The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-08-18
Dutch City Looks Like New York
Since Americans En-
tered Area.
AMERICAN GOODS ON SALE
10 Now Supply. Depot for United
States Army Of Occupation In
Germany-Turned Into Bus
tiino New World Port.
BY CORP. DAVID RAMzEuR.
In tha Cbfcaga Post

TN the chicago FosID
Rotterdam, Holland Rotterdam,
supply depot for the American army
OF occupation In Germany, Is "the
New York of the A. K. f."
At Maashaveen, the left mouth of
the Rhine, ON the outskirts of Rotter-
dam, American soldiers erected their
barracks and at a wharf near by
American soldiers and sailors unload
the supplies for the American army of
occupation In Germany. Squat tug
boats. with their little Dutch house
hold aboard, puff up and down the
Rhine towing the long, narrow barges
builr for the canals Of this little
country. with their loads of supplies
for the Yanks who are keeping the
watch ON the Rhine. And down the
Rhine come some of the lucky dough
boys whose time has expired and who
are starting for Goods country"
Rotterdam Now Busting Port.
In every direction In Rotterdam are
signs OF a busy. bustling new world
port. Huge derricks and travelling
cranes. big grain elevators, long
strings Of concrete and cast-iron
docks and wharves, networks Of
tracks and here and there a ~shipyard
resounding with the clatter of machin-
cry and the 'rat-tat-tat" Of riveters
The shops are a wonder and a de-
light. They are marvels of cleanli-
ness and trim. neat, attractive tidi-
ness. The grocery stores are as
scrupulously clean and orderly as a
big operating room In an American
hospital and one has to look twice to
discover whether a grocery store Is
indeed a grocery or q first-class drug
store.
But the thing above all that makes
us call Rotterdam the New York Of
the A. e. +. Is the fact that wherever
one walks In the uptown districts one
e American articles for sale and
American apparatus and machinery In
use: For instance. walk down Hoog-
STRAIT (Which, by the way Is not Hog
street. but High street,. 1t is the
Broadway Of the New York of the
A. X. #. On 1t are tobacco and cigar
shops that would put to shame the big
jewelry stores of many American
cities: confectionery stores that are a
little bit Of fairyland; bakeries and
groceries that fairly glisten with
nickel, brass and glass; clothing
stores that look like one of the cor
ners of FOrty-second and Broadway.
Walking along past those stores one
sees popular brands Of American to-
bacco and cigarettes: American phono-
graphs. American sewing machines,
American chewing gum one stops In
front of a big music store and sees
displayed In the windows all the more
or less late American songs and Jazz"
and rag" music.
There are dozens Of American auto
mobiles on the pretty drives and
American motorcycles output" by
with their mufler cut out. just as they
do In America.
Favorits "Ham and" TO Order.
In q little cafe or restaurant the
soldier orders the great American
favorite-ham and eggs-from a wait
er who speaks good English and who
will probably tell Of the cities In
America where he has worked. and
the 'guldeens" win be rung up on an
American cash register and In half
the places an American typewriter
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