pei just enough work to be done on the ships to insure quick com; when hostilities in Europe jcease, but kept them “not quite available” for war purposes. Be that as it may, Japan has the fleet and the goods’ with which to fill it. Moreover, “the Yankees of jthe Far East” have learned many jtricks of the trade from German, Dutch and English merchants and manufacturers and are prepared to entrench themselves solidly in the | Pacific markets if given the chance, American Promises, | Largely thru the efforts of John H. Rosseter of San Francisco, di jtor of operations for the Uni ates shipping board, .an “ate. |quate” fleet of American merchant. |men has been “promised” the Pas |” |elife coast, So far only an incon sequential number, compared with the Japanese armada, have been [definitely allocated to the western ocean, | As a student of the situation re ntly declared: “What remains BOW — iseto plunge into the development trade routes that will keep the pective merchant fleet busy. iy Japanese competition is felt whem jever a cargo carrier can find am chorage. The men at the head |the shipping industry must jevery resource into the fight, for the Japanese have a long start.” _ Meanwhile America will do to have an eye on other mari |nations, principally England | Holland, which are also initial ambitious invasions of the Pacifie the conquest of the vast trade to be developed ther | Youth Jailed for ‘ “Borrowing” Auta 4 Accused of “borrowing” : |mobile in Vancouver, B. Ss |having obtained permi : jowner, the Returned Soldiers’ Club ners and driving it to Seattle, George 4 Moore, 18, and Carrie ‘Thomp - |19, were arrested in a Second hotel Thursday. The girl taken to Vancouver by a poli Thursday night, Moore is held the city jail,