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| has adapted them to the requirements
OF modern Industrial enterprises. The
great department stores and wholesale
concerns in Bcr.ln a:e housed IN build
ings Of a distinctive and individual
character which adds greatly TO the
beauty of the city. and WHICH \at the
same time, are in themselves monuments
to the new Germany. This distinctly
new architectural style is one of Ber-
| Inns chief attractions.
Strangely enough these new Germans
have failed in their more ambitious ar
chitectural endeavorS, in most of which
they chung to older fashions, and as
result Berlin is lacking in great build
ings. The emperor's palace is q con-
glomerate mass of additions and extern
sions without any particular form or
design The Reichstag building is very
like the library Of congress in Washing
ton, except that it is even more gin
grerbeady. The mod srn cathedral 1e-
sembles nothing as much as a new
county court house of prosperous Ne
braska community. In all of these
buildings mass has been the object
sought and attained, beauty being sub
ordinated.
Three Famous Institutions.
Berlin has three things which compel
and hold the interest and attention Of
every viSitor-its restaurants, its apart
ment houses. and its uniforms. 1t has
the largest restaurant in the world. ii
has more restaurants, it has IL mora dis
tinct system of classification among
its restaurants, and 1t has larger res
taurant patronage than any other CITY.
There are scores of autor.ats in which
cOin-in- the-slot machines take tn. place
OF servants, there are hundreds Of wine
restaurants in which one must pay for
wine with his food whether he drinks it
or not, and there are Thousands and
thousands of beer restaurants in which
one must buy beer. 1t is impossible to
be served with beer in q wine restau-
rant until after one has already con-
sumed q bottle of wine. In the beer
restaurants one must confine himself
to beer. There are restaurants for
army officers, resta urants for soldiers,
restaurants for aristocratS and restau-
rants for the proletariat-
These restaurants are always filled,
and it follows that Berlin is A very gay
town. Berliners, and some others, ID
sist that Paris rather tame in COM
parison Certain it is that night life in
the German capital is as gay as even
the gayest might wish.
Model Apartment Houses.
The apartment house has reached its
highest development in Berlin, the pre-
tensions of variorN American cities 20
the contrary Notwithstanding. Several
quarters of the city are devoted almost
entirely to apartment houses. and it
must be said that they are model insti-
tutionS Of their kind. In the best quar-
ter of the>city one can get a five-room
apartment finished in hardwood. with
parQUet floors throughout, automatic
elevator service, hot and cold water,
telephone service, light and heat and
janitor service included, for $50
month And, in conformity with the
rigid building laws, every room of the
Apartment must be an outside room,
me ceilings must be high, and there
must be perfect ventilation and plumb
ing Exteriorly these apartment houses
are the equals of the best class of
American buildings, and on account of
the fact that they are arranged on
streets in which they must conform to
a certain skyline. their general appear
ance is very much better.
The Gorgeous Uniforms.
But Berlin's most impressive and COM
polling feature is it's uniforms. The p~-
lice are gorgeously clad and their name
is legion. A busy corner will have
twelve policemen constantly at work
regulating the traffic and it must be
said that they do their work we'll Not
even London or New York has finer
lot of men on the police force. There
is usually a regiment marching through
the street, but, failing that, there is al
ways a steady stream of promenading
officers whose Furnished helmets force
one to remember that this is the i'm
which aims at the reconstruction of the
imperial estate of imperial Rome.
Tomorrow-The Growth of luxury