Cut Bank pioneer press. [volume] (Cut Bank, Mont.) 1909-current, 1914-09-04

K Y all Europe there is nothing more
beautiful than the Rhineland.
The old Princes Palatine used to
point from the towers Of their In
comparable castle at Heidelberg
to the glorious plains Of the Rhine be-
yond and say: THAT Is where the Gar
den of Paradise was; 1t could not have
been elsewhere" To attempt to de-
scribe the Rhine in a paragraph or
two is impossible, but one can have,
perhaps. the best idea of Its lovliness
from the deck Of one of the Rhine
steamers. Seated in your comfort
able chair you a watch the piano.
rama of a and history unfold
itself, and If you decide on stopping
here and there, you can land, see what
Is to be seen in this or that city, and
then return to your boat. In this way
you can accomplish much in a fort
night and congratulate yourself o.
havingadone 50.
Not Spoiled by Man.
The Cologne Dusseldorf Rhine
Steamer company have a specially ar
ranged ticket which takes you for as
many days as you choose and allows
you to break your journey as you will,
changing from steamer to steamer on
the same ticket. The journey to be
specially recommended Is from Co
togne to Mayence, or the reverse. This
will enable you to obtain some idea
of Cologne, with it's splendid cathe-
dral; of Bonn and its famous univer-
sity; of the wonderful fortress of
Ehrenberitstein, of Coblenz, of May
ence and of a score of places hitherto
only known to you IN the labels of
bottles and the prescriptions of ply
sicians-the beautiful bad" resorts
and the vine centers of the Rhine
wines. To travel up and down the
Rhine is to see natures fairest pic
ture. which. strange to say, the hand
of mar has not succeeded in spelling;
1t IS too big for that!
But it is futile to cite any one d.
vision of the Rhine as being more rich
in interest, historical and modern,
than another. One can but select IN
stances of her attractions to give some
small idea of what she has to offer.
There is Dusseldorf, a model city,
which is not only the home of art but
a center of German commerce and
German manufacture. Dusseldorf Is,
indeed, many sided. The winding
lanes the ancient market-p1ace and
the churches Of the old town seem as
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city as though they were miles re-
moved from each other. Historically,
1t cannot. of course, compare with Co.
fogne, Aix-la-Chapelle and Frankfort,
which are recorded as the seats Of
emperors and archbishops. Neverthe-
less, 1t has its own impressive dates.
Older than the city itself are two of
It's suburbs, Blk, which contains the
old Martins church, supposed to have
been founded by the Apostle Suitber-
tus and which was rated as a paro-
chial village as early as 799, and the
suburb. Gerresheim, known as far
back as 827.
History of Dusseldorf.
Dusseldorf is first mentioned by
name in a deed Of 1859, where It is de-
scribed as a little settlement of fisher
men at the mouth Of the Dussel, a
small river which still flows through
the center Of the town but is almost
entirely bricked over. 1t became a
parochial village in 1906 and was in
vested with civic rights In 1888, after
the defeat of Siegfried, archbishop
Of Cologne. by Count Adolph v at the
battle of worringen. This battle is
recorded in the paintings which hang
- 'he picture gallery of the Kuns-
thalle in Dusseldorf and at Burt Cas-
tie on the Wupper. Dusseldorf then
progressed until it speedily became a
commercial center.
II was not until a regeneration rose
in his son, John William II, Jan We'll
lem" a popular hero today with the
townsfolk, that Dusseldorf regained
its former standing. Under him the
fine arts and trade fourished, and
good times lasted until his death,
when the government was transferred
from Dusseldorf to Heidelberg and aft
erwards to Mannheim. And so the
history goes through periods of pros
perity and vicissitudes, until, in 1915.
we find il taken possession of form
ally by the king of Prussia, becoming
In 1916 the capital of the newly formed
administrative district Dusseldorf.
and 10 1872 a special town district.