The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-07-07
IN THE FATHER|-ANDI
INTERESTING BITS OF NEWe
FROM THE GREAT GERMAN
EMPIRE.
WHATS DOING IN OLD HOME
Summary Of the Most important Hap
penings in the Land Of the Kaiser
Timely Items for the German
Readers.

President Wilson and Kaiser VIII
helm exchanged wireless messages be-
tween Tuckerton, n. j., and Eilyese,
Germany The message from Presi-
dent Wilson was as follows: ION this
occasion of the opening Of the Tucker
ton radio station, | send TO your
majesty my best greetings and oner
my congratulation on this additional
link TO bind the United States and
Germany In closer intercourse and
good relationship" Kaiser Wilhelm
replied: During my visit to Eilvese
station received your kind message
] thank you for the greetings. | re-
turn your congratulations on the open
Ing of wireless communication be-
tween Germany and America ], too,
consider it as an additional link which
will bind our two countries in mutu-
al friendship and closer intercourse.
The hope of the sponsors OF the
organizing victory" for the 1915
Olympiad movement have received
rude check in the refusal of the Ma
tional Association of Turner's, which
has a membership of 100000 and In
Guides the best trained athletes in the
country, to have anything to do with
the Olympiad. The association takes
the view that turning" (gymnastics)
is the only true form of athletics and
that the varied events OF the Olympic
games are abnormal and perniciOus
Another factor which is giving the
Olympic management concern Is the
boycott" declared by the Social Dem
ocratic party. The Reds" declare
that the games, being under imperial
patronage, are purely an aristocratic
and class" enterprise with which So
cialists cam have nothing to do.
Germany has now about seven huff-
dred and fifty trained aviators. There
are 49 factories which are building
aeroplanes and accessories. There
are Al flying fields scattered all over
Germany. or these Johannistal near
Berlin, is the most important. At this.
Germany's greatest flying center,
there are between three and four hum
dred aeroplanes. During 1913 no less
than 36,917 flights were made from
this one aviation field by 1853 different
pilots, who together covered an aggre-
gate distance of approximately no.
900 miles. In 1912 only 1851 flights
were made from Johannistal. Aside
from this, 212 pilots made cross-coun-
try flights starting from Johannistal.
An average of 10 flights day on 1896
out of 365 days last year were made
at this field.
The city council of Vienna Is pro-
posing to float a loan of $75,000.000 at
once, to be expended mainly upon the
development of existing municipal
ownership undertakings. 1t Is pro-
posed to spend $3O,O00,000 on subways
around the congested districts of the
inner city where up to the present
there has been only an indifferent
service of horse omnibuses. The bus
business, which the city purchased at
about fifty cents on the dollar from
bankrupt private company, has been
run at a great loss each year.
The new banking law of the United
States attracts wide attention abroad
for its daring extent and scientific
thoroughness. A director OF the Ger
man reichstag calls it the most COM
prehensive experiment ever made in
banking organized into a center and
branches under close government con-
troll; even broader and ripper than the
system created In Germany with the
empire.
Koln is about to add 10000 to its
population and thereby become the
third city In size In Germany, only
Berlin and Hamburg ranking above It.
Through the incorporation of Muel
helm and Mehrheim, both lying on the
right bank Of the Rhine, the city's pop
ulation will rise to 635,000. It's total
area will be more than forty-f1ve
miles, or three times as much as Der
din.
Nine aviators lost their lives when
mimic war in the air was suddenly
turned into tragic reality by the acci
dental ripping of dirigible airship by
IA biplane, while both were flying at
great height during the Austrian army
maneuvers Both crafts were de
stroyed and their occupants, nine mil
atary and naval officers and noncom
missioned officers were burned and
mutilated beyond recognition.
The Poles are planning worldwide
association
Struck on the head by q skyrocket
the queen of Bavaria was seriously
hurt while attending a celebration al
Passau. She was reported as resting
well and as almost certain to recover,
Bismarck is the name of the latest
steamer Of the Hamburg-American
line. Its $1,000 tons displacement
makes it the largest ship In the world.
The medical society OF Berlin has
finally reported on Doctor Friedmann's
anti-tuberculosis serum The report
Is q warning against using the stuff
Vienna--Pflot Konschel bet he
could shave himself while flying
around the race course at Asfern. The
wager was accepted at 500 crowns