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ROSS BROTHERS, PublishersATTIMN RODE IN ZEPPELIN AIRSHIPI est storms. Each section is patrolled | by a repair man and the slightest hole or rut is promptly repaired with crusht : stone, thus keeping the highways in | perfect condition. Several of the chief I citi-s of the empire were included in I Mr. Schmid’s itinerary but of all of them he declares Berlin is the most I beautiful It is crowded with Ameri-i tourist this summer, there being a I greater number than ever before. This ; great irflux of Americans has resulted-- in the establishment of American stores,hotels, and ali sorts of businesses. EvenFLEW FROM STUTTGART TOtho he speaks no German the touristFREDRICKHAVEN—185 MILES ' feels quit at home for English is spok-j en on every hand ai d not infrequentlyAnton Schmid Enjoyed Trip in Fam-. ous German Craft.This Was But One of Many Interc :nlt;? Features listjoyed by Mr. Schmid on His Visit to the* Fatherland.rAnton Schmidt, who returned July4tb from a two-months trip to Ger- | when the ship simany, enjoys ; n unique distinction that he is the ui.iy Atifesgihnt hr-s e had a ride in mi airship. It waa mere ascent either, but was a trip j hours ero**-'ed from thworth while, lasting nearly six hours j On . he .v, r and extending from Stuttgart to Fred-jo hrr liners wbihe e; counters someone from his vicinity back home. Mr. Schmii met tourists fro;:. Cr-wlordoVjlle, Momence, Decatu and even a former Attican, Theodore Marr. of S.ou City, Iowa.Ihe tiif , i nth going and coming, was made on fefcu ICro-prb z Esseneelie, the iiis’est boat in the worid. On the re- j turn trip a jtorui v. as encountered j :k the Gulf Stream li the pasiintrers were sent below, ver 1 The big boat rocked and relied but not ;.l I'v -.i . teadi'y forward and in a few -term zot.e i passed two before it didrichshagen, a distance of 185 miles, and h was made on a regular schedule with a , a number of other passengers. The ship j fi was the famous Zeppelin III , a huge j dirigible balloon, driven by motors. ; f Like the return of a cor.qu. ing hero j n was Mr Schmid’s return to Schomberg, the home of his childhood, after an absence of 32 years. His brother still refit fI'mtier)*ne-rly a th spite of ;-U he does not I here has tsides there and is director of the city growth, hibaud. It is the same band of which j ilie at anehu. ff N t v York c them to co no in and dock -dance with tilt* scnedule.I.J been man;, changes in the . nee Mr. Schmid limre : .i . a tralu v ago but. in tin- ■ -tuty ami attraction . c..re to- • o back to live. MJoM a tremer.d. us industrial asserts, but at the samej the standing army has kept pace“Tony” w _s a member before be left with it and the people are groaning untie fatherland and there are still 18 • dtr the tremendous tax necessary toof the original members in its membership, which includes thirty-two men.maintain the great armies of the empire in all their modern efficiency. JustThe band was at the station in full ur.i- | now they are giving great attention to form to welcome Tony and it was Eome [ developing the aeroplane corps and welcome too, even if they didn’t recog- tlie government owns a thousand flyingr.ize him when be appeared. That! machines, night the mayor of the city, who was a young law student when he and Tony were friends in the good old days, gave a dinner in his honor, and all his old friends outdid themselves to show him a good time.One of the first things that attracted Mr. Schmid’s attention when he reacht Germany was the large number of aero--pLrws and airships Which he-saw. He was in company with a man from Decatur, III., when he saw the first Zeppelin airship, and the Decatur man remarked that that was a damfunny cloud. They soon concluded however that it was one of the German dirigibles they had read so much about and presently they espied another following the same course. It was while he was visiting Stuttgart that the opportunity came for Mr. Schmid to ride in one, and he promptly embraced it. Stuttgart is one of the great military centers and it was there that Mr. Schmid spent most of the three years which he served in the army of the kaiser. Many of his old comrades are s’ ill there and he enjoyed a very pleasant visit among them. One of them, a captain, was summoned to another part of the empire and decided to make part of the journey by airship. He invited Tony to accompany him as his gue3t and this he did.The Zeppelin company operates a reguiar line of