Show I KAISER WILL t TALKS T ON ART ARTHe He Does Not Like the School of S the Natural t FORMING A MATCH ATCH TRUST S GOSSIPY GOSSIP BITS OF BERLIN NEWS t RED BED HOT HB GABLES CABLES f Berlin Dec Dee Emperor Williams discourse on art during durin the dinner which he gave at the palace on Wednesday evening to painters and i sculptors is I the principal topic die dis di cuSsed in hi the drawing rooms room and doc doe doctorial todal assemblages here It has even got into those sociopolitical contro controversies vernies which occupy go so much of the s attention of ot the educated classes in Germany r ny as well as that of the agi agitators I in the cafes His s re repugnance 18 repugnance pUS ance to naturalism arises the de do defenders deI I fenders renders of the modern school aver a 81 solely from his antipathy anup to social de democracy democracy rr The common talk taik at court t is ta that artists such as Libermann nd I r who delight in schemes representing I seating the lite Ute of the poor must be socialists fellows without s a country I I the political bias biu of or the emperors ar or artistic opinions is the only explanation T the critics find for tor his hia condemnation uon of 1 i the work of Thoma Lieber Liebermann I mann Stuck tbd and even e n Mengel Mensel Ien l li S Son i on whom his majesty bestowed the Or Order i ii i der dor of the Black lack hOagie Eagle e None of those were present at the dinner but they found defenders among mone those w who ho were 1 a I there After the ladies withdrew Em i ipu peter pu William took the guests guata to the I II I Heinrichs hallen hauen where over beer and i tobacco they discussed the doctrines I II his hie majesty maJe ty had laid down in his hi I speech The emperors good od humor em emboldened emboldened several of those present to toI I disagree with him and they rather plainly intimated that they believed an Lu Injustice to some seine of the tM first Arat artl names na in Germany had been done In saying that their work brought art t down to the gutter His Ht majesty re returned returned turned tu ed argument for argument fee am he be lIons loves a fight of any kind lid and he Is t de described de described S scribed as a having havi been beta lively in lit repartee repartee I tee The sitting tUng was pro prolonged for soy sev several v vI eral hours S S I The completion of the S groups in the Sieges Siege Allee Williams gift to the nation is Sa th the text I of ot a number of et f articles surveying the artistic merit of the series The gen general general general eral opinion seems to be he that It is of I doubtful value The whole series Mr is 1 tiresome and ancl monotonous The Tile cost which his majesty ty paid out of Mi h own pocket exceeds 1000 marks mark Forming a Match Kates Trust O 0 C Barber W A Smith SQ th of Glas GIu Glasgow Glasgow gow go vice chairman of Bryant Ii Mays eorge W Pater PaLer managing director of I the be Diamond Match eom nys Liver Liverpool Liverpool pool works worD J w Bartholomew and Air Graves Grave directors of Bryant Jk Mays Maya met at Mannheim this week to consider the reports of their agents who have bave been negotiating for fO the ab absorption absorption absorption sorption of the match factories of Eu Europe Europe Europe rope Some important concerns are not willing to sell on the tile t terms rma of ot offered fermi After a conference the directors directors tors ton separated two of them going to Norway and aDd Sweden expecting to close with four fear t of f Ue Ute tersest woe there though even eveR regarding the th these some of ot the conditions are ue not BOt yet settled Mr I Barber B will wUl sail 1 from Liverpool for the r United States Dec Dee 28 26 with the propositions l I tiona which he will wUl lay before his American associates This is a gloomy Christmas In Ger Germany many Half a million persons are un us unemployed employed and the consequent wretch wretchedness wretchedness wretchedness edness darkens the holidays Even Evea the are most indifferent They are unable to avoid void a seeing the misery of the cellar dwellers of Berlin while reports from every part of the empire indicate that extraordinary ary demands are being made on the poor funds and private agencies for the relief re ef of the destitute Several new charitable charlt so BO societies I clothes cleties have been organized in Berlin and three or four times more than the usual holiday contributions to th the poor have been distributed yet the distress seems seems scarcely diminished The mu municipal municipal councils of Cologne Stuttgart Leipzig Berlin and other cities clUes are I discussing discue the question of municipal m aid without reaching anything very I definite The provincial government of I Wiesbaden has determined to distri distribute bute hate relief from the provincial tress treas treasury ury 5 Will Dismiss Foreign Labor S One amelioration of the tile situation upon which both trades unions unto and employers have agreed is 18 the dismissal al alof of foreign laborers many thousands of 01 whom Czechs Poles Italians Italian and Rus Rits Russians Russians obtained work in Germany Germy dur during during ing tug the boom period The government approves of the dismissal of these men and aad of giving preference to Germans S The manager of the great Laura iron ironworks ironworks ironworks works in SlIest Silesia in discharging O 8 foreign fON n workmen said the authorities had advised taking this step Other large establishments have taken the tho thome same sante me course and the th ducal government of Anhalt has baa discharged charged dJ and ancl expelled 5 from the duchy all foreign labores hf bJ ti tithe the government establishments ExT of at foreigners by the local authorities au nit authorities have occurred in other parts of Germany Germ ny The Ibe census of the unemployed In Berlin shows that it persons are out of work there The Tile socialists In tn interrogating the municipal govern government ment meat on the subject this week said the umber number would be SOOM 30 after the Christmas work wor was wu over The burgo burgomaster burgomaster master said aid he believed this tJ estimate was excessive |