Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-01-12

The Graphic's
 Weekly Letter
 From Berlin
(BY STEVEN BURNETT)

U lHalS uIdte l!ldHN IclOiilS i'll tHlS
 city. Berlin begun reforming itself
 as early as New Years day for all though there was the usual ploCes-
 sion of the burgomasters of the em-
 ple headed by the chic. burgomaster
 of Berlin to the Imperial palace the
 ceremony of their reception was q
 very brief one compared with what
 It used to be. The Kaiser had grey iously ordered that he did not want
 to be drowned in municipal elo- uuence reading of long winded ad-
 dresses, or more or less elaborate speeches, but would prefer the muni-
 :ipal chiefs to wish him brief
 'Prosit Neujahy" GIap2y New Year) to which he responded with an equal ly brief "Besten Bank" (thank you).
 This opening of the new year at the Haisers palace may be taken as an omen, for Berlin's motto for 1913 is
 less noise. In their anxiety to sur
 press Parisians and make Berlin the gayest and most hilarious city in
 Europe, Berliner's have certainly
 succeeded in making their city the noisest irf the world. In the hotel district in the center of the city merrymaking crowds make all thought of sleep impossible at any hour and the hotel keepers who at first welcomed and encouraged the
 increasing gaiety in the most cordial manner are now strongly opposed to
 t, and the chief of the police has is- sued new set of regulations to come into force on the thirteenth day of April which ought to result in wonderful change, for when German officials do thing they don't believe
 n half measures. Whether the peo- pie of Berlin will approve of these new regulations is quite another thing. They certainly seem unneces- sarily st!ict as the following exam pies will show. After the date men toned Berliners or foreigners dwell ing within our city gates must not
 walk more than three abreast nor stop or congregate for any length of time. The carrying of walking sticks or umbrellas is looked upon with disfavor though not actually forbidden, but the persons who carry them may not raise them from the ground at higher angle than 45 degrees, though it is still permitted to carry open umbrellas overhead when it is actually raining. Music and singing is still permitted indoors
 in restaurants as we'll as in private apartments, but these must be made all windows must be kept hermeti- cally closed. Whistling or hummin~ or loud talk in public streets is strictly forbidden ard offenders against this rule are to be treated as guilty of "grober Unfug' (disorderly conducD. Women are not permitted to wear train, dragging along the sidewalks nor must they raise thei" dresses toe high so as not to offend public decency ard morals. Team- rters driving trucks loaded with metal or similar articles apt to pro- <l vet l,i ,i1n Sl o n to prevent any noise. any cigar or cigarette stubs must not be thrown into the streets.
 These are only a few O. the new rules bat they give pretty good idea of the spirit of the new police regulations, which are to transto! III noisy Berlin into a taalSh resort for people with nerves. It has not occur red to the chief of police that he might have authorized hotel manag- CTS to summarily eject any guest found guilty of snoring. Hotel guests however will probably before long be required to come up to certain standard of behavior for in recent issue of the Berliner Tageblatt, it is most seriously suggested that the new academy shortly to be establish ed for the scientific training of pro fessional hotel keepers ought to in- clude an additional department for the training Of hotel guests. The pa per points out that hotel life has under gone such revolutionary changes in recent years, thanks to the dawn of the era O. luxury, that ordinary mortal; no longer know how to conduct themselves when on tour. What they chiefly need is instruction in the art of resisting overcharges for rooms and food and of the calcu- lation of tips. The University of Ho- tel keeping would not be complete without a course of this sort. The