The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-16
FK0M OYER THE WATER.
Interesting Letter rom Emii sehesnbefss'
 in Germany to a Friend in This City.

Interesting Letter rom Emn sehoshbersef
 in Germany to a Friend in This ciS.
 The following letter giving an ae' count of the travels of F. sehoehberger. the well known merchant Of this elts has been received by a friend In this city and will prove interesting reading to Mir. Schoenberger's many friends Bahnhof hotel. Wurzburg, Germany Dear friend-I thought should Keep my promise to write you few lines from this side of the water, Well, l had a very pleasant voyage, l landed here on the 18th of June. We landed In Bremen. and the city looks the same as thirty years ago, l stopped there and took ride through it. and went In the Rathskeiier. n building 300 years old. 30 they say. l gave man some trihk- gelt. He showed me the twelve barrels of wine which represent the twelve apostles. He said that his majesty. the Kaiser Frederick. drank out Of the bar rel Judas" when he was sick. The Rathskeiler contains five different apartments, and some barrels contain 30, 900 bottles of wine which Is not for sale except by very rare chances.
 found Bremen too hot for me. so went to kassci. a very nice old city took q stroll drought the town and to the park. This park comprises one hundred acres and Is very beautiful. It also contains the ''old schloss." which means in English. castle. and a building they call the "Marmor." about the same size as the insurance build ing. was in there and the jnnitor told me that once a king bathed himself in wine there. The building is grand to see.
 There are twenty-five marmour stat ues and the ceiling that is 200 years old. also visited the picture gallery, a building about four square blocks.
 It contains pictures from old masters like Rubens, Van Dyke. Rafael, and 1t Is worth the while to see.
 Next I went to the palace in which there are 456 rooms all furnished from 250 to 300 years ago, and with the finest materials that could be seen. It was owned by Kurfurst but now 1t belongs to the Kaiser William. The dining room will hold about 1000 people. There are seventy-eight bed rooms, all most beautifully furnished, reception rooms, parlors furnished with engraved wood- work, and decorated painted ceilings, and silk and plush on the walls. The ball room Is as large as the Metropoli- tan Opera house in New York. The floor is of different kinds of the most expensive qualities of wood in little blocks. In six rooms below you see old fashioned kroneneenenter, in one of which you can light 800 candles.
 I went next to Wilhelmshohe, 'about four English miles from Kassel. It Is schloss (castle) equal to the one in kas sel, but more historic, because 1t was there that Napoleon was captured when he lost the battle with Germany. I was in there and it is just as nicely furnished as the other palace. Next month the kaizer's wife and family will come to live theFe. I saw one pie: ture there from Graf Moritz with his wife and fourteen children. This man Moritz played big roll in the thirty years war.
 went from there to Frankfort on the Main, a nice large city with very fine buildings. It's a large business place and people are all very busy there. I then went to Heidelberg and stopped there and went to see the old ruined schloss (castle) is to bad to see such | structure in ruins. All that's left are the walls and the cellar. The ruins are on high hill. In the cellar I saw the H. Delberger fass or barrel, it contains | when full 3OO,0OO bottles of wine. The farmers had to fill 1t and when 1t was full they always had dance. It is ] really worth while to see the barrel. I measured the walls of the ruins and | found them eighteen feet thick. | Some of the walls stand as high as 15O feet. So you can imagine the strength of the structure Heidelberg has college and university, but noth- ing in comparison with our Yale col lege. The janitor pointed out place and told me this was the ketzer." I asked him what that meant and he told me, "When the students make monkey" business that was their 'lock-up."
 From Heidelberg I went to Wirzburg. A very fine old city surrounded by a thick wall such as used to be in former years fesstung or fort. It has also a fine palace, the largest in Germany, ,and four times as large as the white house in Washington. The university here is larger than Yale college. asked how many students 1t contained and they told me 3,O00. It IS surrounded with beautiful parks.
 Just as thirty years ago, 50 to-day the women work in the fields and the dogs pull the milk wagons. The poor soldiers arc driven every morning through the streets like cattle I saw in Frankfort about 2,O00 soldiers marched through the streets, driven SC hard by their officers that they almost tainted on the street. felt sorry for the poor boys, all from twenty tc twenty-six years old. was thank full that none of my own boys were compelled to spend the best days of their lives in such . country. When ] saw the surrounding circumstances the blood run cold through my veins, and was very thankful that was under the banner of the stars and stripes and be. longed to the land of freedom.
 l Germany, for all that looks like g garden and every five or six miles you can see some old ruined structure (oas