Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-03

matter to take its proper and regular course
In little while the postman brought thu
package and made these several collections
Duty on the silk belt, ~ cents; duty OF
the gold chain, 10 cents; charge for fetching
the package, 8 cents. These devastating
imposts are exacted for the protection O
German home industries.
The Police Never Get Discouraged.
The calm, quiet, courteous, cussed per.
sistence of the police if the most admirable
thing have encountered on this side. They
undertook to persuade me to send and get 8
passport for Swiss maid whom we had
brought with us, and at the end of si1
weeks of patient, tranquil, angelic daily
effort they succeed. 1 was not intending to
give them trouble, but 1 was lazy and
thought they would get tired. Meanwhile
they probably thought would be the one.
1t turned out just so.
One is not allowed to build unstable, un-
safe, or unsightly houses in Berlin. The
result is this comely and conspicuously
stately city, with its security from conf1a-
grations and breakdowns. 1t is built of
architectural Gibraltars. The Building
Commissioners inspect while the building
is going up. 1t has been found that this is
better than to wait till it falls down. These
people are full of whims. One is not al
| lowed to cram poor folk into cramped and
| dirty tenement houses. Each individual
must have so many cubic feet of room space,
and sanitary inspections are systematic and
\ frequent.
Everything is orderly. The fire brigade
march in rank, curiously uniformed, and so
grave is their demeanor that they look like
q Salvation Army under conviction of sin.
Daa 10 all ho+ xrbn fra oil 10
sounded the firemen assemble calmly, an
swer to their names when the roll is called,
and then proceed to the fire. There they
are ranked up, military fashion, and told off
| in detachments by the chief, who parcels
| out to the detachments the several parts of
the work which they are to undertake in
putting out the fire.
Fire Is Worked Like Funeral.
This is all done with 1ow-voiced propri
ETY., and strangers think these people are
working funeral As rule, the fire is
confined to single floor in these great
masses of brick and masonry, and conse-
quently there is little or no interest attach
ing to fire here for the rest of the occu-
pants of the house.
There are abundance of newspapers in
Berlin, and there was also a newsboy, but
he died. At intervals of half mile on the
these that you buy your papers. There are
plenty of theaters, but they do not adver-
tise in a loud way. There are no big post
ers of any kind, and the display of vast type
and of pictures of actors and performance
framed on big scale and done in rainbow
colors is a thing unknown. If the big show
bills existed there would be no place to ex-
hibit them, for there are no poster fences,
and one would not be allowed to disfgure
dead walls with them. Unsightly things
are forbidden here; Berlin is a rest to the
eye.
And yet the saunterer can easily find out
what is goingeon at the theaters. All over
the city, at short distances apart, there are
neat, round pillars Is feet high and about
as thick as hogshead and OF these the little
black and white theater bills and other
notices are pasted. One generally finds a
group around each pillar reading these
things. There are plenty of things in Ber-
lin worth importing to America 1t is these
that I have particularly wished to make
note of When Buffalo Bill was here his
biggest poster was probably not larger than
the top of an ordinary trunk.
Street Car Drivers Get Lost
There is multiplicity of clean and COM
Portable horse cars, but whenever you think |
YOU know where a car is going to, you had |
better stop ashore, because that car is not |
going to that place at all The car routes are |
marvelously intricate, and often the |
drivers get lost and are not heard of for |
years. The signs on the cars furnish no |
details as to the course of the Journey; |
thev name the end of it, and then ex-
pertinent around to see how much terri
tory they can cover before they get there.
The conductor will collect your fare over /
again every few miles and give you a ticket
which he hasn't apparently kept any
record Of, and you keep it till an inspector
comes aboard by and by and tears corner
off it (Which he does not keep; then you
throw the ticket away and get ready to buy
another. Brains are of no value when you
are trying to navigate Berlin in a horse car.
When the ablest of Brooklyn's editors was
here on a visit he took horse car in the
early morning and wore it out trying to 60
a point in the center of the city. He was
on board all day and spent many dollars in
fares, and then did not arrive at the place
which he had started to go to. This is the
most thorough way to see Berlin, but it is
also the most expensive.
But there are excellent features about the
car system, nevertheless The car will not
stop for you to get on or off except at GER
tain places block or two apart. where
there is sign to indicate that that is a
halting station. This system saves many
bones. There are 20 places inside the car;
when these seats are filled no more can
enter. -Four or five persons may stand on
each plattorm-the law DEGREES the num-
oer-and when these places are all
occupied the next applicant is refused.
They Experimented on Convicts
As there is no crowding, and as no rowdy.
ism is allowed, women stand on the plat
ra1l |
here wheh there are vacant seats inside, for ]
.hese places are comfortable, there being
little or no jolting. A native tells me that
when the first car was put on, 80 or 40 |
years ago, the people had such a terror of it
hat they didn't feel safe inside of it or
outside either. They made the company
Keep man at every crossing with a red
lag in his hand Nobody would travel in
he car except convicts on the way to the
allows This made business in only one
direction, and the car had to 90 back light
70 save the company the city government
transferred the convict cemetery to the
ther end of the line. This made traffic in
10Th directions and kept the company from
DING under. This sounds like some of the
which travelling foreigners are
urnished with in America. To nv mind il |
as doubtful ring about it.
The first-class cab is neat and trim. and
as leather-cushioned seats and a swift
orse. The second-class cab is an ugly and
ubberly vehicle, and is always old It
GEMS strange thing that they have never
uilt any new ones. Still, if such thing
Eere done everybody that had time to flock |
Tould flock to see it, and that would make
crowd, and the police do not like crowds
nd disorder here If there were an earth.
uake in Berlin the police would take
harge of it and conduct it in that sort of |