Ka cika wannan magana: Da yake yana da gaba gaɗi sa'ad da ya koma Berlin, ya ƙuduri aniya ya yi nasara a matsayin mai sassaka da kansa, yana saka hannu a gasa da yawa don tsara abubuwan tunawa da kuma maɓuɓɓugan ruwa. A shekara ta 1898, ya lashe manyan kwamitocin uku. A cikin 1899, ta hanyar abokinsa Constantin Starck, ya sadu da Duke John Albert na Mecklenburg, wanda ya so aikinsa kuma ya sanya umarni da yawa. Aikinsa ya tashi bayan wannan batu kuma shekarun 1897 zuwa 1916 sun tabbatar da cewa ya fi nasara. Ya yi farin ciki da kyakkyawar karɓar da ya samu a taron
St. Louis World's Fair a 1904, ya shiga gasar don abubuwan tunawa a wurare daban-daban kamar Manila, Cape Town da Quito, amma ba tare da amfani ba. A ƙarshe ya karɓi umarni don abin tunawa ga Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly a Riga kuma an ba shi gayyatar yin gasa don abin tunawa a St. Louis wanda za a keɓe ga 'yan jaridar Jamus-Amurka Carl Schurz, Emil Preetorius da Carl Daenzer.