Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-19
EUROPE Via PANAMA.
FROM THE GOLDEN GATE TO THE
EIFFEL TOWER.
Edward Carlson's Interesting Lecture
Last Evening at the Sacramento
Business College.

spacious hall of the Sacramento Business
College last evening to hear the lecture of
Edward Carlson, of San Francisco, on "a
Trip to Europe via Panama-From the
Golden Gate to the Eiffel Tower
MIR. Carlson being business man and
not an orator, rather surprised bis hearers
with his eloquence and descriptive powers
He was listened to with marked attention
throughout, and in relating the observa,
tons he had made during his travels car
ried the audience with him.
E. G. Atkinson, Principal of the college,
introduced the lecturer in few chosen and
brief remarks
Mr.. Carlson prefaced his remarks by say
ing that to those who had never made the
trip about which he was to speak, the few
notes he had collected would prove inter
esting. But those who had been over the
same course be requested to compare their
Impressions and recollections with his. He
passed through the Golden Gate, he said.
on the 18th of January of this year on the
good steamer San Bliss. After referring
facetiously to the ocean voyage, the lido
cyncracies of the passengers, the officers
and cooks, he cast anchor before Mazatlan.
Mazatlan, he said, was a beautiful picture
when contemplated from the steamers
deck. But upon lan6ing and inspecting
the place, the Californian's opinion is
greatly altered. The streets are unclean.
and everything indicates Incidence.
Manzanilla was the next stopping place
On the way there the spot was passed
where, in 1863 the ill-fated steamer Golden
Gate was beacbed while On fire. An that
remains now OF the vessel is one of her
paddle standing upon the white
beach, monument to the $50 unfortuuates
who there met watery grave.
ManZanllla is cleaner and neater than
Mazatlan, but this, he explained, was ow-
ing to the fear the natives have of yellow
lever; Acapulco, the next place, presented
equallyas dirty and inGoent picture as did
MaZatlan. Other unimportant places were
passed and then Panama was reached. The
Bay OF Panama struck the speaker as
resembling much the Bay of San Francisco.
The city did not impress the speaker with
It's beauty. The streets are narrow, the
houses of crumbling adobe ard the climate
oppressive. The trip across the isthmus
was great disappointment Thirty-two
years ago, when Mr.. Carlson crossed the
lstnmus, 1t was a magnificent feature.
Now, instead of tropical flowers, chattering
monkeys and parrots, and sleepy alligators,
deep, but dismal impression = improve.
ments in ruins. Here and there few
negroes were seen at work, but the most
that was to be seen was a mass of abandoned
machinery, locomotives, dredgers, etc.
The steamer trip from AspinWall to New
York was uneventful, as was also the voy-
age across the Atlantic to Hamburg. An
Gent Handbags notable buildings were
briefly referred to, and then the speaker
branched of into vivid description ofthe
conhagration which few decades ago COM
pletely destroyed that city and of which
the lecturer was witness. Like Venice,
Hamburg has a great many cana and
lakes Many of the older inhabitants
particularly the peasants-still adhere to
the costumes which they have worn for the
past hundred years. The working people
there are very poor, and have q hard time
OF 1t. This condition the speaker thought
was greatly due to the great and expen-
s1ve consumption of lager beer The beer
drinking habit is one of the greatest fea-
lures of Germany, and Hamburg leads the
empire in this respect. But, despite the
enormous quantity Of beer consumed, the
speaker only saw two drunken men
throughout the empire.
Bremen was the next place the lecturer
plotted his hearers to. He led them into
the celebrated Rathskeller, one of the larg-
est wine-cellars in the world, and wherein
the purest wine in the world is supposed to
be dispensed Here the guests are per-
mitted free ingress until 1870 o'clock P. NJ, |
when the doors are closed. No more guests |
are then allowed to enter, but those fortu- |
nate enough to be within may remain until |
the regular days allotment of wine is ex-
hausted.
Hanover was next visited, and then Ber-
lin, the German capital. rhe speaker de-
soribed the public buildings, the gardens,
streets and then the Emperor's palace
The train was taken for the return 10
Hamburg and then the steamer to HULA
cold and cherries old English city. Liver
pool, the largest shipping place and manu-
featuring city of Great Britain, was the
next place. Many old and magnificent
buildings are to be seen here In spite of
the fact that Liverpool is the greatest ship
ping center, probably, in the world, great
deal of complaint is to be heard there on
all sides of hard times. And, indeed, the
visitor is readily impressed with the truth
OF this. Mr.. Carlson said that during the
few hours he spent in Liverpool be saw
more evidences of poverty than he had dur
ing thirty years in America.
London was the next place of Importance
visited. TO give a description of Lon
dom said the speaker, zone would have to
remain there for months. AS l was only
there few days my observation was lin
tied" He took his hearers, however, to
st. Pauls Cathedral and there told them
the history of that great and historic struct-
uTe. Hyde Park, where London's upper
crust" taking their airiDgs in their csrri-
ages, was visited, as was Westminster Alb
hey and all the other familiar and ancient
buildings and institutions.
1t was now time to pack up for Paris.
Instead of crossing the channel direct TO
that place, the lecturer conducted the audi
ence back to Hamburg and thence by rail
to Cologne and then to Paris.
Mr.. Carlson confessed his total inability
to describe the Worlds Exposition as it de-
served. The massiyeness and gorgeousness
of architecture of the Exposition buildings
completely overwhelmed him. The variety
and immensely of the exhibits from every
corner of the globe were bewildering.
Everything was to be found there except
the familiar display of patent incubators.
But the greatest wonder of the exposition
was the Eiffel Tower. Before the construc-
ton of the Washington Monument, st.
Paul's steeple and the great dome were
magnificent in their hight; but, said the
speaker, if both of these were placed on
top of each other, Eiffel Tower would still
look down upon them. France said to the
world, Come and see what we can dor
and if the world will speak truthfully, it
will say that France has surpassed any
thing heretofore attempted.