Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-27
GERMANS AWED BY
SIZE Of AMERICA
Visitors from FatherIand Make a
Hurried Study of CaIifOr-
MIA Resources
DISTANCES SURPRISE PARTY
Gigantic Scale of Things in Unit
ed States Is Puzzle to
Foreigners
DISTANCES SURPRISE PARTY

The students and professors of the
University of Commerce, Cologne,
Germany, who have been touring the
study of the commercial and mineral
resources of this country, arrived in
Los Angeles last evening at AS and
will remain here until Sunday MORN
ing. They will be entertained and
shown around the neighboring cities
today by the chamber of commerce
and the German-American alliance.
The party was met last evening at
the Arcade station by a committee of
the chamber of commerce and escort
ed to the Ingraham hotel in West Sew
enth street, where they will make their
headquarters while in Los Angeles.
Today they will visit the Sherman oil
fields under the care and direction of
the German-American alliance, and
later will be taken to Pomona to make
a brief inspection of the fruit packing
and canning industry there.
The party includes twenty-eight
students and four professors. The
young men are all greatly interested
in the United States and several have
expressed the desire to return after
they have finished their course in col
lege. All are greatly impressed with
the size Of the United States. and have
often marveled to ]. w. Coupland, who
is in charge of the party for the Ham
burg-American line, that they could
travel so long and in the same gen.
eral direction without going out of the
one country. In appearance the stu
dents are, with few exceptions, big,
strong young men, with fresh, pleas
ant faces, and the duel scars, said to
mar the faces of all German students,
noticeably lacking.
WONDER AT DISTANCE
The party will leave the Los Angeles
Pacific station on Hill street at s
o'clock this morning for Nhe Sherman
oil fields. The companies operating in
these fields have each appointed a man
to show the students over as much Of
the territory as possible during their
limited stay.
At 1890 they will return to Los An
geles and, leaving from the Fourth
street station of the Salt Lake rail-
road, will go to Pomona, where the
remainder of the day will be spent
investigating the fruit and packing in
dustry there. On their return to Los
Angeles the party will return directly
to the Ingraham. where in the even
ing they will be entertained informally
by their countrymen living in Los An
geles.
while the party is not remaining
over one day in any of the cities Wis
tied, they are acquiring a great deal
of beneficial knowledge" said Mr..
Coupland last evening. "All are keen
students and they absorb knowledge
very readily, those who have been
showing us around in the different cit
les having to explain things to them
only once before they grasp them. The
only thing which seems to puzzle them
at all is the gigantic size of things
here, and they are now becoming ac-
customed to that"
When the students finish their trip
they will have Travelled over 500 miles
and been in twenty-five states besides
the Dominion of Canada. They are
now about half way through their
tour, which will end in New York city
September 9. The party will leave Los
Angeles Sunday morning at o'clock
for the Grand canyon and will go
from there on through Arizona and
New Mexico and across the continent
to Buffalo, where they will enter Can
ada for a few days, later returning to
New York.
The party includes Prof. DR.. iur.
ct Phil. Christian Eckert, Prof. DR..
Kurt Hassert Prof. DIR. iur. Paul Mol
denhauer, Karl Rehorst Landesbaurat,
a. d.: Gerhard Boehme, Wilhelm
Burklin. Jean DelcroiX, Paul Eggers,
Erich Eliel, Theodor Flemming, Bruno
Framerey, Max Gabriel, Robert Grisar,
Rene Havenith, Maximilllan Josten,
Fritz Kahn, Karl Kimmel, Otto Kol-
WITT, Louis Korner, Pierre Longere,
Carl Neven Du Mont, Herbert Plum
acher Rene Preetorius, Theodor Roch-
ling, Albert Ruckdeschel, Walther
Ruscheweyh, Franz Samuel, Gunther
Scheibler, Ludwig Simons, Max. Wolf,
Karl Worring and Raul de Zarragay
y Ortiz.