The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16
BERLIN ARRANGES
 A B|G RECEPTION Delegation of American Business Men Going AIR RACE IN JUNE Prize in European Aviation Circuit Will Amount to $100, 0,000-An
 Instance of Real Mod
 ern Chiyalry

Berlin, April 15.-(Special.) .)-The various business or commercial bodies here ana in other parts of the empire are making extensive preparations for the reception and entertainment of the big delegation of American business men who are ex- pected here.
 The first party of American business men ever to make a tour of Europe to study business and economic conditions will sail from Boston June 12 for a trip through this country, England, France
 Belgium, Austria Hungary and Switzer- land.
 The party of 100 will also include dele gations from the commercial organfza- tions and municipal governments of New
 fork, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland,
 Detroit, Pittsburg, St. Paul and otner cities.
 Special trains will be used to carry the party from one city to another. On not more than two occasions will 1t be neces- sary to travel by night.
 In order that those who wish to stay in London during the coronation may do so. an early sailing has been arranged,
 the steamship company having changed
 the date of the Ivernia to June 12. Two things are in view, the most im- portant of these being to make 1t pos sibe for group of representatives or
 American business men to see the best that leading European cities are doing in commercial. industrial. transportation,
 municipal and other fields. The second object is to extend an fn- vitation to the commercial bodies of Eu- rope to send delegates to the 1nterna- tional Congress of Chambers of Com merce at Boston in 1912
 Otto Widman. inventive genius livrng
 here, has, after years of struggle, suc- ceeded in making an artificial man who can walk, make all movements, speak, sing, laugh and whistle. It is lire size figure, and so natural an imitation as to be completely deceptive a yard away.
 "Occultus,'' as the figure Is named, obeys words of command, such as march" and halt, and he answers any questions put to him. It is not an il- fusion or & trick, 1t is pure piece of mechanical work.
 Twenty-three members of the upper house of the Prussian diet have given notice of an interpolation on the subject of the anti-modernist oath in Prussia The
 government will be asked whether pro- fessors in the universities have taken the oath of their own free will whether the government considers the oath consistent with the oath of office, which pro fessors take on assuming their profes- sional functions. and whether the stand ing of the universities Is not impaired when their members impose upon them selves obligations such as the anti-mod- ernist oath contains.
 The air race, in which the prize will ...lyY k-1x r..-. June to June 30 It is called the Flu ropean circuit
 The course begins and ends at Paris, but between the start and the end avia- tors will journey from Pars to Berlin, then back to Brussels, and across to London, then southward again over the sea to Paris. In this course visits will be paid by aid to Rheims, Lege, Hanover Ham, burg, Bremen, Wesel, Utrecht, Lille Calias, Brooklands, Brighton and Rouen. Prizes will not be awarded only to those who finish first but at each stage there will be opportunities for winning. At certain places along the route the aviators will only be required to touch
 ground, while at others they must stop their engines and dsmount. There will be a larger number of contestants in this tournament than in any other contest of the kind.
 Here Is a romance in real life which recently came to public notice. It as an instance in modern chivalry. The hero Is an old merchant, a widower with a grown-up family. She Is the young, pretty and vivacious daughter of a clergyman. The man she is in love with Is an in fantry officer, but with no private means Here you have the cast in pretty lit- tie romance as has been enacted for a 1onV lime mast The old man made love to the girl, whose father encouraged his suit. The girl rejected her elderly lovers advances and frankly confessed that her affections were already engaged and that she would have been married were it not for the lack of means. For fortnight the man of money was greatly dejected; ; then one morning he sought an interview