The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-02
KAISER POPULAR
 FOR WHAT HE DID e ss.' s#s#.s Presents Fountain and Statue
 to ConstantinopIe A zoo WITHOUT CAGES "WiId Beast Park" Opened by Hagen beck at Hambure-Professor Bier
 Regarded as Coming Man.
 He Gets Fine Post.
A zoo WITHOUT CAGES
Special Cable to The Age-Herald.

Special Cable to The Age-Herald.
 Berlin, June 1.-The Kaiser may not be beloved by all his subjects, but in the land of Abdul Hamid and especially in Constantinople, to which oity he has do- mated a drinking fountain and statue of himself, he is decidedly popular; so popular, indeed, that one Mussulman has sung his praise In a poem which has been printed in every paper In Turkey and which has filled Emperor Williams heart with pride, mingled with sorrow at the thought that the appreciation did not come thus spontaneously from one of his own subjects.
 Literally translated the poem reads: 'Mehemet Pascha stood In Stamboul waiting for a train then due. Mehemets breast was respendent with stars and crosses, showing that he was waiting for the setting sun. Not without reason did he wear his gala uniform, for never again would such a man come out of the west.
 Many other rulers have been here at Stamboul, but not one of them was to be mentioned in the breath with him.
 He was never afraid. on his mighty war horse he looked full of contempt into the eyes of the brgands.
 "Yes, Wilhelm, you are great, and you have a heart, hard as steel, though at times soft as butter.
 May Allah protect you and unite you with us. To you rich and poor are the same. Even poor Suliman Effendi, who is only a servant, you gave hand shake.
 "The drinking fountain you gave us bears witness to your grace, your Kind heartedness and your generosity, and when your face turned toward the east q. C., when you are dead), the people will pray for you not only in the north, but also we of the south will kneel on the prayer rug It will ever be thus, Inschallah'
 It is rather interesting in this connec- tion that the Turkish authorities do aoso- lutely nothing to preserve the kaisers fountain, which Is in a disgraceful condi- tion, with all it's sculptures broken and without a drop of water in it.
 A ZOO without cages, otherwise a wild beast park" has been opened by Kari HaGenbeck, the menagerie dealer, at Hamburg. The park, artfully devised to resemble jungle, mountain and plain in its various sections is twenty-sx acres in extent. The animals apparently roam about at their own sweet will, Tor there Is no visible barrier between the wild beasts and the visitors.
 Instead of. cages, the animals are con fined in spaces bounded by cleVeriy con cealed ditches which 1t is impossible for them to cross Kindred species such as are found living together in the wild state are grouped in the various en- closures Thus antelopes, zebras and pull falo occupy the same grassy spaces; anu mountain goats, chamois, etc., dlsport on an artificial range. The pachyderrns and the large carniVora have their own com munities
 The polar enclosure Is perhaps the most striking feature of the. cageless zoo IL has a huge structure of boulders resem- bling an iceberg which rises in the cen ter of a miniature lake. Polar bears have their home on the iceberg" while In and around the water there are sea lions, seals. penguins, cormorants and gulls.
 Among the 600 animals exhibited, whlch are worth at least $250,o0O are 30 Hons, [ tigers 24 elephants, leopards. bears, 4 rhinosceroses and hippopotami. This multitude of wild beasts, living in ap- parent freedom within a small space. makes a beautiful and instructive spec tacle.
 Prince Eitel Friedrich. the Kaiser's sec ond son, may possibly become a reigning grand dulxe as sovereign ruler of Alsace- Lorraine.
 That province, which was French terri tory until 1870, and is now governed by viceroy. Is asking for independence It's parliamentary representatives having in- troduced bills to make Alsaac-Lorraine sovereign German state. The proposal is that if the Alsatians get their independ- ence Frances lost provinces shall be constituted as grand duchy and the throne offered to Prince Eitel Friedrich.
 The Kaiser has given the highest medi- cal post in Berlin, that of chief surgeon Of the Royal Clinic, to Prof. August Bier of Bonn university, who is regarded as looming man." Professor Bier will sue ceed the late Professor von Bergman, and will also hold a professorship at the Berlin university.
 The new chief surgeon, who Is forty five years of age. began as assistant to the celebrated Prof. von Bismarck of kiel, an uncle by marriage to the Kaiser. From Kiel he went to Griefswald university.
 Professor Bier is the inventor of two valuable surgical processes-the artificial steaming of the circulation of the blood. as a cure for purulent abscesses. and the infection of anaesthetcs into the spinal ul,ich ie uSed for rendering the