Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-11-13
BERLIN, GERMANY.


ures Of the land. Gold and Power
live together. Here are assembled
the Lords of German thought, the
gifted sons of genius, the patrons of
science, the devotes of letters and the
worshipers of art; all fastened BY
the riches of proud capitol and an
ambitious King. Ambition is para
mount i'll every mind Of Berlin to
make it rival all the world as the home
of modern progress. The real pride
Of Berlin is its science and art.
1t is situated in a level tract of
country and spreads out in all direct
ions presenting very irregular outline.
A small river runs through its center,
also some canals thread it. Berlin is
next to London and Paris the greatest
city in Europe. 1t contains one
million and quarter of people. The
streets are quite straight, wide and
regular and number 600, together 200
miles long. The numbers of the
houses raise from left toward right
unlike ours. The division of lots and
distribution of property and people
surprises Americans as the houses are
built on totally different plans. They
are built to rent and to hold numerous
families. Berlin contains 1900 ground
or lot structures. OF these 307 be-
longs to the state, 1856 to the city, "a
to legal purposes and II ) 23 to private
persons. On an average there lives
on each lot 81 persons and in each
residence 40 persons.
Berlin has the not enviable position
of being the thickest peopled city in
Europe. There occurs only 1913 resi-
dent houses with less than 10 persons
in each; 1850 with IL to 20; 1904
with 20650; 5768 with 81 to 100;
1867 with 101 to $50 persons in each.
Finally there occurs 500 houses with
$50 to 200 persons in each and 157
houses with more than 200 persons in
each. Some houses are s stories high
but almost all are stories high. The
architecture is almost Totally Grecian
with the addition of the arch which is
very much used here. A few Gothic
structures exist but the thick walled
square or rectangular stone or brick
building characterizes all its achitect.
ure. The material used is sandstone,
brick, granite and marble. It's streets
are formed of rock pavement or wood
en- blocks set on end or cement. The
cemented streets are made by putting
down ''nigger heads" or bowlder and
then pouring on these layers of cement
asphaltum and tar. This hardens to
smooth slate colored surface as har
as granite, almost. The streets are
generally very neat. The city has SO
public parks, mostly small, but one
containing many 100 acres has no dis.
tinct paths and people wander all over
it, and is treeless except atshe edge.
The public buildings of Berlin are
large and magnificent and for all con.
ceivable purposes, many of them built
of thick granite walls. The enormous
size and strength Of those structures
are very noticeable. The palaces OF
the royal family and equipage are
numerous and expensive.
The industries of Berlin are mostly
for self support and hand fabrications,
iron works, cloth factories, beer
breweries. The royal carriages always
being known by crown painted on
its side. The Berlin places of resort
are good and numerous. It has as
fine museum as exists in the world.
1t requires many days to visit all parts
of it. Its Geological garden is very
interesting. Its panoramas, two, rep
resent battle scenes by electric light.
One of these shows the battle OF
Sedan and is considered the finest of
it's kind in the world. The other rep
resents the siege of Paris. The LIST.
of September was the anniversary OF
the battle of Sedan and the End was
the review of the Germany army at
Berlin. 1t is not likely hat more
brilliant army could be seen in any
part of the world than was presented
| by those troops. Here was gathered