The morning call., 1890-08-10

the-way, very recent creation. For the
hasty visitors, and also for Nose who have
more leisure, the Specification Of the collee-
ton is summed up in three colossal DustS
conspieuously placed in one ofSthe nails,
representing the Grosser Kurfnrst Fred
erick the Great aud Kaiser Wilhelm, the
mighty trinity of warriors who made the
German Empire what it is.
ADJUSTMENTS.
The amusementS of the Berliners are, be-
sides beer-drinking, which is the first, the
last and the most persistent and endurably
popular, music halls, concerts, promenades
in the Thiergarten. boating on the Spree,
fishing and going TO the races at Charlotten-
burg or at the HOppegarten. Atthese meet
ings You see the cream of Berlin elegance,
both masculine and feminine. The Char
lottrnburg Rennbahn is a vast undulating
steeple-chase course of rather bleak and
dismal aspect, with fringe OF trees along
the very distant horizon. There is a grand
stand, second-class stand, n thlrd-class
section and the field. with big white flag
floating in the breeze and bearing in black
the inscription ''lV PlatZ" The popular
attendance forms vast black crowd; the
second-claSS tribunes swarm with people OF
the middle classes, while in front OF the
grand stand, on the lawn, and in the
paddock behind there is as brilliant
display of beauty, toilets and uni
forms as Berlin can produce. The blue
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their wit, grace, and piquancy as they walk
up and down with young officers, whose
trailing sabers trace lines and zigZagS on
the gravel, and whose uniforms. faced with
bright scarlet, blue, orange or pale yellow,
are worn with all the angular and rectil-
linear chic" that German drilling can
teach. These officers are fine mental,
straight, well built; but one cannot help be-
ing struck by the phenomenal thinness of
their legs and the prodigious tallness of
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monumental name of Sieges Saule. As for
the Berlin ladies, they seemed to be in gen
eral slender, and totally wanting In that
buxom plumpness, or " BollDusigkeit," to
use familiar term, which characterizes
their great rivals, the Viennese. Their
toilets are Partisan or Viennese in cut hut
worn stifly, conyentionally, without style.
At The races, as in all other instances where
Germans are assembled, the foreigner
is struck by the silence of the crowd The
only sounds you hear are the continuous
rnmbling of Understanding at the Tot
alisator'' or "Pari Mutuel" offices; the
cruuching Of the gravel beneath the feet Of
the promenaderS; the popping of cham
payne coTks ut the first-claSS buffet; the low
murmur of talk arising from groups Of fat
German men who are discussing the flavor
ite," beer-glass in hand. But there is no
roar of united Threats, such as you would
hear on French race-cOurse; no noise of
laughter aud gayety; no exchange OF clear
toned greetings: no pearly notes OF feml-
nine gatherings that make one turn to see
ii the face of the speaker is as fair as her
voice. The only moment OF relative excite
ment is that when the winning horse passes
through the wicket that separates the track
from the paddock, and few braves salute
the victor. At the Charl0ttenburg races
the young officers form the majority Of the
gentlemen riders, so that the field wears
quite military aspect; and in nine cases
out of ten the victor is martial youth, who
responds to the braves and congratulations
of his friends and hackers by a formal sa-
lutte in correct military stVle