Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-15

yer, Monday at Eaton. Colo. as the guest
of Former Governor Eaton Of that state.
who will be their host also when they
visit Greeley, Tuesday. They spend Tues
day night In Denver, wednesday on Pixies
Peak. Thursday in Salt Lake City and
reach San Francisco Sunday. They reach
New York City on the return trip June
% and sail July ?, to report to the kaiser
the observations Of their tour.
where They Have Been.
They left Kansas City Monday night,
reached Ames, Ia, Tuesday morning for
a day at the Iowa Agricultural college and
spent yesterday at odebolt. Ia, visiting the
A. r. Cook Brookmont farm and expert
mental feeding ranch Their tour from
Omaha to San Francisco will be in general
charge OF George L. McDonaugh. COLOMBIA
tion agent for the Union Pacific, but while
in Nebraska they will be accompanied also
by four prominent m Of Omaha,
Henry suessenbach, E.. NJ. ANDERSEN, Otto
siemsen and Henry Meyer.
The party's reception in Omaha was ex-
tremely cordial and the interchange of
courtesles quite free, as six of the visitors
speak English well, all OF them read and
understand IL and most Of the local COM
mitteemen speak German at least intel
lightly.
Genial but watchful.
Nearly 81 are quite young and the party
Is spirited to the extent even of being
iocular. Mr.. Alfred Morris, stan pho
tographer Of The Bee. who has been with
them the last two days, said yesterday:
"A merrier crowd i never saw, nor one
more keenly alive TO all that is going on
about them. They express delight with
this country and a particular interest in
/ the methods of the American farmer and
| stock raiser, which methods, they say, are
nothing less than marvellous. At Ames,
/ Ia, the Agricultural school so pleased them
| that they sent a very complimentary tele-
gram 20 Secretary Wilson at Washington.
who is giving them especial attention and
who has sent on this. trip as the govern
ment's representative Mr.. John L. Schultz,
an ofncial Of the Agricultural department
and a graduate OF the Ames college, who
speaks German huently. The college cadets
drilled for the Germans, and the latter
stated tina the showing was remarkably
good for an organization that admitted re-
cruits every six months. They were BAN
quoted at the college chapel Just before
leaving and were given a shout OF fare
we'll b. the students. But that which
seemed TO interest them most of ali was
popcorn end the process of popping II.
Each carried away an ear of 1t TO take To
Germany with him. and all were contin-
ually practicing the pronunciation of the
name. The corn planter was the implement
that interested them most and a special
exhibition of it's workings was made at the
college for them.
"At Odebolt they were served dinner and
supper in an immense granary on the IA.
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Ladies' Aid society doing the serving. Al
the conclusion of the last meal a member
OF their party. who is a count. arose and
proposed three hurrahs for Mr.. and Mrs
Cook end / never heard three hurrahs
to beat them"
Who the visitors Are, .
The title. name and place of residence
OF the various visitors are given below
An oberregierungsrath is a superior Officer
of the government; a rittergutsbesitzer Il
a landed proprietor who has been knighted
and a landrath is a government oficer. Tit
list follows:
DR.. Victor Ritter Won Bauer, Bruenn
Moravia; Rittergutsbesitzer Macmillan
Beuther, Golencinnear. Posen; Ritterguts
besitzer F. Hermann, Gross-Luesewitz
Ulrich Bohm. Streesen; .Oberregierungs
rath FIR. Bretteich, Munich; Regierungs
rath pr. Alfred Dietrich. Coblenz: Konart
Eberhardt. Speyer; Rittergutsbesitzer H
Eyssenhardt. B~randenburg; r. Freidricl
Ferber, Gera; ottoman Feuerstein, Silesia
DR.. r. II. Flecken. Bruehl; Landratl
Erich Won Flugge. Pomerania; T. H
Fuhling. Rhine province; agricultural stu
dent A. Thurman, Berlin; Kurt Gaebler
Brandenburg; Armand Gain. west Prussia
Enrique Gildemeister. Berlin; Bernhar,
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II. Kloevedorn, Undorwangen; Victor voI
Laffert. Dammereex. M~echlenburg; Han
Lampe. Leipzig; e. Lemicke, Mecklenburg
Or. Felix Lundemann, Dresden; Ritter
gutsbesitzer P. Moller. Mecklenburg, Rit
, tergutsbesitSer c. Reshholtz, Pomerania
, Walter Richter. East Prussia; Fritz Ruet
fer, Heidelberg; Rittergutsbesitzer Bern
! hard Sachse. Saxony; Jacob SchloesseI
Koein- Ehrenfeld; RittergutsbesitEer +
Schneppat, East Prussia; Baron vo
|, schnurbein, Bavaria: Ernst simons. Elber
field; Karl skene. jr.. Klettendorf; Freiher
|. schneck Won stauffenberg, Wurttenbere
DR.. Eugene Count Ledebur, Bohemia
Herr vielhauer. teacher of agriculture
Baden; A. wadsack. province of saxony
: Farmer Wagner. Ingersleben; Marti
l%enburg; DIR. Martin Wilmer. Berlin; {
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Omaha Reception Committee.
The committee in charge Of the Oman
$ reception included L. o. Simons, chail
z man, who brought out a spscial edition c
e his Western Press for gratuitous distribJ
I ton at the train, and A. 3. HubermanI
d Robert Haaker, Louis Raapke. DR.. r..
Lucke. John Rosicky and w. H. schmolle
In addition to these there was a generS
n reception by a number OF interested cit
o Gems. including Mayor Moores, Congress
Y man Hitchcock and Messrs. Hofmeiste
Getzschmann, Hess, seligsohn. Andreesei
IS Eggers. Hospe, Frenzer, Halter, e. Ross
IS water, Mel UhL W r. Bennett. o'Donaho.
william Krug. Fred Metz, II. H. Meye
+ Moritz Meyer. Henry A. Kosler, WilliaI
4 segelke, Suessenbach, Grossman. Uria,
siemsen, Gruenig. Weber, Klnde
Altstadt, Fink, Karsten, Reinboldt, Andre
] Buthorn and others.