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I - THE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN, UTAH, JANUARY 2, 1915 r I
I Fritz Kreisler, Back
I From the War Where
I He Was Severely
Wounded in a Hand-to-I
Hand Fight, Tells of
I Deeds of Daring and
II About the War
II Hospitals
HI How ocs It sem to kill a man?
Hl That question was put to Fritz
pHB Krci: ler, the- famous violinist, the
other day upon his return to Amer
JH i nr. tting time in his
I o'l home where he h.ni been called
"jM I mlors -md forced to kill at
Hleast one man before he could es
rUBbapc with his own life.
fvjP. -l 1M not r-
P'4Bin klllin- -1 t : 1 th:it hi- h;-l
K). hn- mdlvldui It
Hn ,. of the Austrian
"'(.'jSHar-ny that h led on to kilt.
'he innn he killed was not :i per-
aBona' cncmy uf Krelsier'a Neither
yf'pSRorc tho other any ill will, but each
ll&W''1' trying he th lirst to gel
JBlh-- ritlifi when Krci.sicr Tired the
tpaHtelliii- shot.
How many men the violinist killed
ft' 'iaSBbef' 're the final killing ho does not
f '"JfHknow. In every ws r there are m nil
A 'JBoinrf men who return home without
jMKinm? anyone tium there are kt)J
;jte. The majority of fighters are
f'iiftgBiot killed In either army. There
Wko, the kllk-rd ore vastly in the
Kreisler was thrown In the trench
rVKHli h a wounded Cossack and each
Rrr i to r I ai the othei The
!fjlBLo k"-u "f n r,a(1 ridden Kr
jfjBovn In a hand to hand encounter.
As th men fell the battle line shift
ed and they were left the only liv
ing men among an army of
dead. Kreisler had a revol
ver in his bolster, while the
Russian w;is armed with a lame
and a sword. They kept trying to
kill each other until Kreisler man
aged to draw bis rcvolvi r and fired.
The violinist regrets tlin t he had to
be the executioner.
"But I was lighting for the col
ors,' he said.
The violinist was found uncon
scious in the trench seven hour?
later by bis valet, who was also In
the Austrian Army, lie was taken
to the Red Cross Hospital at Lem
ber;:. where his wife, engaged as a
nurse, saw him for the first tunc In
five weeks and nursed him until ho
was allowed to leave.
"My leg Is so weak I am forced
to use a heavy cane," sM l Kn-is-lcr,
"and the Austrian ofAcers de
clared me disabled and unfit to
fight T spent most of my time In
the Lemberg trenches, and h:id hcen
on duty continuously for four das
ami nights when t the Cossacks
charged us about midnight.
"I don't know bow many there
were, but our bring did not stop
them. The riders who fell were
V V-U C vi 'N'T
ridden over and each gap quickly
tilled. Just as a Cossack reached
me I fired and his horse fell on top
of me. ,v
"I was knocked breathlc; s and
thought I would suffocate. How
ever, the horse, which was dyintr,
gave spasmodic lurch and I scram
bled out.
"I then found that the Russian's
lance had pierced my right leg and
pENTER Fritz Kreisler,
Upper left A hand-to
hand encounter. Beluw A
daririg soldier blowing up a
bridge while hells are burst
ing abi 'Mi him.
I was unable to rise. The Cossack
was wounded, but we closed, he
jabbing at me with a sword and 1
trying to free my revolver After
what seemed to me to be a Ions
time, I managed to get out my re
volver and fired.
"When I woa sure he was dead I
tried i" get away I couldn't, and
there did not seem to be any living
person within call. The men in my
regiment, the Third Jager. wi'fi
either killed or driven back at the
c barge"
Mrs. Kreisler then told how her
husband's servant had found him
ami sent him to the Lemberg hos
pital, where she had been sent from
another Red Cross hospital near
Vienna.
I had not heard a word from my
husband since he enlisted In Au
gust. " said Mrs. Kreisler. ' I had
heard of his regiment being In sev
eral battles, and I was sure he had
been killed. I chanced to find my
husband as I was walking among
the cots.
"I have been Inoculated with anti
toxins for typhus, typhoid, cholera
and smallpox, as there are many
cases of all four diseases in the
Austrian camps and hospitals.
"I have no personal 111 feeling
aeainst any of the warring coun
tries, but 1 have acninst the govern
ments. The Russian bullets are the
most humane and the Russians have
the reputation of being the fairest
and most humane fighters."
OJ HER VIOLINISTS
AFFECTED BY W Ml.
The European war has demanded
a heavy toll of world-famous vio
linists. Eugene, Ysaye, the Belgian mas
ter of the violin, has threo sons in
the war, and ho himself has lost a
SoO.OOO homo in the fall of Ostend.
Jacques Thibaut, premier violin
ist of France, is in tho French
Army, and not a word has come
from his regiment, which Is known
to have been in the thickest of tho
lighting.
