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ling, as he did so, the closing phrases of Beethoven’s Ninth 
Symphony, a reminiscence of a concert of the evening before. 
The architect rushed from the room in rage, and shortly his 
representative called upon Dr. Dohrn to make arrangements 
fora duel. The matter was finally settled, the architect re- 
ceived a thousand franes for his unusable sketches and another 
was installed in his place. 
At last actual building was commenced and slowly the walls 
went up. Dr. Dohrn’s father was dead and the patrimony 
was all invested in the new building. Three times the pro- 
jector was at a loss as to from where the money for the week’s 
payment was to come, and at as many times were friends 
found who aided in the undertaking. At last all resources 
were exhausted, friends had given all they could, Dr. Dohrn’s 
private fortune had gone into brick and iron and marble. 
The thought came, this station is to be educational in its ends, 
cannot the German Ministry of Instruction_be induced to 
: by giving the 30,000 marks necessary to finish the build- 
“So there followed another trip to Berlin. Dr. Dohrn called 
on the Minister, told his story and asked if the Government 
could make such a grant and received for an answer, “no.” 
As Dr. Dohrn tells it, the Minister made no attempt after this 
refusal to close the interview, but seemed to wait as if the an- 
swer were not final, but as if he were still open to conviction 
upon proper argument, and so the Doctor told a story to the 
effect that after the battle of Sedan he obtained a leave of ab- 
sence to attend the meeting of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science. When in England a friend com- 
mented upon the Franco-German war and the successes of 
the Germans, to the effect that this was a beginning of the 
end of the German pre-eminence in intellectual matters; that 
now Germany would develop into a military power and in all 
other respects would fall behind. “For years” said he, “ we 
have been translating books from the German, in the next ten 
years you will be translating English books into German.” 
The moral of the story was appreciated and the Minister prom- 
ised that if Dr. Dohrn could obtain the endorsement of the 
