Evening journal., 1908-04-01
What | Know About
Delaware Politics and
Other Things
SIXTY SEVENTH ARTICLE.
By Washington Hastings

SIXTY SEVENTH ARTICLE.
The name OF the great of Berlin IJnter
den Lindens' is almost familiar this country as
1t is in Europe. had heard much about #
were raised the highest pitch My advent capi-
tai city Of Germany however, recalled to mind
the wen established fact that anticipation and realiza
ton were in this instance at least by synony
What had expected to see was a magnificent thor
oughfare, with nothing but large imposing build
ne lined either side with lofty linden trees Of giant
grin ana dimensions, whose wide extending branches
and foliage, meeting midway the street, formed in
summer time perfect canopy and unequaled by
anything OF It's kind in the world. What did
something in a measure similar to this, but. in many
particulars. vastly different The street
ing from the Brandenburg Tower" at the end, 10
the schloss' tthe Emperors Berlin resdence-paace)
at the other there, (about mile and half long
ahoud ludge) but much of the magnihcence that
VIVID imagination had pictured absent; and If it
there it had been removed before I arrived
Many ot me buildings were fine and Of immense pro-
portions, others were small, mean and dingy Many
the stores and shops were large and beautiful others
We're lu5t Ike the structures they occupied Many of the
cafes and restaurants resembled to be in
upper Broadwayor Chestnut street. reminded one
nowned lindensl-few of them were as large as the
trees on Delaware and many of them would
on Church streot-they there, too but did NOT
observe canopies vistas great deal of the
foliage reminded me of Jersey cabbage garden late
walked the whole length Of Under the Lindens"
twice. and many places of great interest pointed
out and described to me by the fellow had to show
me around Among them were the Emperors residence
an immense and for great part of it, dismal,
shacke looking old affair built dear knows when, back
ca up on the verge OF the river Saale which runs d-
reety through the centre of the city the palace Of the
old Emperor Wiiam-then deceased-the for whom
Biemarck created the German Empire that of the
Empress Frederick daughter Of Englands good Queen
Victoria, who Empress Germany for about three
months nut who was well provided for IN her widow
hood by the German government and many others, in
eluiirg those Of the Ambassadors England. Russia
and France, maintained by those governmentsthe latter
Of Which, they boasted, occupied by a detachment
or Germah soldiers during the Franco
RUSSIAN war ana not so much as pncushion removed
from whore it left when the occupants hastily left
for hcme; the 'Germania' a beautiful monument
france III other Gays cannon, captured those battle
fields composing exclusively a wide circle Of columns
surrounding the shaft and extending from to
tho top the Victoria three heroic equestrian statues
Of life size, surmountng the 'Brandenburg Arch" the
entrance TO the OF Roschstag" (thh Ger
man National Leg sature) which Napoleon Jena
their proud pedestal up in Paris and which Won
Motke when he visited Paris in 1872 the
nephew Of his uncle" and brought to Berlin and
fepaced on the top OF the Brandenburg Tower where
ne thought they belonged. All many other in
teresting sights, the enumeration which might be
wearisome saw on my first day in Berlin and the
seeont day took the short out Pottsdam.
The little tempest in teapot over the question Of
whether or not Dr. Hin shall be persona grata to
kaiser Wllam-which, by the way, appears to be agl.
atlng the latter very much more than it is President
Roosevelt suggests the question proprety ard
exnediency of his providing permanent and
suitable places residence for it's representatiyes AZ
foreign courts II Is that our Ambassadors
shall be surrounded by the and semi-snob dignity
Of that the beterbut proper and right that the
legitimate expenses of embassies should be suitably
provided FOR so That they may be maintained manner
IN Keeping with the position Of the
the world. And men of character ana
BRAINS, Of whom we have many, may be able
to accept appointment TO those positions as well as men
quantity
CTo be contnued)