The Washington herald., 1910-01-23

the Adlon as an added reminder OF home
FOR American guests. addressed the
stranger in that vernacular. The in
truder asked II there was anybody In
the hotel who could talk q little German.
as. he was ashamed to admit, that was
the only language of which he had any
knowledge There was some hesitation
about giving him room, but as he
proved to be a well-known lawyer with
numerous titles and an old acquaintance
OF the proprietor and his son, Lorenz
and Louis Adlon, he was permitted to,
stay. This story has the merit of being
literally true. It also illustrates graph
ically the completeness with which the
Yankee tourist has taken possession OF
baskerville Hardly any other Ian
guage but Americanese is now spoken in
single first-class hotel establishment
in Berlin. Germans seem to be effec-
tuslly scared off as far as Berlin hotels
are concerned. One Occs sionally meets
them Under den Linden or in the Leip-
Tiger strasse, but they are hOpelessly in
the minority alongside the tailor-made,
broad-hatted women and the finely
groomed and well-dressed men, whose
make-ups betray their nationality unmis-
takably.
That tho Berlin business world is fully
alive 10 the substantial advantages TO be
derived from the annually increasing in
flux OF Americans is shown by the skill
full efforts being made TO encourage IT,
New information bureaus for travellers
line Inter den Linden. and their is a
multitude of shops where English is
spoken for the especial benefit of Amer
leans. Fashionable Berlin shops are TAX
ing advantage of what they evidently
consider an important opportunity by
dressing their show windows in the
American style. and by carrying goods
evidently intended TO appeal to Amer
lean tastes.
No step that is necessary 10 help the
visiting AMERICAN 10 spend his time
and money more easily is being neglect
ed. One of the Berlin newspapers pub
lished a significant article recently ex-
planning the nature Of travellers checks
issued by the American Bankers Asso-
citation and other organizations in the
United States. and adds. no doubt with
authority: 1T is the wish Of the entire
banking community that MERCHANTS,
shopkeepers. and all others coming in
contact with tourists accept these checks
without hesitation"
An American woman has done some
thing. which, it seems fair TO say no
woman OF any other nationality could
have accomplished without arousing the
Emperor's ire She delayed his majesty's
dinner. Prof John W. Burgess. Of Co
lumbia University New York. and Mrs.
Burgess, who dined with the Kaiser
shortly before Christmas in the new pal
ace at Potsdam, kept the Emperor waiting
half an hour for dinner Prof and Mrs
Burgess were in the hall OF the Hotel
/ Adlon at 6:45, when a telephone call came
! from POtsdam commanding them to come
to the castle for dinner at once, They
J were ordered to take the : o'clock train
| Prof. Burgess explained that Il was i'm
possible for his wife and himself to catch
the o'clock train. but they could get the
train half an hour later. After a short
pause the reply came; "All right" The
Burgesses hastily dressed and Just caught
the train, but were so hurried that Mrs.
Burgess had 10 do up her hair on the
train.
American chivalry has come in for some
unwonted plaudits in the Berlin news
papers last week Only in proxy. how
ever, for the bouquets have been thrown
not as the result OF any actual acts OF
Yankee gallantry. but by way Of pointing
a moral 20 the less knlghtly men Of the
Kaiser's capital 1t appears that a fash
/ ionably dressed and apparently high-class
married couple carried their matrimonial
| differences into the public streets and edi-
| fed a crowd of Christmas shoppers near
the Brandenburg Gate with a regular
rOugh-and-tumble squabbie The husband
| seemed bent on taking his wife home.
| seriously against her will. and saw fit lit
orally TO drag her along the sidewalk.
! across the curb, through slush and mud.
hand finally TO throw her bodily into an
automobile cab.
| Meantime the gaping throng OF men
and youths and one policeman stood sill
emily by. There was one cavalier among
| them-a German-who, on essaying to
come to the lady's rescue, was grabbed