The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-01

International trade and concerning
Heligolnnd, which Great Britain
traded 90 Germany In 1880 IN return
Tor the German recognition OF the
British protectorate over Zanzibar:
When the American tourist OF for
mer summers, whose mind was filled
with "a preconccived action OF Europe
made up q wealth OF Statistical and
historical Information. Approached
the port Of Rotterdam on his maideit
voyage. ne usually suffered his FIRST
great European disappointment. The
most reliable of reference booRs had
PREPARED him for the nfth largest
port in the world. According 90 these
work. View YORK came first upon the
list Of he worlds greatest seaports.
followed by Antwerp, Hamburg. Hons
Kong and Rotterdam. Rotterdam led
London. The measure OF greatness.
of course, was the grand total OF tons
Of freight, entered ana cleared Boy
each port.
VIII this Information about Rot
terdam Zoo mind, many an American
has strained his cycsight from the
forward deck just on the coast OF
Holland vainly g. ing TO pick a sky
AAAN JIM NANN ~ Wv ANHnH aA NAN
has rewarded his onort has been a
low. barren. desulatc stretch sandy
shore, lonely To- a point Of sadness
This dreIty outlook Is the Hook ot
Holland. relieved ON nearer Inspection
By q rambling sncd. a combination 81
h-aggtlr and custom house. There
are "a cw scraggy bushes and dwarf
trees u she picture. Probably. in
nine udnces out OF ten the tourist
has reached the Hook after the turn
OF the Idc. In which case he has had
to land there.
In July au unmerciful sun beats
down ou his tongue of land. which,
together with The pigmy train waitins
upon the smoky sands 90 carry the
p-asseugers Go Rotterdam. makes the
traveller almost feel that he has been
landed lu sleepy Africa by mistake.
There Isl nothing about the Hook OF
Holland or the narrow, shallow rib
ton of water. (which leads 90 Rotter-
dam to ald him In realizing the mag
nituds of the port Iut am hours ride
away.
Rotterdam h. today Europe's ereat-
est neutral seaport. The vast bus
tifHN NH ahNNM % III hNM AANiANNNAA AAH
ceased. London Is an object Tor the
enterprise ~ war. The shipping 60
western Europe can alone rest COM
pletely secure In the harbor OF Rot
tcrdam, >and this port city has be-
come one OF the busiest OF places, for
the purchases Of an central Europe
VIII pour through it's spiral streets.
Ideally situated for handling the
overseu OF central Europe, !
peopioI by a race OF skiuful mcT-
chants and traditional sailors, con-
nectod with all the principal markets
of tho hinterland by the wonderfully
system OF railways which branch out
from here and reach Germany
france and Austria, Rotterdam has
always done a remarkable shipping
despite kecnest competition. This
city has carned a great part ~ ne
wealth during the last score years
through the handling OF German Inn
ports and the vast exports 10 every
corner of the world from the Rhine
manufacturing district. These goods
have been mostly sent down the
Rhine 10 Rotterdam and hy the Dutch
rcshlpped TO their destinations. II
was in order 90 preserve this business
iu German hands. that the empire un-
dertook the construction of tho bort
mund-Ems canal, az a cost Of SEQ
600. 900, connecting the Industrial
Rhine country with a German port
on the North sea.
It's wonderful shipping has made
Rotterdam the leading commercial
city OF Holland. There are some in
H..UVI-- uruHf.V.l ugtaN4u Nfa HIrnfnhNa |
front. ave and six story. sha~rp-gabled
houses. such as rope and cigar man
uf4cture. bat they are unimportant
AS an excursionist from Hamburg.
one comes upon the solitary little
island OF H%eligoland, far out In the
omen North sea. some 80 miles from
the nearest point 81 land. a dehantly
Isolated maroou-brown crag. project
ius itself ruggedly against the hori-
zuu This tins land Is the vortex
around which the ambitions Of two
81 the %proudost naNies OF b world
are swelling.
Approached IN the heat % q late
EuI day, an overhead sun sharply |
chIsoiing is outline. Heligoiand
makes an impression never 20 be for
gotten a. the most magnihcent bt ot
loneliness anywhere In the northern
hemisphere.
since the day when great powers
FIRST conceived a familiar interest in
its existence, Heligoland has been
dedicated 60 war. In 1900 Great
Britain and Germany entered into a
.trelty defining the spheres of their
influence la East. West n Southwest
Africa, and la return for the German
r~tlogn.tion OF the p-rotectorhte Of
Great Britain over Zanzibar. Lord
salisbury, in behalf of his government,
Coded Hcligoland 10 Germany. since
hat time lt has been usurpod by the
German vncationist Cor a summer
play ground. Its interests are three
dold military. tourist u Industrial.
fs Industrial Interests are he least
concern. being of importance only %
the few hundred Usher fOik who have
faith enough In their little rock 10
pass their lives away upon u.
HcliRoiand properly consists OF
two Islands. one OF a hirh rocky
plateau, OF Military significance. and
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