Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-24
German Agricultural Investigators

AmeS ana kearney TO view Nebraska0
alfalfa fields and orchards. its beet sugar
plants and its dozen other interesting evil
dences of versatile productiveness.
The emperor Of Germany draws approxi-
mately $4.OOO.0OO per year-and spends It all.
But those who know, affirm that he spends
It wisely and prudently for the betterment
of his empire, He is anxious that his peo-
pie should DO at a disadvantage with no
other people and that they should have the
benefit of what others have found out by
experimenting. Very rapidly this spirit Is
spreading. He has Influenced the trend Of
thought In Germany quite as effectively as
has President Roosevelt. In many respects
Williams counterpart, influenced the trend
of thought, or rather Of action and ambi-
ton, In this country. The agriculturalists
undertook the trip to America with not
only their monarch's approval, but with his
cordial encouragement, for he saw another
opportunity for a better understanding in
Germany of n nation conceded to have
eclipsed all others in the rapidity of its ad-
Vancement In material and Industrial UNI
dertakings, Germany has something to
teach, but IL has also something to learn,
and Its emperor is willing that what is to
be learned shall be learned by frank In
Quiry of a reliable source.
The visitors made the trip a business
proposition and carried cameras, note books
and keen eyes. But they carried. also,
hearts most responsive TO friendly over
lures and there was no laugh in which
they did not join. Those who travelled with
them on the train or rode about with
them in the carriages found them ex-
tremely companionable, even when their
language was not ineligible and no in
terproter near.
For the German-Americans serving on
the Omaha committee OF escort the visit
was an occasion long to remain in mind
as one of the pleasantest In the clty's his
tory. The visitors were from so many
parts of the empire that those Omahans
who were born within the empires bord-
ers could scarcely fail to find someone in
the deputation who was from the same
place, or who, perhaps. had a friend who
was a friend of the entertainer. The free
exchange of remarks on personal matters
began almost before the visitors were of
the cars here and grew freer still before
the day was ended. The mustache that is
the kaiser's hides the same sort of lip,
after all, as does the mustache thai has
been given a permanently American twirl
or twist or droop.
But it isn't fair TO speak of mustaches
as the adornment of all who came. The
most conspicuous man in the party had
none at all. This was the Austrian count
who made such a decided impression on
susceptible young women because he was
stalwart, IL not handsome, and who made
an almost equally decided impression on
men because he was jovial. He was Inn
mensely tall, but when, upon leaving the
Schlitz cafe, he saw a sign carrier on
stills that exalted his head to a point
nearly even with second story windows. the
count promptly marched out into the
ctraaf aud ohoolr hnndo NTH NHa o,.oNoA
as one who had dlstanced him in gaining
height. 1t was so remarkable a pair thai
several hundred people looking on cheered
bravely and the counts own friends hur-
ried a photographer to the scene that Il
might be pictured and so preserved as a
souvenir of the trip.
Omaha and South Omaha are left no
souvenirs, but are left a very pleasant
memory of the visit and the sweet sat
i~sfaction of having so successfully en-
tertained the visitors that the latter were
free to repeatedly remark that never since
they landed in New York had they been
better cared for and never shown so good
a time. For this success no small credit
must be accorded the German committee
in charge. Its members abandoned bust
ness for the day and simply placed them
selves at the command of the guests. As
hosts, there was practically nothing they
would not do and evening found them
quite exhausted by the strenuous activity
of the long day.
The strenuously active day, by the way.
concluded with an incident that made
strenuosity grow still more strenuous. The
Union Pacific had set aside two cars for
the use of the Germans on their trip TO
Kearney at $780, At that hour a train
coupled onto those two cars and hauled
them to the destination as per original
plans. But meantime the major portion
of the delegation had elected to stay in
Omaha until the train pulled out at 11:5O.
The consequence was that a half dozen
stragglers who had quit the crowd dur
ing the afternoon and gone on the cars
to rest were the only occupants of the two