Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-29

nm, especially as IT came on top Of
'he long rides across a bleak country
side.
a week ago last Sunday he said he
ala not feel well and took to his bed
--aVerrlng though that "lt was moth
ing lie hated TO show weakness
always SAYING that in these times no.
body had any right to think of all
ments.
TWO days later his condition be-
came so serious that he was removed
from his bachelor quarters in the Ho-
tel Grand Monarque to the Lulsen
hospital So late as last evening his
brothers and sisters, who had come
irom other parts of the Rhineland to
ms bedside in Aachen, believed the
crisis was past and that he would re-
cover
only yesterday the American vice
consul al Aachen, Henri Quadflieg.
said to me. did you know your
friend Max Mannesmann was ill?"
BENG much occupied Of late, had
not seen Mr.. Mannesmann for several
days, nor had | heard that he was in.
But the crisis is thought to be
past, added the vice consul, who is a
German and that is good, for we
could not afford TO lose Herr Max.
Germany could not indeed, afford
to lose him. He was one of her repre-
sentative men, representative espe-
cially of that efficiency cult which Is
the religion Of the German Industrial
world and which more than her army
and navy has made Germany a great
world power.
He stood for the highest type Of
German industrial leader and II is be-
cause he was of that type that he
combined the idealist and the shrewd
man Of business. II was the idealist
in him that made his patriotism so
fine and lofty and it was the man Of
business in him that made the work
ings of his patriotism so practical.
Thought Only of Country.
His mind was always teeming with
the details of new inventions and since
the war came all he discovered and
devised was consecrated to his coun-
try He thought Of nothing else.
Just before he fell i'll he had in
hand plans for the building of new
machines and new factories which
would enable him to hasten the COM
pletion Of orders which the govern
ment had placed with him and his
brothers.
lie looked, too, beyond the period
of war and he was shaping plans for
the care and education of orphaned
children after the declaration Of
peace
we must think of these matters, "
he used to say, "and now is not too
scon to begin to think of them Moth
ing can ever repay our soldiers for
the sacrifices they are making for
us. The most gifted OF the children
Of the men who fall must be given the
highest technical education.
Those who are not qualified to
profit by the highest training must
have a less exacting future opened TO
them. We business men must raise
great funds for these purposes and
give the future of the fatherless chill
dren our best thought"
Then he said something that stuck
In my memory 1t was this:
we would not be gentlemen If we
did not"
Trim to Berlin to Show Cars.
was with Mr.. Mannesmann on
the last trip but one that he ever
made. 1t was when he took to Berln
the first four cars for the wounded
which his factories had turned out.
His purpose was to exhibit them 10
the war office owing to the great
number of troop trains passing over
the railway lines these days, 1t was
Quicker 20 take the cars from Aschen
10 Berlin by automobile than to load
them into freight trains and take
them by railway
So we coupled the four little cars
TO big auto and started away on
sunday morning reaching Berii'
Tpesday morning. Mr. Mannesmann
asked me to go with him, because ne
wanted an American 70 see in an lht,-
mate way how prosperous and wen
ordered Germany was in war time
now the factories were working over
time how the farmers were pusy
making the fields ready for the sprlis
planting, how the foresters were car
ING for the great stretches OF govern !,,a
ent-owned woodland, ana now the
youth of Germany were being traliie"
for the new armies. ..,
II was wonderful and beautiiu,
trim despite the sharp weather anu
,yben we were passing through sorl1
Of the loveliest bits Of asrieul'uau, "a,
co,rtrv in Germany, remember no" %
NJ Mannesmann, who caught tn'
i"ot I,r Of ADMIRATION in my eyes, turned
and said: ,,ont IN
opo you wonder that we 1oo.o wan ~
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