Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15

KAISER PROUD OF AIR FLEET
At Forthcoming Maneuvers Each SIDE
Will Have Airship at Its Disposal.
ADVENTURE WITH A TIGER
German BnttIcship Establishes
Record In Rapid COaIing-Dresden
Opern House stage 20 lie
Rebuilt.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.


BERLIN, May H.-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.)-Kaisef Wilhelm is proud Of his
air fleet. 1t is understood that at this
years imperial maneuvers each of the
opposing sides will have an arship placed
at its disposal The Parseyal and Gross
types will be employed, the size OF vessels
of the Zeppelin class. making thSm diff cult
to deal with under campaigning conditions
After the recent reyow OF the aerial
fleet ut Hamburg, the first OF the kind evel
held, his majesty inspected closely the
great machines questioned the officers and
men and expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the high state OF efficiency
reached
Starting from Cologne at 1870 with a
favOring nOrthwester1y wind the squadron
of military airships which has been
maneuvering in the Rhine region for the
last fortnight-the Gross 1, Zeppelin ii and
Parseval lII-sailed away in the direction
Of Frankfort ON Main, lying as the crow
flies 100 miles southeast. The squadron,
keeping formation. as perfectly as battle
ships, reached Hamburg a few minutes
after O'clock having accomplished a
journey without a mshap at an average
speed of twenty-five miles an hour
ZebelIn Lands Eusily.
The great white Zeppelin landed easily
and without incident, and the Parseval
descended at the very feet of the kaiser's
party. The Gross experienced some diff
fiCulty in descending and suffered mshap
so serious that the vessel was prevented
from landing where 1t desired and came
down more or less Involuntary at another
spot some hundreds of yards distant.
Awaiting the squadron's arrival on the
| plain adjacent to the railway line between
Frankfort and Hamburg were the kaiser,
the kaiserin, Princess Victoria Louise of
Prussia, and a brilliant encourage. Before
landing the three vessels executed a serious
of picturesque maneuvers above Hamburg,
to the intense joy OF the imperial party,
especially of the kaiser and his daughter.
Aboard the Zeppelin were General Baron
Won Lyncker, chief OF the transport de-
pertinent of the German army and General
Won Sporting, the military governor OF
Cologne. They were able to assure the
supreme war lord that the cruise was sue
cessful in every respect The kaiser
escorted his wife and daughter over the
aIrship. the princess making good practice
the while with her camera.
1t is stated that army airship NJ. g. dur.
ing a recent long distance flight made ar
important experiment in the discharge OF
explosives in the form of aerial torpedoeS
from alrshps. The experiments are beng
icontinued.
Including the victims of the PommerI
disaster on April 3. eight balloonlsts hav,
been killed in Germany in the last few
weeks. Minor mishaps are events of dali!
! occurrence and pass almost unnoticed. TIL
frequency of accidents In aviation ha
| stirred the Imperial Aero club, the leading
German aeronautic authority, to take actor
on behalf of those Interested in the naviga
: ton OF the air, and the club has decided L
issue a code of rules and advice to bal
loonsts- Every large town has now bal
loon club and ascents are so numerous tina
the frequency OF accidents is less sur
prising than appears at the first glance.
Tax ON UneRrned Increment.
As part of the German Imperial finan
+, cial settlement last year, it was enacte
: that the government should within a give
period introduce a bili establishing a ia
on unearned Increment to produce at 1eas
$500O,0O0 year. 1t provides that the ia
. shall apply only to real estate. 1t will b
. payable on the sale Of property and is I
be collected by municipalities and rurs
= authorities many OF whom already hav
4, local taxes on unearned Increment. Loca
;. authorities will be required to hand owe
: 6 per cent of the yield of the tax to tn
= Imperial treasury, which expects to NJ
q s.. 800, 900 Yearly from the lmpost.
All forms of property other than real c,
tate are exempted from the operation {
e the tax, on the ground that the inclusio
II OF securities, ETC. would impose an lntole
e ahle burden, on trade, drive capital abroa
= and keep foreign capital out OF German
e with resultant depreciation Of Germs
Ie State and other securities and loss OF rev
1t nue. from stamp duties.
,ci Adventure with Tiger,
4 A wild beast trainer. named Henrickse
s. vas exhibiting a dozen lions and tigers
l. Busche's circus Berlin. and had introduce
ID a favorite chimpanzee into the cage, +
u was rehearsing with the latter animal, al
for moment took his eyes from a partic
larry ferocious tiger, Suddenly the tig
rs sprang upon the trainers back. but befo
ISL he had time to claw him the chimpanz
s. sprang like lightning on the tigers bac
n This so astonishcd the beast that he loost
lo his hold and retired to a'6orner Of the cal
to snarling. IIenrlcksen was taken out IA
TO hurt.
ut The German batleship Schleswig- Holste
IL claims to have established a record in rap
Or coaling. The crew on a recent occasi,
Ia shipped 100 tons in one hour and twent
~ nine minutes OF which 5G6 tons we
en- shipped in the first hour
re A sum of $4,000. it is stated, is to
IT, spent on rebuilding the stage of the Dire
he den opera house. The king OF Saxony
re asked to contribute $1,000 and the Diet
ne vote the rest