Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-04
FREE CITY OF LUBBOCK.
REMARKABLE CHARITIES IN THE
FAMOUS CITY.
A People More Proud of Their Birth.
right than the Titles Conferred
by Emperors and Kings.


by Emperors and Kings.
Especial Correspondence of the RECORD UNION.
LuBEcK Germany, March S, 1889.
There is no city in Europe which can
give more to its visitors, in the way o.
medieval antiquities, than the old, free
city of Lubbock, which at one time was the
most powerful of the great Hanseatie
League. AT the time of the discovery Of
America Lubbock was at the hight of its
prosperity, and numbered 10000 inhabit-
ants.
The effect which America had upon the
commerce between Europe and India was
the destruction of Lubbock and its sister
cities, whose trade fell into the hands Of
England and the Netherlands. So rapid
was its fall that in 1900 it had hardly
more than 10000 people, yet fortune seems
to be looking this way again, for Lubbock
is springing into life for a second time, and
can now count 10000 happy sons and
daughters. The view of the city is ex-
tremely picturesque, and must be in sum-
mer one of the loveliest spots in Germany,
for then the green foliage of trees and
vines, in which the place is rich, would
lind an ADDED charm In the contrast with
the red brick walls and Gothic towers. 1t
is in the use Of bricks that the Lubecker
has been most successful, and has intro
duced TO the world style of architecture
which admits only the simplest forms, but
at the same time
MOST WONDERFUL EFFECTS IN COLOR
And carved surfaces are had to relieve the
otherwise too plain spaces between the
windows and the sparsely used buttresses.
Glazed bricks of red, black, dark blue and
greens of all shades are arranged in pat
terms which conform to the lines of the
building and show with great beauty
against the lusterless color of the main
walls. One part of the Rathhaus is built
of black glazed brick with trimmings OF
red, producing an effect of great richness,
while frieze of terra Gotta or light col
ored stone divides the floors. This fine
building was erected in 1442, the beautiful
stairway being added about 100 years later
The magnificent Rathskeller, the well-kept
vaulting Of which has been newly deco
rated in good taste, gives a glimpse into
the past and a taste of the olden time also
in its good wines, while in one of the
rooms was, in very old German, the fol-
lowing by no means new sentiment:
Many man does loudly sing
When TO him his bride they bring,
But could he know just what they brought
To cry instead of sing he ought.
Like London, Lubbock has many chart
table institutions, but unlike those of the
worlds metropolis they are not dependent
upon the uncertain income from contrlbu-
tions, being founded upon the firm rock OF
we'll invested fortune. From earliest
times it has been the fashion with dying
ladies and gentlemen, who wished to quit
this world in as good style as they had
lived in it, to leave their money to endow
some new or to increase the foundation of
some old charity, so that now there are in
this small city over go such institutions,
owning among them some 100000
marks. No taxes are required from these
charities for any of their properties. The
wealthiest and most interesting of these
institutions is that of The Holy Ghost,
near the now unused Church of st. Kath-
crime. The front of the edifce is in the
peculiar style of Lubbock, with a warm
coloring which takes away from charity
her usual GOODNESS. The entrance is
through a chapel, which, with most Of
the other buildings, was built in about
1880. The walls in places are frescoed
with quaint old subjects which have been,
in many parts, changed and restored in
modern times. The chapel is used for serv-
ices at times, but not every Sunday
and has chilliness about it which is
common to all Roman churches which
have been converted to Lutheran uses
The charm of the warm exteriors is en-
tirely wanting within, where vast fields OF
whitewash have destroyed the once beauti.
full effect of light and shade produced BY
the grey stucco and dull red brick. A
huge iron Golfer stands by one of the sup.
porting columns, to receive aims, and il
it were filled with copper only it would
contain good fortune, SO large is it. A
door opposite the main entrance, over
which the text, ''The blood of Jesus Christ
makes Us clean from all sins" is painted il
old German, lead to
THE MOST REMARKABLE PLACE
ever visited. Imagine large Goth,
church with two long aisles, on either side
of which are, in place of the usual pews
little rooms with doors and windows
Wearing apparel is hanging outside to air
and people are seated before their doors
This is the strange village inhabited only
by old people who have come to poverty
These little rooms, which have ceilings
about ten feet high, contain the bed, table
and other furniture of the occupant, who
has birds Or flowers or what he viii tc
occupy the time. Such very old people
and all so small, as though they were
growing back to childhood, bodily as well
now, and every one | saw seemed to con,
slider this life very pleasant one,
if an opinion may be formed
from their smiling faces. BY the terms Of
the endowment each person, man and
woman, receives As cents pocket money
every week, which is also increased by
numerous small amounts during the year
as at Pentacost 81 so is received for the
purpose of buying pork, and at Michael
mas time l2I cents carp money" for buy
ing this favorite fish. Someone who wa,
very fond OF the dish left a sum, the inter
est of which is to purchase the livers anC
lungs of certain animals for hash. By
one of these peculiar wills (which was lief
by bachelor of Lubeck), if it is carried
out, this institution will in time rival til,
Rothschild family, and make Lubbock tn,
money center of the world. The origina
sum is to be held with
INTEREST ON INTEREST FOR ETERNITY
The good Secretary has figured out tina
IN 1880, A. D., the sum will be 100000
times that which France paid Germany
after the late war, or $4,000 900, 600, 900,
600 marks. If eternity could only hav
an end, it would be glorious bonanza t,
be poor Lubecker." Another oil,
bachelor, who knew the value of a man
has left an endowment for fifty widows, t
in some way partly console them for thei
loss. Life is not all happiness in Hol,
Ghost Charity House, for they have house
cleaning time just as the rest of us do an,
/ imagine the delight of the fifty widow
as they drive the disconsolate male pen
siouers about with mop and water. Tn
food, which is cooked in a grea
kitchen and given out to the pension
ers, who come with their dishes, is o
the best quality, and consists of beef
soups. rice, oatmeal. pearl barley, cabbage
also mutton and pork and bread and milk
the bill OF fare is changed daily and ono
in two weeks pound of butter is given t
each, while once in four weeks oue-ha