The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05
EUROPE AGAINST
ART PURCHASERS
Wealth of Americans Enables
Them to Secure Treasures
of Old World.
EUROPEANS CANNOT
COMPETE WITH THEM
Partial List of Paintings Which
MilliOnaires of America
Have Secured.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE
.cial Cable to The Tribune.

Special Cable to The Tribune.
BERLIN, June 4.-The news that the
American congress has decided 10 build
two moro Dreadnoughts of $1,000 tons
each was received with interest here
Germany. In fact, is intensely interested
In all news relating to navy building the
world over. The position of Germany and
the United States from the official Ber-
lin viewpoint is precisely the same in tho
matter OF a navy. In neither case is the
building of warships being carried for
ward for purposes of aggression, but In
each case it is held that an efficient,
powerful navy Is essential for protec-
ton against aggression. Germany fcars
nothing on land and her sole aim in navy
building is to be impregnable against
attack by sea. and TO be able to give
sessions.
The necessity for concerted action on
the part Of Europe against what are
being urged vigorously. It IS realized
that the enormous wealth OF the Amcrl-
cans makes 1t impossible for individual
has recently been compiled a partial LIST
OF art treasures secured by Americans
in the immediate past Here 1t Is:
The Hoentschel collection OF
decorative art, ]. Pierpont
FTans Halls Family Group Si'O'0'0V'
Otto Kahn .................. 500 O6O
velasqpez portrait, Mrs, G. P.
Two Rcmbrandts, Benjamin Ait
man -. ...,.......-........ 100000
pont Morgan ............... 1000
Sir Thomas Lawrences portrait
OF Miss Farren, ]. Pierpont
veissanez's MoaHSa Spanish States 200'oo'
man. p. \. 3. Widener...... 100000
Romney's Children of Captain
Little" Otto Kahn .........,-. 100000
Troyon's Return to the Farm
e. t. Statesbury ..-......-.- 65,00e
Louis Seize gold snuff box,
Ornond q. Smith ..,-...... 5000
Against this mass OF cash single Eu-
ropean art lovers are powerIess. Moth
ing short Of governments can he cx-
pected TO compete with these cross-sea5
multimilionaires.
Kaiser Spendthrift.
For some time past Berlin has been
rather concerned over the eXtrava CANT
manner in which the kaiser conducts him
self. while ii is asserted that formal re-
rnonstrances have been addressed 10 him
by several influential members OF the
Hohen5ollcrn family. Matters. however
are likely to reach a crisis over his latest
proposal to spend sum of something
like $5.000,000 upon the erection of a. new
opera house in Berlin. The existing opera
l, house is one OF the finest buildings of TO
kind in Europe. and il would scarcely
seem rs though another wero required.
What Is being asked. however. is where
the emperor proposes To raise the neces-
Sary money. since he has made very con-
siderable inroads upon the vast wealth
OF his house since first he cama to the
throne, II Is stated that for several wears
past his annual expenditure upon the Ber-
lin opera house has not been less than
S50O,000. IL is plain to see that cxpendi-
ture at this rate cannot last forever and
the emperor's subjects are now beginning
to ask when the crash Will come. 1t was
estimated a short time ago by those in
8 position to Judge that the cmpcror's out
goings every year were considerably over
S75o,oOo and they show constant ten
dency TO increase.
Launching Dreadnought,
II is expected that the battleship Err
sat2 Frithjof. which will be the eighth
German Dreadnought battleship, will he
launched from the Schichau at DanziS
ON June IS, by Prince Eitel Frederick OF
Prussia This is n battleship of The 1909
financial programme. the construction OF
which was begun before the end OF the
previous year The official date OF COM
pletion is April, 1912 that is just over
twenty-one months after the launching.
The last German Dreadnousht battleship
completed. the Posen. went TO sea less
than twelve months after she was
AS to Female Beauty.
Professor Reinbsrt ThiIo OF Berlin, writ
ng in the North German Gazette gives 4.
as his opinion that female beauty IS fad
ng all over the modern world For this
.act. If indeed IL be a fact. he assigns
.!lree causes. The first of these. SAYS
Professor Thilo. Is excessive Indulgence
n outdoor sports. He thinks il we'll that
he size of women'S hands and feet Is in
creased by athletic sports, for their ''wcr-
'hip of small hands and feet is pure fet-
shism.' But he says almost rcsretfully
hat too much exercise spois the feminine
urycs and produces. lumpy, muscular OK
'rescenccs whore nature Intended only
smooth roundcGness. The second cause
uinine woman's beauty is her craze for a
lendcr figure. The so-called robe coll
ante Cthc dress glued on. says Thlo.
IMPLY falsiilcs the natural lines and In
ures health. The craze for slcnderness
5 WORKING harm. particularly in tho
lnited States and Sweden. Thirdly and
ass. according 10 this authority the
hange In the female mind. In womans
Nay Of thinking, is affecting her outward
ppcarancc. For example. instead OF de-
irinS sincere love, modern women en-
ouraSe Irritation. That motherincss
Which appears clearly in the best mediae-
al statuary and paintings, even OF maid
ms, is disappearing from the features OF
lodern women.
Princes as Mechanics.
In accordance with an ancient tradition
! tho house OF tlohenzollern Prince Sig
'mund and Prince Karl SONS OF Prince
copod OF Prussia. have qualified as car
tn.