The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-06-30
He'd escribes Interestingly What
He Saw In Europe.
AMERICAN SPRINGS Al
GOOD.
In the Care of Roads and For
ests and in the Paving OF
Cities He Found Much to
Learn.

The following account of six
weeks sOjourn abroad, three weeks
of which was spent at one place,
was written by Gen. l.. Victor
Baughman and published in the
Baltimore Sun of last Tuesday.
The General arrived in this coun-
try on Tuesday of lost week and
came to Frederick or Friday. He
is much improved in health. Of
his trip he says:
After six days of lovely weather on
board the Kronprinz Wilhelm the
steamer behaving beautifully, the sea
calm and whitecaps modest, no one com
PEELED to 90 below, all answering roll call
day by day. we were told that some of
our passengers would leave us at Ply
mouth, which point we were expected to
reach at early dawn. Many were up to
say good-by to their friends and see the
town and docks, the Sicily Islands having
been sighted the evening before.
"Our next stopping point was Cher
bourg, France, where many others left,
taking the train for Paris We were
very much pleased with the beautiful
sight of the old fortress at this point
here are stationed quite a number of
French soldiers. Independent of the
forts along the water front, the hills are
all fortified and cannon can be seen at all
the high points along this coast.
SAT Bremerhaven we had our first
experience with the custom officials. As
rule, the greatest courtesy is shown to
passengers, and but few exacting ques-
tions are propounded 1t was our mis-
fortune, however, to fall into the hands
of very officious individual, who evil
IDENTITY felt that he was called on to give
us as much trouble as possible. In his
search through our traps he discovered
pack of cards which had been used on
our voyage. He demanded duty of
5 cents, but rather than submit to what
we felt was an absurd demand we de-
clined to pay and told him to destroy the
pack, which he did, tearing upthe cards
in our presence.
FIRST FOREIGN RAILROAD TRIP.
From this point to the city of Bre-
men we had our experience in foreign
railroad. The cars are much smaller
than our American cars, divided into
compartments seating from four to six
persons each section being locked upon
leaving the station. We saw but little
difference between the first and second
class passengers. The roadbed was in
fine order, the stations all neat and
clean, and ample in every way for the
travelling public. For miles and miles,
lar INTO the country, we saw the pict-
wesque windmills, so general in Hol-
land, the villages all clustered together,
the roofs of the houses covered with red
tiles, which makes them look most at
eractive amid the green fields in which
they were situated. The country was
hlled with the peasantry, mostly women.
We saw no fences, but every foot OF
ground from the railroads tracks far out
into the broad acres was cultivated and
made to yield its quota.
"The roadways were revelation.
Along both sides were fruit trees in full
blossom. There is hardly road to be
seen that has not its shade or fruit trees
along its entire way The roads them
selves get the greatest attention and are
aiways clean and free from all kinds Of
litter.