The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-23
BACK FROM A
TOUR ABROAD
Mr.. and Mrs. Gross Return
From Trip in Europe.
CHANGE IN GERMANY
Within the Last Thirty Years,
Mr.. Gross Says, Is Wonderful
CHANGE IN GERMANY

After a three months tour of Europe,
Mr.. and Mrs. I Gross yesterday re-
turned to Wichita. They have had
delightful trip. one such as only expert
cnced travellers enjoy. and have the
added satisfaction OF knowing that their
health has been restored, the waters OF
the famous Carlsbad aiding in this. At
Carlsbad and in the midst of its gay life
they spent five weeks; then they visited
other cities. Nuremberg. Wirzberg.
Frankfort-on-M Main, Wiesbaden. Bingen-
on-the- Rhine, Mainz Berlin. Hamburg.
taking the steamship for home at the last
place. They met no one from Wichita in
their travels, but did see the parents
and sister of Mrs. Charles Cohn in Carls-
bad
Speaking of Germany Mr.. Gross said
last evening: You cannot call the
change in Germany in the last thirty
years anything less than wonderful The
whole country shows progress of a
marked kind. Seemingly the change has
affected everything. the business life, the
dress. the customs of the people There
as here electricity has played the big
part In the transformation. However, in
the matter Of transportation we are yet
far ahead Of them. I would say that
their railroad locomotives for instance,
do not weigh a third as much as our big
iron horses. The passenger coaches are
also light. There are four classes in rail
road travel. First-class gives you
plush-lined seat; second-class gives you
a corduroy-lined seat; thiTd-class gives
you plain hard seat, and fourth-class IS
standing room. When you get on train
you enter from the side OF Il little COM
partment and are locked in. I couldn't
contrasted him with our American con-
6uctor. Our conductor is leader, a man
ager in a nice uniform, a man of high
intelligence. In Germany the conductor
isn't anything. He tust hangs onto the
train and goes along anyhow. He doesn't
know much and is not encouraged appar-
entity by the government, who owns the
railroads. TO know that"
Continuing, Mr.. Gross said: THE thing
which strikes all Americans forcibly in
Europe however, is the tipping custom
The way the empty hand is pushed out
at you is amazing TO behold. In your
restaurant there is not one idividual TO
hold you up, but three and sometimes
four. You must remember. even, the
man who opens the door for you What
would happen IL you refused TO tip? Wen.
that crowd simply wouldn't wait on you.
They freeze you. We have tipping in
a way In this country. OF course, but in
Europe, It is a fine art
You were at Bingen on the Rhine? Is
that the Bingen OF the poetry"
Yes. il is the same Bingen. II is truly
fair Bingen, a beautiful little town Of
O.OoO people. as pretty as a picture. The
whole Rhine country is like fairyland."
At the unwilling of a monument Mr..
Gross saw Emperor William, the Kaiser
and the Crown-P Prince. Mr. Gross says
that Emperor William appeared to him
to be smaller man than he is usually
pictured.
The Wichltans were glad to get home
again. While their tour was interesting,
and beneficial, they voted
that there is no place like home after all.
and watched with longing for the first
outlines Of Wichita as they approached
the city Their host of friends Will well
Coma than, hacl. haa rttllN