Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-10
Mr.. AND MRS. KICKBUSCH RE-
TURNED FROM GERMANY.

| Mr.. and Mrs. + W. Kickbusch, Sr =,
returned home from Germany and other
countries of Europe, last Saturday
evening where they had been for the
past eight months, most of the time at
Carlsbad, where Mr. Kickbusch took
treatment and baths for his health, and
the PILOT is pleased to state that he is
much improved. All are delighted to
welcome Mr. and Mrs Kickbusch back
to their home in Wausau. The Mil
waukee Evening Wisconsin interviewed
Mr.. Kickbusch when in Milwaukee,
Saturday, and the PILOT re-publishes
the same which will be interesting to
its readers, viz:
+. w. Kickbusch of Wausau, consul
to Stettin, Germany, during President
Cleveland's second term, was at the
Republican house today on his way
home from five months sojourn at
Carlsbad, Bohemia, Kuhlbach, Bavaria,
and Stettin. He was accompanied by
Mrs. Kick busch.
Il am miller" said Mr. Kickbusch,
"but | visited only one mill while
abroad. That was at Kuhlbach, the
celebrated brewing center of Bavaria
1t was modern mill and yet it lacked
the machinery which we have here and
so required a great outlay for labor.
1t ground both rye and wheat flour,
winter wheat from Hungary, the best
in the world. This winter wheat flour
is used mostly for rolls. There are from
$4,000 to 1000 people taking the baths
in Carlsbad all the time and they eat
great many rolls every morning. The
butter is good, but it is not salted, ac-
cording to the practice of southern Ger
many. Rye is the principal flour of old
Germany and Austria. There are
twelve breweries in Kuhlbach and eight
malt houses. | was there four weeks
and at Carlsbad ten weeks The baths
benefited me considerably.
"Stettin is booming" continued Mr..
Kickbush, in spite of the fact that the
Hamburg American line and the Sean
dinavian line have taken off seven big
ships that used to touch there on their
way from and to New York. The form
alton of trust is responsible for this.
Now freight has to be shipped to
Copenhagen and to England in small
vessels and then reloaded Stettin is
going to lose the celebrated Vulcan ship
yards, which will be moved to Ham
burg next spring They employ $500
men. But Stettin, like all the large
German cities, has doomed The
smaller cities stand still and everybody
flocks to the big centers. Stettin's i'm
provements in streets, homes and parks
since l left in 1894 is remarkable. The
American flag is rarely seen in it's har-
bor. All our goods are shipped in
foreign bottoms.
UNLESS the Reichstag takes other ac-
ton the higher tariff against the United
States will 60 into effect next spring.
This will shut out our corn, wheat and
meats Flour is already double the
price that it is here. Beef sells for 35
cents a pound and pork for 80 cents.
The people in the cities have been hold
ing mass meetings to protest against
such prices. The Agrarians, who are
rich land owners, seem to have a
majority in the Reichstag and they are
very bitter toward this country. 1t is
all due to jealousy and to the competi-
ton of our'agricultural products. The
common people in the Socialist party
want the tariff reduced. The Agrarians
are said to coerce their farm hands in
to voting as they wish.
'"The immense wealth of Germany is
especially noticeable in the large cities
which have streets of asphalt and gran
ite block from Norway. Old age pen
sions help to stop the flow of emigra-
tion to the United States. A boy is edu-
Gated, learns his trade, works certain
time and then receives his pension
The class of emigrants coming to this
country is not the educated class which
came during the fifties and sixties.