The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-06
Californian Achieves Popularity
by Doing as the Romans
Do in Berlin.
TAKES TO BEER EVENING
LIKE An 0LD-TIMER
Kaiser Is Particularly Friendly
With the Professor and
His Family.
BY MALCOLM CLARKE.

Snc'ldl 1dblc 10 Inc Tribune.
BERLIN, Feb. 5.-Prof BENJAMIN Ide
Wheeler of California. now filling the
Roosevelt chair in the Berlin university
has achieved popularity i'm Berlin by his
ready acceptance Of German customs. An
instance Is the beer evening" to which
the American educator invited those who
have been attending his lectures OF
American universities and other cduca
lionsl questions. The large attendance
oi guests proved the popularity hc has
obtained during the short time he has
been AT Berlin university. Prof. anc
MIS-. Wheeler did the honorS of the even
InS, and everything passed Off mcrrily
By Prof, Whcclcrs request. only German
students songs were sung. The Cali
tornian has attended several similar en-
iicrtainmcnts and enjoys them thoroughly
rect accent now. The kaiser has beer
particularly friendly with the Whcelcrs
and has had several informal talks will
the American professor. puizzing hip
about America and Americans In a style
which Indicates that his majesty would
he able 10 make fine living as an inter
viewer should 1t ever become necessary
New German University.
D., The list OF German universities is &c
he increased by first class university al
dowmcuts arc in hand aud it will take
high rank, Today there are no fewer
than twcnty-onc universities in Germany
The Oldest is Heidelberg G3SG \. D.; the
after the Franco Prussian war. The 9th
eTs arc Leipzig. Rostock. GrclIswald
Freiburg. Tnbingcu MarburG. Konigs-
berg. Jena. Tursberg.. Gicssen: Kiel
Halle -NittcnberG. Gottipgeu Munster
Erlangen. Berlin, Ercslau. Bonn anc
Muuchen. The greatest university oi
Germany is Berlin. II mustcrs over sew
en- thousand students. and has maGni-
i..g.V
Wilamowitz- -Moclondorf, in the classica
department; Fischer. one OF the greatest
living chemists Nernst in physics
Dclitzsch. in oriental philoloEy and the
great llamack lectures on church his
tory. Here at least one year Of the stu
don't life should he spent. But ii would
be AS wei not TO pass the tirst year here,
or at least before the student - "A fair
Is apt TO get lost. Choosing then small
university like Heidelberg. which is the
gcrman university town in perfection, or
I ne lovely town of FrcibcrG. in the Black
RsreSt. one would commence his student
DC under. the most favorable Circum-
stances Munich also is quite q dcSira-
bic university, and is second 10 Berlin IN
size. ..,........ ..,.....
Drain on Art Galleries.
An announcement reaches me from
Dresden witch Indicates HAT Germany is
getting some compensation for III"
draining of her art galleries of old mas
lcrs by American milllonaircS. Tho Dros-
Den picture gallery is about 10 acquire
two now works by an American artist.
Mr. Boicau. who studied in Vienna and
Munich and whose work finds much ia
vor with German critics The modern
section Of the local gallery. unqucstiou
ably the finest I'm northern Europe, al
ready contains n number Of paintings by
American artists. or recent years quite
number OF young Americans have come
here Ia study art. while tho music stu
dents arc legion Both in music and art
the Americans aro taking high place.
Excursion by Airship.
The Parscval Airship company Of
Munich, which on May ] next viii begin
4 daily series Of excursions. has fixed the
price at @GQ marks per passenger. The
4lrship will be ono of the largest In
Europe, having cubic capacity Of 5000
meters. with motors of zoo horsepower
The excursions viii last three hours. and
ls the airShip is expected 20 travel at
IN average speed OF fifty ltilomcters an
hour. the distance covered Will be 100
i kilomrters. Tho excursions will be made
10 IngolStadt- LandShut. Muchldorf. Chi
emsee. Iiufstcip. Walchansec: PartcnlIir-
chen. IIohcnschwangen. Kaulbcurcn-
WooTlshofcn and DounauNoerth. In add
tion TO these short excursions. long dis
tanCc VOYAGES will also he made. on the
condition that the towns visited VIII UNI
dcrtake To make provision Tor the safe
landing of tho alrships. Such !onS-diS-
tancc excursions VIII cost 800 marks pcv
passenger.
German Labor Organization.
In Germany The organization of labor
has produced good results The 700 Ia
bor exchange Offices. which have bccm set
IN in tia country. fill about two millions
or situations annually. Th" public labor
exchange office i'm the town of Munich
nils 20O situations daily. and that in
Stuttgart a thousand a week. The Ger
man system, however, is faulty. Tor while
the exchange Office finds the men, IT
leaves employers to discover their char
. ctCrS.
AS to Naval Armament.
The talk Of an agreement as TO the
restriction of naval armamcnts between
Germany and England will not down,
heard on semi -ofiicai authority. that the
recent visit of Sir Ernest CaSscl, King
Edwards friend and financial adviser
was for the purpose OF sounding the Ger
man government as 20 the possibility OF
an Anglo German agreement based on Il
free hand being given 10 Germany IN
and limitation OF German
naval strength in tie Baltic and North
seas nv information adds that the
which began In Berlin, have
since been transferred 10 London.
Fulicrants from Germany during 1909
numbered 5000. an Increase OF 6lOO com
pared with 1905 and decrease OF 500
with 1907.
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