Mischa Elman and Efrem Zim
ballst, two Russians boys, Who are
in the front rank as violinists, are
both held in New York by reason
of the war.
Elman Is living luxuriously dur
ing a $100,000 vacation of seven
months, afforded because of the In
ability of the peoplo abroad to keep
their contract with him.
Zimbalist is now playing In New
York and probably will continue un
til the war is over.
The hardest sort of an experience
fell to the lot of Ysaye.
A short time beforo the war the
famous virtuoso purchased a villa
at Knocke, near Ostend. and re
ma ined there even after the fall o?
Antwerp. It was not until the Ger
mans established themselves at Os
tend that ho decided to leave his
fRADE MISSIONARY GOES TO YESTERN SOUTH AMERICA TO STUDY MARKET CONDITIONS
I Another of the United States' new
EMkmbassadors of business has come
HKfclKto town to meet business men and
SlaKonfer with them on t.i" best m :-n .
m
HfciTh foreign countries. He Is A. L
Harrington, commercial attache to
Limn. Peru, whose jurisdiction ln
Bcludes Ecuador and Bolivia. Like
others of the experts assigned by
I the Department of Commerce to thl
novel work, be hns had extended
pfBl fxpc-iirnce in studying market cun-
Ef-Ultionsabi.il
H a graduate of Yale in the class
' rf'rmi he has spent eight years
in the Orient, half of which lime ho
LkHil was in the Philippines, where he
" learned to speak Spanish and ah-o
BLKl neoulred some knowledge of Latin
,p. and customs. Then he spent
I tou, rears In the employ of the
I standard Oil Company traveling all
I . h tho East, from J;ian to
I fic Freneh -d Dutch. In the
I Philippines h was paymaster n
Constabulary, and also a supply
DOur from thG df;
j!U "We left
own initiative. Of course, the gen
eral lines of policy and conduct are
kiid out frankly, but the manner In
Which we are to go about our work
is for us to determine, and this Is
necessarily so, because conditions In
different countries vary, and a man
cannot say, himself, Just what he
will do until he has arrived and
surveyed the ground At the same
time, a man asked me the other
day what would be the first thing
I would do If I landed in Calluo to
morrow, and after thinking a min
ute, I told him I would begin by
trying to open up social connec
tions. As a matter of fact, that !s
half the secret of building up trade
qnnectiohs to try to meet the
people you want to sell to, to learn
their personal habits, ways and in
clinations, in other words, to get to
know them well enough to be able
to Judge what they w;.nt
"Heretofore, I think, the princi
pal trouble vrlthvAmerican business
men who have tried to establish
markets In Latin-America has been
that they were not sufficiently anx
ious to sell the South Americans
what they wanted. If a thing was
cood enough for North America,
why, then it was good enough for
South America, That seemed to be
their reasoning. Of course, the fact
Is that a man who buys an article
has every right in tho world to act
what he wants and not what you
want to sell him. The present is a
psychological time for cultivating
I-in lir.taii' C of Lili n-Ani'3jL
countries, and making them realize
that we wish to be their triends.
that we will regard It as an honor
to be able to strengthen our trade
relations; with them.
"Perhaps a Utile too much c-m-phasls
has been laid upon the pos
sibilities of raining business down
there Immediately. The South
Americans, like ourselves, have
been hit by the disturbed conditions
of the world's trade, and even if
Ibis were not so, you cannot expect
to open up a market for yourself,
off-hand, in a few months. That'
kind of work, een when It Is done
skillfull-., requires several years,
to put It moderate!: . Trade rela
tions grow gradually ; they don't
shoot up overnight. The value of
the existing situation to us lies in
the fact that we have a fair open
ing to make the South Americans
like us and believe in us. And if
we can make them do that, they will
naturally k-c their trade drift our
i i V
way.
"1 am advising the business men
whom I meet that the best thing
they can do if they contemplate
selling-campaign in Latin-America,
is to send down salesmen with
agreeable personalities, whose im
mediate object shall be. not making
sales, but friends. Let such nu n go
South and mix with the people; let
them study the Latin-Americans,
hnd out v. bat they want, what ap
peals to thein. how they are in
fluenced f this is done properly,
trade will follow as a natural con
sequence. I'm speaking from per
Bonal experience when I say his.
People are more or less similar all
over the world, in this -respect; and
I once lived five weeks in the home
of a Chinaman In order to acquire
his point of view and to make him
see certain things as I saw them.
Lecauso I went at him as a man
who had something to learn, as well
as lu teach, I was able to succeed.
"I am trying to meet as many
men who are interested in the coun
tries to which I am accredited as
possible, but I have Just returned
from the East and I have been very
busy. I shall have to leave New
York today for a time, and cannot
get back until November. When i
i
ro return, however. I Intend to visit
all the firms which I have reason
to suppose may be interested in the
work 1 shall be able to do for them,
one of the things we shall do will
u '." prepare reports from time to
time on matters of interest to
American exporters and Importers,
ni,l of course, we will mako special
in cstlgations of subjects referred to
us by American business firms,
through the department.
