Morning journal and courier., 1892-06-21
CORRESPONDENTS.


 Warm-Growth or the Largest City in Germany-The Royal Palace Position Of the Rmperor-The Late Bureomasser Fork n a c h-Feyv Changes in Ihe Museums.
 BERLIN, May as. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER: With the temperature nobbling about among the nineties, occasionally passing the hundred mark, and not once for five days, between the hours of nine in the morning and nine at night, falling below eighty, there is very little a man can do but keep still in shady corners and drink beer. The Berlinese have made great strides in beer. Very sensibly they have very best. The energies, therefore, they formerly put into manufacturing beers of their own are now devoted to the careful selecting, the proper storing and the at trsctive serving of the various Bavarian brews. Bavarian beer is delicate article 1 and requires careful handling. Great cold
 ss we'll as great heat will kill it. It must | be kept still for certain lengths of time
 and at unvarying temperatures. When all
 conditions have been properly fulfilled it
 wholesome of beverages. At home we | know absolutely nothing about it. The l question of temperature and rest are not | considered, nor are the best brews selected; | for the openly avowed reason that there is
 more money in poor beer than in good
 beer.
 Berlin is growing with startling rapidi- 1 ty, especially about the Thier Garten. There is solid city to the north of it reach ing nearly to Chsrlottenburg; while on the l south new streets and buildings have I pushed their way to the Zeoloaiecher-G ten. Moabit and Leitzow are built up.
 Soon the Thier Garten, like Hyde Park in London, will be in the center of 8 com paratively new and enormous city. Un- fortunately nine-tenths of it are in stucco,
 and stucco most fearfully and wonderful ly ornamented! How is it that architects
 and builders will contrive to use msteri-
 al which all ages have condemned; which l when new and fresh is @ patent lie, and ! which when age has once struck is for ever
 after shabby fraudi You can't renew it or repair it 80 as to hide the daubs, patch
 es and crumblings of time. Brick work is
 honest and comforting, and within reason able limits can be made appropriately
 beautiful. For buildings of size where
 the element of mass is to be displayed, or
 where style and show are indulged, stone
 is the only material. If stone cannot be
 had from natural causes, or from lack of
 funds, let buildings be confined to proper
 use and let no display be attempted be-
 yond the capacity of the material em-
 ployed. A palace of brick, Hampton
 court in England for instance, may be
 made large and sufficient kingly; but the
 king must be 8 quiet, comfortable and
 popular king; not tyrant nor conquer
 or. The emperor is all right on the stuc-
 co question. More than once has he
 spoken en0rgetically on the subject. He
 is very much dissatisfied with the royal
 palace, which itself is nine-tenths stucco, with enough stone work about it to make
 more prominent the defects of the stucco. The royal palace is the ugliest royal edifice } in Europe It has no redeeming feature.
 The last two emperors wouldn't live in it,
 and only used it for state ceremonies which could not be squeezed into others. There is no compromising with it. It
 must be taken down and taken away and : an entirely new palace built up elsewhere; l for where it stands there is not space 7 enough for @ suitable building with pro-
 per approaches and surroundings. The idea of palace never comes into one's head without bitter regrets for the de.
 struction of the Tuilleries. The very per, B lection in site and building for the real. i dence of great potentatei So beautiful | piece of architecture and 30 calmly and | superbly posed that every visit to Paris nowadays has e poignant grief. The l | Parisians mourn the loss; but they are afraid to rebuild and restore for fear their . act might be taken ss an invitation to
 monarchy to return and re-erect itself.
 Without the Tuilleries the city from the Louvre to the Arc de r Etoile is deprived g of its central and nnifying feature.
 l Still we are not in Paris, but in hot Der l. lin. To take down the old palace and
 build up new one in keeping with the ! state and style of the young empire would 8 cost at least fifty million marks. More a marke than can be spared till the next war with France has been victoriously conclu- . ded and France has been obliterated from | the map of nations. The idea was enter 9 talnsd for while of raiaing the sum by