COLONEL ROOSEVELT IN GERMANY. 5O5 



advantage of greater experience, the Kaiser would give him a good 

 run at his favorite game. 



Both know the technical points of a warship from keel to mast- 

 top, and both agree that the best thing for the inside of a man is 

 the outside of a horse. Both believe in the '' simple life." Both 

 are family men. The Kaiser is the father of seven children and 

 the Colonel of six. 



For five hours on May 11, the flower of the Kaiser's army, 

 12,000 cavalry, artillery and infantry, of the guard, waged mimic 

 war for the edification of Colonel Roosevelt. The battle raged with 

 realistic fury from nine in the morning until two in the afternoon, 

 and while the countryside reverberated with the roar of artillery 

 and the crackle of rifle fire the man of San Juan and the German 

 War Lord surveyed the thrilling panorama on horseback from an 

 eminence which commanded the entire position. 



THE COLONEL DELIGHTED WITH THE MANOEUVERS. 



The two men were scarcely ten feet apart at any time during 

 the manoeuvers and they chatted as excitedly as boys. 



The Kaiser seemed proud to show the efficiency of the various 

 branches of his army, his only disappointment being the failure of 

 the balloon corps aboard the military dirigible Gross III to appear. 

 The balloon ascended from its headquarters at Tegel, but a fierce 

 gale forced the crew to abandon the flight to Doeberitz. 



It was a spectacle which kept the Rough Rider's blood tingling 

 from start to finish. No single item in his long programme of 

 African and European honors had made a stronger appeal to his 

 imagination. 



The Colonel donned an American campaigning outfit for the 

 occasion, khaki jacket and riding breeches, with tan leggings and 

 boots and his familiar black slouch hat, " our national headgear," 

 as he described it. One of the Emperor's automobiles called for 

 him at the Embassy at seven o'clock. Professor Fraenkel had taken 

 a look down the Colonel's throat before breakfast and found his 

 laryngitis had receded sufficiently to permit him to take the field 

 without danger. The weather, moreover, had turned gloriously 



