The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-28
WRITES OF TRIP
TO FATHERLAND
Geo. Mueller Relates impress
siOns After Long Absence.
COMPARES TWO COUNTRIES
SHOWS WHERE BOTH MIGHT IN
PROVE.

John E. BIeister has received the tol-
lowing letter from his business assoc
ciate George Mueller, who is mo-" ?"
Hamburg, Germany.
Mr.. Mueller is a native Of Germany
and emigrated TO this country twenty
years ago. He has been a citizen ana
merchant Of Salt Lake for several
years. The letter is as follows.
Hamburg, Germany, June II, l3y4.-
Dear Sir. You VIII nc doubt De Li,st
estcd to receive q few lines from ~
fatherlaud and particularly ABOUT inc
general conditions as I ind them here
TO-DAY 1t win be twenty years a5o
the 8th day of July next since 1 ielS
this country for America as lad OF
II. Now, upon my return 10 lnls lana.
i see a great deal that lmpTeSSe5 me
very much and again. some Things
that have disappointed my eNpecld-
tiOns.
AFTER a fairly pleasant trip across
the ocean ] spent a few days m Breln-
en-. a city OF considerable commercial
importance and of about 10000 ln-
habitauJs / was much struck with the
cleanliness of this little seaport; the
streets are almost spOuess and lnr
buildings, though old, look as though
they had been washed, the little
spaces of ground about the prominent
corners or hooks, here and there, where
in most American cities one would mo
a b0otblaCk or popcorn stand, here you
see nice trees. flowers or grass, all very
pleasing to the eve of the stranger
The same thing is true of the other
cities that I have so far visited, 6uCn
as Hamburg, Stetleu. Berlin, Frank
furt, Munchen. STUTTGART. Heidelberg,
Kassel, KOln and etc. The large, ugly
signs and posters such as YOU see IN
rr+ corners
hOusetOps, sides Of buildings and etc.
are all agreeably found wanting here
and the wooden electric light telephone
and other sky-scrapIuE poles which are
2 usually so numerous i'm the western CO.
ties of the United States, so greatly 10
their Disagreement, / do not ind mere.
] notice wherever poles are required
they are all of iron, made in some
handsome design and painted I'm mar
mOny with the general surroundings
IN fact here every thing Is done TO make
the cities look attractive.
Perfect Order in the Streets.
THE greatest order prevails through
out the public highways and the gem
eTal municipality OF course. the po-
lice are all trained soldiers and they
enforce the law whenever necessary f;
there are many of them and they are
all of go0d physique and well uni-
OYerCrOWded, as 40 more are allowed
TO ride than seats are provided Tor,
except that a small number of pes
seuseTs may stand on the Irout or rear
platforms wherever the law permits
1.-THE railroad travelling accOmmOda-
lions are not quite as comfortable as
in the United States, but are run on a
more orderly system and a mans ilte
IS much safer when travelling here than
under similar conditions in the United
States, for as YOU know, nearly all ot
the railroads i'm Germany belong TO the
government.
THE hotels Eere are not so good as
IN America and ! ann e2uVluced that
q good American hotel man would DO
we'll IN that business here and still
worse than the hotels are the barber
shops. The tousorial operation usually
lasts about four minutes but IL all
ways seems about an hour to me.
While i'm Berlin i bought am extra edl-
tion of one of the principle newspa-
peTs. IL was some special Of the Russo
Japanese war 81 was printed on cheap
paper, one small sheet, only about SIX
by twelve inches. ] think I paid ten
pfenuige teQual 90 about q ID cents),
and I laughed TO myself when I saw
the size of &c and compared if mentally
with the extras OF She papers of some
Of our big American cities.
German Holiday.
"The Germans are great people to
take long walks. usually TO the woods
] see them going daily Ed dr0yes. more
especially $50 ou Sundays. for the day s
outing loaded down with eatables
They go to- the timberlaud, eat. drinE
and have a good time generally. lr
fact. they seem 10 do little else than
eat. drink and enjoy tEemselvs.
THE government does "a great deal
in the way of improving the country
roads. including the highways and by
ways i'm the woods. and is therefore
easy to walk and climb everywhere
have noticed particularly I'm the woods
wherever there is an opportunity for q
bit of panoramic scenery the trees are
cut away and a nice resting place
made and provided with rustic bench
Is for the general public. Restaurants
and places of rCfresEmcut are To be
found everywhere and are an we'll pa
rrJuized Wine beer and plenty OF
good things to eat are there at yOuI
command / used 90 think that The
Germans drank lots of beer and it is
true that they do, but L now thlUa
that they drink even more of wine bu,
strange To note iu all ms travels here
and considering The Inducements there