Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-10-03

cause the volunteer plottes was too DID,
though he has the best OF good will-
and also because of his known connec-
ton with the Gaelic-American and the
Indian revolutionists.
Enter Viereck: George Sylvester.
Many inventors some of them obvious
ly 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 the individual involved. Here
1t Is, translated from the German record
of correspondence:
"June 10, 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 Fatherand of New York. now
changed in title (but not in purpose) to
"Viereck's Weekly"
Just what interest DR.. L. A. Dessar OF
Broad
German aerial warfare is a matter for
speculation.
In the Won Igei archives appears
letter from r. L. Scoville of Sewickley,
Pa, and New York city urging the mer-
its Of the Semple aerogrenade Doctor
Dessar evidently forwarded the letter
where he thought 1T would do the most
good viz, to Won 1gel.
The following curious entry appears in
Won IgePs records:
Journalists, lecturers, and publishers
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 and war correspondents, James
F. J. Archibald, now in Washington, and
Edwin Emerson, said to be in Africa.
"Pure War Expenses
Edward Emerson ........................S1,0 900
Fair Play (Mr Braun) .................. 1900
Fair Play (Mr. Braun .................. 1900
Marcus Braun '....................'...... 1'VW
j. Archibald ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. DOW
Concerning the identity of the last
entry there might be room for doubt but
for a signed receipt from ]. 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 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'D is suggested by the fact that
he was expelled, or alleged to have been
expelled, from Berlin for a violent at
tack upon Ambassador Gerard. Emerson
has had a picturesque career in many
parts of the world, and once cabled to
a New York newspaper a picturesque but
imaginative account of his own death in
the far East under painful and inter-
esting conditions. He was born in Ores
den, of American parents, and is now
travelling under American passport OBJ
tanned by false representations.
Fair Play Well Paid.
Fair Play" that misnamed organ of
Teutonic inspiration appears to have
been subsidized quite disproportionately
to it's value, since it received in all &,-
500 in the course of a few months in
1916 Marcus Braun, who appears as
its 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 a Hungarian His asso-
ciate in Fair Play was J. P. Bryan.
Even with such liberal support Fair
Play" did not fill the bill, for in Janu-
airy, 1916. letter was written by f.
Schroeder, a German newspaper CORE
spondent in Toxic to the German diplo-
matte representatives lamenting the
lack of genuinely influential weekly
in New York devoted to Teutonic inter-
ests and suggesting that one Rorsodf
ipht he
a publication.
Vereck and Others.
Frequent hints of George Sylvester
Viereck's 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 secret agent
named Pearson. who is the sub1et or
other entries.
The lecture platforN is represented
by Ray Beveridge. the California artist,
and sister of Kuehne 'Beveridge. the
prominent sculptor. In one entry PriVy
Councillor Albert acknowledges receipt
of $4,000 from the embassy to finance
Miss Beveridge'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 Igel papers re-
fer to Colonel Woodford:
Holland a Way Station.
1t has long been an open secret that
Holland is merely way station for
shipments Of contraband into Germany.
Here is official confirmation from the
Won Ieel records which would seem to
indicate a suspicious and confidential
relation between the Holland commits
sion" and the German diplomatic Off
cials accredited to this country. or pos
sibly belief by the Germans that they
aa,,id mt successfully get the NUM-