El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-19

! great German church has been built
For the past eight or nine years the
masonS have been working on another
church situated on Mount Zion beyond
the tower of David; and across the val
ley of Kedron on the ridge known as
the Mount of Olives. a great limestone
hospice is going up over which the
German flag floats.
This will be a resting place for such
Germans as are travelling through the
holy land and want to stay a week or
so at Jerusalem. 1t is being erected in
honor of the empress Of Germany, and
is known as the Empress Augusta San
ttarium- The money with which the site
was bought and some of that used for
the building was a silver wedding pres
ent to the empress. It was known that
she greatly loved Palestine and her
friends planned this memorial as a sill
yer wedding gift.
The hospice- will have a chapel con-
nected with it, and eminent Germans
will preach there. It is beautifully, To-
Gated, being situated on Mount Scopus,
which is really a part of the Mount of
Olives. IT is several hundred feet above
Jerusalem, and standing upon its root
on a bright day one can look across
the hills of Judea and see the silvery
thread of the Jordan and the shining
Dead sea with the blue mountains of
Moab beyond.
He Took Our Cemetery.
The kaiser is no respecter of persons,
either living or dead. The spot on
which he is building his big church on
Mount Zion was purchased by him of
Sultan Abdul Hamid when he visited
him in Constantinople. He went there
on his way to the Holy Land and while
Hob L;
sell him this tract for $4,000 The land,
however, was not large enough, and it
adjoined the American cemetery. The
Germans bought this, the Americans
here claim, in an underhand way, at a
cost Of $4,000 additional They had
the bodies removed and when 1 visit
ed the place recently, 1 found the
graveyard covered with building mate
rails. There were lime barrels IN some
Of the holes and the sites of many of
the tombs were covered with bricks
In digging up the cemetery a house
was excavated which some say was
use by the Virgin Mary at the time Of
the crucifixion. The tomb OF David
is also supposed to be near there and
the spot is considered especially holy
The kaiser has given the land to the
Roman Catholics of his country and
the church is to be under the order Of
the Benedictines.
The German church inside the city is
owned by the Lutherans. There is a
German colony outside Jerusalem on
the way to Bethlehem, the church of
which is said to stand on the site of
the house of Simeon, who recognized
the infant Jesus as the Messiah A lit
tie further on is a leper hospital, also
run by the Germans.
Kaiser Wilhelm at Jerusalem.
The emperor of Germany when he
made his trip through the Holy Land
created as great an excitement as The
odore Roosevelt when he cavorted
through Europe 1 have had a talk
with the man who had charge of the
imperial excursion. He was connected
with Cook & Son and acted as its dra-
CONAN. He tells me that kaiser Will |
helm and the empress started in at |
Beirut and crossed the mountains of |
Lebanon to Baalbec and Damascus. |
They then returned to Beirut and took
ship down the coast, past Tyre and ST. /
don, to the Bay of Acre. Here horses |
were waiting for them and they rode |