The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-09-01
IN THE FATHERLAND
INTERESTING BITS OF news
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHAT'S DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary of the Most Important Hap
penings in che Land of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

Dresden, like many other German
cities, has a municipal slaughter
house. 1t is located near the outskirts
of the cit Of Dresden and there are
probably 20 or 25 separate buildings
Everyone of them are we'll lighted
and remarkably we'll ventilated for
German buildings. There is one large
hall used for refrigerating and for
various business transactions connect
ed with the buying and selling of the
meat. This is located next the en-
trance. At the opposite end are the
railroad tracks and the stockyards
The slaughtering is done in remark
ably humane fashion and the process
is scrupulou~ly clean. There is very
seldom any haste in the process and
everybody works leisurely as if the
city of Dresden did not need any
meat at all. u sort of mask is put
over the head of the animal. com
pletely shutting off any view of the
process. In this mask is fitted spike
about four inches in length. This
spike is adjusted in place directly
over the forehead and brain of the
steer. muscular workman drives
the spike Wen into the brain of the
animal with one stroke and the kill
ing is completed. Most of the meat
is slaughtered by municipality licensed
slaughterers. These men are paid
regular fixed sums which are desig-
mated by the municipal government
and anyone who has meat to be
slaughtered can bring it to the mu-
nicipal slaughterhouse. AS a matter
OF fact, all the slaughtering for the city
of Dresden Is done in this one slaugh-
terhouse; individuals are not permit
ted to slaughter on their own prem
ises
The Ideal Cooperative Building as
ISOLATION of Berlin is providing homes
for its members in a colony near Ber-
lin. Most of the houses consist of
two rooms and a kitchen downstairs
and two rooms upstairs Perhaps the
chief feature Of the little colony is
its beautiful gardens. In front of,
and behind each house is a garden.
Each owner seems to take pride in
outdoing his Heighbor in the variety
of the products of his small plot and
in the care with which his garden is
kept The remarkable thing about
the whole experiment, however, is
the fact that such an experiment is
being successfully carried out on land
which costs almost exactly $4,000 per
lot. Even the most eXtravagant sub
urbs in the vicinity of New York city
ask scarcely more than this price for
their choice building plots Yet in
Berlin cooperative society is sue
cessfully building workmens cottages.
The general plan is simple Only
members of the cooperative associa-
ton are permitted to rent houses.
They purchase stock and are paid
dividends The association borrows
large part of it's funds, in fact up to
30 per cent at very low rates They
borrow large sums from the ordinary
commercial banks, labor unions, the
imperial insurance funds, and private
individuals at rates ranging from 3
to a " per cent In this way through
collective action and the ability to bor-
row funds at low rates, there has
come into existence a housing devel-
opment which is a real example to
cities where land prices are high
German aviation circles are express
ing pride in the part played by their
2ountrymen in Recommending in the
last few months. All the records were
made In German aercplanes equipped
with German motors. The duration
record has been bettered four times
this year by Germans. The first was
Bruno LANCER, who set the mark at
IA hours and minutes on February 8.
This mark was raised to 16 hours and
20 minutes on April 26 by the French
man Poullet, but on June "a, Basser-
man bettered this figure. Four days
later Landmann raised 1t once more,
hour flight ever made. Boehm still
had gasoline enough for two hours
flying and was comparatively fresh
when he landed.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for the
Study Of Coal and Coal Deposits has
been dedicated at Muehlheim on the
Ruhr. Professor Harnack of Berlin,
the famous church historian, made the
dedicatory address. The city fur
nished the site free of charge. Enough
money has been raised for the upkeep
of the institution. 1t will be of great
to Germany as one of the
leading coal-producing nations of the
world.
The production of beer in Germany
continues on the whole to increase
despite a pretty strong temperance
movement throughout the empire |
The word temperance in Germany
has, however, more of its literal
meaning of moderation. While the re.
form movement appears in some small |
degree in the form of total abstinence. |
1t more usually means the discourage
ment of the use of whisky (schnapps) |
and other strong drinks, and a more
moderate use Of beer instead of the |
two or three gallons day which many
workmen think they must consume.
1t Is interesting to note that for
many years the Dresden potteries
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