. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . rred on Countvon ZeppeHn by Emperor WilHam II. in a burst ofimpulsive eloquence five years ago, when theseptuagenarian aeronaut aUghted at His Majestysfeet from a Zeppelin airship. At first, men readImperial hyperbole into the Kaisers exclamation,in the same spirit as they had scoffed for sixteenyears at all Count Zeppelins dauntless attemptsat the conquest of the air. To-day, with a fleet ofZeppelins in being, carrying passengers serenelyand safely to and fro across the country, com-prising an integral part of the Fatherlands military Wa
. Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany . rred on Countvon ZeppeHn by Emperor WilHam II. in a burst ofimpulsive eloquence five years ago, when theseptuagenarian aeronaut aUghted at His Majestysfeet from a Zeppelin airship. At first, men readImperial hyperbole into the Kaisers exclamation,in the same spirit as they had scoffed for sixteenyears at all Count Zeppelins dauntless attemptsat the conquest of the air. To-day, with a fleet ofZeppelins in being, carrying passengers serenelyand safely to and fro across the country, com-prising an integral part of the Fatherlands military Watch on the Rhine, and serving as the eagle-eyes of the Navy on the North Sea, the scepticshave quit their sneering and arrived at the con-clusion that Zeppelin, indeed, has taken his placeamong the Immortals. Count ZeppeHn will be seventy-five years old inJuly, 1913. He was seventy when Fame, tardilyand reluctantly, shook him by the hand and said Well done! He had wooed her long anddesperately before her smiles were lavished upon 54 « « > « t it. [Bieder, Hamburg
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