Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-08-11
THE PEARL OF RHINE. !"
DUESsELDoRF OFFERS MUCH THAT
IS INTERESTINGLY REMINIS-
CENT OF CREAM CITY.
FINE PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Streets of Cologne Narrow, Short AMI
Lead Nowhere, but Great Cathedral
Delights Tired Tourist.

To visitor from Milwaukee, Dues
seldorf, The Pearl of the Rhine" offers
much that is interestingly reminiscent of
the Cream City. 1t is the center of the
greatest industrial district of the Ger
man empire. In every direction lie
thriving industries, great, grmy mines,
suburbs and villages black with the SCOT
and smoke of hundreds of chimneys, re-
sounding with the thrOb of mammoth
machinery and the noise of traffic on
one OF the busiest networks Of railway
IN the world. and yet Dusseldorf, the
heart and center of it ALL is so clean,
so artistically beautiful, so fresh and
wholesome that one wonders how it all
came about, writes Oswald L. Schuette
TO the Evening Wisconsin from Duessel-
dorfI Germany.
1t is a city OF splendid streets, long,
broad, straight and decentralization
that, with the exception of the last, APP
ply. to none other of the cities | have
visited, After an American has toiled
weary miles through narrow crooked al
leys that lead to nowhere in the average
German city, it is Il wonderful relief
to get TO Il city where there are real
streets. The memory of the koenigs-
allie alone-that pride of Dusseldorf and
marvellous combination Of park, boule-
ward, lagoon, and promenade-lS enough
to compensate for many of the curses
that the streets of other cities will cost
the tourist.
Fine Public Buildings.
But there are other things of which
Dusseldorf may well be proud. The
magniticence of its public buildings, its
rchitecture-modern, yet beautiful-its
palaces of art, its many institutions OF
learning. 1t has a wonderful park sys
TEN, too. But much of the value of this
is wasted, as it is in many other German
cities, in that children are forbidden 10
play on the cool and spacious lawns and
even three-fourths Of the park benches
bear the inhospitabe legend For Adults
Only" To make sure that no Maynard
youngster shall transgress, additional
placards are posted throughout each
park, appealing to the loyalty of every
citizen to notify the nearest policeman at
once of any transgression, in which
event. adds the notice, summary pun
ishment will follow"
Cologne's Great Cathedral
If one wants to compare Dusseldorf |
with another German city, he need 90
but score of miles southwark along the
Rhine, to Cologne. There is city OF
over 100000 people-DueSseldor has
20O,OOO-that has a history and tradition
to make it famous, but that is all it has,
except its magnificent cathedral and it's
Eau de Cologne. When one enters it, he
feels as though he had just been dropped
back 200 years and were trying to find
his way about in the Eighteenth century.
Its streets are narrow, crooked and
short. They start nowhere and lead no
where. It's principal thoroughfare Is
"Hoch strasse' High street. and is prob
ably was given that name because il has
no appreciable dimension, except height
Not until one gets out to the outer edge
Of the city, beyond the Ring" does ono
Opt n tOSta of raal hoo in
excepting the wonderful cathedral, in the
very heart of the city. That magnificent
Gothic structure, by far the finest church
IN Germany-one can refer to it only in
superlauyes-seemS to have exhausted
all of Cologne's architectural possible
ties for two centuries. 1t is as though
everything had been crowded into this
one structure and the other buildings OF
the city had been left to themselves to
grow up as best they might.
Mrs Krupp's Sign.
OF course, one must not forget Co
logne's cologne" There are a score
or so of factories. each claiming to be
the only and original. So lar, however.
none has attempted to make use of the
phrase The Cologne that Mode Cologne
Famous. There is Ctill an opportunity
for Milwaukee.
From Duesseldorf. one may easily
visit score of busy industrial cities.
There IS Crefeld, seat of the textile in
dustry. where | was shown through a
splendidly equipped royal technical
school, and there found American sew
ing machines in operation. They had
been proven to be the best of their kind
in the market, and the royal faculty
had to buy them to keep the school
abreast of the times.
At Gerresheim are the greatest bottle
works in the world. and at Essen. |
saw the mammoth Krupp steel works.
An. indication of the paterna spirit
which prevails in so many of the Ger
man industries. found here in Il notice
posted on the bulletin board of the fac
tory. signed by Mrs. Krupp and an
nouncng the recent enga cement of her
daughter Bertha. In the announcement,
Mrs. krupp declared that she knew the
workers in the factory felt the interests
Of the family their own and would re-
joice with it III the glad tidings. Under
th,S notice was similar one, signed on
behalf of the workmen by the director
OI ,ne factory, extending congratulations.