The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-12-30

I1UOuu ull0 1UGu VI november TWO OF
St. Paul's most eminent specialists,
DR.. b. Freeman Walsh and DR.. Joseph
Bettingen, accompanied by the lat
ter's nephew, left for Europe to take a
special postgraduate course in their
respective branches of medicine and
surgery. We take the liberty of pub
fishing a personal letter from DR..
Walsh that may interest the readers
OF the Union:
Berlin December 16, 1909.
My Dear Bob:
Having found nice place to live,
and my medical work here running
smoothly, I will tell you something of
my trip from New York to Berlin.
Being a bad sailor usually I dreaded
the ocean trip, but I was most agree
ably surprised did not miss sin
gle meal although we had storm of
great severity, which was continuous
Tor eight full days. We had good
crowd of fellows and passed the days
very agreeably. We reached Rotter-
dam two and a half days late. Boats
that were never late more than a few
hours we're many hours late on this
trip.
In the tidy little kingdom of Hol-
land we spent a week before we came
to Berlin. It was one of the most en-
joyable occasions I ever spent in my
life. The cleanliness, the thrift and
sterling honesty of the Dutch is not
equaled anywhere in Europe. It is
the only place in Europe where Amer
leans are sure of getting square
deal. AS a rule in Europe we are
looked upon as legitimate prey to be
separated from our money honestly,
if convenient, but separated from it
anyway. Holland is most pic.
turesque. Its canals, windmills,
quaint old houses, it's old palaces
filled with rare treasures, it's art
galleries and gardens make it place
well worth a much. longer visit than
we could spare time for. We went
first to Delft, famous for it's china and
pottery. It has many interesting old
buildings which date from 1850 to
1880. The old church, with it's lean
ing tower six feet out of plumb, was
built in 1850. The so-called new
church, which contains the tomb OF
William the Silent civilian OF
eOrange) was built in $780,
After three hours wandering among
these relics of past greatness we
hurried on to the Hague, the capital.
/ had always thought of this city as
only noted as the place of the peace
congress. I had pictured it as a quiet
city of perhaps 100,0 900. I found it a
busting place of 100000 with more
stores and larger crowds on the
streets than St. Paul and Minneapolis
combined. It is filled with interesting
places to visit. The Knights hall, in
the old palace where the peace con-
,gress was held; the old prison OF
Spanish days, built in 1850, with an
original heavy oak floor 900 years
old, are particularly interesting.
The walls of this prison are hung
with all sorts Of implements of torture
of those times. Then there we're the
wonderful art gallery Of old Dutch
masters and one or two other fine
collections Of paintings and the
beautiful collection of costly tapes
tries, vases, inlaid and embossed
furniture in the palace in the woods.
The sea bathing beach of Scheven-
lngen, six or seven miles away, with
its hotels, ocean pier and fleet of
quaint fishing boats. made a charm
ing scene. About one hundred OF
these boats lay in the basin-laid up
for the winter.
[ want to say, in passing, that the
Hague is an up-to-date town. From
here we went to Haarlem, the home of
the tulip. 1t has about 10000 people
and many interesting places to see.
We then came to Amsterdam. the
largest city of Holland, whose popu-
lation is about 100000. It's art GAL
lery is one of the finest in the world
a most wonderful collection. The
great Rembrandt collection is here.
Toasted my eyes on these old Dutch
masterpieces as long as 1 could. I
would have liked to have spent week
there, but we had to hurry on, Ameri !.
can fashion, as we were running
according to a schedule We had laid
out. We then took in the great
geological gardens. When I looked
at some of the birds I felt like the
Irishman who, when he saw a hippo
potamus and read the name looked at
him long and earnestly and then
turned to his friend and said, "There