Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-05-23 | Page 8 | Villagers Heedless as Ex-Emperor Moves to His New Palace; Men Remodel Doorn House for Last Days of Fallen Ruler

VILLAGERS HEEDLESS AS EX-EMPEROR MOVES TO HIS NEW PALACE; J MEN REMODEL D00RN HOUSE FOR LAST DAYS OF FALLEN RULER . V Over Fifty Vanloads of Furniture Fur-niture . Moved From Amer-ongen Amer-ongen Home BY ZOJE BECKTEY N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. DOORN, Holland, May 22. Hon Wllhclm Hohonzollern has been moving mov-ing for weeks now and ho is at lasw finished. ' ' A couple of wagons, with maybe mother carrying 1 the cat and parrot and sistor the "parlor clock, sees trie average family out ' of ' the old place into the now. - But consider the onco "All High- est!" Between 50 and CO huge van loads have ' arrived at Doom House, not counting two frank and -unconcealed open trucks laden with stock for the wine cellar. A big maroon auto-van raced back and forth several times daily besides, sometimes to Amerongen, sometimes to Arnheim or Utrecht, bringing goodness good-ness knows what. Still when one has a dozen castto-fuls castto-fuls of stuff to weed out and son over, it is a problem to know what to leave behind. Filled Willi Furniture. A big, old, concrete barn being piled with gilt-and-brocado furnlturo and huge amorphous bundles done in burlap, bur-lap, evidently bibelots and curloa. Workmen, Indeed, are all over the place remodoling the main doorway, draining tne ancient moai .wnicn nu.a been a mosquito-breeding place, erecting erect-ing artificial hillocks planted with rhododendrons wherever too clear a view of the mansion is had from the highway, doing a hundred and ono things toward the comfort and adornment adorn-ment of the estate. For consider also In the moving troubles of the ex-kaiser that this is probably his final move. Whether ho 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 cli-mate proves unsatisfactory or sightseers sight-seers too numerous, at Doom House he must live, and likely die. JOooni's Prcttyi Village; Xo Railroad! . Doom is larger and more intcrcst- mirnncnn 10 kMoiYlQterH Illy lllilll ili"Vuiio-"l - to the cast. Whereas Amerongen is dull and grubby, with one street, o:iu church and one inn, Doom Is several times a3 large and is a village of neat villas and fine homes. Doom's curving main street, clean as a whistle. ha3 a brick-paved roadway road-way flanked by big trees and little shops. Thero are two hotels and three churches, but no railroads. Doom's rail connection is maintained by a "stoom-tram" (two passenger coaches drawn by a steam engine), which grunts and clangs and puffs and wobbles wob-bles its way through tho village several sev-eral times' each day between Drleber-gen Drleber-gen and Arnheim. From Saturday noon to Sunday night Doom Is at Its gayest, which isn't terribly gay. Then the Inns wake up. Bicycles, automobiles and motorcycles mo-torcycles come up. Fattish Dutch ladies la-dies emerge with very pink faces and hats too high on their heads, The sit about, sipping and ohatting. but never of Mr. and Mrs. Bx-Kalser. Dutch Don't Even Notice Him. Tho tables were .quite full today when Hcrr Hohonzollern, returning to Doom House, cut round the hotel porch in his olive green car with his chin-strapped' chauffeur. No one so much as glanced up! In America tho olive car would have been trailed by a hundred newspapermen newspaper-men and panting cameramen. I was the only one who starod, and the two guards on bicycles, riding behind tho olivo car, stared back forbiddingly. for-biddingly. The day I surprised him at the srate of. his new place,. tho surprise and the consciousness of being looked at, left - " j j a certain sprightlincss. to the faiion monarch's bearing. Today, unaware of any eye upon him, ho made me think of an old, faded-gray wolf I onco saw behind the bars of a red-and-gold circus wagon. His new place at Doom has CO hectares hec-tares of ground and more than f0 rooms. It has a private ohapel n tho place. It dates from the twelfth century. He bought it from the widowed wid-owed Baroness van Hcemstra. for 500,-000 500,-000 gulden that's ?200,000 ar d he has astounded, his Dutch workmen by putting baths in tho house and building build-ing servants' quarters, also with j baths! j It is costing a fabulous sum to en- IMM' Jii i large and remodol tho place. Wllhclm . is having a hard struggle to ensure j privacy. The "church path" has existed ex-isted for hundreds of years, and Is - J now tho public acknowledged right. ,! One road flanks anend of the prop- W erty has likewise become "common." And ho has had to build a. bicycl path for Dotrnites on a certain pare of a road upofc which his fence slight.-' ly encroached. Also, he will be literally a prisoner on his own land, for he- daro go no- where without uermission from tho government. He is a man without a country, in Holland only on suffcr-' suffcr-' ance. . !