Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-03

Interesting Account of That Famous
 City, Centuries Old, as Told by an
 Observing Traveler-Castles and Ca-
 thedrals Rich in Carvings and
 Pa1nttngs-Some Work That is Old.
 CT Than This Country.
 NUREMBERG, March, 1894. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Soon after writing my last letter (from Municb) journeyed on to this delightful town of Nuremberg. While taking cir cumambulatory walk about the suburbs of Munich was passing through thick TO- mantle piece of woods. heard some de- lightful bugle blasts far away on the top of the hills among the thick forest trees, and few minutes afterwards many bass voices came floating in She air, frighted with sweet music and large body of Ger man soldiers appeared marching down the hill, and as they turned bend of the road they presented fine appearance marching along from their target practice on the mountain. Their rich full voices rang out loud and clear, and as they sang in perfect harmony the whole mountain rang again with the echo. Writing of soldiers sing ing in unison, I remember reading that when four thousand Hsssians were taken prisoners at the defeat of Burgoyne, in IT'S, they were with sixteen hundred Brit ish troops marched to Now York for the purpose of effecting an exchange of pris- oners with the patriot forces.
 Eighteen hundred of these Hessians on their way to New York passed night at Sharon in Connecticut. Early on the fol- lowing morning, as they marched forth from Sharon, there burst from more than eighteen hundred tuneful, manly throats the grand notes of Luther's grandest hymn, "Ein fests Burg lat Unser Gott."
 Never before or since was there heard such 6 magnificent chorus in old Conneoti- cut, and this is the only good report that I sians, those heartless fellows for whose services in the field George the Third paid a German prince no less than six hundred and eighty-one dollare.
 This is musical country and every Ger man Is natural singer.
 This body of soldiers which we heard singing in the woods continued to sing ae they marched with the regular tramp, tramp, tramp of thair military march, and long after they had disappeared down the road their sweet notes were wafled back tc I us through the tops of the countless ss pens, whose white leaves trembled in the light air.
 But pray pardon my digression; let ul l get on to Nuremberg.
 ! Nuremberg is four and ons-half hour distant from Munich; not very far as tn, crow flies, but rather distant by rail as th, iron road follows the devious circuitou
 windings of the intervening valleys.
 The scenery is quite pretty, as there ar' many running streams and deep valleys
 while on the hill tops gre to be seen thos old medieval burghs frowning with thsi
 time blackened walls.
 We sped rapidly through many interest ing little towns, one of which was Pap
 penhelm, beautiful of situation, the hom of the ancient and historic family of Pap
 penheim. Passing through Schwaback an,
 Ingolstads, we at last came to full sto]
 at our destination -Nuremberg-andi in tn
 cool evening, with "ths red planet Mars
 cleaning in the heavens, we drove througl
 the ancient gate of this interesting city
 and put up at rne old hostelry SO familia
 to the thousands who annually pay a pill grimage to Nuremberg--the "Wittlesbacl
 Hof" Nuremberg is first mentioned sbou
 the year 1000; even st that time 1t was
 city of considerable sizs. It was formerl ! free city, and on that account it's develop
 ment was very rapid. Trade and com
 merce grew to vast proportions. Msgnif cent public buildings and churches wer
 erected, and the development of art an
 sciences produced Q period of greatnef
 and renown.
 The argosies whose sails whitened th blue Adriatic and Mediterranean, comin ) from the far Orient with rich cargoes frol the still farther east, from India, Persi
 and Damascus, loaded at Syrian port. poured their treasures into the lap ( Venice, the Queen of the Adriatic, an , these same valuable products came to N, } remberg and Augsberg, which were tf } distributing points to the different Eur ! pesn states. ..ss
 |, From this eastern intimacy Nursmbel 2 came to very great wealth and distinction , Nuremberg was the most brilliant jewel : the empire, 6 center of international COT l merce and . foeus of art and industr
 Watches, fintlocks. air guns and orgal : l were first made here. At the beginning ? the sixteenth century Nuremberg attain, l its commercial height.
 The discovery of new ocean passag : was . sad blow to the commercial prospe r ity of the city. It maintained its ind D pendence until the commencement of t @ present century, when 1t became subjs F to Bavaria, commencing new era of pre l. perity.
 Wohlgsmuth, Dursr, Kraft, visch