The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-24
BERLIN news LETTER

Berlin, NOV. Z4.-Jh6 TWO disasters
to Zeppelin airships in September and
October are not to result in checking
the use of these crafts in Germany.
This is the decision apparently reach
ed by the government, the concerns
that build a%irships, and by what may
be called the aerial travelling public.
The recent fatal accidents in the
North sea when. fourteen men were
killed, and at .Johannisthal, when
twenty-eight persons lost their lives,
have not reduced the number of sail
lngs in the vicinity Of Berlin Of the
Hansa, stationed at Potsdam. This
airship IS still making two trips daily,
and only recently it celebrated it's
S00th. flight. Moreover, the German
Airship- Navigation Co., which owns
the Hansa and two other airships, is
preparing for a much more extended
schedule Of sailings. To the compa-
ny's eight stations, located at Pots
dam, Hamburg. Dusseldorf, Frankfort,
Baden-Baden, Gotha. Leipzig, and
Friedrichshafen. are to be added eight
more-at Emden, Bremen, Hanover,
Brunswick, Dresden, Stuttgart, Mum
ich, and Copenhagen. 1t is also in
towns in the more eastern part of the
empire. such as Breslau, and probably
at Dantsic and Konigsberg.
From a recent issue of the aerial
time table, it appears. that regular
air routes and fixed sailings will he
maintained. Between Friedrichsafen
and Copenhagen the airships will sail
either via Hamburg and Brunswick,
or by way of Brunswick, Potsdam,
Leipzig, Gotha and Stuttgart. Anoth-
er line will connect Dresden and
Hamburg by way of Potsdam and
Brunswick. Vessels travelling between
Bremen and Enden will follow the
same course as far as Brunswick.
Between Dresden and Dusseldorf the
route ewill also be by way of Bruins
\ wick. The last named city is thus to
be a sort Of central station for the
| whole System.
Owing to the large number of sta
tons that eventually will be in oper-
alton, 1t Is expected that the aircraft
will be able to find ready refuge when
surprised by bad weather. Most of
the stations are constructed to ac-
commodate two ships.
The population Of Berlin is decreas-
ing. Not only are the laboring class
es moving out to the country to find
work, but the wealthy are forsaking
the city for more pretentious homes
In the nearby suburbs, The exodus
has been so steady during the past
eight months that Berlin today has
over IL 1000 less Inhabitants than it
had on March T.
The present year is the only one to
show a decrease in population since
1873. For, six years past the rate OF
increase has been comparatively slow
but as recently as 1906 there was a
gain of $4,000 in twelve months. Now
the tide has turned the other way, and
the municipality Is alarmed over the
departure of nineteen ~millionaires, in
the German sense, in the three months
ended June 80. The city's tax receipts
are correspondingly reduced.
The loss this year appears to be not
wholly due to the movement Of the
people into suburban towns, for such
prosperous neighbors as Charlotten-
burg and Schoeneberg also show small
losses, and the gains in other adjacent
municipalities are not large enough to
account for the removals from the
capital. The demand for labor in
Greater Berlin this year has been very
slack, and in spite of, the immigration
to fields where work can be secured,
the number Of the unemployed is as
Stunning alarming proportions. Even
| the building trades, which normally
| employ many thousands, report very
limited activity. as
w. w. Husband, an agent of the
United States department of com
rnerce and labor has just returned to
Berlin after an 5000 mile trip through
the interior Of Russia. investigating
the conditions OF Russian emigration
to the United States on the spot.
This work of Mr.. Husbands indi-
Gates the attention paid by the de-
partment to questions Of this nature.
| Emigration of the orthodox Russians.
in distinction from the Russian Jews
who have for years made W so large
u portion Of the stream e. of. human
traffic to the United States, began
only recently and the department m
powered Mr.. Husband to make this
extended trip to discover the condi-
lions which we're leading them to
| seek the United States; whether they
were being induced to do so against
the provisions OF the law on contract
labor, and whether they would prob
ably form permanent elements of the
American population. It is under
stood that on the first point a. salts
factory answer was received. 1t would
appear, however, that these Russian
emigrants are. like many of the
Italians, go to the United States only
with the intention Of remaining long
enough to hoard up a little fortune
which will enable them to- return and
live in comfort in their home coun-
try. s4
MIR. Husband was accompanied on
his trip by Samuel Harper, son Of the
late president of the University of
Chicago, as interpreter. He is now
starting for the Balkans on a similar
trip of investigation, and hopes that
conditions have now become sufficient
ly settled, after the wars, to enable
him to get the information desired by
the department.
A new hunting field of vast area, still
untouched by the rifle OF the white
sportsman, has been found in East
Africa by Stewart Edward White. the
American author In a letter written
to a friend in Berlin Mr.. White calls
big virgin hunting country in the
world,
Mr.. White, accompanied by his wife,
first went to Africa shortly after Col.
Theodore Roosevelt visited the coun-
TRY four years a1sn. He was SO de-