Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1917-09-28

representatives This society Is atill ex.
tant. and jeremiah A. OLeary, its NOV
ing spirit, Is now the editor Of Bull, re-
Gently shut out of the mails for publish
ing seditious matter.
Enter Viereck: George Sylvester.
Many inventors, some of them obvious
" cranks, are represented either by cor
respondence or notation as having plans
involving the use of sundry devices of
destruction. One entry of the sort mer-
its special attention because Of the no.
toriety of th1 individual involved. Here
it is. translated from the German record
Of correspondence:
June Is, 1915. Sender, G. S. viereck,
Contents inquiry as to bombs;2 supply
offer Told to send further Details
Possibly the further details are ind;-
Gated in another entry of four months
later.
Sender, viereck. Contents. offer OF
picric acid
Picric acid is a constituent of many
high explosives Mr. Viereck is some
thing of a high explosive himself, having
been editor of the virulently pro-German
weekly Fatherland of New York, now
changed in title (but not in purpose) to
.'Viereck's Weekly"
Just what interest DR.. L. A. Dessar Of
% Broad street, New York city, had In
German aerial warfare is matter for
speculation.
letter from r. L. Scoville of Sewickley,
Pa, and New York city urging the mer-
it's of the Senple aerogrenade. Doctor
Dessar evidently forwarded the letter
where he thought it would do the most
good, viz, to Won Igel
The following curious entry appears In
Won Igels records:
1;cfo Y0lIh1 fahn
were literally employed by Won Igel and
his associates for the purposes of Ger
man propaganda, Among those thus
tainted with the stigma of dishonorable
professional conduct are two magazine
writer's ard war correspondents, James
F. J. Archibald, now in Washington and
Edwin Emerson, said to be in Africa.
"Pure War Expenses
Edward Emerson ........................$l,O $1,000
Fair Play (Mr. Braun) .................. 1000
Fair Play CMr. Braun ................. 1900
j. Archibald Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Concerning the identity of the last
entry there might be room for doubt but
for signed receipt from J. F. j. Arch
ibald acknowledging the sum of $1,000
from the German embassy for propa-
ganda work. What return Archibald
ever made in service is not clear except
that certain war correspondence for
which he contracted with New York
newspapers was SO obviously prejudiced
on the side of the central powers that
they declined to accept it.
That Emerson also overdid the cause
to which he sold his pen and his profess
sional honor (the record indicates that
he was paid $1,000 for travelling ex-
penses') is suggested by the fact that
he was expelled or alleged to have been
in a f.
tack upon Ambassador Gerard. Emerson
has had a picturesque career in many
parts of the world, and once cabled to
a New York newspaper picturesque but
imaginative account Of his own death In
the far East under painful and inter-
esting conditions. He was born in Dres-
den, of American parents, and is now
travelling under American passport OBJ
tanned by false representations.
Fair Play Well Paid.
Fair Play" that misnamea organ of
Teutonic inspiration appears to have
been subsidized quite disproportionately
to it's value, since it received in all $4,-
500 in the course of a few months in
1915 Marcus Braun, who appears as
it's editor. is known as a political leader
among the Hungarians of lower Second
avenue in New York, and has been
variously connected with the fringes Of
the publication world. He is supposed
himself to be Hungarian. His aSso-
AciateAin Fair Play was one j P. Bryan.
Even with such liberal support Fair
Play" did not fill the bill, for in Janu-
airy, 1916. a letter was written by F.
Schroeder German newspaper CORE
spondent in TOXIC. to the German diplo-
ma tic representatives lamenting the
lack of genuinely influential weekly
in New York devoted to Teutonic inter-
ests. and suggesting that one BorsOdi
mi ght be the right man to conduct such
a publication.
Viereck and Others.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
yierecks journalistic activities appear.
and there are a few notations of Pear
son: Subject, Press. which may refer
to Pearson's Magazine. of which the
editor, Frank Harris, is strongly pro-
German, or may indicate a secret agent
named Pearson. who is the subject OF
other entries.
The lecture platform is represented
by Ray Beveridge. the California artist
and sister of Kuehne BeveridGe, the
prominent sculptor. In one entry Pr1Vy
Councillor Albert acknowledges receipt
Of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
Miss BevNaridge's lecture tour. German
war pictures were also to be furnished,
though the alleged scope of the lectures
was to be comprised in topics allied to
Red Cross work.
other figures of more vague import
drift into light here and there in the
Won Igel papers or the bureau OF In
vestigation reports. Col. E.. G. Wood
ford, an old British hater, appears to
have received sundry sums of money
for service unspecified. The following
letters found in the Won 1gel papers re-
fer to Colonel Woodford:
Holland a Way Station.
It has long been an open secret that
Holland is merely a way station for
shipments of contraband into Germany
Here is official confirmation from the
Won Igel records, which would seem to
indicate a suspicious and confidential
relat between the Holland commits
sion and the German diplomatic off,
cials accredited to this country, or pos
sibly a belief by the Germans that they
could not successfully get the muni-
tons to their own country. The mes
gre in code, with interlinear transla-
ton. is entered as "a 2493" and headed
German Embassy, Washington, D. c..
Anril 6 1916" 1t runs as follows:
"Telegram from Berlin by secret
roundabout way for Carl Heysen: Con-
sent sale Holland 100000 chests Gear
trideesl and 200 tons powder. Please
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