The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-07-19
Great Rejoicing Over Result
of Automobile Contest.
DRINKING HEALTH WATERS
rhe Season Has Arrived When the
High Livers Seek Restoration at
the Springs for Love
ofPhotograph.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.
Special Gable to The Times Dispatch.
Copyright, 1903.

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Copyright, 1902
BERLIN. July 1S.-There is great and
continuous joy here over the German
victories in the Irish automobile race.
Herr Jenatzy gains for Germany the
chief prize. Notwithstanding the destruc-
ton of the Mercedes factory at Cam
staff by fire, with the specially built
motors which 1t contained, on the very
eve OF the race. Germany may, there
fore, fairly be congratulated upon her
SUCCESS in the face OF the froWns oil
fortune.
TO British and French industry the
victory of the German machines teaches
lesson. The German cars mad not peeh
built for the race, and were OF the pat
tern supplied TO ordinary purchasers.
They won because they were good, thor-
oughly trustworthy and well designed.
Their SUCCESS must be ascribed In great
part to the close and careful study which
German engineers have made of motor
requirements. and to the system OF tech
meal education. which in the last fifty
years has carried German trade to the
front.
Throughout Germany automobilists
watched the race with the keenest IN.
terest most clubs being informed from
Berlin Of all the incidents of the con-
test. Count Adelbert Won sierstorpff. who
was witnessing the race. telegraphcd the
news to the German Automobile CLUB In
Berlin almost hourly. and this was com
1nunicated to the various members by
telegraph.
The result became known here about
midnight, and n number OF gentlemen AT
rhe Bristol Hotel celebrated the German
victory There was some discussion re-
garding the locality where the next race.
or German soil. should take place. the
most favored place Is that part OF Han
over known as Lueneburger Heide.
Rush to the Springs.
The season ls here when the prosperous
and oyerworked German liver urges It's
owner toward bitter water springs and
bathing resorts. and seldom has the early
rush been greater. Berliner whose oil
fairy organ is undergoing the cure at kis-
singer. writes THAI already seven thou
sand visitors are In residence there. They
hall from all quarters Of the globe. a
particularly interesting figure is THAI OF.
General b. l.. Grorlbtschewsky. the Gov
ernor of Port Arthur, with his wife. IT
fs a long tourney from the far Eastern
outpost of Russian territorial develop
ment. and, despite his autocratic powers,
General Grorn btschewsky may we'll desire
n most less remote from the waters OF
Kissingen
Another much observed visitor is the
Grand Duke Ale4androvitch. an uncle OF
the Emperor Nicholas. He is IN his forty
third year n tall, thin figure, and looks
without the stereotype beard of his coun-
tryrnen, more English than Russian The
Grand Duchess Olga. who accompanies
her husband to the springs, the concerts.
and entertainments of Kissingen, is
beauty OF the first order.
Emperor Shocked.
The Kaiser has not yet fully recovered
from the shock which the Social Demo-
cratic victory gave him.
The phenomena of three million men
more than n quarter of the entire German
misunderstanding soidly for the Red
Flag, seems calculated 10 give pause
10 the Emperor and his advisers. There
was a time when the Emperor responded
to the anxious representations Of his
statesmen with the confident assurance:
..You leave Social Democracy to me. 1t
is transient movement. can deal with
AS the elections have shown. the waters
of Social Democracy now surround even
the imperial palace In Berlin,
.The herd Of men not worthy to bear
the name of Germans. as the Emperor
once described them. actually dWell-and
this in large numbers, as the voting re
suits proye-within the shadow of His
Majesty's own residence: Curiously
enough Essen and Bresia me very citi les
Emperor We're delivered, are the places
where Social Democracy has most. pros
pered What does i mean Mat smt thefe Is Is
those who vote Social Democrats agree
with the economical or theoretical goal
Of the movement But i they o desi iilor 70
ways to protest against the petty tYran-
niles of the bureaucracy and the police
Everybody Is saying;
The Kaiser is stubborn, but he Is a d.
nlomat. and can make up his mind while
most of his advisers are still seeking more
light.
Machines Abroad.
Half dozen rural nieghborhoods In
Switzerland just now are celebrating, in
most practical manner the mechanical and
mercantile supremacy Of the United
States. 1t is the season Of ma making , nay.
worked by motors all of which are sup
piled by a Chicago firm
Up-to-date Swiss farmers year ago
sent to England and America for descrip-
1--WE price lists of these machines, A1neri-
can manufacturers sent their Catalogues t,
In German and French, while e, the Engii,sh
She price marked in English currency only.
The latter were generally, opened and
Thrown away. and the American house OBJ
tanned the orders. although the English
prices for the machines were actually
lower.
Loved Photograph,
Budapest furnishes an instance of sui
eide committed with the slenderest mo-
live yet recorded A young official named
Woman whose photograph he had seen in
lhe window Of photographers shop.
AS he was unable to find out the name
Of the young lady whose features had so
charmed him he decided that life was not
Worth living, and took fatal dose OF
poison,
Remarkable Verdict.
One year in prison for killing a girl
who loved him and whom he loved. was
the remarkable sentence given last week
BY the Berlin Criminal Court In the case
Of Hugo Noecker a young married man.
The Victim of the tragedy was Martha
which employed Noecker.
Noecker's wife Intercepted them walk
ing together on their way home from