The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-03
NEW AvEN 1885,

floor. Both apartments are kept up in
 the state in which they were left by
 their imperial occupants. We visited
 this palace and were intensely interest ed in it's varied contents. It is palace
 in which one could settle right down
 and feel at home, there is no cold form
 al air about it, 1t resembles an elegant
 handsomely furnished city house and
 one could live delightfully."- in the home
 of the brave old emperor. Right in front of the windows of this palace stands the magnificent statue of Fred
 erick the Great, a very impressive and
 masterly work in bronze, the grandest monument of it's kind in Europe; it is
 forty-four feet in height, and serves as landmark up and down the length of the Linden. which really begins at the base of this statue. As you go down the Linden from the statue on the left hand is an asphalt driveway for carriages and light vehicles, then row of lindens and another roadway paved with Belgian blocks, for heavy draught carts then another row of
 trees and a broad gravel walk of forty
 feet for pedestrians, and still another
 row of trees, then a sand track twenty feet wide with another row of trees, this
 path is for officers on horseback, still another paved roadway on the extreme
 right, thus we have four avenues and
 broad central foot path extending
 right away from the statue of Frederick
 the Great to the "Brandenburger Thor"
 the western limit of the "Unter den Linden" These avenues are as straight
 as an arrow, and together form one of
 the finest boulevards in Europe,
 The statue of Frederick the Great de- serves special attention, for two months I passed and repassed this statue
 and never wearied of studying the fine
 art which is discernible in the very
 many bronze figures which form the
 base of this colossal statue.
 The hero is on his famous horse Sha-
 dow, with his coronation robes and his
 familiar walking stick. The upper part
 of the pedestal contains scenes from
 Frederick's life with figures of Modera-
 tion, Justice, Wisdom and Strength at
 the corners. Then there are four eques-
 trian figures representing Prince Hen ", Duke Ferdinand, and those old bat
 tered heroes Zeither and Seydltz with
 many others, friends and contemporar-
 ies of Frederick the Great; all are of
 life size in enduring bronze. The foun-
 dation stone of this grand statue was
 laid May 31, 1S40, the hundredth anni- versary of the accession of Frederick
 the Great to the throne of Prussia; the
 monument was completed in 1851. Of al the colossal bronzes in Berlin this
 stands without its peer. And the great
 hero was we'll worthy of such glorious
 monument. Of all the sovereigns of Prussia he did more for her glory than any other and the great Frederick was by far the greatest real friend the Prus- slans ever had. Sometimes while quietly beholding this glorious tribute of na-
 tion's honor and love, I would run back in my mind to the youth of Frederick the Great and think of the time when he was a timid retiring lad, and almost crushed to madness by the intolerable cruelty of his brutal sire, Frederick Wilhelm l. His royal father hated him, and for years insulted him to such an extent that the youth was in despair. Carlyle draws a fearful picture as he portrays the fathers treatment. And yet the fathers name merely survives In the niche of history as the father of Frederick the Great, who was Fred erick Wilhelm l. No halo of glory sur rounds his name, he did nothing in his long reign but tyrannize over his prom ising son, grumble at his gouty feet, | and drill his giant grenadiers. Father and son have lain side by side in the lit- tie room beneath the pulpit in the Gar rison church at Potsdam for more than one hundred years, the gigantic father in a huge marble sarcophayno and close to his side rests his illustrious son in a plain marble ca0ket short as a boys | for he was, strange to relate, only 3 feet inches tall When Napoleon af- ter the equalization of Berlin paid his visit to this room in the little church of Potsdam he stood silent for a long time, and then placing his hand on the casket containing the remains Of Fred erick the Great he exclaimed, "If thou hads't been king, I never should have been here! He pald no attention to the insignificant giant behind him. But let us return to the Linden for we are digressing. As we leave the statue be- hind us we proceed down the Linden" passing the great Cafe Bauer on the corner of Frederick strasse. This is the largest and most popular restaurant in Berlin. and is open from a, m. to 3 a, m. every day of the year.
 It is thronged with the fashonables of the city and it is the popular resort for all classes. Frederick strasse here crosses the Linden" /" "Charlotten stras- se." crosses the Linden" not far off | These are very busy streets, forming | chief arteries among nearly 500 streets, l they actually throb with life all day and nearly all the night long. Cros- l sing Frederick strasse we pass the | Passage" or Kaiser Gallerie," one of | the busiest arcades in Europe, and we | continue walking along the crowded | thoroughfare and after passing many | fine shops and imposing buildings we