Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-04-14
BERLIN HAS CHANGED
City No Longer Dominated by AFRO.
CANT Military. = .
AMERICANS GET MUCH CONSIDERATION
People Are Free But Cannot Get Them
selves Into. the New Situation Be-
cause They Have Been so Differently
Trained-Enslish on Equal Footing
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Trained-EnsIish on Equal Footing
With Americans.
Berliners, writes an American cor
respondent go out Of their way to be
ingratiating and agreeable to all
American and English visitors. While
In Berlin for stay Of few weeks
New York woman stopped at the Adlon
Hotel, Unter den Linden, which Is con-
stantly overcrowded with foreign visi-
tors. While in Paris before coming
here she found it necessary to have an
imitation pearl necklace restrung. She
took the necklace to a smart shop on
the Rue de Ia Paix, where the proprie-
tor declined the job, but another shop
did the work and she was roundly
charged for 1t. In Berlin the string
broke because Of a flaw, and the
woman went to q high class 5ewelry
store to have the work done over
again. She asked when she might call
for the pearls.
Return in an hour, madam, and
the work will be finished" the polite
attendant assured her. She was
astonished, because for the same work
in Paris she had to wait three days.
When the customer returned for
her necklace she inquired the amount
due. r.
Nothing at ALL madam" replied the
attendant. There is no charge for
such a simple bit of work"
<, The hcpstomeg' protested but the
house would not accept pfennig nor
permit her to tip the young woman.
who restrung the necklace. s, s.
The woman left vowing to herself
that If she, had any jewelry pur-
chases to make she would patronize
that particular shop, which she did
later. This had, of course. been dis
counted by the jeweler. She broke
watch crystal one day and dropped
into the first jewelry store she saw.
The proprietor put in a new crystal
but declined tos take his pay except
In thanks-it was such a -triffing
matter. The visitor began to feel
quite at home in Berlin jeweiry shops
they were so much like those back
home IN New York. -
There are many lively cabarets and
restaurants of the ultra-New Yorkese
type in Berlin that are well patron
ICED, and in which the food, coffee,
beer and wine have vastly improved
In the last twelvemonth. But dozens
or the old-time and once popular
restaurants of Unter den Linden have
fallen off largely in patronage and
service and fare. They are not
asnappy" enough for the post war crop
of folk about town in Berlin.
For those who have the wherewithal
to patronize them, the Ritzy idea of
a restaurant and place to drink and
dance has caught on, and the pro-
prietors Of places Of public entertain
nent have taken a leaf out Of the
book of New York and Paris The
German in quest Of profit has never
been accused Of not giving customer
what he wants.
The better hotels are filled with
foreign business men and by a small
ler vanguard OF tourists because Of the
comparatively low cost Of high class
accommodations. The hotels are
manned largely by eX-soldiers and
officers. The room waiter who for
several weeks served The World cor
breakfast was lieuten-
ant of artillery throughout the war
and was wounded three times. He
explained one day that soldering Is
an expiring profession in Germany
and that he took a walters job be-
cause it paid better than anything else
he could do. He said his captain Is
now driving a milk wagon, and that,
seated on his delivery vehicle early
one morning near the entrance to the
Railway station, the
captain suddenly saw his old general
descending the stairs. The general,
in uniform, CHANGED in turn to look
up at the ex-captain, who came in
stantly to a stiff salute.
The general could scarcely believe
his eyes and stared at him blankly.
"Yes, Herr general, it is none other
than l, your adjutant," exclaimed the
milkman-
Hundreds Of taxis, droshkies, and
other horse drawn vehicles in German
cities have been driven by former COM
missioned officers ever since the war.
Departed are their swashbuckling and
cockiness.
Common soldiers who were in the
ranks Jared better, materially speak
ing, after rehabilitation, than did their
officers, who had made a career of the
army and who had no other training
to make a livelihood. By hundreds Of
thousands the soldiers turned to trades
and agriculture, taking an occupation
that yielded living. One of these oc-
cupations soon became that of marry
ing. war widows of some little sub
stance, women who owned a farm or a
patch of ground for market gardening
or a shop or other small business.
Except for its parks, boulevards and
newer residential districts, Berlin for