New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-09-28


most satisfactory of summer resorts
meaning thereby that by staying
in town during the hot season one
may combine the accustomed-to COM
forts Of the home and the various
conveniences Of metropolitan life
with the outdoor pleasures of
beaches and other resorts within ex-
cursion distance.
This may be true or may not-at
any rate, the following account Of
the Berlin correspondent Of 1.-THE
London Times" relating to the adj
vantages of spending the summer at
the German capital, is likely to
reconcile to their fate those Gotham
ties who, for some reason or other.
we're unable to transfer their sum
mer residences from Manhattan to
happier climes. The CORRESPONDENTS
writes:
TO refer to Berlin as a Summer
resort is a piece OF irony frequently
INDUCED in by those Inhabitants whom
circumstances do not allow; TO soend
their holidays out of town. II is
phrase kept alive not by the voluptu-
aries one hears so much about-the
profiteers, the dandies. the dissipated
habitues OF gambling hells-out by the
SIMPLE bourgeoisie, which has to watch
the pfenngs and the bread tickets and
make the most of sunny Sundays by
the Spree.
The type of Teuton who as
rabid excursonist took his jaunts
abroad in hobnailed boots, with a most
spacious rucksack on his back. is suf
hcIentiy we'll known. He is not dead.
The race of loud-voiced youths and
ireckied maidens who played guitars
in woods in the cleaning still lives
and wakes sentimental to the same old
strains. But mach OF that would be
romanticism has given place 10
prosalc saobatical programme of cafes.
clnemas and beer gardens; end for
those who could never have been ac-
cused Of stanch adherence to the SIM
p.e lie caDarets and dancing clubs
about the town and such suburban ey-
elements as the race meetings IN
Grunewald exercise a greater mag
netisnl now than they ever did before
the war
I'm his means of conveyance the
Berliner Of to-day cannot afford to
be particular. The steeds that draw
his droshkies ana omnibuses are not
fiery. His street trans are unclean
and unbeautlful Almost the only
quick motor-vehicles one sees in the
streets are those attached to the En-
tente's military missions, which seem
to dart hither and thither at break
neck speed compared with the local
cars, and even astonish the natives
by their lack of nauseating fuel
smells. The carriages of the Stadt-
balm trains have long since lost most
of their paint and much of their up
holstering; the latter, one is told, has
been appropriated in large quantities
by the passengers FOR the making of
clothes and the recovering of furniture
To the stranger coming fresh to
Berlin it will no doubt seem remark
able that, with the once spotless thor
oughfares as neglected as they are,
the pavements and squares obstruct-
ed by noisy pedlers and the
walls, lamp-posts, and monuments all
placarded with ugly party political and
agitative posters, the masses of Berlin
people can find so much contentment
as they apparently do in spending their
leisure hours in aimless rambles about
the city. But the stranger would find
that the new order, or rather disorder,
of things affords the talkasve, gliding
accordance with his radical or re-
dictionary views.
ITO the Sunday promenader the
scars of the revolution are visible,
but they are not SO prominent as the
stranger has been led to imagine. Here
and there on the faces of the public
buildings one sees gaping wounds. The
Palace of the Hohenzollerns displays
the damage inflicted on it by heavy
mortars. The ey-imperial stables OPP
poste are hidden behind a maze of
scafolding. One of the huge columns
of the national memorial to the first
William has been wrenched from its
socket and there are spashes of ma
chine gun bullets on the walls Of sew
eral buildings in the neighborhocd.
But more attention is paid to the giant
whale on exhibition on q Spree barge
than 10 any of the SCARED mansions
round about.
The Alexander Platz, the scene of
the bitter fighting around the police
presidency headquarters, il again full!
Of the animation of big marketing
centre. Here, Sunday and weekday
alike. the pedlers, who stand almost
shoulder to shoulder along the pave
ments, are the most striking outcome
OF the disappearance of the oldtime