New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-02-14
a a German
in Germany.
Personal Impressions and Observations Noted
During visit to the FathefIand by one
Of New Ulm's Prominent Citizens.
Peter Scherer Writes an Interesting Letter
from Germany.

WebbeT The REVIEW is this week en-
abled to present to its readers a very in
teresting letter written by P. Scherer de-
scriptive of the travels of himself and
wife through Germany. The letter,
which was written from Nurnberg the
latter part of January, says: .Es. Es..9 q.
"Taking it for granted that it will in
terest. you to hear what we have seen in
this country, will try and give you an
idea of it as well as am able. -. -,
"My children may have told you all
about our sea voyage, therefore will
commence from the time we arrived at
sBremerhaven. We did not see much of
that place because we had no time, as
the steamship company forwards all it's
passengers to Bremen by rail as soon as
they are landed. The first surprise we
had was when we got into our second
class railroad cars. They are very fine,
red velvet seats with high backs, the
cars divided into compartments for from
Six to seven persons, each seat separat-
ed, with side cushions to lean the head
against. The cars are steam heated and
tits left to the passengers to regulate
the temperature. Also other necessary
accommodations for every two ~,.npart
ments; no smoking (nicht Naucher
coupe.) There is no trouble on the
whole trip about tickets, passengers
must show them when they enter the
car and deliver them at the gate of the
depot building at their destination.
The next surprise for strangers, espec-
tally Americans, is the perfect cleanli-
ness of all the cities. Washington is the
only American city that can compare
with them in that respect. Bremen is
not very large city, but has handsome
buildings, private as we'll as public. 1t
has large city library, public baths and
many old and interesting monuments.
The Raths house (city halD was COM
menced in IN 400 and is perfect gem
in regard to architecture, it has very
large and strongly built deep cellars un-
der it where the city keeps the best and
oldest wine in all Germany which it
sells to the public at actual cost, paving
all the expense of running the establish
ment out of the city treasury. We had
taste Of the wine. Parts of the old
Notifications are still to be seen but are
remodelled into a beautiful park with
lakes and all the other REQ quisites of such
resorts.
Berlin, where we next went, is COM
paratively new city, or is at least mod.
ernlzed as much as could be without too
much cost. The traffic of Berlin is fully
as much as in New York or Chicago bat
is somewhat different. There are more
people in the streets during all parts of
the day and not so much heavy teaming
and conveying of goods and freight
| There are electric street cars with all the
different kinds of motors, horse cars
| with one and two horses, omnibuses
with top seats, elevated street railways
and innumerable hacks, here called
Droschken. All these coaveyances are
crowded with passengers nearly all day
The sights and historical places to be
seen are so many that it would take
months to visit them ALL.
| We visited the castle where the En-.
peror resides, the Reichstags building
with the session halls of both houses AMI
saw. how they manage when ansimport.
ant vote is taken in the lower house
All members have to leave the hall anG
istay in adjoining corridors and then en-
ter the hall again either through the
|'Ja" or 'Nein' door according to how
they wish to vote. The Thiergarten, the
Zoologlsche Garten and number Of mu.
scum picture galleries are well worth
seeing, but a person becomes so over.
filed that il finally becomes tirssome
All the public building are built accord.
ing to architectural schools Of ancien,
81 moder modern times and make grea,
Impression upon the visitor, but the ma
terial seems to be, and IS, cheap com
pared with our American structures
Public buildings here capnot compar.
with the public library in Washington
Incr the post Office lately completed.
From Berlin we went to Leipzig. ii
Isaxony The highest court of the Ger
man Empire convenes here in 8 very
large and beautiful building erected 10
that purp pose. w had the good fortun,