The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-05-08
WOULD SEE THE
PASSION PLAY
Tide of Travel Has Already
Set in Toward 0ber-
Ammergau.
MANY AMERICANS WILL
WITNESS PRODUCTION
1t Is Expected That $4,000
Americans Will See Famous
Play This Year.
BY MALCOM CLARK.
lie to The Tribune.

Special Gable to The Tribune.
BERLIN, May THE tide OF travel al
ready has set In towards Ober-Ammer-
gau- and throughout the summer all roads
In Germany will lead to the plaas where
every ten years the Passion play is pro-
duced. The first public performance will
be held on May Is, and many Americans
now In Europe will be at Ober-Ammergau
on that date 1t is estimated that be-
more than 25.0 600 American visitors will
have seen the famous play. An effort
was made TO have former President
eo,5d S11seye1t eel SO so change his plans that he
pressed much regret that It would be inn
possible for him to do so, but it was alb
soluteiy necessary that he should adhere
10 ms original programme
Waiting for Teddy.
Everything Is in readiness to meet Mfr.
RooseVelt when he arrives In Berlin next
Week The Beritners are determined TINT
tneir reception shall excel anything the
former president OF the United States has
seen In Europe and to set mark which
cannot be equalled IN London. No visit
OF royalty has como anywhere near Gre
oting the interest in the German capital.
Welt, At least, not In the memory of
the present generation There are a few
discordant notes, chiefly among the ultra
conservative arlstocrats. who are rather
stunned at the showing of royal honors
on plain American mister, but tho at
titude OF the kaiser silerces whatever
open criticism there might be from this
source
Scandal In Bremen.
A Bremen message TO the BerIiner
Tageblatt states that an inquiry has been
opened there in connection with the IN
fringement by considerable number Of
German penal code. Up to the present
six arrosts have been made, including
doctor and many officials. Two of the
ncriminated persons have taken to
deeply compromised by correspondence
confscated by the authorities. Among
them are many foreigners, some OF whom
were connected witt, Prince ,Eulenburg
circles. 1t is stated that a technical off,
cial lent his residence for the meetings
OF the persons In question, and that the
victims were snticed there Seventy
young men and boys have so far been
examined. and they affirm that they were
decoyed into the residence I'm question
and afterward overcome by means OF
wine and cigarettes drugged with opium.
Ono of them is the son OF & hIghly-placed
police officer, by means OF whom the
matter was brought TO light. He has
since received letters threatening him
with death.
Photograph by X-Ray.
It Is reported from Erianger that snap
shot photographs can now be taken by
means of X-rays Doctors viii. therefore.
no longer find II necessary to wait sew
eral seconds before the picture IS COM
plete In tho small fraction OF a second
lone -thousandth) which is oil that IL
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 hu-
man body being very clearly seen.
To Unite Two Seas,
A waterway through the heart of Tr,-
rope. joining the North sea to the Medi-
terranean and passing through Holland
Germany, Switzerland and France will
he an accomplished fact within the next
rev years. Navigation is to be opened
on the Khone between Geneva and Mar
seilles, and il has been decided TO con-
siruct barrage and q parallel canal TO
the Rhone at Gonissiat. hours Jour
ney by train from Geneva. The work
VIII be completed in 1913. The river
route from Geneva TO Basle is TO be
extended via the lakes OF NeuchateI
Morat and Bienne and the river Aar,
which flows into the Rhine The NORTH
sea Is already connected with Basic by
the Rhine highway In the near future
n motor boat or a steam yacht will be
able to steam through the heart OF Eu-
rope.
Waited Forty-six Years
lover, Fraulein Singer. aged ST.. was
united at Altdorf TO her fiance. Herr
Mattaw. who is OF the same age The
couple left for the Argentine on their
honeymoon trip. They knew each other
as school children. and became engaged
at the age of is. when Herr Mattaw left
switzerland for South America TO seek
his fortune. The couple correspondent
regularly and exchanged over 1000 let
ters ana scores OF photographs.