The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-07
OUR GERnhH CRITICS
Impressions Of the Kaiser's
Agricultural Party.

Agricultural Party.
EAMER1oAN HOSPITALITY PRAISED.
nastfnguished Visitors Who Have
( Rcen Touring the United States Say
We Have Wonderful Country, hut
seem Skepticnl ms to h Profit to
Their Land From Their Observa-
lions.
Seemingly skeptical as to whether
/ they have gained sufficient knowledge
I to repay them for their seven weeks
tour through the United States, the
/ delegation Of forty-seven Germans sent
TO this country by the kaiser to study
\ American agricultural methods recent
" left for their native land, says the
New York Times. Before they lett
they gathered at the Hotel Belvedere
Ia New York the other day at an IN
formal luncheon rendered to John
Schultz of the United States depart
! ment of agriculture, who accompanied
them officially.
After the luncheon Erich sreck o
I Fluegge, imperial counselor on econ
omy and the kaiser's personal repre-
I sentative. was interviewed.
.sThis is a big country, a great u
try. a wonderful country" he said.
.We admire it very, very much. But
most Of all do we admire the people.
They have been so kind, so hospitable,
/ to us. You have magnificent schools,
\ and the men in charge Of them appear
] to me to be very, very clever men.
| we marveled at the means you have
i FOR supporting your institutions OF
learning. The agricultural experimental
I farms especially interested us, for, you
/ know. we came here to learn about
/ your methods of agriculture"
MAY l say that you are leaving this
n country with impressions that will I'M
I prove your knowledge of agricultural
l things in general?" the reporter sked.
\ mo, no; don't say anything about
! that. Don't say anything about that at
4 ALL" quickly answered Won Fluegge,
\ shaking his head energetically and
\ holding up his hands. But you can
4 print in big letters how much we ap-
4 preciate the hospitality-the splendid
4 hospitality-of the Americans"
\ Rittmeister Lemcke, who, besides be-
ing a captain of cavalry. is the owner
Of a feudal estate comprising 6.OOO
acres, was indignant over sleeping cal
accommodations on American rail
roads,. In a loud tone he declared:
1.-THE Pullman accommodations were
dirty and flthy-too bad for utterance
We didn't want first class Pullmans
I but we wanted at least comfortable
accommodations. And then those dirty
negro servants who made up our beds
they were something vile"
He was not satisfied with the meals
n either. with tremendous sums O
4 money we could purchase meals tina
were not at all adequate or satisfac
N tory" he said. Eat other times tn
meals we got for less money We're yer.
Il good"
On Rittmeister Lemcke's estate ar
Il large forests, and he was especially in
terested in American woodlands.
ID "American farmers he said, "ar
\ doing away with wood in their BIZ
NJ forests entirely without thought Of tn
II future. In the west we found big pile
u Of wood decaying and not used becaus
Il 1t had been cut down without necessity
~ So long as the American farmer make
IN money today he does not think of til
n future. Within ten years they wi
N have to be importing their buildin
III wood from Germany. Our forests wi
III never give out. The cutting is reg,
lated by the government"
M Mr.. Gain. also a large feudal estat
III holder, said he was going to come bac
II in two years and buy up a lot of Ian
III In the west and cultivate it.
M II will have to use fertilizer
NJ though" he said. 1.-THE farmers in tn
IN country are exploiting the soil witho,
M discrimination, and in six years it wi
M be much less productive than it is noS
M Then they will have to send to &c
M many for fertilizers"
What impressed itself deepest on II
mind of Karl Fuhrmann, a student
Berlin university. was the lack of be
drinking in the American colleges al
universities.
IT liked your American universiti
very much" he said. ''They are We
well put together. But there is 0
thing that they miss. and that is be-
The students here can't have the enth
siasm we have in Il German schot
by drinking water. It is beer that
spired them.
THE beer they have here is bs
Even what is called imported be-
isn't like what we have there. Y
can't drink three glasses of the be
here without feeling the effects. IL
Is because there is more alcohol in