The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-21

qulfeQ years to perfect and millions
 were necessary to complete it in it's
 present state. Imagine the magnif-
 cence of this grand building if you can;
 when I mention that it Is situated in
 the midst of a garden of eighteen hun
 dred acres, containing many other
 large college buildings. This garden is
 highly cultivated and has an air of re-
 finement as everywhere you perceive
 great tree ferns and gigantic palms,
 causing one almost to believe he was
 in the tropics, Bright fountains and
 velvet lawns with umbrageous shrubs
 on every side render the whole scene a
 fairy one. A few years hence the good
 folks of New Haven will wonder why
 Yale university was not situated out
 side the city in a large tract of land,
 rather than existing in the heart of
 New Haven with it's dormitories and
 halls packed so closely together that
 the architecture of it's buildings is inn
 possible to be studied or separated,
 Our American colleges want great
 space for their buildings, and knowing this to be the case, how strange it is that the college authorities prefer to
 build in such contracted spaces.
 One mile out beyond the Technical college is the Palace" consisting of a group of buildings of total length of 1850 feet. The oldest portion of this palace was built in 169O It was at one time occupied by Frederick the Great,
 and visitors are shown number of
 rooms containing numerous relics of
 this great man. The frescoes, tapes
 tries, mirrors and collection of porce-
 laine are very interesting, and visit
 made herein in summer is particularly l delightful. The grounds are very eX- | tensive and a perfect array of statues and busts is to be seen about the walks.
 beneath the closely trimmed shrubs
 and trees. This garden was laid out by Le Notre, the celebrated French land scape gardener; it is a favorite resort for the people of Berlin and Charlotten- burg. After wandering through de- | lightful paths we come at last to the mausoleum at the end of an avenue of ! tall pines. This is q Dorlc temple con- | taining the tombs of Frederick Will | liam III. and his Queen Louise. The latter died in 1S1O Frederick William III. died in 1S40. The recumbent fig
 ures of these illustrious personages are very striking and most life like These figures are executed in marble and are masterpieces of the great sculptor
 Rauch. They appear as if asleep and so natural are they that 1t really seems as if they might suddenly awaken into active life. The heart of Frederick William ". is buried at the feet of his royal mother. The magnificent tombs of the Emperor William I. and Queen Augusta were erected here in July last. | Tbio Is O NfaOna fO iah | thousands of Germans constantly flock | The light enters through purple glass windows and the effect is very lovely. | These tombs are placed in a marble | room, and we ascend a few steps to | reach it; the marble candelabra and al- tar in the recess give the place the ap- | pearance of chapel, which 1t is really | intended to be, and at certain times service is held here. Let us now drive
 back through the Thier Garten and | pass under the Brandenburger Thor. | We pass through the Pariser Platz and | by the Aquarium and up the Unter den
 Linden. As we drive about Berlin we find 1t to be very busy city; in fact 1t reminds us of busy Chicago. We will drive through some of It's six hundred streets and past few of Its sixty pub lie squares We occasionally will pass some of its theaters, of which the city can boast of no less than twenty-five. Many large hospitals are also to be seen, and immense barrack buildings scattered throughout the city. Tn a moment twenty-five thousand soldiers can be called out, fully equipped for war; these are quartered In all parts of the city. No less than fifteen great halls are built here for public enter tainment; they are among the large buildings of the city The Botanical Garden was founded in 1879 and is one of the largest in Europe; there are over twenty thousand specimens of plants, and I rejoced to see a few glo- siously symmetrical elms, reminding me of our fine American elms.
 The collection of cacti and palms Is @ large one, and made me almost believe l was really back again In the delight ful tropics as I walked among these gi- gantic exotics. The Victoria Regina" is a splendid specimen. I should al- most fear to give the diameter of it's , huge leaves; they would almost support ii a good sized man, and in their huge he could ferry himself ; across the pond. In our drive we notice B number of publishing houses, for l which Berlin is celebrated. Next to Z Leipsic Berlin is the largest publishing ( center in Europe, and these books find { their way to every part of the globe. { Berlin boasts many excellent schools, $ and theIf school buildings and school s system stand altogether unrivalled; the school advantages in Prussia are far I ahead of those of all other countries, f even superior to the same advantages 1 of the United States. One thing Berlin { s famous for, and that is its posses l sion of a dozen or more museums, all E 1f the first order. I
 The Post-off1ce museum on Leipzlgen a ;trasse is of great interest as showing t connected with the postal r of all countries We ob- s jerve here the system of the post-office c n remote lands, such as India, China, | Japan, as well as the styles of postal f ailroad carriages and post-office boxes, 2c, Sc. We saw here our plain square t ron boxes used in the United States for c collecting letters on street corners; we Llso noticed some uniforms worn by |