The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-04
SATURDAY, JUNE 4 1904.

these are Of the questions that make wish
now-I had braved the terrors the Dutch language
and tried find out.
The Jewish Quarter.
There is drive that is supposed always to take
around Amsterdam. begins at the Central Station,
the river side of the city, thru the streets where
in oden times the rich burghers had their homes.
Stately really beautiful and imposing old mansions
now given to mercantile life with hardly change
in their exteriors, which
retain their former beauty, oddly with
buslness-lke occupations in the time mansions.
The Cryers Tower the guide say shortly after
the station has been left behind points
weatherbeaten, rather windowless right.
In ancient days the men the town went
to sea to fight the enemies that beset little Holland their
women folk would gather in this tower and watch them
out or sight Naturally, there tears among the
Watchers and in time it given the of "Cryers
Tower"
Then comes the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam one
of the sights that of old had the reputation
for danger that chung to the Bowery New York
Dirt, dirt everywhere Not only on the streets
and sidewalks, but the houses un-Dutch-like
In their untdiness. People by the thousand chill
dren by the million fairly and thru and
the buildings. It seemed to that they chung
to the walls like flies that the fairly bulged
with the overflow From windows hung the wardrobes
of the occupants Household duties being
to IN the streets Women filed the narrow little walks
IN front of their doors with chairs boxes and
Ihey shelled peas they cleaned fish, they had their
sewing, their mending their knitting with Every
body knew what everybody going %
his next meal and just along article
apparel was or just how big patch had been put
an old one.
The Famous Rembrandt House.
It is in the Jewish quarter that famous Rem
brandt house stands Junior prize winners who have
chosen the picture of "Rembrandt's Mother
list of prize pictures will possibly
that most people have to the place where the great
Dutch painter lived and died almost three hundred
ago. II by chance they have studied Rembrandts life
at ALL and know anything of his famous masterpieces,
they will also be able to realize that when has
seen the original of of his great pictures
thing pertaining to his life, anything associated with
him will be of absorbing interest So drove along
the narrow, winding, dirty crowded streets, always
fore my mind the Rembrandt house that was to
But, oh dear! The reality a "come down."
Except that it bore tablet duly setting forth its
catioh with the painter. it just
men, women and children With frowsy heads and
tered clothing other house illustrous
associations 1t was just dirty just forbdding.
In the past trip thru the Jewish quarter
made without unpleasant attentions popu-
tunate.
Something about them the resentment of
the exctable colony Kissed and howled at them:
threw small stones and sticks fshbones them and
said all sorts of things in outlandish jargon always
ending with the word Americana" spoken in most
offensive
The Old and the New
Not the least amusing feature Of Am
sterdam the who have mixed the old Dutch
costumes with many of the features modern dress.
Even tho they heart breaking
the dowdiest most impossible lines they cling