The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-07-22
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A RICHMOND LADY's LETTERS FROM GgR.
| NANY-INTERKsTING ACCOUNTS OF WHAT
SHE SAW IN THE "FREE CITY " OF BREMEN
| AND The OLD ROMAN CITY OF COLOGNE.
Correspondence o: The Richmond Dispaich.l
BREMEN, GERMANY, June 25, 1880.
Thursday morning, June oath, we rose
with bright hopes that the long twelve
days journey from New York was soon 10
| be over. Everybody dressed in their best
and came on deck, and the liveIiest excite
ment prevailed during the whole forenoon.
At II o'clock we entered the Weser river,
and Immediately the German flag went up,
and the band played merriy. We passed
williams Haven, where many OF the Gov
ernment war ships are kept. The river at
its mouth is ten miles wide, clear, and
| lucid. Soon green trees were seen IN the
distance. and the stecples and turrets,
which next cane to view, seemed TO say,
"You are almost there" We landed at
Bremen Haven at 3 o'clock the same eve
ming, and Immediately took the ears for
Bremen, and passed through the most beau-
tiful country ever saw. in the highest state
of cultyation-the cultivation combining
both beauty and utility. Nearly all OF the
farm-houses are thatcbed with straw, with
roofs very high indeed, sloping nearly to
the ground. They present most antique
and picturesque appearance. 1t will be ten
days or two weeks now before the harvest
is ready. Cherries, the largest and best
ever saw, are now here IN great abundance.
Asyou travel along the road at close in
tervals stands the armed soldier. as imm0ya-
bic as bronze statue. They made me re-
member the old Emperor, and that |, fresh
from the city that Washingt0n's monument
still guards, was now in land that had no
Arnold WinkeIred, or Washington. Just
then | found the car-doOr locked, and we
were told if we got out or left without per-
mission we would be fined S5. The ears are
unlike our Virginia cars. The passengers
don't see each other at all. They are in
little departments shut up. Think OF that,
ladies', and bless the land OF America, where
you can get UP pretty travelling costumes
and coquette from Maine to Florida.
We reached Bremen early in the evening,
put up at one of the best hotels at one and a
half dollars day; and let me say here, Ger
man cooks excsl all others. The streets in Bre-
men are very narrow. but thoroughly and
substantially paved with blocks OF granite,
| and clean enough TO sit down anywhere.
This evening we nlreu mack Tor TWO
| hours at TWENTY-FIVE cents per hour, and
rode all over Bremen. | have no words to
describe the beauty Of the scenery and the
mapnificepce OF the buildings. Every inch
of ground bears something, and fruits and
flowers and vegetables are growing side by
side. The people move and do everything
| by music. The tirst evening OF my arrlVal
| here Mt the hotel they bad hop, when
am told they have every THURSDAY ana
Sunday. No square dances at all, and the
waltzing was just bewildering and In
tpxIcating; in a long. undulatlng, rapid,
hat
American could imitate-not even Mr.. DO.
| Lane Sterne.
Ladies and gentlemen all drink beer to-
pelber. | don't think the ladies dress here
as much as they do in America. The young
Girls have beautiful, dazzling compilations.
| attended the Theatre Tivoli this eve-
ming. We had seats in private box Tor
| ffty-six cents each. You enter large gar
| den az beautiful as art can make 1t. where
you find hundreds OF people sitting in
groups around little tables drinking beer.
A bell rings, and you 90 into the theatre.
On every side are soldiers and police. The
scenery is very handsome, and the theatre
more than twice as large as our Richmond
Theatre. A band OF thirty musicians are
playing: the curtain rises, and the actresses
are fresh, fair young girls, with natural
blonde hair, aud fOreheads that need no
Whitening, and cheeks that need no paint.
| YOn can bring your opcra'glass Iuil upon
them with great satisfaction 10 yoursel1.
The opera being all IN German, l under
stood not word. Iregretted the confusion
OF tongues that took place at Babel, but en-
joyed my evening nevertheless.
Tomorrow expect to visit The cathedras
here, some OF them said 10 be thousand
years old. My next will be from Cologne.
COLOGNE, July /, 1880.
Saturday the 26ih ultimo was devoted to
sightseeing in Bremen. We went first to
the old Town Hall, built in 1901, contain
ing the famous wine-cellars OF Germany
Hook there said TO be upwards Of two hun
dred years old. The cellar is OF immense
dimensions, and filed with huge hogsheads
eighteen or twenty feet across. They have
twelve of the largest named after the Apos-
Ties. The Judas wine is said to be the best.
| This sells for $50, 900 bottle; or, In other
| words. can't be bought. We drank wine
tberc-we won't say at what price. Your
way in this cellar is dmly lighted by gas,
assisted greatly by candles stuck in aud
upon the hogsheads. They have very hand
some pic.ures-B Bacchanalan scenes OF men,
women, and children. Under one large
picture was this inscription:
"He that docs not love women, wine, and song,
Has been fool all his life long,"
Over one entrance Is a bronze statue OF
Bacchus- evidently drunk. The very air
OF these cellars is intoxicating, being so
close and for so long full OF wine. Visitors
upon entering exclaim, How good every
thing SMELLS" and Immediately take in
sniff after sniff. One popularity OF this cel-
lar is that whisper at one end can be heard
at another, however distant. This gloomy
I cellar has not always held wine. Above is
the City Hall. 1t has all the flags OF Ger
many from its foundation TO the present
time, and pictures Of its great men and
women-not hung upon the wall as Is our
custom, but pasted In The ceiling above.
We were shown a pair OF stalr-sieps here
that employed two men fifty years in the
carving. These cunning wOrkmen were
lyouths when they commenced and hcary-
headed old men when they finished, honor
ed and supported by the Government.
/ We went next TO the Cathedral, built In
| 1860. The venerable pile Is exceedingly
| impres siye and magnificent. The steepie
above shows the bard OF time that Is fail
| ing little on one side II was, OF course,
Catholic church but was confiscated du'
ring the Thirty. Years war. Along the centre
aisle there are pictures OF all the patI iarcns
and the prophets also, Calvin, Luther
and Melsnctheon. The Reformers have
finished this gallery by adding the pictures
of their Kings and Queens. One old Queen,
I tiisa ustingly ugly, 10 taken In shhmefuliy
| low.necked dress. There is picture ol
Tue Last Day, very large, with AZ least ONT