Show GREAT BATTLES COMMEMORATED Celebrations Throughout Germany Ger-many Last Week THE NEW BALTIC CANAL COMPLAINTS MADE OF UNSATISFACTORY UNSATIS-FACTORY MANAGEMENT Programme For Laying the CornerStone Corner-Stone of the Kaiser Wilhelm Monument Stern Cfnse Has Humiliated Hu-miliated Many Americans Now at Carlshad Newsjj Notes of the German Nation BERLIN Aug 10Special Berlin cable letter Copyright 1S95 by the Associated Press During the past week celebrations have been held throughout Germany in commemoration commemora-tion of the battles fought by the Germans Ger-mans against the French during the early part of August 1870 The most significant were probably at the foot of the national monument at the Nie derwald on Wednesday and yesterday 1500 members of Bavarian military bands made a patriotic demonstration there For the big celebrations of August Au-gust 19 on the Templehoff field 235 veteran organizations will march with banners before the emperor Galleries will be erected to accommodate 20000 spectators Unfavorable comment has been aroused because the governmat will not officially take part in the celebrations cele-brations and Von Tiedmann governor of Bromerg in a written refusal to join In the Sedan parade said that it would be against the dignity of royal officials to march through the streets as plain civilians New Baltic Canal Complaints at the unsatisfactory management of the new Baltic canal continue to arrive from German points especially from Dantzic and Stettin Cases are cited where the expense ex-pense of passing the canal trebly exceeded ex-ceeded the benefits derived therefrom and ship owners strongly appeal that the management be taken out of the clutches of the bureau and be governed gov-erned on a business basis The government gov-ernment however persists in declaring declar-ing that the traffic is increasing daily especially in Danish Swedish and Norwegian vessels and that the fees charged are not exorbitant AVilhelm Monument The programme for laying the cornerstone cor-nerstone of the big Kaiser Wilhelm monument near Berlin castle on August 18 has been determined upon The emperor and empress will leave the castle on foot and walk to the spot where the cornerstone fias been placed Prince Hohenlohe the chancellor chan-cellor will then hand his majesty a document to be placed in the hollow part of the stone The emperor will read this document aloud The mallet mal-let will be given him by Count Loch erfield and his majesty will perform the ceremony of laying the stone The Lutheran hymn will be played by the bands assembled the officiating clergyman cler-gyman will pronounce a blessing and the ceremony will be ended At Carlsbad a number of American public men are stopping and they have all especially been humiliated by the apparent failure of the United States embassy to accomplish anything in the matter They add it is safe to say that the case will have farreaching consequences Nearly 35000 patients have visited Carlsbad since May the number exceeding ex-ceeding the record by 4000 The great increase in the number of visitors has been among the Americans who are by far the largest foreign element Up to a fortnight ago all the hotels and lodgings were packed with crowds of people but the crowds are now thinning There is much complaint among the visitors at the extortionate price charged at the hotels and the vexatious rules and attacks imposed by the local authorities which invite a constant repetition of the Stern case Notes of the Nation Basetfcll has been introduc2d at Hamburg where it is played on the grounds near the lawn tennis court One of the best players is M Levit comte Leon de < Janze A Brunswick boycott after lasting for fifteen months has ended in the complete surrender of the workmen who numbered 3000 Lieutenant Von Hagen of the artillery artil-lery guards has committed suicide by shooting himself with a revolver owing to financial difficulties during which he was compelled to borrow money at usurious rates According to the new regulations of the ministry of education women will be admitted to the university in order I to study medicine dentistry and pharmacy phar-macy The government has issued an order that henceforth the German officials are only to admit American pork that is officially stamped and labeled microscopically examined in addition addi-tion to the regular inspector The United States ambassador Theodore Theo-dore F Runyon has returned to this city Dr Murphy a wellknown physician of Chicago has arrived here in order to examine the German clinics An excursion party of eighty Americans Ameri-cans is making a months stay in Berlin I I |