Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-01

will be large influx of earls, lords and
honorables. This party went round by
Niagara Falls, is under the charge of
George V. Sims and numbers about sew
enty-fve. Mayor Harrison accompanied
this party.
The German party is in the immediate
charge of Mr.. Willard himself, and Mr..
Paul Schultze. q general land agent of the
Northern Pacific railroad. Among the
distinguished party none impressed the
GLOBE representative more favorably than
MRS. WILLARD,
who was seen while awaiting her husband
in the parlor. She talked in an unosten-
tatious manner about her family. From
her conversation it was CLEANED that her
husband at an early day was
known as Heinrich Hilgard. Prof.
Julius Hilgard, of the United States coast
survey, is his uncle. The Heinrich Hilgard
of thirty years ago is the Henry Willard of
to-day, and is the son of Gustav Hilgard
formerly of the Munich supreme court.
Five of Mr.. Wizards uncles came to
America, but his father remained in the
old country, and he might also have still
been there but for an escapade while he
was attending the Munich university,
which induced him to come to this country
in 1858, when he was but nineteen years
old. He came to Chicago, where he was
taken in charge by his uncle, Robert @.
Hilgard, of the savings bank of Belleville,
ILL.,, but he did not remain there very long,
the place being too small. In his move
ments around the country he
met Horace Greedy, who employed
him as general correspondent
| from the west. In this capacity he made
himself a record under the nom de plume
of
WILLARD,
Which he afterward adopted as his name.
At the close of the war he went to Europe
and so fully explained how the rich mer-
chants of that country could realize large
percentages on investments in America
that he was entrusted with large sums of
money to place IN this country. His in
vestments became so successful that in
1873 Willard became known not only as
the agent of millionaires but one himself
His association with the Northern Pacific
has been its success, and he seems to hold
controlling power over the roads of the
northwest. Mr.. Willard is a plain, unosten-
tatious man, good humored, kind hearted,
devoted to his family, but fond of hard
work. He is thoroughly Americanized
and his home is in New
York, where he will evidently
remain, as he is erecting a mansion that
will rival that of Mr.. Vanderbilt. The
opening of the road of which he is presi-
dent is regarded by him as an important
era in his life, and ne is using his utmost
endeavors to make the excursion such an
one as shall be unsurpassed in complete
ness by that of any road that has been
opened in the past or may be in the fu-
ture.
OTHER GUESTS.
Paul Schurz, of Portland, Oregon, con-
looked after the comfort of the guests on
the American side, while Richard Goeriner,
who is connected with the company's in
terests in Berlin, continued his care for
them on this side. Among the disting-
ulshed party are the German minister to
Washington, Won Eisenbecher and wife,
Count Lippi Weisenfeldt. charge
dafalres from Austria, Carl
Schurz, Frederick Kuhne, and
Caster Schwab, of New York; Ex-Governor
Solomon, of Wisconsin, now of New York;
Mr.. Willard, wife and four children, and
Gen. Xylander and wife, who is the only
sister of Mr.. Willard. Mr.. Xylander is a
member of the German bundesrath,
and minister plenIpotentiary in Berlin.
Charles A. Spofford, son of the congress
sional librarian at Washington, who is Mr..
Wizards private secretary, is also with the
party.
The GLOBE representative enjoyed a
conversation with several leading members.
Baron George Won Bassen, LII. D., is a
member of the German reichstag. In pol
itics he is member of the liberal party.
He said he had thought considerable about
the threatened outbreak between Germany
and France, and he must judge
of the present by what he had seen
in the past. Bismarckis interested in keep
ing Germany out of all wars. The supreme
law of Bismarck is to preserve the peace
of Europe. The baron said that all his
expectations about America were nothing
compared to what he had seen.
Prof. Rudolph Gneist, D. G. L., is dean
of the law faculty of Berlin, and justice of
the supreme court. He is member of
the imperial parliament and member of
the Prussian parliament, president of the
general law reform society of Germany
and president of the general association
for the benefit of the working classes in
Germany. The professor said America
was magnificent and grand. ''When you
have natural sympathy" he said, ''for
thing as / have had for America you ars
not displeased when you see it in rose
colors."
Prof. A. W. Holman, professor
of chemistry in the university of
Berlin comes on a mission in the interest
of German savants. After his return from
the excursion he will study the American
colleges and universities, especially their
mode of instruction in chemistry and ply
sizes. He is of the opinion that the Euro
pean mode is not the only one tending to
results. Many efforts of acquiring and
diffusing knowledge IS studied in the new
world, IN comparison with the old one are
interesting. The newest achievements in
science, however, which were accom- plish
ed in America and more especially those
which have reference to electricity, taking
as an example the telephone, have proved
that methods which were hitherto consid-
ered inappropriate may lead to results as
grand and even greater than those which
were arrived at by the old mode of teach
ing.
Prof. Won Hoist, author Of the constitu-
tionaI history of the United States. spoke