Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-11-29 | Page 6 | Muelhausen

MUELHAUSEN . Mtielhausen. the second largest city of Alsace-Lorraine, is situated on the Til and the Riiine-Khone canal, fifty-eight miies to the southwest of Slrasburg. Jt is divided Into the irregularly built old town on an island of the 111; the new town, situated between the old town and the canal, and the worklngrnan's co:ony t-" the northward. The old town, with the exception of the Kalhaus (city lift 1 1 and a few modern churches, dates from the sixteenth century, while the new town was started in lS.r. The be?t section sec-tion of tii1 lutu-r is built along the banks of the rn;.l and contains many handsome hand-some buildings of comparatively recent uatc j The workinemen'f ro!ony. really a highly developed communltv rntr.r, wffl osia'dislipd in !..; hv- Mayor Poih'us. and is provided with mo.i'-l flucMIncn. rradin-ror.u:r. rradin-ror.u:r. sidu.ols. i n s ; 1 1 1 1 'o n " of v:i:-!o' i" sort s. tii- a nd r-- t a lint r.' while in one of the suburbs is a good zoological garden. The educational institutions of Muel-hausen Muel-hausen contain the Indispensable gymnasium gym-nasium and schools of chemistry and mechanics. me-chanics. Industrially, Muelhausen is the most important city of Alsace-Lorraine and Is one of the largest textile centers of the once German empire. This industry indus-try of Muelhausen dates from 1746, and the cotton mills are situated partly in the city and partly In the immediate vicinity vi-cinity and especially In the adjacent settlement set-tlement of Dornach. More than 80,000 persons are said to be engaged In the textile Industry In Muelhausen, and In the other closely allied establishments In the vicinity. Besides cotton and woolen goods and ; kindred products, there are also mannfac-! mannfac-! tmed machinery, chemicals, iron, copper and lead castings, dyes, oils, sewing ma-1 ma-1 chines, stoves, starch, cordage, cement and lumber. It has railway shops and extensive trade In local manufactures, wine and the agricultural products of the region. Muelhausen, before the war, had a population of about 36,000, largely t the Roman Catholic faith. Muelhausen first appears in hlsiorv in 717, when Adalbert, the duke of Alsace, presented it to the monastery of St Stephen Ste-phen in Strassburg. It was taken by Rudolf of Hapsburg in Ji'61 and raised to the standard of a free city of the empire twelve years later. In order to maintain its independence, the town entered into an alliance with the Swiss cantons of Hern and Solothurn In 14C6, and in 1515 it became a member of the Swiss federation and was recognized recog-nized as such at the peace of Westphalia-It Westphalia-It joined the French republic in 17'jS and remained as such until it passed to Germany Ger-many with Alsace-Lorraine in 1S7I. Muelhausen Muel-hausen was captured by the French in the early part of the war which has just ended, but they were later comnelled to evacuate it when attacked by a superior German force, which, in turn, was compelled com-pelled to retire when the American forces first crossed Into Alsace in l!il7.