New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-13
BERLIN OUTDOORS.
THE GEOLOGICAL GARDENS AND OTHCH
BEER GARDENs-MCsIC IN BERLIN.

THE BIOLOGICAL GARDENS AND OTHCH
BEER GARDENs-MCsIC IN BERLIN.
Berlin, May 49,
1t is sharp curve from the Mausoleum
at Charlottenburg to the Geological Gardens,
but they lie on the road back to Berlin,
not far from it, and the clearness of ones i'm.
pressions is not, obscured by contrasts. And will
take the Geological Gardens as good example Of
outdoor life in Berlin and throughout Germany, 90
far as know it, The example will be less strange
to you in New-York or in Cincinnati, or In Chi.
cago or ST. Louis, than it would be to the English
in London. The Geological Gardens in London
are school in natural history, and also play.
ground for children. In Berlin they are, to put IL
plainly, very superior beer garden. The COL
lection of animals is excellent one, but on
neither occasion when E. and visited the place
did the anifna's seem to be the chief attraction.
The attractions were the music md the open
air restaurants, the terraces, where you migho
sit beneath a brilliant sky or in the shade and
drink unlimited beer, chocolate tea or coffee;
the trees, the Kaleidoscope throngs Of good Ger.
mans, male and female, the murmur OF talk from
a thousand groups, dtfused in the open air that
the Teutonic cultural was softened, and the tone
agreeable to tho foreign ear the animation, the
spectacle of all these excellent and simple-minded
by no ,cruple or thought Of Sir Wifrid Lawson
or Of Mr.. Neal Dow; the good nature that pre-
vailed, the smiles on cheerful faces: and perhaps
most of all the air and sunlight and the sense Of
freedom and space We thought it all perfectly
delightful One Of the great military bands was
playing, and playing admirably-I think the band
Of one of the Guards regiments
We duly paid our visit, two visits, indeed, to
the lions, and to the animals whom L always
find so much more interesting than lions, the far'
away COUSINS Of the faithful and beautiful friend
who has shared my breakfast for the last nine
years at home. We saw them fed. We saw tho
keeper carcss lioness who came at his call; an
amiabe creature who nevertheless fixed her very
hungry eyes on little boy next u.s. and TOOK
no pains TO conceal her disappointment when she
found she was not to .hav" him for supper
Wherever we wandered the place Ind a charm,
even independently of heer. The music began
at four and promised to go on-with very long
German pauses-tl nine or later We were en-.
Gagged TO dine in Berlin, and we debated whether
we would forget our dinner. or lose the car
ri,ge and stay on in the Gardens, and apologize
next day. But in tho end, and at the lass
moment, we said goodby to the Gardens ana
the Germans and kept our engagement. SHOULD
like-both of us would like-to go back TO them
day after day, and 10 krolfs, which uniucNly
was no: yet open-a beer garden where tho
best music in Germany is to be heard. "hat u
there in the name beer garden which shocks tns
prudish soul of the Enelshman and even OF some
Americans, and why cannot both OF US adops
what is good and agreeable from the customs
OF other people?
ask III, question, imagining that IN New'
York il is the German rather than the Amerl'
can who attends these places of rational, ana
not too intellectual, recreation. In London 'hey
do not exist. The climate, which is forever
thrown in ones face, i no answer Inc COZ"
in Berlin is far more rigorous than in London
and the season later, and it rains in both capi-
tails And in truth, there are often In L'noo"
whole months Of real sumner. Bat the brlton'
20 whom a new idea is an agony ana an "h-
familiar custom hateful prefers. ana VIII ions
rre fer his gin palace and his stuiiy music-ha'is
and the squalid horrors of the puoilc-houSe -
the corner of a muddy street
That is the penalty he pays for peing
Briton lie has whole inheritance OF preJo"ice0
and Of needless limitations upon life and the
natural innocent, cnjoyments oil llIe' hiS
Professionalism turned sour is dearer to MIN tiau
when il is sweet Germany, too is irotes'aho
country-Prussia, at any rate, is PROTESTANT anu
evangelical Christianity is as much tie no'c "
good society in Berlin as il is in Chaplain Du' ~
is possible To be Protestant "itho"e "'i'7
tancal-a thing so different from Puritan that
tho only connection between the TWO worus
pbilolorieal. The British Pharisee whether he
10 Cburchman or Nonconformist holds up his
,,pJs in horror at the Continental Sundly. his
real objection TO the beer garden seems - be thas
il it is allowed weekdays, it will become so a"
,ractivc that people will have it on Sundays also.
I wish they would but they have no chanoe
Tho most powerful political engine In Lnelana
j. the Lords Day Observance Society, oaho VI
zealots who, Of themselves and by the spirie VI
which they are the representatives, coe sho9s
and postoffces and places Of amusement, ana Az
rcsnonsble for a given number OF SUICIDES eacn
year. Nobody is strong enough 70 RESIST "u""
less to overcome these influences.
Neither the Geological Gardens nor any OF inc
.o,,door resor,s-except one-n Berlin or else.
where, attract an aristocratic company. the~
patrons are the people, the middle ana lower
middle classes and the working men and women.
The Falm Gardens at Frankfort-onthe-Maln are
crowded with tho same classes; with, at times,
an infusion of visitors from Homburg, English
American and others, Of the superior classes:
Krolls in Berlin used TO be frequenteo' anu
presume still is during the summer by all classes;
the best people, some OF the Dest going thero
for the music, OF which some Of the most refined
and excellent anywhere to be heard in Berlin 10
there supplied | will explain in moment why
il is not supplied at the opera, and why an OPEN
air garden collects such audience as cannos
lie seen within the walls of the Royal Opera
House Kroll's is what we in America sometimes
call an institution. Ii has character OK iu
own and a speciality, or several specIalties.
But the traveller may betake himself with eauas
safety TO the Flora, for example. in Charlot!en'
burg, where he will pay IL cents for admission
and more il he goes inside and wants reserved
seat; frst second, or third class. He wiz not
want 10 90 inside unless it rains. lie will IND
military bands playing, and pleasant grounds abous
which he may wander, and beer everywhere;
palm house, also, as big as if it were in Kew, ana