Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-08

DRIFT IS TO OBERAMNERCAU
Tide of Tourists Already Sets Toward
Little Town.
x-RAY SNAPSHOTS NOW IN VOGUE
Process Developed UntiI an Exposure
OF one-TbOusandtb OF second
Gets the Closest OF
Details.
az MALCoLM CLARkE.

BERLIN May 7.-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee. THE tide Of travel already has
set in towards Oberammergau and through
out the summer all roads in Germany will
lead to the place where every ten years the
Passion Play is produced. The frs; public
performance will be held on May IS and
many Americans now in Europe will be at
Oberammergau on that date. II is esti-
mated that before the last performance.
September Is. more than 500 American
visitors will have seen the famous play.
An effort was made TO have former Presi-
dent Roosevelt so change his plans that he
could 60 to Oberan-mergau. lie expressed
much regret that it would be Impossible
for him to do SO, but it was absolutely
necessary that he should adhere 70 his
original program.
Everything is in readiness 10 meet M
Roosevelt when he arrives in Berlin next
week. The Beriners are determined that
their reception shall excel anything the
former president of the United States has
seen in Europe and to set a mark which
cannot be equalled in London.
Waiting for the Colonel.
No visit Of royalty has come anywhere
near creating the interest in the German
capital, which is felt in the coming OF Mr..
Roosevelt At least not In the memory Of
the present generation. There are a few
discordant notes, chiefly among the ultra
conservative aristocrats who are rather
stunned al the showing Of royal honors on a
plain American mister but the attitude OF
the kaiser silences whatever open criticism
there might be from this source
N-RRy Snapshots.
1t is reported from Erlangen that snap
D
means Of x-rays. Doctors will, therefore
no longer find it necessary 10 wait several
seconds bfore the picture is complete. In the
small fraction Of second zone thousandth)
which is all that is now required there can
/ be no movement Of the patient that will
affect the picture. The results obtained with
the new method are very good, details such
as the heart and ribs in photographs Of the
/ human body being very clearly seen.
waterway Through EurOUe.
waterway through the heart OF Europe
joining the North Sea to the Mediterranean
and passing through Holland. Germany.
Switzerland and France, will be an accom-
plshed fact within the next few years
Navigation is to be opened on the Rhone
between Geneva and Marseilles, and it ha,
been decided to construct a barraEe and a
parallel canal to the Rhone at Genissiat an
hours journey by train from Geneva. The
| work viii be completed in 1913.
The river route" from Geneva TO Basic
is 10 be extended via the lakes Of Nouehatel
Morat and Bienne and the River Aar. which
flows into the Rhine. The North Sea is al
ready, connected with Basic by the Rhine
highway.
In the near future a motor boat or
steam yacht will be able to steam through
the heart OF Europe.
Waited Long and Faithfully.
After waiting forty-six years for he
lover, Fraulein Singer, aged "a. was unite,
al Altdorf to her finance, Herr Sataw. VIII
} is OF the same age. The couple left for tn
Argentine on their honeymoon trip. The,
knew each other as school children and be
came engaged at the age OF Is when Her
Wattaw left Switzerland for South Americi
TO seek his fortune The couple cores
pended regularly and exchanged over 200
letters and scores Of photographs