The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-20
ADDITIONAL CITY NEWS
BUNNlE MEAD IN EUROPE
jumping From Place to Place on the
Cent neut

/ ed from Bunnie Mead, his son, letter
from Lucerne Switzerland, telling him OF
what he sees in Europe. He is accom-
panied by Mrs. Mead. and from the let
| ter it will be- seen that Bunnie's old
Wichita hustling abilities have suffered
no diminution. He writes:
| We left London August % at 9 a. m.
and took train for Dover, southeast cor
ner of England, where the narrowest part
of the channel separates it from Calais
twenty-five miles. Reached Dover about
80 and took steamer, long, slender
and swift side-wheeler, which crosses In
one and a half hours. The coast at
Dover is perpendicular chalk cliffs sew
| eral hundred feet high and plainly visible
I across the channel The passage was
| quite rough and I was nearly sick. Cora
was not affected and felt fine. Reached
| Calais about l p. m and seemed In a
strange country, new language and ev-
| erything seemed different. Got box Of
| lunch which contained a bottle Of wine
and got aboard train for Brussels, Bel
GUM. Getting into Belgium see women
working in fields and blowing done with
single OK or COW and wooden plow of
crude design.
Reached Brussels middle OF afternoon
and stopped at Hotel Belle Vue, French,
and a very good hotel; enjoyed cooking.
Think cooking and service in European
hotels much better than American on an
average but everything is quite differ
/ ent and some things a little hard to get
used TO. They don't serve tea. coffee nor
water at regular meals. but expect people
to drink wine at fancy prices. Instead OF
| breakfast they usually have coffee, with
| bred, butter and preserves or honey
sometimes called a plain breakfast
Frenchmen have breakfast about y or
o'clock.
| Coffee is drank half black coffee and
half boiled milk, with sugar. You never
see cream on the table as we use IT, Tea
is taken at or in the afternoon, lots
of business men going to cafes then to
get it.
Butter is fresh churned and unsalted
with a creamy taste. 1 like It very much
better than the American butter. 1t IS
usually served at the end Of a meal Ike
cheese, but we have 1t brought on with
the other things.
We found Brussels an interesting city.
about half Dutch and half French, half
| million people; quite interesting historic
ally Lots Of lace stores, run principally
to "rope-in" tourists. They are worse
than land agents and stand in with the
ping at their places we didn't buy any.
as we were not posted on value and they
ask all kinds Of prices.
Cab fares (onehorsef are from % TO 50
cents an hour for two persons. OF about
% cents TO be taken within two miles.
We left Brussels al l O'Clock and RODE
to Antwerp, where we laid over two
hours: drove around city and spent half
an hour in big gallery Of Dutch paintings.
very fine; numerous paintings b. Rubens.
Van Dyk and other painters.
Took train and reached Rotterdam. Hol-
land. at dark; stayed all night. Immense
shipping here. being mouth OF Rhine.
Many OF the streets are canals and full
Of boats. Rode around city ard visited
windmins grinding grain. etc. rariny.
Took train at noon and rode through the
typical part OF Holland. below sea Level
al high tide; al grazing and full of cat
tie. The country is divided into two dis
T
above the jewel Of the country and from
which the water flows through trap gates
into The sea at low Tide the gates pre-
venting the water flowing back al high
tide Into these canals the water Is
raised from q set OF snail secondary
canals several feet lower. b breast
wheels run by v5udrr.iis. Into tse sec
ondary canals the water rs raised by
some means from large dliches running
through the land SINAI ditches rzdlate
from the large one 800 q - feet apart
and the water stands n them within 8
foot % the surface
we passed through The TssEzss," May
small cities and Harlem The center the
center q bulb raising Industry and wasre
We saw the best kept gardens Ne have
seen Reaches5 Anster3su csrftal q
Holland. GO os people. middle q after
MON IN pain 4 fine ard very iae resflax
city Canals ~ al TIE main Efre@ss nfta
barrow roasvay ca each side Frs grit