The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-04-17
ORIGINAL CAFE
MAY HAVE TO GO
Familiar Old Landmark in the
German Capital
SOME RELICS OF JERICHO
Scientific Explorations Unearth Inter-
estinx Rhetorical Treasures in
Vicinity of Ancient City of
Palestine
SOME RELICS OF JERICHO

Berlin, April 16.-(Special.) -What for
eign visitor to Berlin does not know the
Cafe Bauer? It lies off the corner of the
Friedrichstrausse on Inter den Linden
and for forty years visitors have watched
from its little tables the stream of pas
sers-by, perchance even the Kaiser as
he drove or cantered past. A change of
| prcprietorship Is announced, and 1t Is
feared that under the new hotel manage
ment the famous cafe may cease to ex-
| list.
Forty years ago there were no cafes
in this city where there are now a thou
and. There were only modest CONNECTION
cry shops where a cup of coffee, no
doubt could be had, but where the prin-
| cipal attraction consisted of cakes and
| buns.
| Forty years ago q Viennese, Matthias
Bauer, came to Berlin to found the first
| Viennese cafe as an annex to the hugh
Kiaserhof hotel in Wilhemsstrasse. II
official quarter, and Bauer opened a cafe
of his own on Inter den Linden. the
| present site. But at first Berlin cared
not for the cafe; It preferred Its cosy
beer halls, each with Its coterie of the
same art, profession or trade.
Then some other enterprising Viennese
introduced the great Vienna feature
music. The new attraction made
school," and very year or two since has
seen the opening of a cafe, one larger
and more comfortably furnished than Its
| predecessor. The Cafe Bauer, however
always held it's own, not only owing to
| it's central location, from which genera
tons of Americans have rushed out tc
see the Kaiser go by" but owing to its
providing It's customers with every for
eign journal of Importance.
The cafe system Is now spread all ovel
Germany, and these places may be seer
crowded at all hours of the day; in Ber-
| lin, which Is celebrated for its might
lifc" at all hours of the night SO thai
the stranger from abroad, who has beer
| taught that the Germans are untfringl,
Industrious, homely and thrifty folk
wonders at the apparent waste of TINT
and money by the crowds who fill tht
cafes. But the fact is the seeming idlers
in the cafe are not so idle as they look
| Nearly every place of this character
has its numerous clientele of merchants
commercial travellers, brokers' house
agents, jewellers, money-lenders. theat
rical agents and middle men of all sorts
who possess no city office of their owl
and mutually transact their business II
| one or other of these places OF meeting
Besides accommodating the stranger
who wait patiently for the Kaiser to pas
by the Cafe Bauer. for example, Is {
species of exchange for artists OF man,
kinds and for foreign correspondents
A new cafe opened during the weel
within a stones throw of Cafe Baue
has no fewer than sixty billiard tables
| four of them In separate room Tor lad
les, and is calculated to hold -FOUR tnous
| and people.
To the Christian endowed with imasina'
ton there should be hardly any sort o.
reading more attractive than the &C
counts published from year to year abou
the exploration of Palestine. The lates
to hand is that of Professor Sellin,
present in charge of one of the twt
German expeditions at work In the Hol!
Land one engaged in excavations a
Megiddo, the other at Ericha, bette