The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1931-06-19

in the American bosom. This senate,
too, has secret sessions. But when IL
does, it retires from the chamber with
the visitors gallery and the press gal
lery into a smaller chamber that has
just one entrance. That entrance is
guarded by two massive doors of in
credible thickness. And before each
of the double doors it posts a guard
No eavesdropping, even through a dou-
BILE barrier of inches-thick mahogany
Hamburg once withstood the attacks
Of Danish kings. 1t kept aloof from
the Thirty Years. war which cut down
the prowess of so many Baltic cities
Away back in the time of MAMMALIAN
it entered the German confederation
as free city, on parity with other
German states. Only yesterday in its
history, in 1923, it experienced Com
munist uprising that left deep i'm
preston that Hamburg citizens re-
member, and bullet holes which the
city's buildings attest.
Dating back to Charlemagne, Ham,
burg is Germany's most modern city.
Almost modernistic. The fire Of 1872
left few traces Of its medieval archi-
ture Some of its newer Office build
ings have spiraled sides, in northern
search for sunlight; others have con-
tours that make them loom up in Ham,
burg vistas like a giant Europa enter
ing a narrow harbor.
In these office buildings are eleva-
tors which have dispensed with doors
and operators. They run on the chain
principle, like buckets in a well. They
do not stop. One hops on or off as the
buckets" pass the floor. If one for
gets to alight at the right floor, no
harm done. Stay on, and you will be
carried around the top or bottom OF
the shaft as on a ferris wheel.
Busy but Beautiful.
Industrial to its finger tips, militant
ly so, Hamburg is a beautiful city. 1t
leaves a confused impression of Min
neapolis and Venice. For the Alster
river, en- route to the Elbe, splays wide
in the midst Of Hamburg's busiest
quarter, giving it the unique spectacle
of great office buildings, fine hotels,
fashionable shops, all along the lake
front. Clerks in the great, gray stone
building which is the Office Of the
Hamburg-America line, glancing up
from their ledgers, can look out over
a glistening sheet of water, fiecked
with tiny yachts, motorboats, scurry-
ing ferries, racing shells, and canoes;
with swans and sea gulls lowering
about.
By night the hotel visitor can view
from his window the moonlit waters,
trimmed by thousands of electric bulbs,
and see tiny freely points Of light bob
bling all over the surface. AT one cor
ner are huddled hundreds of canoes
their occupants reclining on cushions-
listening to the concert of the Alster
pavilion. This sprightly cafe, or cof-
fee house along the lake front, gath
ers it's daytime patronage from the
great department stores of the oppo-
site side of the street.
If many Hamburg's offices and
homes front on the lakes, others open
their back doors on canals. Especial
ly the shops, where barges creeping
through the narrow waterways that
link the Alster and the Elbe, serve as
delivery vans from docks to retailers.
Under the Elbe is a tunnel. Two
parallel tubes supplement two mighty
bridges in the trans-Elbe traffic. But
they are not approached by an inclined
roadway as In our Hudson tunnel.
Huge elevators carry pedestrians, We
hicles, and cyclists-don't forget the
cyclists-from the street level to the
tunnel entrances.
Luebeck's Commerce and Romance.
Lubbock, companion port of the
north, became, during the World war,
the foremost port of the German en-
pire in foreign, water-borne trade. 1t
is the smallest of the free cities of
Germany, but richer in "reminiscences
of former greatness than either of
the other two. Hamburg, Bremen and
Lubbock joined the modern German
empire as free and Independent Han
seattle cities. Hamburg and Bremen
have developed into great stone-and-
mortar hives Of present-day business;
have multiplied their wealth at a ire
mendous rate; and have, more and
more, grown to the international type
of purely business cities. Lubbock, on
the other hand, while Ii has main
tanned an Importance as a busy place
of commerce, is medieval, romantic,
a breath from the past.
Lying ten miles from the Baltic sea.
on the River Trave, the channel OF
which has been so improved that boats
of 16-foot draft are able to tie up at
the citys docks, Lubbock has been a
nerve center of North German trade
with Denmark, the Scandinavian lands,
and with Russia. The city has been
made into an island by its harbor i'm
provements, the Trave flowing around
its western border and a wide canal
around it on the east.
This city enjoys location as IA
vorable as that of Bremen or Ham,
burg for the distribution of its wares
over Germany. 1t is reached by rail
in two and one half hours from Bre-
men, and is about as conveniently near
to Berlin. The port is connected with
Copenhagen, Stockholm and Danzig by
regular steamer services It's chief
articles of commerce are wines. espe-
cially clarets, timber. tar. and north
ern consignments of German manufac-
lures