Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-21
Correspondence of the Desert Ne~ BY Frank G. Carpenter

lin. The people floeked In from all mart,
Of the empire to see If they could no,
get their share Of It, and Berlin grev
II mas been growing ever since, and not.
J Nlthstanding the hard times it Is grow.
| ing To-Day. IL now covers % square
Males In The Spree Valley and Is reach.
ms out In every direction.
HOW GERMAN CITIES THRIVE,
a similar growth has taken placs
throughout the German empire. Nearly
SFelF city mas put on the seven league
poots OF modern progress. and has hmm
| new buildings faster than most OF our
american towns. The improvements
nave been better than ours. and yo,,
WIN not find country on earth thai
mas as many fine cities as Germany IN
proportion TO Its population.
Let me give you n few facts about
scHle oil the cities | know. | first came
10 Germany over 20 years ago and the
sIo"th mas been almost altogether since
tha1 Time Leipslg Is three times as
large as II was then. Ii had 100 O0O
population at the time of the Franco
RUSSIAN war and II numbers almost
nan million today Munich and Dres-
d'N each have now half million. Rres.
iau has $4,000, Cologne 100000, and
Frankfort on the Main about 100000
Dortmund. Barmen and Danzlg hive
each l4O,OO0 Chemnitz, 2OOOOO and
Hamburg has three-quarters OF a mil
non and Is fast rising toward the mil
lion mark.
The United States has IS towns which
nave more than 100000 populatlon
RUSSIA Is not as big as Texas and 1t
mas ~ towns Of more than 900 popu-
iation. Stettln Is bigger than Minneap.
o!is' Dusseldorf is bigger than Louis.
ylne, Hanover ranks with Newark. n
D.. Altoona Is about as large as ST
faul and Elborfeld and Halle are of
ABOUT the saline size. Nuremberg is
about as big rs Washington, and Char.
lottenburg and Koenigsburg on the
edge Of Berlin. are each 10000 and
more. Indeed the whole country is
growing and there are good sized cities
mere the names of which We hardly
Know, Just now the times are hard
and the country is in the midst of a
business depression. It has. however,
plenty OF resources, and its savings
pdhhS are lull'
BERLIN FROM THE RINGBAHN
One of the best ways for a birds eye
view OF Berlin Is a ride on the Ring
bshn. This Is an elevated railway en-
clrcllng the city and stopping at all the
chief sections. There are two branches
the North Ring and the South Ring.
which have trains every few minutes.
The cars move by steam and the fares
are exceedingly low You can ride for
an hour for FIVE cents third class, and
the second and first classes are not very
expensive, There are slot machines at
the stations which sell third-class tick
els for the ordinary trip for two and
no-half cents each. Such a ticket gives
4 ride for five stations, and if you 60
further you must arrange for an extra
payment at the end Of the ride,
! took my tickets at the Friedrich I
strasse Bahnhof. We shot out of the |
depot over an enormous restaurant |
built under the track and rode for some |
niles on the edge Of the city. We went |
by the cattle market and slaughter |
houses belonging TO the municipality. |
)ast the city gas works and sklrted the |
'dge OF Berlin finding flve-story build
ngs clear to the boundaries. Further
N we eutered the city again, rode abou.
he Thlergarten, past the geological
,arden and in the end came back To
he place where we started
BERLIN THE DUDE AMONG CITIES
This ride shows one how well Berlin
5 built and how well 1t is kept. MIDST
< the buildings are new, and notwith-
landing the poor who are as many as
a any city In Europe, except London,
has no eyesores, one sees no clothes
angling out Of fiat windows or on ropes
r wires stretched from building to
uilding as In the cities of the United
tates. There are no ash piles or tin
ans I'm the back yards and even the
cod and scraps are nicely piled,
The roads are everywhere clean. The !
ty is a dude compared with other
II has creases In its
'ousers and a bouquet In its button