airships over a triangular course between Stutigart, Fredrichs-hagen and Bremen, the lota! reu’e covering 385 miles. The fare is about 8*25 and the passengers are almost wholly tourists and the greater part of the Americans. The ship is a great cigarshaped balloon 670 feet long, wii ha cabin hung below which accommodates forty passengers. The cabins are comfortably equipt and the trip is an exhilarating experience. A speed of twenty to thirty miles is maintained and the craft flies from 590 to 2,000 feet above the earth, the attitude varying accord ing to the conditions of the atmosphere.The great ship is steered and operated with almost the certainty of an ocean liner, and maintains a schedule of regular stops.Mr. Schmid visited a number of places of note, among them the battlefield of Waterloo. Near the city of Schomberg. where he was burn is the ancestral castle of the Hohenzollerns, (which is the family name of the emneror) and he greatly enjoyed a visit to it. It is a great medieval cas'.le, erected about 1400 years ago and crowns a bill where it can tie seen for thirty miles. The walis are 8 to 15 feet thick and in the lower stories are many cells cut in theBarns Burn at Kramer.Three barns were burned and several neighboring residences endangered by fir# which broke out in the village of Kramer about 10:30 o’clock Tuesday. The origin of the fire is not definitely known but it is thought that it was started by children who had been playing in one of. the ha^ps., TLie flame? originated in a barn belonging to F. J. Allenduff, the carrier on the U. S. mail route between this city and Kramer, and spread so rapidly thata horse which was tied could not be rescued and perished in its stall. A buggy, a ton of hay, about twenty bushels of corn, and some other stuff were also destroyed. There is no fire protection in the village which is located on the hill above the Mudlavia hotel. An effort was made to utilize the water service from the hotel and a hose was laid up the hill to the scene but the pressure was not sufficient to be of any avail.The flames quickly communicated to two other barns owned by John Story and Mariun Thompson and they were soon licked up. The fire burned so fiercely that it endangered the neighboring houses and as a precaution all the household goods were carried out of four of those nearest. Valiant work was done with buckets in protecting these hemes arid all were savedThe blaze created the most excitement the little town has witnest for many months and'n.any of the guests of the big hotel were interested spectators. Mr. Allenduff carried sufficient insurance to nearly recompense him for his loss.Gilberie Springman Married.Friends of Gilberie Springman were treated to a surprise this week when it became known that he had been married on June 29th and was already settled down to housekeeping. His bride was Miss Cordelia Swearirger, of Royal Center, and the wedding is the culmination of a college romance which began when both were students in Indiana university. The young woman has visited in Attica and made a very favorable impression when she was here. They were married at the bride’s home by the pastor of the Christian church at. Royal Center, only near relatives of the couple being present, including the parents of the groom from this city. Soon after the ceremony was over the couple left for Indianapolis, where Gilberie had a cozy fur-nisht fiat in readiness to begin housekeeping, their home address being 1431 East Ohio street. Gilberie has a posi-solid rock The place was closed for | tjon j„ Indianapolis as bookkeeper at many years but has been restored by j pi,e pjoie Automobile Co., a place whichthe emperor and he no of his time there, the Rhine was one of the pleasure trips which Mr. Schmid alBO enjoyed highlyspends a part j he has been holding down since the first cushion down I of the year.Rev. U. G Hoover has some of the as it afforded a sight of many famous finest gooseberries at his home on Ra-places. Of these he was most imprest vine Park boulevard that we have ever with the cathedral of Cologne. The | seen. Some of them are as largiroads of Germany and Switzerland, he hickory nuts and the bushes are very declares, are the perfection of roadmak- prolific bearers, the fruit hanging ining and are not affected by the great-1 thick clusters on the bushes.
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Attica Ledger Press
Attica, Indiana, US
Fri, Jul 11, 1913
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