The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-02
LEIPZIG KEEPS UP BUILDING
 CAMPAIGN DESPITE THE WAR

Leipzig. Germany. August 30.-(Corre- spondence of the Associated Press )-Few cities in Germany has more bravely de- fled the reactionary and destructive eff fects of the war than Leipzig. The fa- nous old city, for decades the center of the fur trade and book business. though hard hit by the conflict. nevertheless is attempting a building programme that would easily be considered ambitious in peace time.
 The largest railway station in Europe is gradually nearing completion at a cost of more than s6, ,0OO It's construction has only been slowed down by the short age of workmen. and sometime this fall it will be entirely finished.
 A huge building which will house the German equivalent of the American con- gressional library, an institution in which at least one copy of every German publi- cation as well as thousands of books printed in Austria and Switzerland, will be filed. is also under way.
 The next greatest building proposition that continues notwithstanding the war is wonderful public bath which was be- gun by a private concern but has since been taken over by the city When 1t is completed, Leipzig claims that it will rank with any similar institution in the world.
 In planning for it's railroad station. Leipzig was confronted with unusual problems, in overcoming which it has spent many millions of marks. The city has always been big transportation center, with lines running northward into Prussia, southward into Saxony and Ba- varia, and southward to the Rhine dis trict.
 With its ever-growing book trade and other business it has been an increas- ingly difficult problem to provide the nec- essary freight space, and in the past. With circular railroad system that helted the city, great tracts of valuable hand have been utilized in an uneconomi- cal manner
 When the city did decide to centralize It's transportation system, it arranged for station with connected freight terminals that is pretty sure to fit all needs for a great many years to come. From every direction except Bavaria the railroad tracks curve in and around the northern part or Leipzig and then swing in to a point almost in the center of the city. The one building accommodates the lines of the Prussian and of the Saxon state railways with all their subsidiaries
 
 wher. Leipzig began to appreciate that eventually 1t was going to need sub way system, and that this future need might as well be attended to in connection with the station. As fast as the need comes, therefore. this tunnel line will be connected to star-shaped lines radiating to all parts of the city and its suburbs.
 The new library of Deutsche Buecheri is not to be, from present appearances, such an imposing building as the con gressional library in Washington, but it is infinitely practical, and very large In 1t are to be kept the works of all authors printed in Germany, the works of Ger man authors printed in foreign countries, the pamphlets and works of literary, scientific and other societies-everything in fact except musical and political pub lications. All publications from 1913 on are to be kept
 The government has donated 3,O00,0O0 marks. and guaranteed 5000 marks a year the city of Leopzig gives the ground and furnishes 115.000 marks a year toward the maintenance of the institution, and the German, the Austrian and the Swiss