Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-30

what can be drunk in the cellar, but if l could only express the quantity one of those good old burgomeisters drunk that evening it would make very respectable layout for gentlemen who visit Herr Maier's back room on winters night. In the market place and directly in front of the Rathskellar is statue of Roland, who seems to have been the George Washing ton of the eighth century. We'll, if such a man ever lived he must have been giant; he had spikes on his knees, wore coat of mail and an armor, which if melted down would make load for 8 Studebaker wagon, but if he were alive to-day and would en- ter the ring would back John L., our American giant, against him every time. Oh, yes; Sullivan is a bigger man than Roland.
 Flushed with old Rose, we pushed on to Hamburg, one of the foremost cities of the empire, and chief port of Germany. Its imports and exports are $400, ,000, 900 yearly, and 590,000 cattle are annually shipped to England. Three miles of it's docks are covered with immense store houses of solid masonry.
 The Alster, lovely sheet of water, GOV cred with boats, and small steamers gid ing under wonderful bridges, dotted with
 swans, surrounded by public buildings,
 quaint old houses, magnificent villas,
 parks, concert, beer garden and coffee
 houses, is exceedingly picturesque.
 The picture gallery is celebrated through
 out Germany and contains the master
 piece of Hans Makart, "Charles the Fifth's
 entrance into Antwerp"
 While at Frankfort, the great banking
 Willie Rothschild's bank and exchanged
 my good American money for German
 marks. Everything remains in this rusty
 musty old bank, exactly as the famous founder left it years ago. remarked the
 contrast to Belmonts, their American rep
 resentative's banking house, with its marble counters, mounted with gold and silver, plate glass, etc., but they answered
 me: "Oh, we leave all such nonsense te
 our agents. We are too poor for sucl things"
 Men gather there from all parts of th,
 world to raise capital, and many nation
 has been saved from bankruptcy by tn,
 Frankfort bankers. I recognized sevsra
 familiar faces from New York and Bosto1
 whom l knew to be promoters of gigantic
 schemes.
 We dined at the Swan hotel, where tn, "Treaty of Peace" was signed between France and Germany in 1871. We als, visited the "Romer," 8 building of the fiji teenth century, in which are portraits o all the emperors, from Charles the Grea to Francis I.
 Its opera house is second only to tn opera house of Paris. Homburg Spring is only forty minutes ride from Frankfort It is one of the most beautiful of German watering places, patronized principally b, English and American visitors. The most important building is the ol' palace of the landgraves of Hesse Hom burg, now used as summer residence fo the German imperial family. The widowe Empress Victoria is it's present occupant Still, Wildbad reminds me so much of Ari | zona that I prefer it to Homburg. The Prince of Wales dined under tn sa.4le roof with us there, and Count Her bert Bismarck is guest at this hotel now but to us free Americans, royalty does no l amount to much, titles are not what the were. would rather be Hassayamp | with plenty of money than grand duk ! without it. People here seem to be of tn
 same opinion, they don't like to admit it but they bow very low to the dollars al l the same.
 1 Wildbad is not known very we'll il 1 America, although the reputation of tn l curative powers of these springs, and tn 1 beneficial effects of the air, has made i popular in Great Britain and the continen ! since 1906, and frequented since 1900 b. the Germans and French.
 1 The town is at the end of the Schwarz wald or Black Forest, and in these noun
 tains are hidden the warm alkalin ] springs, used as cure for gout an
 rheumatism, but their greatest efficacy
 said to be in nervous ailments, and as the are used in fresh natural condition at tn l fountain head.
 | The country through which we passe from city to city seems to be an immens' well trimmed lawn. It was harvest ant | in the fields the women outnumbered tn ! men. Our chambermaids are sent ou
 every afternoon to turn over the hay ant | help get in the "rowen," as they call it il good old New England.
 The German railway system has mucl ! in it's favor. The carriages are in thre classes on every train, catering to al purses, and the poorest pasesant can reacl his journeys end as soon as the prince The guards are attentive to passengers; tn stations are ornamented with vines an( tastefully laid out flower beds. The rail road ties are of iron, the road bed smooth l and for short distances they do very nice ly, but for solid comfort give me Pull man every time.
 There seems to be an erroneous lmpres sion in America regarding the Germa, government. There is no oppression no discontent here, and the compulsory dril of three years' develops the mon physi cally, and they are only called upon i, case of an invasion.
 It is believed that Germany could fur nish wall of soldiers standing shoulde to shoulder with bayonets in hand around her entire territory and hold out for a yea against France and Russia. They are
 temperate, submissive, thrifty, frugal race
 iaw-abiding and music loving, the well-to l drinking or smoking, listening % to tS
 bands, and have yet to meet drunke, ! or disorderly man.