The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-21
VISIT TO BERLINS MUSEUMS.
ONE OF THE MOST EMPHASIZING IS
 THE HOHENzOLLERN'S

It Consists of a Series of Rooms-In the
 Industrial Museum There is Ancient
 Carved Furniture-DOOr Knockers of
 Rare Beauty-Beauties of the Royal
 Museums.
 Dresden, January g. 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 One of the most interesting places in Berlin is the Hohenzollern museum, which consists of personal reminiscent ces of the Prussian or Hohenzollern em- perors, from the days of the Great Elector, down to the present time. Here is collected a large number of ob- jects and articles of interest, which serve to show the progress of the two last centuries. This museum consists of series of rooms in the "Monbijon" Chateau" which was built in 17OS; it was the residence of Queen Sophia Dor othea, wife of Frederick William l., and the mother of Frederick the Great. It is prettily situated on the banks of the Spree, and is in what is now called the Rosenthal quarter, over beyond the National gallery. The Monbijon Platz, in which the chateau is situated, is a charming spot, lovely garden right in a great busy city; one, however, might think from it's quiet and seclusion that it was far away in the country; bright lawns and pretty walks extend in all directions, and in the leafy month of June it is charming retreat from the city heat
 In this museum are shown the rooms of the Great Elector,' one of which is fitted up exactly like the room in which he lived at Koenigsburg; here are col Iected many articles which belonged to that great warrior.
 In the room of the old Electors are shown many relics dating from the fif- teenth century. Then there are the rooms of the handsome Frederick l. and his Queen Sophia, where are ar- ranged many relics of their reign. In the room of Frederick William I. are many ancient tankards, fine glass and china, also carved furniture in great
 
 variety Relics of his famous Tobacco Parliament are very interesting. Those old fellows were very fond of to- bacco, to judge from their curious pipes and fat tobacco pouches.
 In the Ancestral gallery we see large tapestries, representing the ex- ploits of the "Great Elector," also por- traits of the Electors of Brandenburg | and Prussian kings The gallery of busts contains busts of members of the | royal family, which are pleasing to ir- spect. Three rooms are filled with rel ics connected with Frederick the Great. | His clothes from his childhood are shown here, also his musical compost tions, flutes, walking sticks and sketch es.
 His famius horse "Conde" (stuffed) in state harness and many historical and personal relics of very great inter- est are to be seen here. The rooms of Queen Louise are fitted up in the style of her rooms at Potsdam; they contain among very many items her bedroom furniture and the homely little cradle of the Emperor William I.
 As many as forty portraits of this lovely queen adorn the walls, but none of them to my eye at all resemble the celebrated portrait of this queen which hangs in the Cologne gallery; which leads me to believe that picture to be merely an ideal one. In the rooms of Emperor William I, are many interest ing souvenirs; to inspect them carefully would occupy a very long time; among many things here is to be seen the ta- ble at which Napoleon III. signed the declaration of war in 1870. The memo rial room of Emperor William I. is a gruesome affair, filled with crape and withered flowers; there are similar rooms devoted to the memory of the Empress Augusta and Frederick IT., all of which go to show that kings and queens pass away and die just as do other mortals ( These memorial rooms are filled with ( gold and silver tributes from Germans from all over the world, and their in- r trinsic value of these offerings is very g great. But the three combined rooms I cannot compare in any degree to the I glory and magnificence of the memori- S al room of Emperor Victor Emanuel at i the Quirinal palace at Rome. That | gorgeous collection is far superior to F of its kind in Europe. I Not far from the chateau is the new c synagogue, a vast structure seating T three thousand people; the cost of this b building was two million marks. b We attended Friday evening service c (the thing to do in Berlin) and the n "dim religious light" streaming b the windows produced weird b effect, as the priests performed their fl singular service with their hats on h their heads. n TO me it seems to show want of re- d spect to the God of Abraham to wor- tI ship with covered heads. W The synagogue is an impressive is