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TUCKED in between Bavaria,
Switzerland and the Austrian
Tyrol, in the midst of the moun
tains, lies the district Vorarl
berg, which after the war tried to es
cape from the domination of Austria
by voting in favor of joining Switzer
land. Probably very few persons in
the United States had ever before even
beard of Vorarlberg, which usually
has been mistakenly lumped in with
the Tyrol. There is a perfectly well
lefined boundary between Vorarlberg
and the Austrian Tyrol—namely, the
watershed between the Rhine and the
Danube, says the New York Times.
Travelers over the Arlberg pass may
jee this boundary duly marked with
a monument. The name Vorarlberg
means the “land ‘beyond the Arlberg
♦ pass”—“beyond,” that is, from the
point of view of a person looking
westward over the pass from the Aus
trian Tyrol.
The springs of the Rhine in Switz
erland are not far from the southern
boundary of Vorarlberg, across the
mountain known as the Rhatikon. In
this part of Switzerland is the far
famed Engadine, with its health re
sorts such as Davos-Platz, Chur, etc.,
very much better known to the world
♦ at large than the region to the north
of it.
In the north Vorarlberg reaches the
beautiful lake of Constance; on the
shores of that lake is Bregenz, the po
litical capital of the land. Bregenz
yields precedence, so far as size is con
cerned. to Dornbirn, up in the moun
tains behind the lake, but it is neverthe
less the most important place in Vor
arlberg. The other leading towns are
the railwmy junction of Feldkirch,
where the lines from Tyrol, Germany
and Switzerland meet, and Bludenz.
Dornbirn, has about 15,000 inhabitants,
Bregenz about 10,000, Feldkirch and
Bludenz in the vicinity of 5,000 each.
Grabbed by the Hapsburgs.
Previous to the break-up of the Aus
tro-Hungarian empire, Vorariberg was
administered by a “statthalter” resid
ing at Innsbruck, capital of the Austri
an Tyrol, but it also had a governor of
its own and an assembly of 21 mem
bers. It used to send four represent
atives to the reichsrat, or imperial par
liament, at Vienna.
The Hapsburgs began by adding Vor
ariberg to their motley collection of
territories back in the fourteenth cen
tury. Feldkirch was incorporated in
their dominions in 1375, Bludenz and
the picturesque Montavon valley in
1394, the Bregenz region in 1451 and
1523, Sonnenberg in 1455 and Hohen
ems tn 17G5. It was after the annex
ation of the latter to Austria that Em
press Maria Theresa united all the dis
tricts of the region under the name
Vorariberg ana placed a governor over
them with his residence at Bregenz.
In 1782 the region was made a part
of the Tyrol, and in 1804, during the
Napoleonic wars, it was annexed to
Bavaria. It was not until 1814 that
Vorariberg was separated from Ba
varia and restored, with the exception
of the district of Hoheneck, to the Aus
trian crown. In the following year the
region received its present status.
The area of Vorariberg is 1.000
square miles, and it has something like
150,000 inhabitants, practically all of
whom speak German, the exception
being those who still cling to that
strange dialect known as “Romansch”
or “Romanic,” which the Roman set
tlers imprinted upon the inhabitants of
this region when it was known as
Rhaetia.
How its People Live.
In the more mountainous sections of
the little land the inhabitants are pas
toral ; in the towns the spinning and
weaving of cotton had risen before the
war to a flourishing condition, as had
various other lines of industry. Trade
with the surrounding countries also
grew rapidly in the years before the
war; schools were improved, factories
sprang up in the towns, roads and
bridges were built, and railway connec
tion established northward, westward,
and eastward. From the leading Vor
ariberg centers—Bregenz, Feldkirch,
Bludenz—one may travel in a few
hours to Lindau, the Bavarian port
on the Lake of Constance, and thence
to Munich, eastward to Innsbruck and
Vienna, westward into Switzerland and
France. The Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment also carried out extensive har
bor improvements at Bregenz, thus en
hancing the importance of the lake
trade centering at that port.
The Vorarlbergers are distinct from
the inhabitants of Bavaria, the nearest
part of Germany. They claim descent
from the Alemanni, who, after their
defeat by Clovis, king of the Franks,
in the seventh century, flowed back
eastward and settled in the valleys of
the ancient Rhaetia.
Thanks to the mountains that ring
them round and cut them off to a great
extent from the rest of the world, the
Vorarlbergers have presented a certain
independence of attitude through the
centuries, and have refused to be over
awed by the noble lords who have
sought to browbeat them. They are
of an essentially practical nature, num
bering in their midst more mechanics
and builders than sculptors, poets and
musicians. They are industrious, fru
gal, even if given a bit to comforta
ble living, and talkative to a degree.
They garnish their speech with many
a witty remark, but are inclined, it is
said, to become cantankerous fwid dis
putatious upon slight provocation.
They are very patriotic and religious.
Many of the people live in fine wood
en houses of a pleasing style of archi
tecture. The contrast between these
domiciles and the poorer houses of the
inhabitants of the Swiss sections im
mediately west of Vorarlberg at once
strikes the traveler’s eye. The na
tives still wear picturesque costumes
in some parts of the region, though by
no means to the extent that was com
mon as recently as 25 or 30 years
ago.
BRITAIN HAS 80,000 CADDIES
Future of These Indispensable Golf Ad
visers Is Worrying Club Offi
cials of the Country.
Almost 80,000 caddies trudge the
golf courses in the United Kingdom,
mostly youths between fourteen and
eighteen. The question of their future
is seriously exercising the minds of
the golf club secretaries, who have
the welfare of the race at heart.
Carrying golf clubs leads to nowhere
as regards a man’s career.
St. George’s Hill Golf club at Wey
bridge, the most fashionable club in
England, has tackled the problem man
fully, and its example is to be followed
by other clubs throughout Great Brit
ain. During their idle hours when
not carrying clubs the boys and dis
abled soldiers, of whom a number are
employed, are to be trained to trades
that will ultimately enable them to
obtain employment of a regular and
progressive nature. After three years’
service with the club the caddie will
receive a bonus of $50, provided he
wishes to leave in order to follow a
trade he has learned.
A first-class bootmaker has been en
gaged to instruct caddies in boot mak
ing; in order to make the plqn profit
able members of the club send their
repairs to the school. Under the head
green keeper the caddies are learning
the art of market gardening in the
club vegetable gardens. They are be
ing initiated into the intricacies of
green keeping also.
■Cotton's Varied Uses.
The United States is certainly the
“land of cotton.’1 Nowhere else in
the world is cotton grown to such
abundance and put to such a variety
of uses, says the San Francisco Chron
icle. The fiber, of course, is made in
to cloth; the oil from the seeds is used
as a good substitute for olive oil and
as a basis for lard, and now the seeds
themselves are being ground into flour
and used for food purposes. To make
the cottonseed sausage three pounds
of sausage meat is mixed with one
pound of cottonseed flour. This flour
is said to contain as much nutrition
as pork sausage.
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what would you do?
Go to the Empress, of course, to
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And after getting all full of excite
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bandits, you \would finish up with
“When Love Is Blind,” the corking
Sennett comedy with Cross-eyed Ben
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gave him the gate. But things are
done contrary-wise in these Sennett
comedies. That’s why they are a
Mecca for the “tired business man,”
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who has a funny bone.
Tonight at the Empress, don’t for
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Divide by two.
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