Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-02
Germany, Grimly.COnfdent, Is
raa aaf GarneringOlScraps, to Piece
Out sMateriaLs for Battle

bN herbert laNlrd SWOpc.
(Copyright, 1916, New York World)
Here are brief random notes of
scattered facts and fugitive impress
sions picked up in my recent tour Of
observation in the German empire.
They are verbal snapshots Of men and
things as they are today In that en-
battled land. They are set down as
lifted from my reporters notebook,
with no effort at conference or eli
max.
Almost all the horses you see work
ing in the towns and fields are white
or fleabitten gray. All the other col
ors are used for army work. The
whites are not-ther color is too con-
spicuous. But the demand for horses
has been so great that even the
whites are used when they are youns.
being painted dark. The horses left
for civilian purposes are the old ones.
Most of those you find attached TO the
ancient drosehkes on Inter den Lin
den in Berlin look as if they were
cousins to the Eohippus that Noah
took with him into the ark.
Drivers Like Horses.
The age of the drivers corresponds
to the antiquity of their steeds. Most
of them are old gray9eards, but ~.
way of paradox, their girths are as
great as those Of their horses are
small
Four-fifths of the taxis are electri-
fled, which enables them to proceed
at a slow. dignified pace for short
stretches. The new internal combus-
ton motors left use benzol in place
of gasoline, which is sharply restrict
ed to official need-military, indus
trial and those of the high person,
ages. Benzol is a coal tar product
first developed in Germany and which
Edison was the first to make in this
country
TaXicab Fare Doubled.
All taxicab and cab rates have been
increased so per cent, with 80 pfen-
nigs nominally 1-2 cents) added as
an extra fee.
The chauffeurs and cabbies are the
most Independent lot in all Germany.
You have to literally beg them to ac-
cept you as "A fare and the begging
is all in vain if you have to travel any
considerable distance. They prefer
the short hauls, which gives them the
greatest number of extra fees.
In spite of the leather shortage, the
German soldier still clngs to his
boots. The bulk of the German sol
dery is recruited from the agricul-
tural class, which has been accustom
ed to boots and does not willingly use
other footwear.
Press Copies From Yankees.
Frl, In
two years have changed their meth
DDS in some respects, basing the
changes on what they have learned
from the American correspondents
who have visited Germany. Feature
interviews with important persons
which ut first was d monopoly of the
Americans are now being used reguI
larly by the bigger German papers,
especially in Berlin.
Paternalism in government has
been worked out to such degree in
Germany that even the housewives
are instructed at what time they can
put up their preserves and in what
and at what prices they
may buy their fruits.
All the scandinavian steamship
lines are earning huge profits thet'
days. The Holland-American line is
also doing we'll, but because its ships
have to so all the way around Eng
land and Scotland now, because they
are not permitted to pass the English
channel between England and France
the journey usually takes longer than
for the ships leaving from Christiania,
Copenhagen. Stockholm and Bergen.
Foreign Tlpers 25 Cents Each.
English and American papers in
Germany cost, on an average, 20
cents apiece. Ten cent American
cost so and 60 cents apiece
and the NOSE expensive periodicals
81 to $3.50.
BY way or proving that England is
responsible for much of the unnec-
essary suffering of the war, the Ger
mans say that she started the system
Of interning German civilians living
within her limits, Thereupon Ger
many retaliated, There are about
10000 Germans interned in England