"My office will be at Lima, but I
i xpect to travel a great deal, and
1 thall have to spend much time in
Lollvia and Ecuador. The assign
ment of these other countries to me
Is more or les tc-ntatlvc, and It may
be that experience will show that
tin- attache at Santlagc in Chill will
be better Qualified by trade and
geographical conditions to look out
for Bolivia. If that is the case I
will step aside for him, I suppose.
The work promises to be exception
al! v interesting and I hae every
cuiiiidcme that we shall accomplish
something worth while."
To. Stop Street Tearing.
The Boston City Council has
adopted a plan for stopping Indis
criminate laying of conduits or
tracks by the public servico corpor
ations, with their consequent ripping
up of the streets. In hundreds of
instances expensive street surfaces
huve been laid, only to be dug up
for long stretches by tho corpora
tions, when, had a definite policy of
co-ordination been In force, all this
work would have been completed at
the same time. Theoretically, the
corporations base been obliged to
put the streets back into as good
condition as they found them, but
there Is abundant testimony that
the streets never look the same,
especially the smooth surfaces,
when tho corporations got through
with them Corporations must act
with tho Street Department here
after. Municipal Journal.
Not True to Life.
Exe What ridiculous, impossible
things these fashion plates are!
Mrs. Exe I know they used to bo,
but today many of thein aro en
graved from photographs'.
Exe Well, this one can't be. Here
are two women going in opposite
directions, both with new gowns on
and neither looking back at the
other.
' m-j m i "Sir
new home.
In telling of Tsaye's flight, some
friends say that he and two com
panions managed to secure a small
fishing boat to take them to Dun
kirk. They spent the night in their
little 1 raft without food and with
no protection from the weather.
Ysaye v. as able to bring away only
a few belongings, but these includ
ed his priceless iolin. Ho was
forced to leave many beautiful ob
jects of nrt and some unique
mementoes collected during his tri
umphal appearances in every coua-
try of the world. 1
jacques Thibaut, the greatest vio
linist in all Trance, seems to ha o
been lost entirely. His regiment
was known to have become engaged
with the Germans about 250 miles
from Paris and heavy losses have
been reported from the section thoy
were in whon last heard from.
Mischa Elman, the youthful Rus
sian artist, seems to have struck it
luckiest from the war. All told the
struggle will mean obout 5100.000
easy money for him and a long va
cation. Just now ho Is spending bis time
playing choss in New York and go
ing to hear tho masters.
Elman has sent for his relatives
and will put them in a beautiful
"up-town ' residence, while he him-
self continues to occupy expensive
bachelor quarters in a 'downtown"
hotel.
Although but IS years old he has
money to burn and is burning it.
Every morning sees him up early
for a constitutional. Every after
noon he goes for a horseback ride
in Central Park and then retires
to his quarters for a game of chess.
In musical circles these chesj
games have become famous.
r.I ZZARD TO AEROPLANE.
rirrMe ond circle iind circle arid swing.
Great wliPe brother vritb ereat white wing!
i Ir lc for circle my own Trlnps black
Follow your spiralling, nlrj track'
Over the cltj I wnt.-heil yoa stoop.
Whore shivering man thing huddle and clinf
Like frig) trued chicks at the gray hawk!
swoop.
Quick! From jour steely talons fllnc
Tho scaUcrluK death In Hie crowded coop.
For my craw Is empty and hungering.
Circle and cln.le and circle and swing.
Great white brother, with great white wing!
C'lreie and circle and circle and swing,
Gre.it white brother, with great white wing!
From what wlerd nest, from what Strang
egg broke,
Po you mount throuch the shimmering drift
of smokv ?
And what Is the flaming feed yon sow,
As orer the man packed Hold you soar.
That blooms in death on the earth belowj
Thnt strews the soli that you hover o'or t
With richer feust than my beak might knoif i
In muny a weary year before?
Cirri- and circle and circle aud swing.
Great white brother, with great whlto wlngl
Circle and circle and circle and swing,
Man hatched brother with tireless wing I
t Ircle for cbcle with wings outspread,
1 follow, hovering overhead,
T"" arc the pilot bird to me
Guiding to richer gorging still.
1 circle and wait here hungrily
And whet my beak as I wait your kill:
1 wait till the red femt Ues for m
To settle and perch and gulp my 1U1.
Circle and circle and circle and swing,
Clver of food and guide to (be feast;
You are a god, and 1 your priest.
Mau-halcbed brother, with tireless wing.
I'ortlaud Orcgoulaa.
Violation or Neutrality.
The class had taken up the sub
jects of the rulers of tho world.
The President of the United States,
tho King of England and their pow
ers and functions had been di
cussod. auddenly the teacher said: "Now,
AYlllie, what's a Kaiser?"
"A Kaiser," replied tho absent
minded Willie, whose strong point
was geography instead of political
history, "Jg. ;i stream of hot water
sprlngin" up and disturbln' th
earth."
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