Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-08-16
FOREIGN LETTER
FROM 7. P. CRAMER
The Cramer Family Visit Points
OF Interest at and Near T. P's.
Former Home.
Continued from last week. J

In the afternoon we went to the
beach Of Scheveningen, which is one
of the popular European resorts The
ride in the trolley was along the old
road where the large trees all lean
toward the east from the effect of the
strong prevailing westerly wind. The
beach presented lively scene and was
covered with the wicker beach chairs
such as may be seen at the Cliff house
near San Francisco. Along the road aud
in the fishing village we saw numbers
of the fishermen with the peculiar cap
and springy petticoats. There is a
large fishing fleet here and the success
or failure of the run of herring means
much to the people. The beach shows
nothing Of the Coney Island character,
but is more for permanent guests, the
hotels being magnificent structures,
and many fine villas fronting on the
ocean and road.
We visited Amsterdam the next day
and in the National. Museum saw the
priceless collection of Rembrandt's
paintings, among them the might
watch. The canvas is probably 12xlS
feet and the colors are as clear and
bright as il the painting had been just
completed. There we're many others,
but we attempted to see only few Of
the best. and then spent half hour in
the old China and porcelain section.
The city Of Amsterdam was orig
lnally built in the form of half moon
with the straight edge fronting on the
river "Y". The canals were made in
.conoentric semi. circles, and four of
these still remain, the fine old fami.
lies Of Amsterdam living in the houses
fronting on these canals. There we're
many cross canals and others not hav-
ing the same general character, and
it is ON the smaller canals that one
gets the glimpses of back steps and
kitchen doors opening right on the
water. We walked through the best
of the shopping district, and 1t was
amusing to see how even the Dutch
merchants know the American has dol.
lars to spend. Everywhere we saw
signs in English, and in other places
placards in the window especially in
vitiug Americans to inspect the speo-
islties they had to offer. One enter
prising barber had in large letters on
his front window ''Chaving and Hair.
cutting. The Dutch barber may not
have all the frills of bis American
fellow craftsman, but he gives good
service, and got an excelledt haircut
in Velp for the price of 10 cents, and
no reduction was made because he did
not cut full crop.
In travelling through the part of the
country that we saw, one could not
but help being struck with the dairy
ing possibilities of the land. Green
, grass and cows were everywhere, and
the sight of such fine mi TX cattle would
have made Josephine county dairy
farmer green with envy. Haying was
in full swing, bat although we saw
| hundreds of men swinging broad blad-
'ed..scythes, we only saw two moving
machines in operation. There were
plenty of hssrakes, and it surprised us
to see the immense amount of hayicut
from the meadows. Hay cocks stood
almost as thick as mushrooms all over
the land. Near Amsterdam we passed
a large peat bog where the soil had
been cut away to depth of about six
feet, and after being dried. had been
burned as fuel. The peat is the ac'
cumulstion of centuries of water
plants which die and finally begin to