The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25
TRAVEL IN GERMANY.
Some whimsical Remarks Upon 1t by
One Who Knows.

They do not run railroads in Germany,
saws the Mount Tom Magazine. They have
such meditative, calm engines, unbusiness-
like, incoming philosophically along like a
university professor. You fall asleep. You
almost dream you are In bed and being
moved around on castors. It's all SO rough
and hitchy and faithful and so full of
trying and hoping-a German railway
train. 1t sometimes seems as If it must be
building the track as II goes along except
that, of course, going so slow they might
build a better one. A man in one way or
another certainly gets more time for his
money on a German railroad than he can
anywhere else. And they never lave any
accidents or collisions. They are prac-
tically impossible with these slightly modi-
fed stationary engines; They ave sncn a.
momentum of not going. at all that any
slight rush on the brakes removes all
danger, but 1t is well TO take out q NE
insurance policy (say for three months) In
going from Nuremburg to Dresden, on ae-
count of the restaurants.
How to Make n Timetable
0For any distance mdcr Il hundred miles,,
Take twelve good solid hours and dis
tribute the time along the way as well
as you can, but you must get that twelve
hours in in some way. Put in too many
stations and any time lost by having no
excuse for stopping longer at a station,
t make Up PM SS nnylRs the s saGpl p 5to" and
thinking is the idea-with a German train.
Any field will do. It's a train of thought
It's a ~reverie. You must sit stu and eaten
its spirit.
How to Change Cars.
Spread out your lunch on both seats In
the compartment just as you enter a sta.
ton. Have your mouth In the very act or
making its delicious semicircle In a sand
wich and your hand waiting with a spoon
full of Jelly. When the train stops, lausE
nj people running by with too many
bundles, and prestoi your guard Is at tie
door wildly gesticulating and heavily Gel
maniZing that unless you want to finish
your lunch i'm the switchboard you better,
etc, for your Berlin train is just starting
tho seventh rack off, to be reached under
and over and around. Then opening the
mouth OF your satehel and examining down
all that you can OF that scattered lunch'
with bags slung from you shoulders, I'M
der your elbows, In your hands, and dan
Cling against your legs, run my dear fell
low! rum looking like a depot courtroom OF
a full gallop, through aisles Of smiles and
thank your lucky stars as you are bundled
into a compartment with FIVE amazed
Young ladies'. that you are there. or
course you will not dare, with the five
amazed young ladies, to take out your H.
terrupted semicircle, but you are there,
You have changed cars. The next time
YOU want to take a bite out of a sand-
witch in Germany ask the conductor. He
/ will not know, but afterwards when yon
are thinking Ii over You will feel brighter.
To Find Out About Trains and Routes,
Ask the statues on the way to the
station, the fruit women, the boys that
you meet on the street. but don't (exeept
as an amusement Of course ask n rail-
road official. They never know. There's
something about 1t. No one has ever
found out what it is, but they don't seem
to be Interested very much In railroads.
If you ask them what time a train Is
due, it has gone. II it hasn't gone it's a
secret-one or the state secrets of the
German Government probably. People
who have been seen standing around and
prying into what time their train goes. in
Q German station may be arrested. AT
least they eel when they have asked as
II perhaps they ought to be.
To start "a Train.
A volley of banging doors. Station
master pulling a bell by the tongue three
times. A go-ahead whistle from the con-
ductor 4 'goin~ slr!' screec', from tile
engine. Inde1nable motion. Three more
bells ringing i'm the station gone. gonel
gonel' Not that the train is really gone.
All Minneapolis could climb on after
waiting along. Gradually you md that
you are nearing the end of the station.
. To Reach Your Hotel.
Don't take a cab to go to one across
the street. as | did when | got off the
steamer at M paid the porter a
mark to carry my trunk TO the ]carrlase
stately stepping Of those horses as they
swept me around to my destination on
the other curbstone, nor the feeling with
which before those bowling swallnw-taI
walters. ! paid my fare and my tin far
that ffteen-foot drive. 1 would have
given The world il 'hcv hal laaghod on
looked intelligent. 1t was quite as funny
1T seems to me as II ! had come sweep
ing up in a wheelbarrow. but 1t was oh
vious that they We're not going TO let
me leoF amused. II thev could help n
or intelligent, and so OF course 7 looked
as nearly as they did as l could offhand.
and passed things over. Luckily IT was
dark and after dinner, aud I went to bed.
and the next morning t,Dois nv brealkfast
in my room. What 10 do after that or how
to get out of that hotel. how to get past
all those walters once more without look.
ing intelligent or cutting across lots and
smiling at them in spite of them, was
beyond me, / do not know TO this day
how / did it.