TaÌˆgliche Omaha tribuÌˆne. [volume] (Omaha, Nebr.) 1912-1926, 1914-12-12

music IN ~ simpler form vas The pidn-
Ger army Of poor German music teachers
who settled In almost every village and
town IN the south and West. In Bier
sladt and SchfcyvoRel, the rival Of Rcm-
iugton and painter Of MY Bunky," 10
mention no others. the German element
. represented ia American art. The
famous painting, Westward Ho," in The
national capitol az Washington, Il from
the brush Of a 6erman-American. One
Of the most distinguished American nov
elists Of today, Theodore Dreisscr, is
the son Of German immigrants, and the
names Of Seidi, Muck, STRANGELY Dippel,
and Conried are indelibly impressed up
on our recent and contemporary Musical
life. The FIRST great American actor,
Edwin Forrest had a German mother.
and Mary Anderson, the actress, can
trace her descent in part 70 German an
cestors. The greatest cartoonists in
America have been artists predominant
ly OF German origin-Nast, Grimm. and
Keppler, the founder OF Puck, three OF
a past generation, and lily Meyers, the
present editor Of Puck; Direks, Frueh,
Fato, and numerous others Of today.
Among the publishers and editors Of the
daily press many are Of German descent,
as Adolf Ochs Of the New York Times :
Reick OF the New York Sun; Pulitzer
OF the New York World, and Willard OF
the New York Evening Post. From
earliest times German-Americans have
been prominent in connection with the
leading universities, in the field Of medi-
cine, surgery and science. / am not pos
tive whether Col Goethals, the builder
OF the Panama Canal, is Of German or
Scandinavian extraction but one Of the
greatest monuments OF engineering skill
the Brooklyn bridge, was the work Of
Roebling, a German-Amefiean. Next to
Edison the most brilliant electrician in
America, and possibly the world. Is Ed
ison's close associate, ~Steinmetz, an inn
migrant German.
The most revolutionary printing in-
vention Of modern times, the type-set-
ting machine doubtless in use in the
Office OF the Aberdeen Free Press), is
the work Of Ottmar M~ergenthaler, a
German-American while the name of a
compatriot Of Mergenthaler (for both
were immigrants), that of Emile Ber-
liner, is brilliantly identified with the in
vention Of the microphone for the tele-
phone and OF the gramophone, for which
he was awarded the John Scott medal
and Elliot Crcsson gold medal by the
Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. The
German-Anerican owner of a small
foundry in Pittsburgh, whose am es-
eapes me, first started Andrew Carnegie
on his career as his associate. The
great Pittsburgh~iron and steel indus
tries largely owe their origin and grow i
to Germans Americans. Need / do o
than mention the name of Charles NJ.
Schwab, president of the Bethlehem
Steel Company
No element has had a greater share in
the upbuilding of the industries Of the
United States than that of the German
American. While it has been pre-em-
inent in the brewing world, it has been
no less so in the great sugar industries,
in furniture manufacture, In the build
ing Of railways and steam ships. J. J..
Weller, who died in 1881, accounted in
his time the richest man in middle Ohio,
was one Of the promoters and chief
stockholders in the Atlantic & Great
Western Railroad Andreas Gross and
his partner, Dietrich, built the Dayton &
Michigan Railroad. Albert Stein, a for
mer engineer in the Napoleonic army,
but a native of Dusseldorf. became the
builder Of vast hydraulic works IN the
West and South. The Havemeyer
RrHfbare 3. - 4bs. -o.o&~.s f-o.. -.
many with the first sugar-rehning pans
brought here, and founded the
great American Sugar Refining Com
pany. With the American Commercial
Products Co., and the Standard Oil
Company, the name of Marthieson
Brothers is too familiar to need de-
scription. Franz Martin Drexel was one
of the German immigrants of the early
part of the last century, and the Drex-
els became the founders of Drexel, Nor
gan & Co, the greatest American bank |
ing firm. Of the Astors it is needless to
go into details.
To speak Of the great churchmen of
America is to begin with the father of
General Muhlenberg, who founded the
Lutheran Church in America the early
Catholic bishop, Frederick Reese, of
Detroit; John Martin Henri, scholar
and writer, the first archbishop of Mil
waukee and the organizer of the Ger
man M. E. Church in America, William
Mast, who in 1881, was an instructor at
West Point. In political life we recall
Francis Joseph Grund, Harvard pro-
lessor and political journalist; John An
Wagner, Of Charleston, s. c., a
general in the Confederate army whose
is inscribed in bronze on the tab
let Of a monument to those who died for |
he South Philip Dorschheimer, of Buff
falo, one of the founders of the Repub-
lean party; Johann Lutz (Lutes), the
irst German-American mayor of Ro-
N. Y.,-aboye all, however, Carl
soldier, author, statesman, gem
,ral in the Union army, minister to
Spain, member of the United States
Senate, and a cabinet officer. Space is
90 limited to extend the list here. As a
.urist, lone has a higher standing than
Judge Peter L. Grosscup, late u. S.
Circuit Judge.
Hundreds of the great merchants and
manufacturing establishments are in the
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