The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-06-29
WAS
AvERSE To ALL
PHOTOGRAPHS
LATE JAPANESE RULER DID NOT
CARE FOR ELECTRICITY OR
PHoToeRAPHY, BUT THINGS
ARE CHANGED AT PALACE NOW

Toxic, June 28.-The late Emperor
| Mutsuhito, who reigned during the
| Era of Enlghtment" was averse to
Photography and electricity. He never
sat for his portrait, and he never al
| lowed an electric light to be installed
in the residential part of the palace,
| which was lighted with candles and oil
| lamps.
| His successor to the throne, Yoshi-
| hito, has changed all this. The new
emperor shows no Discrimination to-
! ward either photography or electricity.
| He has sat time after time for his
photograph. In fact he is an amateur
| photogra pher himself He has a num-
| Der of cameras, and is fond of SNAP
ping his children in the Royal Gar
| den. AS to electricity, he has ordered
the candles and oil lamps in the
Chiyoda Palace in Toxic, to be re-
placed by modern electric lights, the
installation of which has just been
completed
In many other ways the new en-
peror shows modern tendencies. He
was formerly an ardent bicyclist, but
since taking on the dignity of mon
arch he has abandoned the bicycle
in favor of the high power automo-
biles. He is a crack billiard player
and has had two beautiful billiard
rooms installed in the palace. one with
American and the other with English
tables. Here after dinner he chal-
lenges his court chamberlains to a
friendly game, and usually wins-Quite
on his own merits.
The emperor and empress, who have
been living in the Aoyama Palace, Will
soon occupy the Chiyoda Palace as
their main and permanent residence.
Berlin, June 2s.-American news
papers now and then publish stories
of servants who have been employed
continuously in the same family TWEEN
tyf1ve, thirty, and even forty years,
and describe the "jubilees' held in
honor Of the faithful worker. But the
American record however, becomes in
significant when compared to the his
tory of the Spannkrebs family, in East
Prussia, the members of which have
served the Counts of Eulenburg for
four hundred years.
The Eulenburg family acquired the
estate of Gallingen, near Koenigsberg,
in 1413. Among the workers who were
then installed on the land was GER
tain Hermann Spannkrebs, whose de-
scendants have lived on the estate ever
since. Generation after generation
they have entered the service of the
owners of the property. To celebrate
the four hundredth anniversary Of this
relation, the present Count Of Eulen-
burg and the senior Spannkrebs invit-
ed all the employees on the estate to
an elaborate jubilee dinner. the cost OF
which was met by Count who presided
at the banquet.
Scores Twenty three Deaths.
Germany's Typhoid Mary" a cook
in the regimental kitchen of the rail-
road regiment No. 8. in Hanau, can
score up twenty three deaths to her
account from the typhoid epidemic
which broke out in the first battalion
of the regiment last December, and
which has only now ended.
According to an official statement
made before the Reichstag the epidem-
ic, which involved several hundred ac-
tive soldiers and reservists called to
the colors for training, has been traced
to a potato salad prepared by this
woman, INDEPENDENTLY had carried the |
bacilIi of typhoid in her body for
years. She is now, of course, perman-
entity barred from employment as a |
cook.
This case has brought out an inter |
estfng discussion as to the right of |
such "bacilh carriers to denand from /
the state pension to compensate |
them for their permanent disability |
to practice their trade. A workman |