The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-13
THE DARK SIDE OF BERLIN.
From the Pail Mall Gazette, Dec. 2o.l

From the Pail Mall Gazette, Dec 2o.l
"Berln may be great but is Berlin happy ~
dolefully demands Herr F. A. Held In recent
brochure. ''Strangers who promenade under the
linden and think Berlin an abode OF pleasure should
look little closer, examine the sullen and discon
tented faces encountered in the streets, and after
wards visit the poorer quarters, enter the houses
and witness the misery that reigns there. Berlin
has become the capital of the world, say certain
people intoxicated with their own foolish prides
the capital OF the world If they will but the worlC
Of misery and rascaty" Out Of population a.
sS3 900 no fewer than $4,000 inscribed on the
lists OF the administration for public relief, and
the municipality, the parsimony OF which is pro.
verbal, has to appropriate million OF thalers OF
its revenue annually towards the relief Of the
OF Berlin the 7ftbe,1e prOnOunccs those OF London
and Paris to be models Of virtue In comparison
In pamphlet recently published in Germany,
entitled "Bcrins Moral and Social Condition,
after the Berliners own RepoFrsma RaSmpniet
promptitude-an elaborate account, based on
abundant statistics Is given Of the misery l and
new German Empire. or this confession Of the
Beriners themselves we propose to give resume.
appears that the poorer inhabitants OF the city who
desire the shelter OF decent roof have to pay al
most half their incomes to their landlords. More
over, according to the census Of 1857 there were
no fewer than s2 naSisa'ions in cellars
nine per cent Of the population live In
these wretched dwelling places. Moreover,
there were 1854 lodgings without kitchens,
and 1906 without single room containing fire.
place; ILL., $50 adults and IS, 736 children, Ole
with hreplaces-that is to say, about twenty per
cent OF the total population were crammed into
upwards OF 100000 souls, belonging for the most
part to the poorer classes have been added TO the
lodU itad fnr a.
TdeG to the o. Dr.
are at the present time 375 600 persons occupying
arr fireplace, while Isl 900 have apartments with two
become more pressing than In regard to their
tenants 1t Is simply because they are more pressed
house property Of Berlin belongs not to the land
| lords but TO their creditors ID
An article IN n the 1ugso tr %emg No 2.S
bureau, states decisively that 1.-THE government
| would not allow itself to be persuaded to provide
| mad excesses''-such as continually recurring
riots OF . serious character-"mignt be avoded.''
say, .lies in the corruption or the morals Of tho
lower casses, the cause In great measure OF the
were not 50 uncOutn and brutal, and our system Of
education was not SO detestable, 30 impregnated
the largest educational estabishments TO despair,
there would not be such large number or land
Lords refusing 70 let spast%emts In their houses to
uncouthness and immortality OF these people, with
their troops Of children and UNDER tenants are so
general that one cannot really blame the landlords
for refusing to take them into their houses"
Last winter an account was given in the BJrse's
house, No. 70 Schillerstrasse, which had recently
changed hands. The tenants had received notice
other lodgings had y failed u DO so TIE pocs
having turned their furniture into the street, next
proceeded to remove all the doors and windows,
whereupon some Of the tenants sought refuge In q
neghboring unfinished building others found
shelter under the wall OF an adjacent factory, while
ing on mattresses spread on the bare ground In
the winter season for an entire fortnight, the
crowd that daily collected to witness this painful
spectacle requiring the constant presence Of tho
At the same time the Berlin papers reported that
the woods in the environs OF the city were infested
az nighttime BY outcasts unable to obtain shelter
at the night asylunls, which were crowded to ex-
cess. In one Winters evening the police sue
cecded in arrestn9 as many As 800 people, nfty.
two being women, aud oil OF whom had been found
taken 10 living in caves borrowed in the ground
out In the fields, and the entrance to which, firmly
when numbers Of poor people were
with nothing but some old sacks and some loose
70 ne ~ s
desirability OF transferring the seat OF government
to Cassei as beyond the drawback OF the Athens or
continue independent in colossal city with 2 con-
dying OF hunger, and looking forward to the day
when "the social edlfce might crack"
per cent OF the total population OF Berlin belongs
to the working classes, about one-third OF whom
are attached to the various factories In and around
dwellings OF these people, says Dr. Schwabe, ARE
fatal to their heath, and impart something gloomy
is moresver, aggravated BY the state o. extreme
dependency In which they are placed, by the Inn,
their salaries. one has always remarked among
these workmen particular propensity for sensu-
ality moreover, wherever riots break out they are
lists nnd the state or Berlin favorable TO their
projects that Herr Hasenclever, president Of the
the committee had by an immense majority,
decided hold It's annual annual CT wn 'a 1t
having become the centre q the socialist,
movement throughout Germany A. one Of the
eprnry is several aer Sscis
ing, amid universal applause, that At marriage Was q
sas
rid Of ali the absurd irivolIties Of religion.
ing the absence Of churches in Berlin. "where, y
it asked are the temples OF alteration in this CAPT.
ss yUS n
and numerous factory chimneys but very few
houses o. God ana no ancient cathedral dominat "
reisns over the - city, TO which the 10.
eSus Gess :Scud v. .SSe@ That
the few churches Of which II speaks are slways
| empty.n Twenty years ago Pastor kuntze com-
planned before the assembly o. seI na1
Attended dtvtne worship; and with the majority on
the Court preacher s0rl ci
| msofvs Since that epoch the number OF churcn.
according the o; 70 1 sns psr S Sss e s
usC,easou n,ation In particular districts the ats
is even more scanty than at certain Lon,
don churches where the falling on OF the oongres
uo t,ons 90 he satisfactorily accounted for as
xawon occurrence Tor preacher and organlst Ia
90 sway MISUNDERSTANDING the services owing 20
f" MT being single person present to listen 70
them. This, we are told, has even Happened In
community Of 1000 soniA