Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-28
Touching Instance of Affec-
tionate Demonstration for
Little Prince Is Related by
James 0'DonnelI Bennett,
BERLIN COMPARED TO
OTHER GREAT CAPITALS
DomeSticity of People and Or
denineSS of Crowds on.
Leading Street ContraSted
With London and Paris,
nv JAMES opoNNrrL prNNrrr

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Copyright; 1915; by The Chicago Tribune.
Berlin, May THE little square
weather worn flag of the crown
prince was flying from the roof of his
palace at the end of Inter den Lin
den.
The long. white curtains at win
dow on the second floor stirred, then
parted, ana two restless boys in sailof
suits were seen bdbbing about, romp-
ing evidently in the twilight Of what
may have been to them, as to mill
lions of little boys the world over a
long and tedious Sunday
The quadruple lines of promenaders
who had been streaming down the
Linden to view the captured cannon
grouped around Rauch's proud bronze
Of great Frederick and his generals
caught sight of the boyish heads
bobbing behind the white curtains and
began to mass themselves in front OF
the palace where a new girl baby ar
rived a few days ago
The disturbance among the cur
tains grow more lively and the promo
naders responded to it with waving
Of handkerchiefs, soft hand clapping,
and murmurs Of endearment There
was no cheering. only a kind Of
caressng tone ran over the crowd.
Looks Eagerly at Groves.
Suddenly the littlest of the two boys
caught sight of the flutter of hand
kerchiefs, or heard the patter Of
gloved hands, for he paused in his
romp and looked with childlike and
eager eyes down on the crowd The
greetings waited up to him became
more animated, and he smiled.
While he was gazing he vanished
in most unprincely fashion, hustled
away from the window by his broth
err perhaps or perhaps admonished by
some older person. At his disappear
ance the crowd laughed heartily and
made as Il to move on.
But in an instant the curtains part
ed again, this time quite slowly, and
the little boy clambered on to the
window scat, stood up. and very
gravely saluted the people in the
street. Old men raised their hats,
women lifted their children to their
shoulders and bade them wave their
hands to the child standing at rigid
salute.
Child Gravely Salutes.
The little figure was clearly out
cropped head of dark hair, white sail
or suit with collar of light blue, and
a face more like the face of the crown
princess than of the crown prince.
Two or three times the child sa
luted and every time ne did that the
coo of endearment went up TO him
and chuckles from the old men.
The geniality of the crowd COM
municated itself to the sentries stand
ing at each side of the entrance Of the
palace. They could not see what was
going on i'm the window above them,
but they grinned broadly
1t seemed to be quite a family af-
fair. Then there was slow move
ment of the curtains and apparently
some words were spoken to the boy,
for he turned his head and then
decorously descended from the win
dow ledge
The little domestic drama was over
1t was bedtime in the palace.
The handkerchief waving crowd
passed on TO look at the cannon
massed around the statue of the boys
sranduncle five generations removed
-great-great-g -great-great grand
uncle, | figure It,
My friend Weigle, who takes NOV
ing pictures under fire and has a !
ready knack for imparting rock bot
tom significance of a situation that
might escape mere reporter, vouch- |
safed Illuminating comment on what
he had Just seen.
Not Private War.
ANY time" said he as we moved |
along with the crowd, you feel like
falling for any Of that English bunk /
about this being anybody's private
war you want to come down here and |
see the folks shake hands, so to speak, /
with the family that's running the /
war for them"
Inter den Linden is wonderful T
sight these pleasant afternoons,
though not at all the kind of sight I
hat enables me to write an article /
which will verify the descriptions OF /
Berlin mailed from Paris and London !
md printed in some American news /
laRers which have no correspondents /
n Germany Ill
AS the Tribune has three of it's stair I
n Berlin at this moment | suppose 4
he three of u.s. having neither op- I,
served nor endured any hardships, /
nay be believed when we say that WEI.
lon't believe the story printed in Z
az Is paper anu III NAiNi'
"a that the government ordered the
'emoval of the penny n-the-slot I
Weighing machines so that popula- /:
ion-averred to be on short com I
nons-should not be able to learn Il
low much weight it was losing. /.
On Sunday afternoons the Linden H
$ like the Lake Shore drive severa Il
lines multiplied; length of nearly a A
nile and a breadth of 200 feet TEEN +;
ng with promenaders and automo- Il
tiles; a double line of pedestrians
moving two or three abreast on both H
idewalks: a triple line moving tWojJ
hree abreast in the central prone
lade beneath the trees, and both the
Iriveways full of vehicles.
The air is soft and the sun is
right The most delicate green has
ouched the lime trees and the chest
iuts. Many of the women are dressed
III in white and many of the men
AVE mounted their straw hats. The
White fountains are playing in the
reat semicircle in front of the
irandenburg Thor, and cleaning stat
les look cut from the greenery of the
'hiergarten.
Everywhere you get your pictorial
ITS eff historic contrast old t'reder-
ck and the newly capturpd cannon