Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-28

command the east end OF the Linden.
Al the west end the copper Quadriga
Of Victory that Napoleon carried away
70 Paris century and seven years
ago looks down from the Branden-
hnrg Thor. A stones throw distant
are the shattered windows Of the
French embassy-not a sign of life
there now
Perfect Order Preserved.
The thousands of men. women and
children--and dachshunds-on inter
den Linden moved like church pa
rade. Not voice was raised above a
conversational tone. The order was
perfect but for hundreds of yards
you saw no policeman when one was
to be seen he loomed in a majesty OF
blue, silver and patent leather at the
Street intersections and was silently
directing the traffic. There were no
hawkers, though occasionally rath-
or pretty flower girl would approach
enc with a tray fun Of violets.
As | strolled along I made some
comparisons that | don't think are
unfair. In London the inevitable
drunk would have been doing on a
park bench; in Paris worm of the
earth would have been pushing vile
picture cards under ones nose and
the ears wonld have been assailed
by the raueous yell of Paris MIDI,
in Chicago there would have been a
racket Of one kind or another.
The only places at which the Ber-
lin promenade paused were the news
paper offices at the corner of the
Linden and Wilhelm Strasse. where
half a dozen fresh bulletins were
lung in the window, and at the statue
of Frederick, where the cannon were.
In peace times the Linden was
crowded until long after midnight.
Some say it used TO be as lively at
in the morning as 1t was at in the
afternoon II is different now, and
the subsiding of the gay life of the
capital along toward / i'm the morn
ing is perhaps the most emphatic of
the superficial changes which war
has wrought here.
But from until midnight the res
taurants and beer halls are packed
to the doors with all sorts of cOndi-
lions Of people-sedate, middle aged
folk who take an hour over a glass
of beer and three hours over dinner
and who manifestly are from the
"eminently respectable walks of
life: dashng looking girls who prob
ably are not so respectable, German
officers by the hundred and Austrian
officers by the score, and Turkish
and consular attaches BY
the dozen.
II is a cheerful crowd, but placid
Is cheerful 1t comes, it listens 20 the
music, it sips, 1t visits, and then 1t !
goes duly and contentedly home.
How the restaurants take care Of
them and how they make any money
out of them Is "A marvel Last night
/ required four footmen-two inside [
and two outside-to manage one set
Of revolving doors at the huge Water I
land beer and coffee hall. The line I
never broke during the two hours ]
looked on The vast place was blaz-
ing with electric light
Flags Intcrtwincd.
In flag draped balcony at one
end of the building a big orchestra
played pretty good music pretty well
The German, Austrian and Turkish
flags were intertwined When the
band played favorite pieces the APP
plause came slowly down the lengtht
Of the hall like the slapping of waves
against a long pier.
The numbers Of young men not in
at the tables gave the best
possible proof of the statement that
the empire has not vet called the
1915 reserves to the colors. France
has called the 1916 men and Russia
the 1917.
The Vaterland used to be the Pic
cadilly. For obvious reasons they
the name, and for once hit
upon a better one. The old Hotel