The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-07-03

somewhere between. IL and - o'clock
at night
In the house in which Miss Farrar
then lived there IS a restaurant Into
this restaurant the adjutant went In
the full glory of his uniform to in
quire OF the proprietor the exact loca-
ton Of the singers flat The proprie-
tor told him. Afterwards he also told
the guests. The next mornhg all Ber-
I'm knew: the adjutant Of the crown
prince had paid a visit to Miss Farrar
at rather unconventional hour. The
true reason nobody knew. It IS only
leaking out just now. and told here,
for the first time. believe.
Amusing Beer story.
Then there is another topic being
very much discussed in Germany at
the present moment, smilingly in Ber-
lin. with a heavy frown at the Ba-
varian capital, Munich. Nothing more
nor less than the beer question.
When beer went up three-quarters
OF a cent for the half litre there was
an cutlery through the whole German
empire. It was a common sight in
Berlin 20 see g-whiskered, studious-
looking men draw a tapeline rom
their pockets and measure the distance
from the bottom Of the collar the
foam. TO the bottof Of the glass. For.
Wsh true German thOrOuEhness. they
had figured out that # they were
cheated out Of quarter OF an inch on
the half litre they would lose-in case
OF heavy drinkers-almost a whole
glass in one evening. And they were
not going TO stand for it.
But that did not last long, in fact
only a week or two. The Berliner Is
too much OF an American for that sort
OF business. They soon saw the hui
morous side Of the situstion-and that
settled it,
Different I'm Munich. The Berliner
is nowadays almost as big a consumer
OF wine as he is beer. In Munich. on
the other hand. beer IS more than
trumps. IL Is a question OF vital in
terest- II Is a question of the utmost
importance, superseding religion. poll
tics. everything. In Munich we may
safely refer to hops and malts as 70
His Majesty the Beer"
Every Bavarian-man. woman and
child-consumes at an average 245
litres-that IS about 500 pints-of beer
a year. And the price Of beer has
been raised three-quarters Of a cent
q pfennigs) the half litre. And the
Bavarian was not going to stand for It
Boycott I'm Bavaria.
They protested! Oh. how they pro-
tested Mass meetings, public indig-
nation meetings. protest meetings
against their representatives in con-
gress. and against the government
were held.
The people attacked the brewers
| the government and the lawmakers
/ but the latter only smiled They
/ thought they knew their "Munchners.
/ They would curse. but they would
/ drink And II they would drink. they
would have to pay. That It could en-
ter the mind Of a true Bavarian L
stop drinking beer seemed out OF tn
/ question. Munich without beer
/ Perish the thought
And then the unexpected happened
! The Bavarian declared not only tn
beer boycott, but a beer war. It's OF
yet
This beer war is probably tn
! strangest thing that ever happened fl
] the history Of Munich: yes. of Bavaria
4 How the people carry # on is a mys
terry TO all who know them. But the
dol Somehow. they stick II Quit An,
so serious has the movement becom'
that the Bavarian government has Jus
| issued. confidently and repeatedly. al
order to all her representatives to Il.