Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-09-01
JENNIE JUNE IN EUROPE.
heidelberg Castle and lis Famous
"Tun"-Ancient Nuremberg and
Relies Of the Middle Ages.
The beautiful Churches of st. Iorenxn st,
sebaidns and Our Lady--The s.Bcau-
tiful Fountain
correspondence ot lhe lialelro.


Correspondence OF the Gazette
NUREMBERG, Aug. l2,-My last lettsr
closed at Welsbaden, and as it would oc-
cupy too much space to detail events and
objects of interest in different cities,
most of which are well known, shall In
this letter group such as appear most In.
terestlng on our route 20 this fine old city.
Everybody stops at Heidelberg, every.
body knows that Heidelberg has castle.
and that this castle has a "Tun,r The
castle itself occupies commanding
position on the heights above the
Neckcr, and is so interviewer with the
past history of the country and with the
period when Heidelberg was royal resi-
dence and a place of military and stratc-
gic importance, has witnessed imperial
magnihcencc, withstood long and cruel
usages, and now stand bravely against
rcyerses, the ravages of time and neglect
Yes, the castle of Heidelberg is great,
even In decay , and holds about its iyied
walls and picturesque towers all the ro-
nance and glory which has been associa-
ted with its past, The Heidelberg that
was in 1867, the date fixed by G. p. r..
James for his two horsemen to make
their advent into Heidelberg, was very
different from the quiet Heidelberg of
to-day, whose somewhat dull tenor is
only disturbed by the carrolng OF stu
dents elated by too much beer, or the
mild pianoforte-isma of the inmates of the
family pension, whose combination of
style with economy demands that excel
lent teeth, as well as digestion. should
wait upon appetite. En- PEASANT,
IL may be remarked that in
making a "short tripn--where
less than a week, perhaps only a
day or two, can he given to only one
[ place-itis a mistake to 20 to pens ion
The cost may be little less than at a
hotel, but it is worth more than the OK
ira cost TO be saved the Inconvenience TO
oneself and others of the fixed hours and
habits of the boarding-hou More I'M
portant still TO the object of the tourist
the pension has not the resources of the
hotel, in the ubiquitous and eyer-ready
I porter, whom Mark Twain has SO well
described and eulogized in his "Tramps
Abroad" that to add anything more
would be simply to 'paint the rose, +"
Blessed institution that he is to the
! stranger in strange land, struggling
with Il strange tongue; would that we
could naturalize the PORTER in America
| in place of the know-notlling and do-noth-
/ ing but be impertincnt hotel clerk. But
\ this can not be. The PORTER Is product
\ of thc apes me gourlshes hest on CONT
mental soil he can moi cven no found I'm
I Englond and would utterly los,. his
I ident;tv II he ,yoro tro,,enortad no Amer
/ ico IN tbe Continent bc oradnotnS In
/ Tina 20 hoco,,o nm a,l,niralio landlIrl ,nd
/ no1t,er In come of Tho smaIlcr lese MO
I t.ntions hotnle b,yn fnnnd ono al.
ready in my inurnevings this lime who
is landlord NOW whore 10 ,ras norfc,, fonr
years n@o and thonSh he nov has No
n,.idc aSd oir of nroSrictorshin he dnns
NOT disdain to .lend n hand {" md no ~
as eycellent a dictionn,n go1ettoo,
guidc.hook dnilv naner and friend ns
ever
n was nerhons hecouse we missed thc
nortier In Ueidelbero. thai did not re.
fresb NV mrmorv NJ IN the number al
hogsbends If wine tbat conld he slowed
away In tho .,Tnn,, Of tbe castle know
/ I came away feclinp forlorn md ne IL I
had not hall done even what there Is IN
do in this nrettv town. simply because of
The inndeouocy of resources in n pension.
and felt that II would have been an actual
desert had we NOT struck nm intelligent
driver. who took MS in The ploaming
across the bridges and along the banks
of the Neckor Inv terraced villas and
/ -. io.,,,, .. = 80, -, 90, ~, ca,,,to
stood aooded in radiant moonlight like a
oucen robed and crowned.
From Ueidelherg 70 Nurembera is a
wide reach for The imaoinntion. and vet
hatb have Modern as we'll MS remote In.
torest Nnremherg has NOTHING modern
in its anneorance The snjrit of Durer
Sin hrnnds over lis ncaked roofs and
cables ne old stone walls and towers. lts
cnrions archways lis massive timbered
danrs nc net3l. honnd furnisbings in
"N"i 80 a.. i,. ta,,,,.,;,,.