New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-07-03

1bav have part of the same deck. divided trans
versely by railing, TO which the second-crass
nav no respect. The entrances to some OF the
Ar,tcass cabins are fioul the secondclass part Of
the deck This blending OF the two classes seems
narrowed from the railways on shore, most of the
railway stations having the saline waitingroom
for the two classes. But ship and shore are two
different places. Five minutes III Il railway sta
ton is one thing, week on the Atlantic quite
another In the old days nobody was supposed
70 travel iirst-Cass in Germany except, the Ger
mans used TO say, Ensllshmen, Princes and fools.
That il so no longer, else the number of fools
has increased; for the fir>t-class carriages are
often crowded The sccond-cass passengers on
the FucIst Bismarck looked just as respectable is
the first. but they were RENTED - a separate
dining.room. if not to u separate deck
We heard at Fricdrlclisruh that Prince Bis
marck had dedicated his namcsakc to sea service.
He had come to her christening or whatever the
German ceremony may be. The compliment pleased
him, and the ship seemed TO him splendid crea-
ton as she is. He would not, a. wrote to you
the other day, entertain the idea OF going to
America III her. lie liked her best i'll port. Ii
struck him as remarkable that she carried grand
piano Il am no musician, as yOu KNOW sail
the Prince. but | sat down and played the Blue
Danube on the grand piano, which | lad not
played for forty years aud more We saw the
instrument on which this unique performance took
place: and should have liked 10 see the performer
once more.
Southampton is something over 800 miles from
Hamburg. The ship did it without hurIyinC in
little over twcnty-foui hours, dropping her anchor
in Southampton Water just before noon. English
time, on Friday. The want of organization which
had made the departure from, CuNhavcn disa-
al, f,l- L.. I'll
ampton There was AGAIN confusion about lug
cage though il came out all right in the end. The
ship was ahead of her time, and her Southampton
passengrrs were taken Oh by u special tender.
Half way up met the regular tender with the
contingent from London and also with u number
OF pei sons who lad come down. as they thought,
70 meet their friends on board the Bismarck. They
passed near enough to recognize each other. When
j went TO the Hamburg American Office at South
ampton tor letters ana papers addrcsSc u the
care Of the agents and not TO the ship | WAS told
they had been sent on board. So they had. and
they made the voyage to New-NOrli ana back
for which there no extra charge. That did
not much matter, nor the failure TO provide an
express TO London: w'rc but twenty passcn-
gers, and the company did not think us entitled
10 IA special, and perhaps we were not. In any
case we parted friends with the splendid ship
everybody concerned. Ii is net often that You
have a vessel of 5000 tons at Your disposition
for twcn,y-four hours TIP. II went T. New
York in her, l should take care 10 sit near the
saloon door.
We We're not more than four homs in doing
the scventy-eight miles which separate SOuthamp-
ton from London. 1t was still broad Daylight
we drove through the familiar streets. Evcry
step offered a contrast u the German capitol we
had so lately Quittcd. You do not expect IN Lon
don the airy brightness of Berlin. the spacious
streets, the palaces, the impression of magnin-
cence, tone or slightly succeed, which Berlin
leaves upon the mind. II you expect II sou do
not get il. The London houses looked mean, or
the majority Of them did. Bat when l.. ald
compared impressions found the same con
trasts had presented themselves 10 each of Us,
and that tlc first three points IL Which London
surpassed berlin were the >martncss OF the car
riages the dress of the women of the better Cas,c;
and the beauty of the women OF all class :.
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