Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 34 | Says Charlesi. is Quite Democratic

SAYS CHARLES LIS I. I IS I I I QUITE DEMOCRATIC B By BI The Tha S SpecieS ld K w Boric I NEW YORK Dec 2 Lieutenant Joseph Hofmann formerly an on Austrian Dragoon officer and now manager of a Polish newspaper here is a friend of ot the new emperor Charles I. I having met him In the Austro Hungarian army He said today In our regiment the story atory was often nen retold of Charles Charles' school days at Vienna There when seven years of ot age he was sent to a public school where his hIli playmates were sons eons of the people from the butcher to the baker When eighteen the young man was appointed a a. second lieutenant In InI Inthe inthe I the Dragons by Emperor Francis Joseph He remained with the Eighth squadron three years when he had reached the title of or captain and placed in Sn sole eole command This squa squadron Iron was stationed first at Brandeis Bohemia and later he and the the squadron were detailed to Galicia I His bride the Princess Zita ac acI accompanied ac- ac I companied him to Bohemia where I they lived eighteen months The archduchess the hardships of or travel so that she could always be near her husband he ha riding with his troops and she following In a a. motor car At they lived In a story one-story house as unpretentious as a summer colony bungalow but they always kept open house to friends or 01 strangers who chanced to callIn call In all his career the new emperor has shown by his dally daily life lire the characteristic characteristic characteristic charac charac- of or utmost democracy He never forgets or slights a friend not friend not even the humble schoolboys of the butcher and baker of his public school days At the formal celebration of his twenty-first twenty birthday at his summer summerhome summerhome summerhome home at near Vienna everyone every everyone everyone one of or his boyhood companions whom he could find was invited to attend Time and again the archduke on that occasion posed for group photographs photo photo- photographs graphs with his old school chums