The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-29
RAGING MEN GATHER
Krupps May Take Over Iron Works at Marripool-Third Volume of Bis-
 marck's Memoirs Are Not to Be Published a,,
By MALCOLM CLARKE

earns ms llVlnS nere IS WOnoer1nS whether he is destined to be capitalist or cfaf feur A year ago he found by his car a4o00 in cash and bank notes and jewels
 worth a4oO left by grateful "fare.' Kugelnnann handed over the valuables to the police administration. Lost proper ty reverts to the finder If not claimed within a year. The chaffeur was just about to take possession when the owner of the taxicab intervened with the con tention that the valuables belonged to
 him and not to the chaffeur.
 Then the city put in a demand for a400
 as the discovery took place within its
 boundaries. The neighboring municipali-
 ty of Charottenburg protested that it,
 too, was entitled to portion of the pro-
 ceeds as the finder lives in Charlotten-
 burg. Both municipalities base their
 claims on the ground that Kugelmann
 has ''inherited a taxable fortune.
 The remarkable utterances of the kaiser
 in the. course of a recent visit to a Bene-
 dictine abbey and his gift of huge,
 solid silver cruxifx to the prior have ex-
 ercised foreign ministers everywhere. He
 
 has side to his nature that sometimes
 puzzles. I do not see why his pronounce
 ment in favor of Catholicism should as-
 tonish anyone. Is he not the head of
 the Catholic church in Prussia? When
 Prince Max of Saxony tried for the see
 of Strasburg William took pleasure in pre-
 ferring his tutor.
 The hurluberlu that turks in the bottom
 of the emperors mind too often draws
 attention from his shrewdly matter-of-
 fact disposition.
 The speech to the prior was, 1t ap-
 pears, not so much meant for him as
 for the Catholic court of Vienna, and to
 help the management of the Countess or
 Hohenberg in preparing for match be-
 tween a Prussian princes and the Arch
 duke Charles Francis, second precump- tive heir to the imperial throne. A long discussion took place at tho gathering of the delegates from the diff ferent racing associations in Germany
 held recently here, respecting the aooh- ton of the percentage levied for the payment of expenses, on added money advertised for owners, winners of cer- tain races, amounting in some cases to ' per cent, and in others to 5 per cent. While the Union club. with other i'm portant societies. are in favor of re- duction or complete abolition Of leyies made on owners, those who organize the budget as far as revenue Is concerned. General Schmidt-Pauli, speaking official ly, said that the government had made certain concessions in return as a favor to owners and breeders and that 1t would be polite to yield to a favor asked on behalf of breeders and owners rather
 than to be forced to give way to any kt@ 4x-r,rr, ,nf1f trh make for the development of sport. The minister of agriculture has established further conditions for the distribution among winning owners of events In which the horses under the management of government officials took no part. He has also settled the question of the al- lowance accorded horses being the pro- perty of private owners, limiting the dl- lowance to a5.
 The ministerial idea seems that the
 field of action offered Graditz has been re- duced to It's most narrow limits. As far as the record of winning train CTS is concerned, the Germans have pro- vided the greatest number Of winners through Fritsche and Thiede, the former with 70 and the latter with eS winners beating Day, who claims 54 victories, or four more than his compatriot, Hope The ministry of marine is lending It's countenance to a scheme initiated by Krupps to take over the ironworks at Maripol and equip them with armor plant.
 The money which is presumably to be
 borrowed in London and Paris for the needs of a Russian navy would thus find it's way into German pockets. The Norvee vremya asks If the German are encouraged to open a rival establish ment in southern Russia, and inquiries whether 1t Is polite thus to give the | Germans a footing in the Black sea | ship yards. which may sooner or later | have to compete against Turco-German constructions.
 | AS the ministry of marine has repeated 1 ly declared that no more orders will be | placed in Germany, the Novoe Vremy's assertions, if accurate. betray a myste- rious change in the admiralty views Statistics published Illustrating the great l progress of Krupps works for the past l year show that on July the firm ern- ployed 6s,726 officials, clerks and work- men, who, with their families made up the population of large town. Of these, | 37. 761 were employed in the steel foundry | and the gun-testing grounds alone. The | coal and coke consumption for the year amounted to 2.391, ,406 tons. The number | of steam engines was 56S developing l s9, ,43o horse power. The firm has its own
 enormous electricity works and gas | works. There are ST miles of railway, 52 loco. | motives and 2S96 wagons.
 Tt Is announced that the thiri volume of Bismarck's memoirs will not be pub
 lished during the lifetime of the present emperor In connection with the celebra- tions to commemorate the 18th year of the emperor's reign in 1913. and with the unveiling of the memorial of the battle of Leipzig, 100 members of the associa- ton of German veterans in North Amer ica are expected to participate. Time for Stiffness s
 From the Youths Companion.
 Mrs. MacLachlan was kind to her