The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-23
HAMBURG COMES
BACK AS A PORT
Germany's Most Important Com
merciaI City Shows Increase
in Shipping Over 1918.


Washington, D. C.-"Though Ham
burg, the fourth commercial city of
the world before the World war, has
been doing more shipping in the first
FIVE months of 1923 than it did in the
same period of 1913, to the average
the city suggests just one thing-the
trimming on her grandmother's stiff
cambria petticoats," says a bulletin
of the National Geographic society
from its Washington ID. c. head
quarters.
Hamburg has always been a jeal-
GUS rival of New York, London and
Liverpool, the three other great COM
mercial cities at whose ports more YES
sells dock than visit the German har-
Dor. During 1921 nearly 10000 ships,
representing a tonnage of 20,000,00O
and flying flags from all over the earth,
entered the Hamburg harbor as
against net tonnage of 100000 for
New York harbor during the same
period. Hamburg and Bremen have
the honor of being the chief gates of
intercourse between Germany and the
United Kingdom and the United States.
Is River Port.
unlike most of the other great
commercial cities of the world, Ham
burg does not lie within a stones throw
of the ocean. About ninety miles from
its mouth in the North sea, where a
tributary of the Elbe, the Alster, has
been damned to form two lakes, Ham
burg has been built, it's earliest be-
ginnings having been a castle of Char
lemagne which stood on the spot in
81. Its harbor is broad and deep
enough for the largest vessels. The
docks are among the finest in the
world, and will accommodate 45O
ships at one time.
Most of the German railroads ulti-
mately lead to the city, and numerous
canals bring their traffic to its portals.
Hamburg has very interesting, If !
dirty, old district along these canals,
where the poor of the city live in dark |
houses and damp cellars When the |
dde is out these canals become empty |
ind the women and children of the |
district immediately run out and wade
bout in their muddy bottoms to look
or articles which may have been
Jumped overheard by the boats. Three
annon shots are sounded when the
ide begins to turn, to tell the scaven-
ers that soon the waters will come
ushing into the canals.
Old Customs and Costumes Cling.
1.-THE State and Free City of Ham
urg, comprising 16S square miles, is
republic, its constitution bearing the
ate of January z, 1921. In 1920 it's
opulation of 1901, O74, more than
lillion of whom live in the city
roper, made it the most densely pop
lated of all the German states. It's
verage of more than 5000 persons to
square mile gave it more than twice
lie density of the State of Bremen,
lie next in order, and nearly six times
lie density of Lubbock, the third in
der. The public debt of the city at
e end of 1920 was nearly three bill
IN marks, spent chiefly for public
orks.
Hamburg streets and market
aces are typical Of those of many
erman towns. In the markets women
ay be seen wearing yokes on their
oulders from which hang big wooden
ckets filled with milk A few Of
EN- still cling to their wooden shoes
d bright-cOlored costumes. And
me of them still hitch themselves to
cir vegetable and milk carts and
aw the loads through the city
'eets."