The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-29
KAISER ENJOYED
 SWITZERLAND VISIT Details of New Naval Air
 ship Are Published SHOT IN BOAR HUNT Baroness Frieda Victim of Accidental Shot From Count Finckentein's
 Gun-Kaiser William Con-
 poses Patriotic Music
By MALCOLM CLARKE

By MALCOLM CLARKE
 Berlin, September 2s.-(special-)-wh the kaiser was in Zurich. his imperial majesty was received by the federal council and later he visited the cathe- dral. The emperor greeted a delegation from the committee which Is organizing the erection of a monument in Geneva in commemoration of the reformation. anu informed it that he himself would bear the cost of a statue of Frederick Will Tliam. the great elector. and would be prssentaat the inauguration of the monu- ment.
 In drive round the city the kaiser and his party alighted at the bear pit. and the emperor threw a carrot to the bears. He held later reception of mem- bers of the German colony and was en- tertained at a banquet.
 At the banquet the president, in pro- posing the health of the emperor, said that Switzerland was determined to de- fend her independence against all att | tacks and for this an army was essential. The kaiser praised the efficiency of the Swiss army.
 l Details of the German naval airship, which is expected to be finished by the Zeppelin works next week are published | here. It is stated that the vessel will surpass in size, speed and radius of &C., | tion all existing aerial cruisers. Its buoyancy will be so great that 1t will be 1 able to carry with 1t sufficient benzine l for an unbroken journey of at least six hours duration, and 1t IS hoped to ex- tend this to three days and nights. With an anticipated speed of ffty-1ve miles an 1 hour the airship would be able to travel 1 upwards of 5000 miles without replenish- | ing its tanks.
 l The efforts of the Friedrchshaven works are said to be at present directed to the construction of an aerial craft that l will be able to remain in the air a whole week without once descending. Rigid air ships. are, however, delicate creations, and very difficult to manage
 1 A fresh illustration of the shortcomings I of the rigid system was provided by the l unsuccessful attempt of the Schuette- 1 Lang airship, which has a wooden frame work, to sail back to Frankfort from I Berlin. Delayed by motor defect, it was overtaken by storm, and had to | abandon the Journey and make for the nearest dock large enough to accommo- | date 1t which was at Gotha. IL was however. only with the utmost difficulty | that the trained hands of the Airship l Battalion and those of dozens of volun-
 tary helpers managed to get 1t safely
 berthed. Germany's advantage in
 aeronautioal navigation is not so much in
 her airships themselves as in her unique
 experience in dealing with them.
 During a wild boar hunt near Frien-
 walde the Baroness Frieda von Eckhard- stein tnee Countess Haeke). was acci-
 dentally shot and killed.
 ..-1,.,
 both sides of the Atlantic. had organized
 a party. and was posted in a shelter in a
 tree about 20 feet above the ground.
 About fifty yards from her post Count
 Finckenstein was occupying a similar
 shelter. The beaters drove band of
 five large boars before the baroness
 post. She fired at the same time as the
 count, and the latter's bullet ricochetted
 from a tree and struck Baroness Eek
 hardstein in the body. She shrieked and
 fainted, and was taken down from the
 tree shelter and conveyed by motor car
 to Berlin. where she died.
 It Is not often that doctor has much
 to say in favor of the corset. but two
 Berlin medical men, Prof. Felix Hirsch-
 field and Adolf Loewy, have just come
 forward in championship of that sorely-
 abused garment True their advocacy is
 of limited and qualified character. but so | they have satisfied themselves that for a certain type of physique that is specially
 prone to consumption the use of corsets
 may act as a preventive of that disease.
 The structure in question is described as
 "paralytic thorax,' the specific character
 istics of which appear to be length and
 fatness of the chest The two rinvestiga-
 tors carried out exhaustive experiments
 on the respiration of persons of this class,
 simultaneously following the movements
 of the diaphragm by means of Rontgen
 rays. The result they arrived at was that
 whereas the corset diminished the depth it increased the frequency of their patti
 ents breathing so that the total amount
 of air taken into the lungs within given time remained the same.
 The announcement that the Kaiser Will liam has composed a number of patriotic
 airs, which are to be sung by the troops at the German army maneuvers, Is a re-
 hinder that the Prussian royal family has a special talent for the creative side of musical art. Prince Henry of Prussia has composed several marches, which are very popular in the German army and navy, and last year the Emperor presented to the Royal Academy of Music a splendidly bound volume of musical compositions by Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia. William IT is particuariy proud of the stirring Song of Aegir," of | which he is both composer and librettist. The Kaisers fansous ancestor. Frederick the Great, was easily the most prolific of all royal composers, having over 100 con- l positions to his credit.
 Beginning life as non-commissioned 1 officer in the Prussian army. Herr Karl Nordhausen has died at Berlin worth sS, 10000 at the age of 75. His career was a romance of love and land values. As sergeant he was billeted during the mil- itary manoeuvers near Berlin in 1862 with a well-to-do yeoman farmer named He- wald Hewald's farm at that time had no more than an agricultural value, but this was destined to rise enormously, for | the site of the farm Is today the center | of one of the most fashionable residential 1 districts of Berlin. Nordhausen wooed and won the farmers daughter, who in- | herted the bulk of her fathers property His will leaves large sums to the suburb of Schoneberg for public purposes, in gratitude for the growth of the commun- l ity which brought him wealth.
 1 An official announcement that Borkum had been raised to the status of an in- dependent fortress, which possibly per- mitted conclusions as to the readiness of its defenses, in themselves no secret, has ] been followed by a report that three | Wangeroog and Spikeroog. are also to be fortified. The works are to be com menced next month.