The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1913-06-20
An Interesting Letter

From Fran Wendland Who is Visiting
His Relatives and Friends
in Germany
On boatd Amerika May %, 1918
Dear Editor Downie:
For the benefit of my friends and
the readers of the Herald-Advaoce /
VIII give you some idea OF our trip to
| Europe as | am able to put it down
with pencil aud paper. We left i'll
band Nay l6 on the Coast FLYER 5 p.
IN. and arrived at Chicago May
IL at | p. m. The trip from Mime
apolis was IN ade through the states Of
Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois,
with scenery good. but the land
would not exchange | acre Of Grant
county land for 10 of all the land
saw, do not know what kind OF soil
it was but know some Of it was clear
sand. We were met BY Mr. Roggen
backs friends At the big depot and
we're their visitors until Monday fore
noon May 49,.
Ou Saturday May II we made .
visit TO principal streets in Chicago
and also some of the big stores; one
We visited had only 14OO clerks, and
that is not the biggest store yet In
the evening We had to wait nearly
three hours for a chance for street
car to bring US home about three
miles distance.
We also had au opportunity to visit
some ire stations and were shown in
through, and horses and apparatus,
also the alarm signals and It's work.
ings.
On Sunday May l8 we made q visit
TO Lincoln PARK which il now ia it's
glory and beauty, also saw the
animals contained therein, said park
being located on the beautiful Lake
Michigan. We shall visit this Park
again on our return trip and take
some photos of same
We left Chicago on Monday May 10
At 10 .. N. taking the Lakawanna or
Michel Plate Route from La Sale
street station, whicn fast tr ain brought
Us through Cleveland and Buff alo,
went across N ;agara Falls Bridge At
night 30 did not see it, then we went
through the Allegheny mountains,
through Scr anton big city wish its
coal mines right IN the heart of the
!. city. A big sight to go through the
mountains in Pennsylvaaia, going
through four big tunnels to Hoboken,
N. j., where we arrived at that
magnificent and splendid depot of the
Lakaw anna Ry. where we were escorted
by railroad serv ants to Hotel Meyer
where We washed up and rested. Cum
muncoted withsmy sister per fast let
ter a. she % issed Us by some misun.
derstanding
!. On May q was the guest Of my
around and showed New ork proper.
4 Starring at the underground station
ia River Street near Lakawanna de-
pot and the Ferry station we went up
to New York under the Hudson River
TO 57th street; took dinner at restau-
ant at l. m. and [ should Judge
there were about 100, people eating
j all at one time. from there we went for
wax TO the Hudson River, through
streets where all milllonaires live aud
where DR.. Friedman from Berlin has
uOw estab ished clinic to cure con-
sumption, only $500 per person, there
we're two pol iceman stationed in front
to avoid the rush, but the rush did
not come on account OF the $500.
Visited Grants tomb and than took a
automo bile omnibls through the prln-
cipal streets of New York, ike Bro al
way, it is sight to sit way up on top
of az omnibus and go throught such
streets as Broadway and see the peo-
pie aud teams crowding said streets a
multitude OF human be tngs and we had
to wind ourselves through it, some
times unable to move for awhile, We
went TO NJ Macey's store, al through i,
from basement to top, [ thought we
J never would get to the top. but when
we got there we we're served at the ir
restaurant with lunch for twenty
cents each, there must have been 500
people there lunchlny at the time We
were there. and in the evening we lad
our supper at Hotel Meyer, feeling
tired and went to bed
, Next morning we got up early a
, we had to make some minor purcha Asses
yet before sailing. We we're met ir
HObOken by my sister and went to the
Pier Of the Hamburg American Line
to take passage on the Amerika for
Hamburg. To see the multitude oil
people nocking for the gates OF the
pier is . signt alone, people from al
nations coming and going, talking al
different languages. Our bagg age
was all delivered from the depot tC
the pier for forty cents and on my ar
rival at the Pier the Steamer trunk
was just right in orr nice little well
arranged cabin No 628 Our DO at
Amerlka was waiting to take Us, bu
what mass of people, | imagine il
it we're several Thousand, passengers
and their friends, with the last love
and affection OF most holding beauti
: ful floral boquet n their hands, o
which | had the honor of one pea ut
ful floral boquet the gift Of my sister
ia New York and which now adorr
our staterOom The band was lay
ing While friends and lovers were go
ing and coming from the ste Gamer, anc
, while the last trunks and mail wa
] lowered in her bulk At 10 a. m
! sharp we were towed out from the pie
with the band play ng t'Mussjch deul
Mus5ich DEM zum Ssaedelein hinaus
and with::the hurrah and yelling goo
buy and waving hand kerchiefs of +;
thousand or SO living mass of peop.
we steamed out Of n oboken, common
ly called little Germany to ou
Journey coming past the statuee (