Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1909-05-08
ON HIS TRIP
AROUND WORLD
Or. John ". PurneII Writes to
The Messenger From
Germany.
Hamburg, Germany, April 23d.
ditors 1.-THE Messenger.

Hamburg, Germany, April 23d.
Editors The Messenger,
Snow Hill, Md.
Gentlemen Having been requested
by friends and relatives in Worcester
County to keep them posted as to our
travels around the world, am going to
ask space in your valuable paper for
that purpose.
We sailed from New York on April
10th and had most delightful voyage,
arriving at Plymouth in good shape.
We remained there only short time,
as the English Channel is rather rough,
but the much talked about North Sea
was as calm as Purnell's old mill-pond
near Snow Hill. We arrived at Cux-
haven, Germany, in the early evening,
where we took train for Hamburg, the
second largest city of Germany. We
were recommended to hotel, the name
of which will not try to write, much
less pronounce. and to our surprise
we were given feather beds-not to
sleep upon but to cover ourselves up
with. AS their English and Spanish
was limited to one word each, we
changed hotels next morning to the
Hotel Continental. Here we found
every convenience we could ask for and
the Office clerk spoke some English.
Hamburg is really fine city with its
lovely Alster large lakes) with hun
dreds of sailing, row. and more than
300 steamboats, running up and down
and from one side to the other. The
harbor is navigable for the largest sea-
going ships as far up as tbs great Elbe
bridges. The harbor consists Of many
smaller harbors, of which we have Wis
tied many. The funniest sights here
are the dogs hitched to the milk carts
delivering milk all over the city, and
the women's big feet. The "Alster" is
a small river which rises near the
Wohldorf and running through the CEN
ter of the city empties into the Elbe
river. 1t has been artificially enlarged
into two lakes called the inner and outer
Alster The outer is the larger of the
two, with beautiful villages and lovely
gardens on both sides. We have visit
ed most of the interesting places here
and want to say have never seen a
more beautiful park than the Hagen
bach" where every known kind of ami
NAL and reptile can be seen. The grass
is kept perfectly clean. 1t is a private
institution and you must pay to get into
the grounds, and to see it right will oc-
cupy whole day. You can take your
lunch or can get it from one of the 20
restaurants on the inside where any
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Tomorrow we are going to the dog
show. This is also private institution.
am told there are over 5000 dogs, no
two alike. OF course. here as well as
at the park, animals are kept for sale.
Sunday we are invited to spend the
day with DIR. William Griswold, an
American dentist practicing here. but
who lives out at Reinbeck near Fried
ericksruh, being the residence of the
Fuerst Bismark. the castle of the great
German statesman.
There is but one thing bad about
Hamburg, and that is it rains about 1865
days in the year. Quite different from
what we are used to in Guadalajara.
We will visit Lebeck next week, with
some old-time friends from Mexico.
From there we will go to Berlin, where
we have our headquarters until after
the Fifth international Dental Congress,
of which l am a member. We will
make side trips from Berlin.
Respectfully,
JOHN w. PuRNELL.