Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-04-08
LETTER FROM EDDIE vANDER.


LETTER FROM EDDIE vANDER
LIETH.
We received yesterday the following
letter from Master Eddie Vanderlieth
who left here a few months ago with
his parents on q visit to Germany.
The young gentleman has many friends
and acuuaintances in Eureka who will
read the communication with interest:
LANGELoH VIA ELMsHoRN,
MARCH 10th, 1876.
EDITORS SENTINEL: Langeloh is
situated on the river Ane, a small
branch of the Elbe. 1t contains about
i've hundred inhabitants, most of
whom are farmers. The summers are
warm and the winters very severe.
We are having a very hard winter this
year, as it has been raining and snow
ing ever since we have been here. The
people have to work very hard and
receive hardly any pay. A few days
ago, while coming from Elnshorn TO
Langeloh, / passed a brick building
which vas being torn down, and to
my great surprise saw three young
girls about twenty or twenty. five years
old sitting among the debris cleaning
bricks, not in the least needing the
cold wind nor the rain. This would
not be so bad if they were paid good
wages, but they probably received for
their days work ten groschens,- or
twenty i've cents ofour money, which
Is considered very good wages here.
The houses here are very old, my
uncle's having been built in l79S and
my grandfather's in 1882, and there are
many more that are still older. They
are built mostly two stories high,
with windows only in he lower story.
A neat asphaltum walk or road runs
through the center of the house. so the
hay and grain can be brought in on
wagons in the summer and is then
hoisted from the wagon Immediately
into the upper storyor loft, where it is
stored for winter. This road or dale,
ii is called, is twenty feet wide and
about eighty feet long. In the front of
the building, on each side of the dale,
are the bedrooms, dining rooms and
Kitchen; in the center, the stO re and
servants rooms, while the back is
used for stabling COWS and horses. A
garden and small orchard is to be
found around nearly all of the houses,
and they raise some very fine fruit and
flowers in them.
Last Thursday was market day, and
to an American who never Witnessed
such u scene, it is a novelty. 1t is a
gala day here. and early in the morn
ing crowds of men, women and chill
dren San be seen hurrying to the mar
ket place in Eimshorn, only a short
way from Langeloh. On arriving there
o IAN zee twenty-five or thirty tents
besieged by eager buyers. Some of
those tents contain candies, fruit, nuts
and cakes, and others dry goods, mil
linery good, boots and shoes, toys,
AMI nobody knows what else. Now
We arrive at the museum department,
aud before one t-nt stands a darkey
Justify calling out in German, Walk
in, ladies and gentlemen, walk in. and
SEQ The American Indian girl;' and be-
fore another stands "A German, calling
out: Pictures taken at sitting,
AMI costs but five gro<chens. Walk in
and you can have your picture i'll five
ininutes." Here we are at a tent adj
vertised by flaming posters to contain
n whale, but whether a live or stuffed
/ can not say. The market ends
Ivy a ball in H~ol>teinischer Hof, a large
hail in Elmshorn. The ball starts ~
German balls generally do, at 3 O'Clock
in the afternoon, and lasts all night.
The Germans here have 4 very queer
of dancing. They seem to think
who can dance around the o
the fastest with their feet barely touch
ing the floor, are the best dancers.
Polkas and waltzes are the favorites
They dance for about ten mln-
utes; then the music stops, and an old
man goes around 10 all tbs genll,-
men who have danced and collects a
gro>chen from each; then he gives
the music director n signal; the music
and the dancers finish their
dance in a few minutes.
My next letter, l think, will be from
Best regards to inquiring
friends. 4. NANDERLIErH.
W.