Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-09-30
Ambassador Was Not Popular
With Berlin Society.
DOLLARS HIS ONLY LACK
On Good Terms With Kaiser, Fol.
lowing Early Goodness.
WELCOME FOR LEIsHMANs
Able to Entertain on Scale to Meet
With Approval Of the Ger
man Capital.
Special Cablcgram to The Star.


Special Cablegram to The Star.
BERLIN. September 3O.-Although the
kaiser and DR.. Hill, the American am
bassador. ended by becoming the very
best Of friends. and though DR., Hill, be-
cause of his personal qualities, became
quite popular at court and in society. 1t
cannot be denied that when he resigned
from his post six months ago a general
sigh of relief went up everywhere here;
at court because, in spite of everything,
sense of constraint always seemed to
pervade the relations between the Ameri-
can embassy and the court, and in So
ciety because his successor. Mr.. Leish-
man. Is a millionaire who can afford to
entertain lavis'hly. which is all Berlin So
ciety expects from an American ambas-
sador.
1t caused some anxiety at first when it
was said that Mrs. Leishman spends
ried daughter, Countess Concentration.
but as we are now assured that Miss
Leishman. although only nineteen. is per-
fectly able to fulfill all the duties of a
hostess Mr. Leishman is sure to find
everything before him plain sailing.
| For Letter kilograms.
Germany is about to follow the ex-
ample OF America by introducing letter
| kilograms.
From tomorrow on the Germans in all
the great cities and important towns will
| be able to send a telegram for about
One-twentieth of cent word deliver
able by the first post next morning. At
| present the Geographic rate throughout
the empire is cent word. with a. mini
mum of about IL cents. This minimum
will be retained. but otherwise the in
| novation represents a remarkable cheap
ening of the Geographic service.
Probably the new system will be most
| freely used by the business world which
will be in position to write its bust
| ness letters, at very cheap rate after
| ordinary postal hours, with the knowl-
| edge that the recipient will get them
| first thing in the morning. AS matters
now stand, letters for distant places must
be posted at an early hour in the after
| noon If they are to reach their destina-
| ton next morning.
The hours for handing in letter tele-
grams to the telegraph office are between
| Z pm. and midnight.
| Too Many Lawyers.
Complaints about the overcrowding of
the legal profession continue to grow
louder and more numerous. That a great
| increase in the number of lawyers should
mark the growth of the empire, and es-
peCially the development of industry, was
| to be foreseen and welcomed, but the in
| crease has now reached such a pitch that
| the bar itself Is getting seriously uneasy
and Is calling for state restriction on the
number of candidates for admission.
In Germany the young lawyer elects
his career. He either enters the judicial
| employment Of the state that leads to a
| judgeship with a salary of $500 a year
or he becomes an advocate, practicing in
as many courts as he can find the time
| or business for.
To the American observer the rush to
the legal profession is hardly ineligible
| in the face OF the smallness of the costs
| fixed by law as lawyers fees, and. in
| deed, the seeming cheapness Of litigation
on the whole. The subject of Overcrowd-
ing the bar will be discussed at the Ma
tional Law Congress to be held shorty.
Resent English Name.
| The ultra-patriotic press is up in arms
against the proprietors of a new Berlin
eating and drinking establishment in the
koeniggratzerstrasse which is to be
| called The Piccadilly. They are accused
Of "scandalous aping of the English
at an hour when everything British
ought to be anathema to- all true Ger
| man hearts. and lovers of the fatherland
are asked to refuse their patronage to
an establishment winch OuefS SuCn a
brazen affront to Teutonic pride as to
| call itself Piccadilly.
| 1t is doubtful If the crusade will avail
| much, for the Berliner dotes on the for
eign. and any number of establishments
have their English name to thank for
| their success. Friedrichstrasse swarms
with haberdashery shops bearing such
titles as The Prince Of Wales, The Cen
tleman. Old England and The Jockey
| Club-the Germans tribute to Britain as
| the home Of masculine fashion-while no
might life'' resort dreams of doing bust
ness under anything but a French name.
such as Palais du Danse. Pavilion Mas
im's-the Germans tribute to Paris as
| the abode of pleasure.
| There are organizations in Germany
which carry on sleepless propaganda to
| annhilate popular taste for the foreigner,
but it does not prevent adolescent young
men and women from displaying Ameri-
can flags and pocket handkerchiefs or
hat bands.
Case Of German Nerves.
| On the occasion Of one of those rodo-
montades in which he was so fond OF
indulging when the smell of gunpowder
was in the air, Bismarck declared, 1--WE
Germans. after all, have the best
| nerves!'
The iron chancellor, fancy would have
revised his boast had he weathered the
l
| therland has just passed. Panic on the
| bourse, runs on savings banks. rumors of
murdered ambassadors. Of mobilization of
| army corps and of declarations. of war.
| scare headlines" Of ruptured relations
| with France, alarms about reservists
| called to the colors-these are some of
| the manifestations. which have agitated
| the German public mind for the past
| three weeks.
To do them justice. the Germans are
not unstrung SO much by the fear of the
war as by the endless uncertainty which
| has enshrouded the Morocco business
| since the Agadir coup. The losses which
German finance has suffered since the
Panther dropped anchor in Moroccan
| waters can only be reckoned In millions,
represented by shrinkage in bourse
values.
1t will take lot Of trade in Morocco
| to make UP for the damage Herr Won
Kiderlen-Waechter has contrived to cause
during these past ten weeks. 1t is no
secret that the great captains Of the
| German money world have been working
the hardest for peace in Berlin.