Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29
FIVE CENTURIES
ON SAME. ESTATE
Spannkrebs Family Began
Serving the Counts of Eu-
Ienburg in 1913.

BERLIN June IL. 1913
American newspapers now and then
publish stories Of servants who have been
employed continuously in the same fam
lily twenty-five. 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 es-
tate of Gallingen, near koenigsberg. In
1913. Among the workers who were then
installed on the land was certain Her.
mann Spannkrebs. whose descendants
have lived the estate ever since.
Generation after generation they have
entered the service of the owners OF the
property. To celebrate the four hum
dredth anniversary OF this relation the
present Count of Eulenburg ana the
senior Spannkrebs invited all the EN-
ployes on the estate to an elaborate ju-
bilee dinner. the cost of which was met
BY the count who presided at the ban
quet-
Record of Typhoid Mary"
Germany's Typhoid Mary" a cook In
the regimental kitchen of the Railroad
Regiment. No 3, n Hanau. can score UP
twenty-three deaths TO her account from
the typhoid epidemic which broke out in
the 1st Battalion of the regiment last De-
cember and which has only now ended.
According to an official statement made
before the reichstag the epidemic, which
involved several hundred active soldiers
and reseryists called to the colors for
training, has been traced to a potato
salad prepared by this woman. who evil
IDENTITY had carried the bacilli Of typhoid
in her body for years. She is now, of
course permanently barred from employ
ment as COOK
This case has brought out an interest
ing discussion as TO the right of such
''bacilli carriers TO demand from the
state a pension to compensate them for
their permanent disability to practice
their trade. 4 workman who loses his
arm a stenographer whose writing hand
is crippled or an engraver whose sight is
permanently affected are entitled to COM
pensation from the insurance fund. Why
not then a cook who. through no fault
of her own. becomes permanent menace
in the kitchen and is thereby thrown out
Of employment.
Discourage Redundancy.
dustries of Berlin has decided. following
a movement started in the German bust |
ness world some time ago. to recommend
to its members that, beginning October |
next, they discard all unnecessary salu- |
tat!ons and closing formulas in their
correspondence, and also that redundant !
and superfluous phrases be dispensed I
with. The associations lead is likely to /
find many followers, especially in the 1
Rhineland. where the revolt against what |
Is called merchant German" is wide /
spread. AS sample of the phrases to |
be discarded the following may be cited: |
In the possession of your honored let |
ter of yesterday. / acknowledge TO you |
the receipt of the same thankfully, and |
have taken the most careful notice of its |
contents"
rhis is the stock formula for acknowl- |
edging a business letter. The reformers
see no reason why yours of yesterday
received and contents noted does not ill
all requirements.