The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-02
intelligent Germans Admire
Him for His Achievements.
RADIUM KILLS BACTERIA
Interesting Experiments With These
Rays German Grown Prince De-
voted TO Polo-Golf Invades the
FatherIand- Dangers of Alps
pY MALCOLM CLARKE.
Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch.
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BERLIN, August 1-Sensible and WE'LL
Informed Germans are not included among
those who have been protesting 80 loud-
ly against the attentions paid by the EN-
peror to Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bit. Ignorant editors who have called
the Kalscr's guests "shoddy Americans,
have discovered to their confusion that
not the immense wealth Of the Vonderpiit
family but Cornelius NanderDlit
achievements as in inventor and mechah-
ical genius are responsible for the hoiiois
which the young American end his VIE
are now enjoying
No one more than the Kaiser respects
DISTINGUISHED personal achievement in any
worthy direction. His Majesty has pas
sion for watching and encouraging ei-
forts toward progress In the world Oh
mechanics. He knows all about young
yanderbllts sacrifice OF fortune Tor inc
sake Of the woman he loved, and his SUB
scquent career in the machine shops OF
the great railroad which the vanderbilt
family controls.
The Kaiser has discussed with Mr.. VAN
derbiIt the details OF the latter's In
ventions particularly the fully tested ana
successful locomotive iirebox. The s'1n-
plcity of this device and the saving OIL
fuel which 1t makes possible, deeply m
terests His Majesty. and the very GER
mans who arc incensed at the Afternoons
paid to the young inventor may soon ma
the railway service of Their own coun'r3
improved through the use Of Mr.. Wander
bits and other American devices.
MAJ Dea III to Bacteria.
Dr. pfeiffer and Dr. Fr!edberGer, of tie
IJygienlc Institute of the konlgsGerg
University, have concluded some highly
Interesting experiments with radluHl.
which prove the deadly effects upon bac-
terra OF this marvellous clement
They exposed for forty-eght hours IN
dark room gelatipe place which had
boen freely sown with typhoid bacilli to
the radiation from a small quantity OF
radIum bromide The effect was most de-
cisive, by far SURPRISING the results
achieved in the same field by A-rays. TIC
bacilli were either killed or their grown
completely stopped. It was also proSeu
by further experiment that the rad Nm
had worked its effect upon the oac,ii
themselves, and not merely upon the
gclntine.
Similar results were obtained in the case
OF cholera bacilli. and this even in q
shorter time (sixteen loursl while in the
case OF afltETuS IL tJoh W. wv $500
twenty-four hours to have them DESTROY
ed by the radium rays. or, as they are
also called. "Becaucral rays.
The practical Importance OF these c%pe-
riments lies In the hope which they give
of using the rays of radlum for thcrapeu-
teal purposes in infectious diseases OF inc
skin las, for instance, lupus) 1t is, how
ever, possible that the Injurious erect
upon the tissue-cels caused by radium
rays may prove too strong to admit OF
their being used in therapeutics.
Prince Plays Bike Polo.
THE Crown Princes new pastimc at the
present moment is bicycle polo, for which
he shows the most intense liknS. Nearly
every day. early In the morning and
again In the evening. before and after
his military duties, he rides across from
tho Kab!nets Haus to the Lustgarten. the
enormous space In front Of the Stadt
Schloss. accompanied by half dozen
brother !eutenants. These gentlemen clad
in uniform but wearing the snort jacket
used for such occasions. Indulge IN l.Neiy
game, and all being good cyclists, there
are few tumbles. The Crown Prince s
very sklful and evidently enjoys himself
extremely Bicycle polo has quite taken
the place of tandem driving at the present
moment In His Imperial llighness's az
lection.
Prince Eite Fritz, who Is on tour In
Switzerland. was twenSs last Week me
Ka!sers sons are growing up rapidly ana
will all be marrageable before long.
Prince Eitel is an important Prince and
next heir to the throne should the Crown
Prince die or have no son.
Queen wilhelmna and her husband are
coming to Germany carly in August on q
visit to Prince Heinrlch's relations. Her
Majesty will spend some days in Schwe-
rim and Scbloss Rabensteinfeld and Will
then probably go to the Black Forest.
GoIflnvading Germany.
Golf Is slowly but surely making pro-
gress throughout the Iratherland. The
Germans are slow to adopt anything ne"
In sport or anything else, put Wheh Iney
do and find 1t good they stick to It, Thus
It will no doubt be with the noble game
of golf. The Berlin Golf Club profess
SIGNAL has Just been to LeipzlG, where ne
has been laying out course. rms IS an
immense boon for the English and Amer
leans, who are SO plentiful in that town.
and other large provincial centers are
going to follow suit
Lately there have come from SWitzer-
land series OF warnings respecting new
dangers which confront Alpine travellers.
These are brought about. 1t appears, by
4he fact that lines of train and tramcar
service now run In all directions up the
mountain peaks, and mountaineering by
rail Is becoming daily moro and more
popular.
DR.. Zanger. OF Zurich, who has studied
the subject. declares that this method of
attaining lofty peaks and high attitudes
rapidly and without physical exertion In
wolves an enormous strain and shock upon
the heart and lungs.
He strongly warns all those who are
not robust and accustomed to high alti-
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