The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-10

tenement districts of New York except
that there is an almost entire lack OF
the outward symptoms of penury; OF
squalor, there is, specifically, none.
The government, strong ito such a dis
agreeable extent in so many ways, here
shows its power in "a sanitary direction
that seems well nigh perfection. And
even in the poorest localities the ia
cades of the houses are bedecked with
a prodigal ornamentation that seems to
mock the baroness, the poverty behind
the street walls. Yet Berlin hasn't in
its % square miles Of territory as many
modern improvements as any American
city of $4,000 people.
l...
What wouldn't give for a good old
fashioned tough s.rloin steak, sighed
De VILE as we sat in the boudoir-like
restaurant of the hotel. He was daily
ing with an entrecote, the nearest
thing to a decent steak they can gouge
out OF a side of beef in this benighted
town. These Berlin steaks are too in
formally mellow and they haven't any
more beefy taste than sponge cake,
which they resemble so much In text
ure. I've a dim suspicion that they are
all mellowed with age and that any
thing of an Objectionable olfactory ma
ture thus superinduced has been over
come by a judIcious use OF the merry
de-odorizer."
/ todd him should be greatly obliged
IL he would repeat his statement in
writing and that Ii would AFFORD me
great pleasure ito send II as formulaf-
ed complaint to the imperial minister
of the interior.
The wheelman in Berlin Is a muck
abused creature. Chief among his
troubles is that no matter how numer-
Gus he may be he has no ''infiooence."
The Berlin alderman-I forget what
..auI has zr1lf mn NJ
pull even in his own ward, and he's
afraid of the police. Think Of that!
Verify, / believe a policeman would
run in an alderman in this town as
quick as he would call the hurry" for
a Chinaman.
And the next morning. the chances
are the justice wouldn't even let the
alderman sit alongside Of his honor
while the formers case was being
tried. So you see the wheelman
couldn't possibly expect aid from the
alderman II the wheelman wished
merely TO utterly ignore few ordln-
ances. AS a result. the bike rider
has to toe the mark in the matter OF
speed and bells and anything else that
the tyrand authorities may happen 20
rhink of. They aren't allowed TO come
into the heart OF the city at all. When
a city wheelman wants TO take spin
out Of town he has 20 walk MS wheel OF
have II sent TO very near the outskirts.
| haven't the faintest idea why there
should be any objection 10 the wheel
man owning the streets as they do at
home There Is certainly little OFF,
cial objection in Berlin to drivers of
carriages. and the like. running over
people. The run-Overs are very fire.
quent. for II Is an understood thing
that the authorities do not severely
punish drivers who run over pedes-
trians. As an official rema rked to me:
1T Is necessary for drivers to drive
fast and II is the place Of the pedes-
TRANS to look out. II they get run
over 1t is generally owing TO their own
carelessness."
Then why discriminate against the
poor wheelman? Let him have an
equal chance WIKI the droschke driver
| TO MAIN his fellow-citizen on foot. We
do these things better in the states
| by letting the wheelman have every
| thing for fear he may do up few
politicians at the polls. i tried TO ex-
plain the American system 10 Ger
man Staats-something or other, but he
/ couldn't grasp the situation. When
told him the American oicyclers were
| threatening 10 elect the next president
OF the United States on a straight
bike" platform. l could see that his
native pOliteness only stood in the way
| Of mis- al least insinuatlng that i was
| guilty OF exaggeraIOn.
Charles Lederer.