Kultur?

A short time ago Mrs. Coffin, wife of the U. S. Consul General at Berlin, Miss Goldsmith, Assistant U. S. Trade Commissioner to Germany, Mrs. Conger, wife of the Berlin correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, were traveling in a Cologne-Berlin train. Into their compartment jumped Herr Kurt Korthaus, a member of the Reichstag. He objected to the number of bags on the rack. He told the ladies to remove them. They said they were too heavy, suggested that he call the conductor to remove them or do it himself.

The Reichstag member became angry, but started to move the bags and in so doing, broke one of the carriage windows. Then he cried for the conductor, said one of the ladies had pushed him, causing him to break the window. The ladies denied this.

The conductor rebuked the ladies for contradicting Herr Korthaus. In the dispute which followed, the Reichstager used insulting language and was ably sponsored by the conductor.

On arrival at Berlin, the ladies took their case to responsible quarters and the upshot of the unpleasant experience was that U. S. Ambassador Houghton called upon Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and brought the matter to his attention. The latter promised to investigate.