The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23

lean Meat.
Berlin, June 22.-[Copyrighted 1895,
by the Asso, lated Press. Public in
terest, as might be expected, has been
monopolized during the past week
with the festivities at Hamburg and
at KieI upon the occasion of the open
ing of the Kaiser Wilhelm canal, and
Berlin has been deserted by nearly all
the prominent men.
The newspapers have devoted pages
every day to TIE canal celebrations,
and everything done and said has
been literally commented upon.
Emperor Williams speech at the
Hamburg banquet was enthusiast
tically received here, and the stress
laid by him on the peaceful signifi-
canoe of the event caused general
pleasure So has the fact that a most
amicable entente seemed to exist
between the emperor and all the Ger
man sovereigns. At the Hamburg ban
quet, the emperor, the moment the
King of Bavaria arose to speak,
poured wine into the latter's glass and
his cordial attentions to the King of
Saxony were favorably noticed. His
majesty's pacific utterances have also
been very well received in Austria.
Assurances of Peace.
\ dispatch from Vienna states that
Herr Dumba, reporter of the budget
committee, speaking to the Austrian
dpla II
speeches of the emperor, saying:
These assurances of peace by our
august ally find mighty echo in Aus
tria, which is in perfect harmony with
those words of peace. The creation of
such a work of peace as the Baltic
canal is proof that both states and peo-
pie nowadays are engaging in a widely
different struggle, and that the compe-
tition in the worlds trade is now
purely confined to the domain of econ
omy."
Emperor William took two of the
leading marine painters, Herren
Borhdt and Saltzmann, with him to
the opening Of the canal and indicated
to them during his four days stay,
the best moments and occasions Cor
sketches. They will execute a series
of paintings representing the most
striking views of the cerem Onies,
the national gallery.
During the fetes a corps of picked
detectives of this city surrounded the
emperor night and day. These pre-
cautions were taken on account of the
fact that threatening letters from
anonymous anarchists and others
reached his majesty during the previ-
Gus fortnight. Some of these letters
came from France, and the writer's
no a
A score or more of MISUNDERSTANDING
persons were arrested by the detec-
tives. Among these were Two French
men and a Russian.
The naval correspondents of the
German and Austrian newspapers have
highly commended the appearance of
the United States war vessels and
ton and eXactness of their manouvres,
according them the first place in this
respect. They style the New York the
finest vessel of her kind at Kiel.
Our Warships Praised.
The officers of the United States
squadron showed wonderful good ma
ture in welcoming everyone and in
trying to talk German. The German
visitors were considerably puzzled by
the fact that the Marblehead and 9TH
erS of the American squadron have
japanese stewards and negroes among
the crew. In this connection the criti-
cal comparison of the various war
ships at Kiel made by an English ma
val expert made there is especially in
teresting. Omitting the British fleet
from comparison, in order to avoid
semblance of Partially, ne expressed
the opinion, after taking careful no.
tice, that in respect to value and eff
ficiency, the various crews might be
placed in the following order:
First-The Germans.
Second-The French.
Third-The Americans
Fourth-The Austrians.
Fifth-The Russians.
Sixth-The Italians.
Seventh-The Swedes.
Eighth-The Dutch.
Ninth-The Danes.
Tenth-The Roumanians.
Eleventh-The Portuguese.
Twelfth-The Spanish.
The French Squadron.
The French squadron, he says, con-
tanning the flower of the French navy, |
made an excellent and impressive |
show. The men were neat and smart (
and the boats crews excited general !
admiration. But the ships, especially |
The hideous ironclad Hoche, flagship of |
the French squadron, are unfavorably !
criticised. All of the French vessels /
carry so much top hamper that in the /
event of the latter being shot away |
during an action it would fall and /
disable the guns beneath.
A German officer, commenting on the |
French squadron, said that both the /
French ships and the French people |
we're a trifie extravagant and exag-
serated.
The Russian ships have the same
defect OF toe much top hamper al
.hough in a lesser degree than the
French ships, while the personnel of
he Russian vessels was pronounced to
De far inferior to that of the French
AS to the Italian squadron, the
hips were pronounced to be good and
heir officers efficient. The boats were
veil kept and the men looked clean
md well dressed. Yet it was added
hat the Italian ships inspired no con-
idence as fighting machines. the pre-
'ailing opinion among the naval men
It Kiel being that they would prefer
0 be without the active help of the
Italian fleet in time of crisis than with
t, as the men, who are the most i'm
,ortant fighting element, do not give
he expert critics the inpnresSion that /