THE KAISER AND HIS SON.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 4 October 1902, Page 13 (Supplement)

THE KAISER AND HIS SON.

A romantic story concerning the alleged engagement of the German Crown Prince to an American girl, and his in* sistence on marrying her, despite th 6 strong objections of his Imperial father, is telegraphed from Paris by the correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle. It is dated 11th August, and is as follows: — Le Matin publishes an extraordinary, story of violent scenes between the German Emperor and his eldest son, the Crown Prince. The paper hints that the cause of the quarrel is the Prince's determination to marry an American girl. At [the last meeting of the father. and son the Emperor stamped and swore that a Hohenzoilern Prince should never marry, morganatically or otherwise, a girl of common American clay, however beautifully moulded. It is* believed here that the girl ia question is Miss Gladys Deacon, the fascinating daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parker Deacon, and al*a 1 * close friend of Consuelo, Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Vanderbilt. The Prince and Miss Gladys met at • Blenheim Palace on the occasion of the Prince's visit to his granduncle, the King of England. Both the Prince and the fair commoner are of the same age, and it was a case of reciprocal love at first sight. The Emperor had asked the King to see that the Prince got an insight into the rural life of the English aristocracy, and the King procured him an introduction to the Marlboroughs, with whom Gladys Deacon was visiting. The young Hohenzoilern unduly protracted his visit, led a cotillion every night, with Miss Deacon, and returned only when ordered to by the Emperor. Last spring the Prince got permission to visit Lucerne for three days, which be^ extended to ten days because he met Miss Deacon there. Being rebuked by the Emperor for his disobedience, the Prince threatened to do as did the Austrian Archduke, who took the name of John Orth and renounced bis rights to the throne for the sake of the woman he loved. The Prince 'said, he would rather have the heart and hand of the American beauty than rank Or purple or even the tihrone of the German' Empire. The Prince, it appears, gave Miss Deacon t famous ring, hitherto worn on his litth firtger. So lovelorn was the Prince that ho could not stand the student life of the University of Bonn, ahd so returned home with his education unfinished. So romantic and poetic was he that he could not stand the coarse behaviour of th» students, who drank thirteen bocks at » sitting, and the discipline of an establishment whfere diplomas count less than sword scars. The story of the conflict between the Imperial father and the son is now well known in Germany. The Matin asks for what charmer atid for whose heart does the Prince make such sacrifices, and promises a series of articles on the subject, intimating that the love affair may lead to trouble between Germany and the United States. The present , articles are headed, "The Two Eagles, America and Germany." At any rate, the Crown Prince of Germany is a true wooer, as princes go— if all these stories be true, for it was as long ago as October, 1901, that he met Miss Deacon. The gift of the ring to Miss Deacon somehow got abroad, and it is said that it was when the Kaiser's eye noted the absence of the jewel from hiS son's hand that the Prince boldly told the truth. Not only—so the Court gossip ran — did the young man tell his father truly of the j'oung woman to whom he had given the ring, but he followed his confession by writing to her and formally proposing marriage. What the answer was is not known. Miss Deacon is the daughter of the 'Parker Deacons who were the principals in a most unhappy story dating back to Paris some years ago. A rich Frenchman named Abeille was shot by Mr. Deacon.