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Show WHEELER CONFORMS 10 OERWUSIOI Californiaii Achieves Popularity by Doing as the Romans Do in 'Berlin. TAKES TO BEER EVENING LIKE AX OLD-TIMER Kaiser Is Particularly Friendly With the Professor and His Family. BY MALCOLM CLARKE. Special Cable to The- Tribune. BERLIN. Feb. . l'rof. Benjamin Idc Wheeler of California, now tilling the Roosevelt chair In the Berlin university, has achieved popularity in Berlin by his ready acceptance of Ocrninn customs. An instance Is the "beer evening" to which the American educator invited those who have been attending his lectures on American universities ami other educational educa-tional MiicfUious. The large attendance of guests proved the popularity lie has obtained during the short lime he lias boon at. Berlin university. I'rof. and Mrs. Wheeler did the honors of the evening, even-ing, and everything passed on merrily. By Prof. Wheeler's re-quest., onlv German students' songs were sung. .The Californiaii Cali-forniaii has attended several similar entertainments en-tertainments and enjoys them thoronghlv. He can say "prosit" with quite tho correct cor-rect ace'cnt now. Tho kaiser has been particularly friendly with tho Wheelers?, and has had several informal talks with the American professor, quizzing him about America and Americans in a stvle which Indicates that his majesty would be able to make a fine living aa an interviewer inter-viewer should It ever bccoino necessary. Now German University. The list of German universities is to ho Increased by a llrst class university at Erajikfort-on-Maln. The ne-ccssnry endowments en-dowments are In hand aud it will take high rank. Today there are no fewer than twenty-one universities in Germany The oldest Is Heidelberg f 1 HSC A. D.); the youngest Slrassburg. which was created after the Franco-Prussian war. The oth-eis oth-eis are Leipzig, Rostock. Grclfswald, Freiburg". Tnblngcn. Marburg. Konigs-berg. Konigs-berg. Jena. Tnrsberg. Glessen. Kiel, Halle-Wlttenberg. Gottlngen. Minister. Erlangen. Berlin, Bresluu. Bonn and Munchen. The greatest university of Germany is Berlin. It musters over seven sev-en thousand students, and lias a magni-licent magni-licent professional roll, including men like Wllamowltz-Moellondorf. in the eMassical department; Fischer, one of the greatest living chemists; Nernst. in physics; DelltV.sch. in oriental philology, and the great llaniack lectures on church history. his-tory. Here at least one year of the student's stu-dent's life should be spent. But It would be as well not to pass the first year here, or at least before the student is a fair master of Ihe language, otherwise one lis apt to get lost. Cheoslng then a small ynlverslty like Heidelberg, which is the yierman university town In perfection, or I'nc lovely town of Freiberg, In the Black Surest, one would commence his student UJc under the most favorable circumstances, circum-stances, Munich, also is-quite-a desirable desira-ble university, and is second to Berlin in size.- Drain on Art Galleries. An announcement reaches ma from Dresden WlfP.-li IinJica'tef fbat Germnny Is getting tome compensation for the draining of her art galleries of old masters mas-ters by American millionaires. Tho Dresden Dres-den picture gallery is abodt to acquire two new works by an Alnerlcan artist. Mr. Bolleaii. who studied in Vienna and Munich and whose work finds much favor fa-vor with German critics. The modern section of the local gallery, unquestionably unquestion-ably the finest In northern Europe, already al-ready contains a number of paintings by American artists. Of recent years quite a number of young Americans have come here to study art. while the music student;! stu-dent;! are legion. Both In music and art the Americans are taking high place. Excursiou by Airship. The Parseal Airship oompany of Munich, which on May 1 next will begin a daily series of excursions, has llxed the price at (D marks per passenger. Tho airship will be one of tho largest in Europe, having a cubic capacity of (1.100 meters, with motors of 'J00 horsepower. Tho excursions will last three hours, ami as the ali-shlp is expected to travel at an average speed of fifty kilometers an hour, the distance covered will be MO kilometers. The excursions will be made to Tngolsiadt-Landshul. Mnehldorf. Ohl-cmsee, Ohl-cmsee, Kufsteln. Wale-.liansce. l'arlenklr-chen. l'arlenklr-chen. llohenschwaugcn. Kaufbcuren-Woerlshofen Kaufbcuren-Woerlshofen and Dounauwoerth. Tn addition addi-tion to these short excursions, long-distance voyages will also be made. 011 the condition that the towns visited will undertake un-dertake to make provision lor the sale landing of Ihe airships. Such long-distance excursions will cost G00 marks per passenger. German Labor Organization. Tn Germanv the organization of labor has produced good results. The 700 labor la-bor exchange offices, which have been set up In that country, till about two millions of situations annually. The public labor exchange office in the town of Munich fills '-'00 situations dally, and that in Stuttgart a thousand week. The German Ger-man svstcm. however, is faulty, for while the exchange office finds tho men. 11 leaves employers to discover their characters. char-acters. As to Naval Armament. The talk of an agreement as to the restriction of naval armaments between Germany and Bngland will not down. I heard on soml-oftlclai authority, that the recent visit of Sir lOrnest Casscl. King Kdward'a friend and iluancial adviser, was for the purpose of sounding the German Ger-man government as to tho possibility of an Anglo-Gorman agreement based on a five hand being given lo Germany In Mesopotamia, and a limitation of German naval strength In the Baltic and North seas. Mv Information adds that the pourparlers, which began in Berlin, haves since been transfericd to London. Immigrants from Germnny during 1009 numbered Sfi.OOO. an Increase of (1100 compared com-pared with IfiOS. and a decreaso of 5700 compared with 11)07. |