The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-02-18
AMERICANS WILL BE CLAssED
WITH LIMITED GERMAN ELECT
Especial Cable to The ime,-pispatch.l

lSpecial cable TO The Times Dispatch.1
Berlin, February 1.-THE court statu. of
the American exchange professors, a source
OF not little social hearthurnnE In Ger
man educational circles. where professors
ana their wives are not 'hoffachiE' (cntitIed
to Invitations to court) and cause OF re-
peated embarrassment TO the American en-
nasay In Berlin, has been authorltst!yely
settled by the marshal OF the impertnl
court.
The American professors will hereafter be
CHASED with the limited elect of the German
learned and artistic word, namely. the rec
tors OF the German universtie.. the prcs!-
dent and the director y! the Royal Academy
OF Arts and the heads OF the several de-
partrnents of the Royal Academy OF
sciences, who are entitled to go 70 court
though their wives are not. and will be
privileged az such 10 be presented a, the
annual drawing-room or ievec which OPENS
rhc winter social season at court This
years observation-disclosures Theobald
smith, Harvard exchange professor: Profess
s scr PHni &. Reinsch. OF The University OF
Wisconsin. Roosevelt exchange professor
and Professor Edmund j. James OF the Uni
Versity OF llknois-were presented at the
recent court ball at tho express direction of
the Emperor Mrs. Reinsch was ALSO pre-
sented. but Mrs. Smith and Mrs. James did
moi IND II possible to attend.
Until this year civilians who have no uni.
form have been allowed to wear ordinn r.,
evening clothes. but circular OF the court
harahal recently prescribed for them white
satin kneeoreechce white stockings and
white bucltled pumps. Full decolete was
also prescribed for the women the circular
expressly barring the square opening al the
neck. to which como women had before rc-
sorteo, and requiring gown fully barring
the arms and shoulders.
OF especial Interest TO Germany because
o. the German ownership of tho Baydad
railway, and of general Interest to all trny-
clers IN the Orient, IS the news of Turkey
contemplating railroad building activities in
the Holy Land Under these plans a net.
NoTk OF iinee touching all important points
o! turkey In Asia and connecting with tho
bhSdad VIII be built within TIRES years.
nc hrst Of tho projected lines undertake,
WIN be strip Of about fourteen miles from
nara 10 Acre. second new line Will ey.
tend from Haifs 10 Jerusalem, Somc ninety
seven Tnilet, passing through SamarIa This
limo will be OF especial Importance to to,r.
ls's' VINO now so for the most part 10 Jaffs
ana thehce with the French railroad line to
1erusalem' The harbor at JaMa is notor,.
ousiy danseronH. and great number Of al,
travellers to Jerusalem find themselves
oDiged 10 land at Hai.a. whence the trIp
70 Jerusalem is long ana arduous
third now line. construction on witch
mas already begun. IS to run from Ierat IN .
junction OF the DamascuI-I and On
mascus-Meo!na lines. to Bu.ra the croat
market place Tor the Syrian desert. tho Ara
olen highland and the territory east OF Tho
RIVER Jordan This line, which will no a hon,
nineteen miles long and will DC opened I'm
Eixteon month";, will have high military I'm =.
portance. 't