The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-06
Emperor william So Expresses Him.
self to Mr.. Morgan and Otherwise
shows Interest in the States.
PNEUMATIC TUPEs FOR IAILs
COMMISSION SENT To AMERICA To
INVESTIGATE THEM.
Praise for the Kafser's American
Built ~Yacht-Notes of German Mu-
sicians-Other Berlin Matters.

BERLIN, July ST am not one of those
who believe that we can learn nothing
from other countries. l think we can learn
something from all peoples and most from
the Americans. We desire TO know the
things you do better than others and make
them our own" said Emperor William to
j. +. Morgan. 'The United States has long
been the debtor of Germany in science and
German Methods replied Mr.. Morgan. II
should be sorry to think we could not give
something in return"
This is the fragment that began the long
conversation between Emperor William and
Mr.. Morgan, sitting on the deck of Mr..
Morgan's yacht Corsair, Thursday. The
talk took a wide range from yachting, a
congenial subject to both, to business. His
Majesty saw Mr.. Morgan three times dur
ing two days. Mr.. Morgan, P. A. B. Wild
ener, Clement A. Griscom and a party
of twenty-one. including eight ladies. went
to Hamburg yesterday. Herr Albert Balm,
director general of the neutrality-suspicious.
line, with several prominent citizens, met
them at the railroad station, took them TO
the Hamburger Hof and showed the trav-
elers various other objects of interest in
the city. Herr Balm also gave the Ameri-
cans a luncheon at the Restaurant Pforde,
TO which thirty guests sat down. Later Herr
Balm entertained the party at his villa.
The trip of Mr.. Morgan from Kiel to Ber-
lin was made in a saloon carriage usually
occupied by members of the royal family,
which was obtained for Mr.. Morgan by
Herr Balm. The party breaks up here. Mr..
Morgan aflrms that Berlin is only a way
station for him between Hamburg and
Paris, whittier he will start Sunday evening
or Monday. He says he has no business OBJ
jects whatever in Berlin. Mr.. Morgan will
spend most of tomorrow at PotSdam, see
ing the palaces.
In pursuance of Emperor Williams de-
sire TO adopt good American things the
Prussian railroad minister has ordered the
extension of the American baggage-check
system, which has been experimental with
on the Hamburg-Berlin line, and the i'm
perial postoffice has just appointed a COM
mission TO go to the United States and
study American postal, Geographic and tele-
phone arrangements. Special attention will
be given to the tubular mail service. Ger
many, at present, is using only small tubes
for individual letters and contemplates in
Producing the American system of transfer
in bulk by mail TO and from the branches
or the central postoffice. The commits
sioners are Post Counselors Wernecke, of
Leipsic, and Braun, of Hamburg. They
will be accompanied by a Geographic en-
gineer and another engineer of Berlin.
xxx
The papers here are laying stress on the
success of the American yachts in the re-
gatta at Kiel. Die Woche says: AS in
many other spheres, America triumphs in
this years regatta"
In discussing the Meteor's performances
the writer's surmise that the Emperor's
yacht was not rugged in a satisfactory man.
ner while in England.
XXX
Heinrich Conreid, manager Of the Irving
place Theater, New York. was summoned
from Carlsbad to Travemunde for an audi
ence by Emperor William to-day. His
Majesty's object. it is understood. was to
decorate Herr Conreid in recognition of the
gala opera performances given by him dur
ing Prince HenryS visit to America.
XXX
Singularly, Humperdinck and Siegfried
Wagner have both taken material for new
fairy operas from precisely the same
sources. The two composers maintained
great secrecy regarding the story of their
operas, but meeting the other day. Humper-
Oinck inquired of his former pupil how his
opera was progressing and Wagner replied:
Very we'll. 1t is a fairy opera"
Humperdinck answered: And mine also"
Then Wagner added: Mine combines the
German popular fairy story of the sleeping
beauty"
why, so does mine replied Humper-
dinck, with a-mazement.
On a further exchange of condolences il
was found both had used the same ma
terial.
Arthur Nikisch, formerly conductor of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, has been
elected principal of the Leipsic Conserva-
tory of Music, which probably is the Ger
man musical institution best known to
Americans. He succeeds Reinecke, the com
poser.
K K
The vacation of the pupils of the German
schools, which begun yesterday. is caus-
ing an immense exodus to the mountains
and seaside. Eighty-One trains left one
station to-day and twenty-one special trains
Left another station