The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-28
IS Received by the City Of
Munich, Third City in the
German Empire.

WASHINGTON. Nov. 28.-Munich,
the third city In the German empire.
which recently received its baptism OF
bombs ut the hands or q French avia-.
t0r, is described In the following bullc-s
in&isslIed by the National Geographic
Society:
The great railroad station at Nun
ich which the French war Office re-
ports wa hit by bombs dr0nped by a
captain OF tho French aviation corps,
ts the heart Ut Il great network Or lines
which connect the Bavnrian capital
With tll parts Of IGurope. Situated in
l&p1ain on the River Isar. the city is
100 miles In 4 airline east OF the Al
Satan bGrdnr Of France. and about
forty miles north Of the TyrO1ean from
tire of Austria. Its latitude CORES
rinnd9 to that nf st. Johns, NGwfound-
la1ld, but owing to. Its proximity to the
Sips sttWcnty-fTe miles To the aouthJ
sts climate is extremely variable.
'En point Of population Munich Is
Exceeded only by Berlin and Hamburg
ifnOnE German cities. With 500 900 In
E!abitants 1t was somewhat larger than
Cleveland and smaller than Boston I'M
1910, bit 1t is highly probable that this
number has been appreciably de-
creased. since the war began. just as In
the casesof Rcrlin. whitehead 2.OT1.00O.
people iii 1910 bit which had only IT,
$4,000 on February 4. 1916, according
to official figures.
Modern In Physique.
I'm physical aspects Munich IS Il
of the most impressive Of modern cit
les. Its royal palaces, It's magnificent
nntionnl theatcr, Its great royal Ii
hrary containing 100000 volumes and
10000 rare manuscripts its broad
thoroughfares. particularly the Lud-
wigstrasse and Observation-Disclosures, Dor
dcrcd ~ the great office buildings of
tho Bavarian government, and its FAM
GUS university, which ranks tirst
among the German Institutions in the
number OF it's medical students and
second only to Berlin in the number
Iof students Of all classes-all these and
many other buildings and Institutions
make the municipality one Of the chief
pridcs OF the Teutonic people.
Most III the modern improvements
and practically all or Its architectural
sElcndor Munich owes to Louis | and
his art-loving SUCCESSORS. Louis came
fn the throne in 1925 and ruled for
tn3rG than twenty years. One Of the
impressive monuments of his reign
Is tfle beautiful PropyIaea. modelled aft
ter the gate to the Athenian acropolis,
and the rcliefs which decorate this
structure quite fttingly tell the story
.cf Frcece's war or independence and
the events transporting III that king
dOm#duIing the eventful reign of King
Otto II, LouIs's SON who was elected to
the throne of Greece in 1882 but was
finally expelled after thirty years. An
other beautiful Munich gateway is tho
Siegesto. (Gatc of Victory), modelled
after the arch OF Constantine in Rome.
Commercial Life.
"The commercial life of Munich Is
scarcely less interesting han It's ar.
Ittstfc side. In America the name.of the.
city is indellbly associated with Its
most important article OF export, beer
in scientific circles Munich's optical.
and mathematical instruments have al
IMcrld-NtGe reputation while the art OF
photography had its birth. here. More
than 100 miles Of canals thread the
city IN all directions.
Munich owes its beginning to Duke
Fnnry the Lion, who in HAS cstab-.
lished a mint here and built a bridge
across the Iaar in order that he might
the more easily levy a toll on the salt
obtained from the springs OF Reichen-
hall and neighboring villages. The
city occupies tho site Of the ancient
monastery OF Tegernsce, hence its
name (lnunichen, the monkl. n 1927
the place was almost completely des-
troycd by fire. hit it was soon rebuilt
by Emperor Louis, the Bavarinn, insthc
lfcrrl whlch5it retained up to the access
- nf Louis u in the nineteenth cen
ttiIsSS.
America has had 4 share IN the
DISQUALIFICATION OF Munich for it was
Benjamin Thompson. al native of We
burn. Mass, who laid out the maEnt-
fcent park of 600 acres known as the
English garden. For his many services
to.the Bavarian government the Amer
lean scientist and administrator was
made a count OF the Holy Roman EN-
lpire8 and he chose as his title the name
of Rumford, after the little New Hamp-
shire Village, (the modern COncOrd);
where he had spent his boyhood. !
was Thompson who, upon clearing tbs
streets of Munich of more than $500
mendicants and housing them IN ar
institution where they became self.
sustaining, said; ITO make TicIou:
and abandoned people happy 1t has
generally been supposed necessary
first to make them %virtuous. But WHY
not reverse this order? Why not make
them fist happy and then %virtuous ?'
LIGHT OCCUPATION. ]
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