The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-07
BY STEVEN BURNETT

Especial Gable from the International
News Service
Berlin, March 7.-Germany is
watching TRANQUILITY, but with profound
interest. the course of the diplomatic
conversations" between the British,
French, and Turkish Governments on
the subject of the Bagdad railroad. OF
authoritative comment there is practi-
cally none although we are daily as
sured by one or two newspapers, that
Great Britain is going to get nothing
and had better TAX that quickly in
case she gets less. The Porte itself is
looking after German interests.
AS inquirers in Turkish quarters
here are told the Bagdad Railroad
company is an Othtoman company.
Some eighty million francs of its CAPT
tai are held in Turkey, even if it was
borrowed from Germany, and Ger
mans have no monopoly OF the admin
istration of the line.
If this be so, the English govern
ment ought to disabuse itself of the
idea that the railroad in German I'M
dertaking. The president is d Swiss;
France, Italy and England are rep
resented on the board, and if three
quarters of the capital be of Germa
provision, it should be remembered
that ten years ago England and France
might have contributed forty-per cent.
which is all the German promoters
will now allow.
Nevertheless, good friends as the
he
are genuinely DESTROYS OF seeing
French and British capital invested in
the line. The Germans are extremely
useful and there is no doubt that Barr
on Marshall Won Bieberstein shapes
Turkish policy pretty much as he
chooses.
On the other hand. Germans have
little or no money to lend, and Turkey
is getting alarmed at the prospect OF
British and French capital. especially
the latter, being perpetually exclud-
ed from the country as a consequence
of German predominance at Constan-
tinople. She is thus between two
stOols-desire to obtain French capt.
tai on the one side and to keep good
friends with Germany on the other.
After long and weariSOme negotia-
tons. the military authorities have at
last signed a contract for the pur-
chase of another Zeppelin airship. 1t
was generally believed, that probably
by the War office itself, which is
known not TO favor the rigid type of
Iii hat ha !, \
would be unable to fulfill the condi-
tons of speed demanded of it. This
difficulty seems, however. to have been
surmountcd. The new vessel will be
the second of its class in the possession
of the German army, its sister ship be-
ing Zeppelin l.. which was bought by
the War office in August, 1909. was
destroyed at Weilburg last year.
Dr. Friedel publishes in the "Tage-
blatt." as the result of exhaustive in
Quiries in shops, stores. etc, an inter
esting comparison between the exEens-
es of Berlin household of today with
its expenses ten years ago. He care
fully allows for the increased demand
for Injuries the Improvement in the
quality of articles sold. but after max
ing all allowances, arrives at the con-
clusion that there is an average in
crease all round of % per cent. in the
cost of living.
If the ladies' of Berlin were willing
to dress in the simple manner and in
the perhaps, poorer materials of ten
years ago, say the Ladies' outfitters,
they would still have to pay from so
to 40 per cent. more than they did
then.
Furniture costs % per cent more
than it did ten years ago, and in the
last year has risen nearly ten per cent.
The price of the coal briquets. with
which the German porcelain stoves are
heated has risen from % cents per
100 to 40 cents.
Meat. as the housewife buys it, is on
an average % per cent dearer. The
price of bread is about the same, but
even burials have become more en-
pensive. A funeral which cost $12o
ten years ago now costs $3.50.
The Kings and Princes of Germany
enjoy under the constitution the privi-
iege of sending their letters and tele-
grams free of cost. and. as many of the
royalties carry on businesses. like
that of the Kaiser's porcelain factory
at Cadinen. for instance, the private
trader often raises his voice, though
Intellectually. in protest. The Prus-
sian railroad administration, which, as
railroads are an Imperial concern,
spreads over almost the whole empire.
has now issued regulations granting
royalty considerable privileges in re-
gard to railroad travelling. In the
language of the regulations. the privi-
leges are allowed to the "all-highest,
the highest and the high" thus COW
ering everyone of the princely rank
from the Kaiser to the smallest Ger
man potentatee. For the future the
princes is to have express trains at
specially cheap rates. and while the
ordinary traveller must pay for at least
twelve places when he orders a spe-
cial train. the prince will only be
charged for the exact number of plac-