Evening star., 1902-01-18

Ing, Rise out OF bed instantly and poke
| ABOUT in your pockets, or send over the
house or telephone downtown for 10 cents
| precise, and have your maid hand IL to the
| UNIFORM waiting at the door" or undergo
inexperienced trouble, because somebody
mas sent you letter a grain too heavy7"
| 10 they and their buffers and maids and
| tne whole household feel a thrill OF tri-
umph when package is carried to the
| post, and Is accepted, which is such un-
deniable evidence OF cleverness in the
packer ana his advisers such proof that
| Tor once the right material was chosen,
| the night kind of twine the correct for
| mulary of address, the allowance weight
AhdIwhat is naturally as rare as a piece
| OF old Batttger china-do Americans ever
get newspaper with a read this or
! please return this item" written surrop-
titieusly inside which the uniform has not
discovered and fined them thirty-fiye pfen-
mig for, an omission which is infallible that
1or once fate has got the better OF the post
oWclals, and have they accordingly risen
| on their feet and dancing in delight In
admiration of fate? No. One must dwell
In the fatherland to enjoy such pleasures:
so, repeat, the German post surpasses
the American postal service.
Has Good Points, Too.
Then take the railways. American roll
ing stock and raibeds. are far and away
heavier and firmer than any that can be
shown by the German governments and
private corporations that own the German
railways. On the other hand, travellers In
Germany when they arrive at their desti-
nation may be sure of Ii. They need not
Sit on pins and needles, If the place be new
ana unknown by its aspect to them, heark-
ening for hours to jargon bawled out by
conductor, then pass by the place be-
cause the name Of ii Is on a signboard
a few feet long and a foot wide, invisible
save only to passengers whose seats hap
pen TO be opposite to the sign when the
train stops. The names of stopping places
along German railroads advertised nv
three large signboards, one at each end Of
the station beside the transparent glass
signboard in the middle. Hence, the first
glance out of window discovers the
identity of station. What superior hand
bag service is met with, moreover, in Ger
man stations. 1t needs but wave of the
hand from doorway or window to call TO
ones aid, on the train stopping, quiet
man, .cleanly clad, identifiable by a num-
Der, who will relieve one of ones bag and
packages, summon a cab and bring ones
trunks to It, for a trifling compensation
As for depot conyeniences, one has only
to think of the contrast between what
most American ones present and the spot
lessly clean waiting and refreshment rooms
of German village depots to begin to think
the American people have been the dupes
OF their railway owners, who, by emphs-
sizing the excellence of the rolling stock,
have diverted attention from the untidy,
mfserably inconvenient shelters too often
found along their roads.
Admits q Tie.
All things considered, between American
railways and German ones, it's tie. Sons
points in the American system are superior,
on other points the Germans stand ahead.
There is q kind of democratic evenfiess
about German public resorts of all species:
If nothing is 80 stupendously fine as what
the Americans can display, so is there
nothing quite so shabby, cheap and dirty.
They have thus no Waldorf hotels, but
then they have no small town or village
inns that are not massively built either.
They do not boast of one city restaurant
where it costs You s. to lunch. At the
same time. neither do they have to hush
over 10000 rural hotel dinners which it
costs you an indigestion to eat.
1 really think we should call a tie here
again. If America has the grandest hotels,
Germany has a higher average of solid
clean inns. where good food. well cooked.
may be had.
Our review then would show that IN
church matters the balance is pretty near
ly all on the American side; in school dis
cipline, mostly. But that in respect OF
police integrity the Germans are superior.
They beat Americans likewise in the ad.
ministration or control OF cities highways.
public conveyances and in the average exS
celence Of their public houses.