Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-22
WILL CHANGE COINS
New Portrait of the Kaiser
Will Be Used.
TO SAFEGUARD TRAINS
Automatic Device for Preventing
Accidents Is Being Installed on
German Railroads.
SAFEGUARD TRAINS

BERLIN, September 21.-The twenty
fifth jubilee of Emperor Williams Access
sion to the throne, to be celebrated next
year. will be marked, it is understood,
by a change in the portrait Of the en-
peror on all the gold and silver coins of
the monarchy. The present likeness dates
from the accession of his majesty, and
accordingly shows him as a young man.
The new design will be distinguished from
the old not only in regard to age, but
also by the fact that the neck and the
chest shown in the portrait, now bare in
classic nakedness. will be clad in uni
form. probably that Of the Guard Cuiras-
siers with It's high-collared tunic.
An automatic device for. keeping a
check on locomotive engineers who run
by danger signals is being installed on
the government railroads The search
for a practical method of stopping auto
matieally a train running by a signal set
against it has here, as in other countries,
not yet been successful, but the new in
vention is expected to put such a penalty
on carelessness, which is given as the
cause in d great number of cases, that
accidents of this nature will be reduced
to minimum.
The device consists Of an electric con-
nection with the rails at semaphOre
points, SO arranged that if an engineer
does not stop when the signal is set
against him bell starts ringing at the
next station and record is automatically
made upon q sealed register deposited
there. AS soon as the engineer reaches
the station he is called upon for writ
ten explanation, the numbered and sealed
register insuring that no offender escapes
through favoritism or negligence of the
stationmaster, who must turn in an ac-
count for every number on the record.
Big Plumbing Operations.
Gigantic and unparalleled plumbing
operations to plug leaks in the bed Of the
River Danube form the subject of con-
troverSy between the governments of
Baden and Wurttemberg, which has just
been appealed to the imperial bundesrat
for settlement The case attracts atten-
ton to the curious and almost unknown
geogra phical fact that a branch of the
Danube flows into the Rhine, and thus
finally reaches the North sea. thousands
of miles from the Black sea, where the
main course of the Danube ends.
For some two or three hundred years a
part of the Danube has been passing
vicinity Of the little town of Immendin-
gen, in Baden. emerging again In the
valley of the River Aach. some seven
miles distant where 1t forms the largest
spring IN Germany. Inc source OF the
spring was definitely established some
years ago by artificially discoloring the
water of the Danube above Immendingen.
In recent years the phenomenon mas be-
come increasingly serious for the towns
! lying on the Danube in Wurttemberg,
| which are dependent upon it for water
| power because the leakage is steadily
| growing In quantity.
Old Water Rights.
| Wurttemberg is attempting to assert its
old water rights, while Baden is dis
| claiming responsibility on the ground
that the leakage is a phenomenon of ma
! ture, the latter country having a deep
interest in letting nature have her way,
! inasmuch as numerous manufacturing es-
| Establishments depending on the runaway
| waters of the Danube have sprung up in
| the valley of the Aach.
Civil engineers propose to settle the
problem by carrying a surface channel
| from the Danube to the Aach. and build
| ing several dams on the upper course OF
| the latter to develop electrical power. The
| holes in the bed Of the Danube would
| then be filled with cement, the total cost
| of the operation being estimated at not
much more than s1,OOOOOO.