The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-08-06
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
Ting New World Port.
BY CORP. DAVID RAMZEUR.
On the Chicago PoSt.)

supply depot for the American arm.
of occupation in Germany, is 9Th
New York of the A. r. r..
At Maashaveen, the left mouth O
the Rhine, on the outskirts of ROtter
dam, American soldiers erected thei
barracks and at wharf near b.
American soldiers and sailors unloat
1.-THE supplies for the American army o.
occupation in Germany. Squat tug
boats, with their little Dutch house
hold aboard, puff up and down the
Rhine towing the long, narrow barges
built 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 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 shipyard
resounding with the clatter of machin-
cry and the "rat-tat-tat" of riveters
The shops are a wonder and de-
light. They are marvels of cleanli-
ness and trim, neat, attractive tidi-
ness. The srocery 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 grocery store is
indeed grocery or a frst-class drug
store.
But the thing above all that makes
us call Rotterdam the New York of
the A. e. f. is the fact that wherever
one walks in the uptown districts one
sees 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. e. F. On it are tobacco and cigar
shops that would put to shame the big
jewelry stores of many American
cities; confectionery stores that are
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 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 /
on the pretty drives and
American motorcycles output" by
with their muffler cut out, just as they
10 In America.
Favorite Ham and" to Order.
In a little cafe or restaurant the
soldier orders the great American
avorite-ham and eggs-from wait
# who speaks good English and who
will probably tell of the cities in
America where he has worked, and
he "guldeens" will be rung up on an
american cash register and in half
he places an American typewriter
viii be found near the register. Rot
erdam has its "Great White Way"
ust like old New York. In the
abarets are mighty clever entertain
rs and girls who can rag" just as
'ell as some of the girls back home.
The Dutch wax merry in much
lore repressed and dignified way
han do the French and In Rotter-
am cafe one does not have to run
antlet of alluring sirens as one does
/ Paris.
A Rotterdam cafe or saloon is
can, orderly, always neat and trim
bonn that Is generally quiet. Back
the bar the rosy-cheeked frau or
aulein works and pays no heed to
Re men who come in. And the men
no serve the customers look like
bank tellers. The larger
looms in Rotterdam are restaurants,
fes, saloons, billiard rooms and
ubrooms combined. To it come the
en- with their wives and children.
ne little ones eat the tasty pastry
ID sip strip; the wives drink beer
tea and eat cake and gossip, and
e men play billiards or cards, write
tiers or gather round the huge tiled
yves to talk politics.