Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-26
TOURISTS IN EUROPE
TRANSATLANTIC TRAVEL NOW
AT ITS HEIGHT.
London, Paris and Berlin, and Nor.
way, Sweden and Switzerland
the Centers of Attraction.

Summer travellers with tastes tending
toward luxury in foreign chimes have
their faces turned toward Europe at this
season, and all outbound ocean liners
have full compliments Of passengers
booked all the way from the romantic
fiords of Norway and Sweden to the
capitals of Germany. France and the
heights of the Alps in Switzerland.
American travellers stopping in London
almost invariably congregate at the Hotel
Cecil. This hosiery is one of the ia
miliar glories of the British metropolis.
North, south, east or west in the paths
Of the werld, there come few travellers
who do not return to their homes and
tell Of the palace on the Thames bank
which, for n halcyon time was their
abiding place There is no other hotel
of it's size in London.
Since It's opening in 1896 many pens
have described the grandeur Of it's ar
chitecture, the beauty of its internal dec.
orations and the complete Joy of living
to be found within it's walls. Colonial
Englishmen, or the American. or the
Canadian, as he drives under the impos-
ing archway and traverses the great
quadrangle to the main entrance, cannot
help realizing that he is in the old coun-
try-the homeland of his birth or Of his
forbears. ALI his surroundings. talk to
him. He has passed from the hurly-burly
of the Strand-that great highway. preg-
he is beside the Thames and within
sight of the towers and fahes OF the
worlds greatest capital city; he is in the
very heart of London.
Where the Hotel Cecil stands was once
the town house OF the Earls of Sails
bury, the predecessors of the present no
BILE bearers of the name Of Cecil, the
Marouises of Salisbury and of Exeter. The
or so of medieval palaces which stood
on the northern bank of the Thames,
between the Abbey of Westminster and
the monastery of Blackfriars. Now they
have all disappeared, and are only re-
called by the streets named after them.
The last to go was the town house of
the Dukes of Northumberland, at Char
ing Cross 1t was standing less than
thirty years ago, but now its site is also
covered by a hotel, and the only noble
man who still retains a river home within
the precincts of Westminster City is the
Duke Of Buccleugh, at Whitehall.
But the spirit of history has remained
with the Hotel Cecil. From the night of
presided at supper to the fin heur Of
London celebrities. unto the present day,
the hotel has been the scene OF notable
gatherings and the temporary home OF ia
nous and illustrious personages
During the coronation festivities Of the
late sovereign, King Edward VII. the
Hotel Cecil ranked as royal residence.
Hotels In German Capital.
In Berlin the Hotel Bristol, an embodi-
ment Of luxurious comforts, occupies
commanding situation on Inter den Lin
den. the great avenue of the German CAP
ital, leading to the famous Brandenburg
gate and the Tiergarten. It may boast
Of having in the immediate proximity a
boulevard drive and public park, while the
imperial castle and the museums as we'll
as a score of public edifices, theaters, ETC.,
are at a convenient walking distance. The
fact that it's builder and erstwhile man.
ager. Conrad Uhl, studied hotel comforts
in the United States and first transplant
ed them to Germany. gives sufficient
guaranty for the appropriateness Of the
name 1t bears abroad as 1.-The Americans
Home in Berlin.
The capital of the kaiser's empire also
on the most fashionable spot in the Ger
man capital, the corner OF the Pariser
Platz. The name of the Hotel Adlon has
already found it's echo in far-oh lands;
guests from the old world and the new
pass through It's portals: In its rooms sit
critical globe trotters and pay a tribute
Of recognition and thanks to the creator
of the structure, Herr Lorenz Adlon. One
facade of the new hotel faces the PARSER
Platz, the Brandenburger Tor and the
Tiergarten, the largest and most beauti-
full of all the German parks; the other
facade marks the beginning of the Inter
den Linden avenue. Berlin's Avenue de
Triomphe' as it is often called, which
stretches out in all the magnifeence of its
great width to the palace of the Hohen-
zollerns and the new eathedral-the finest
street in all the German empire. 1t is
here that the great galleries devoted to
the arts and sciences stand side by side,
and here is the great shopping center of
the fashionable world. 1t is here. in the
Pariser Platz that the capital does honor
to her great men; here victorious armies
have made their entry through the Bran
denburger Tor. to be greeted by town and
people, assembled in the square beyond.
Here royal brides, future queens and en-
presses have been acclaimed by the popu-
lace and here on the occasion of the visits
of foreign potentates stand the triumphal
arches beneath which they receive the
customary addresses of welcome.
The Hotel Bellevue in Dresden also is a
gathering place for American tourists.