Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-28
LONG TRIP TO MARRY
Berlin Woman's Journey to Far
off Peru.
THE GERMAN WAR BUDGET
Rich Company to Extend Business to
Great Britain.
TRAVELS OF A STOLEN PICTURE
Germany Interested in Colonial Scan
dals-she Puttkamer Case startles
Potsdam-Fine and Reprimand.
OF A STOLEN PICTURE


Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN. May 2S.-Te South American
mail steamer from Hamburg has just car
ried to far-off Peru a lady we'll known in
Berlin society who is travelling half way
round the world to get married because
the law does not permit her to wed by proxy
here Her future husband is a young Ger
man engineer in Peru
For propriety's sake-not wishing to lose
the time or to incur the expense of a jour
ney home-he wanted to welcome his sweet
heart IN Peru his wife and not as his
betrothed. To that end he induced the
local German consul general to execute an
official certificate attesting that the engi-
neer conferred upon his brother-in-law liv
ing in Berlin authority to marry his fiancee
in his name.
The girl went to the registrars Office
armed jointly with the consul generals GER
titicate and her intendeds understudy. The
unscntimental officials, however. looked up
the records and finding precedent for
marriage by proxy, solemnly gave it as their
opinion that German bridegrooms have no
authority for leaving to other men the ut
terances of the fateful words in their be-
half.
Gen. Won Finem. the war minister, during
a discussion of the war budget in the reich
stag. said:
I'm times which were not brilliant we
carried out alterations in the artillery and
the rearming of the, infantry rendered nee
essary by the change in our ammunition.
The sums granted for those purposes not
only did not suffice. but the government
would have to so further still in those
matters
ITO this must be added the necessary re-
construction of our fortresSeS. l hope to
carry this out without hurry-before 1t
comes to war-before hey are required"
To Open Branch in England.
1t is stated that the Allgemeine Electric
itats Gesselschaft. which has a capital of
$4,000 600 and is probably the largest con-
Germ of it's kind in the ,rld is about to
extend its business on a wholesale scale to
Great Britain. The intention is to start
subsidiary companies where possible in the
chief towns for the supply of current and
the sale of numerous electrical appliances
manufactured by the company. If it is con-
sidered advisable. English names will be
secured for the boards of these companies.
1t is significant that under the trust ar
rangement the company is charging locally
for incandescent lamps more than twice
what it charged a year ago. 1t Is argued
from THIS that 1t will be able to sell very
cheaply in foreign markets.
An art collector at Frankfort-on- Main
has just had "a very unpleasant surprise
Last year he purchased from a dealer in the
city a named landscape by the famous
Swiss artist. Boecklin, for the sum of
$1,000 A few days ago he had visit from
the ponce, who informed MIN that the work
had been stolen and must be surrendered.
The picture originally seems to have had
somewhat strange adventures. Originally 1t
hung in One of the curator's rooms of the
Weimar Museum. from which some years
ago it suddenly mysteriously disappeared.
The theft dropped out of memory when a
citizen of Weimar was struck by dirty
and neglected picture which he saw in
shop in that town.. He bought 1t for a
comparatively trifiing sum, but parted with
it again, and it found its way to Berlin
auction room. where it was knocked
around, and was finally knocked down to
the highest bidder for $500. The picture
is early work of the artist, it's date
being 1859.