The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-15
to win many from their stems

The Good Templars are interesting
the educated classes in Germany, and
the German people are making re-
markable progress in their efforts to
overcome the drink evil which has
been with them intense and almost
universal. and under the leadership Of
the Good Templars there is a mighty
uprising against 1t. Toward the close
of the session, the English speaking
delegates met one evening in the large
dining hall of the Hamburger Hof.
After dinner, Willard o. Wylis hap
PLY introduced Senator Cotterill as
chairman, who presided in his usuai
genial style. The speakers were from
all parts of the world The notable
ones were Joseph Malino who intro
duced the Order into England, Ed.
ward Wayrinsky and Guy Hayler
Songs were sung and at the close of
the meeting with hands around clasp
ed, we all joined IN singing "Auld Lang
Syne." About one hundred were pres
ent and all Of them will long remem-
Der the gathering as one of the most
interesting of the session. One of the
many pleasant features of Internal
ional gatherings is the cordially man
Tested among the delegates and
friends. To make new friends and to
meet old ones and renew acquaintan.
ces Is always a JOY and many were
the surprises as we suddenly encoun-
tered friends of whose presence we
were unaware. 1t was a pleasure to
see their faces and feel the warmth
Of their honest hand shakes. We shall
remember them as we pass along
life's highways, and their words will
remain as voices of music in our
hearts. II was wonderful assembly,
varied, unique and brotherly, in the
midst of surroundings of imposing
magnlfcence, and we'll calculated to
impress one with the dignity of the
Order, and the fact that our field is
the world. There were differences OF
race, language, creed and color, but
all were as one man for the advance
ment OF Good Templary, and the uni
yersal destruction of the liquor traf
/ fic.
Greetings were received from SO
concordant organizations and indiyld
uals. One Of the officers was given
leave of absence before the close OF
the session. as he had to prepare q
choir of 5000 children to sing dur
ing the Coronation celebrations in
Gloucester. England.
The meeting at Hamburg will be re
membered for another thing by many
the first sight of Count Zeppelin'S
great cigarshaped air ship in motion
1t was very large one with crew
and several passengers. 1t moved
gracefully, over the city and lakes
several times. and in the evening was
brilliantly illuminated. Mrs. Cum
mings OF New Zealand Travelled 14,00(
miles to get to the session, and is x
years OF age. The International Su
preme Lodge was formally and sol
EMMY closed, with only a few absen
tees at the final roll call. In the
evening very fine concert was glver
as the closing event of long series
of successful and happy meetings an(
entertainments, and | left the beauti
full city on the river Elbe carrying
with me on my further tour most plea
SAINT memories of the record session
the hospitality enjoyed, the delightful
weather experienced, and was crate
full for being privileged to take par
In movement fraught with so mucl
to humanity the world around.
After the session at Hamburg,
left our party for a few days sight
seeing on my own account in Berlin
and Pottsdam, and was greatly i'm
pressed with their beauty and splen
dor. Kaiser William does not weaI
his mustache with the ends turned
up any more. as he is represented L
do in nearly all OF his pictures. Re
Joining the party at Hamburg. TWEEN
ty OF us travelled together by day ex
press for Cologne. where we saw tn,
famous Dom or Cathedral, one o
the best specimens Of Gothic architec
ture in the world. the building o
which was begun in 124S. and finished
in 1880. size $40 by 231. with tw,
towers, each 525 feet high. (Thinl
OF church towers 224 feet higher thar
our Bennington battle monument,) al
so the bridge OF boats, and the churcl
OF Saint Ursula. which is said to con
: tain the bones OF 1000 people VIII,
were massacred by the Huns. Yer,
many of these bones were displayed
arranged in especially gruesome de
! signs on the walls inside the church
and in glass cases. 100000 bottle
OF Eau de Cologne are annually e1
I ported from here, and OF course tn
ladies OF our party had to stock up
with the real thing"
] We left Cologne by Rhine steame
: for the unrivalled days trip up tn
Z river OF legend and song. at times b.
i tween vine clad hills which now an
s then hem II in between steep towe
G ing rocks crowned with old castles
l. and then again by long beautifl
/ crossvalleys through which smallC
r streams come rushing, TO Bingen an
Mayence, and thence by rail to He
; delburg At Bingen (when the su
, was low) we crossed the old birds
J. said to have been built by the Ror
4 ans, many centuries ago. Mayenc
IS founded In the second century, de
e troyed In the fifth by Attila, and re
n tored in the seventh by Charlemagn
. is surrounded on all sides by sy
h TEN of immensely strong fertilization
r has many very beautiful public pl
e ces, magnificent bronze monumer
II by Thorwaldsln, OF Johann Cutie
y burg, who was born, and died her
k and was the first printer to use mo
n, able type In 1888, and has Cath
Is dral OF the fourteenth century.
Heidelburg is one OF the famous o
r university towns OF Europe. The o
5. castle here. built in the twelfth &c
d fury. enlarged In the fourteenth al
e nearly destroyed by fire In 1854, form
l. an interesting and picturesque rui
q This Is the town famous also for d
q cling, and the SCARED faces OF q
N students Next to Luoerne. in SwI
a. zerland. remarkable for It's old brldg