The Coolidge examiner., 1931-06-19

wood, most delicately carved and
beautifully decorated. Closer eX-
animation shows some to be felt,
pressed to the hardness of wood,
with the intricate patterns imposed
by matrix.
And after a banquet hall that
conjures up memories of the belt
ed burgesses, the staunch mer-
chants and the gentlemen adven-
turers of medieval times, you
come upon the senate chamber.
ne feature strikes home note in
the American bosom. This senate,
too, has secret sessions. But when
it does, it retires from the cham
her with the visitors gallery and
the press gallery into a smaller
chamber that has just one en-
trance. That entrance is guarded
by two massive doors of incredible
thickness. And before each of the
double doors it posts a guard. No
eavesdropping, even through a
double barrier of incheS-thick ma
hOgany!
Hamburg once withstood the at
tacks 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 times of MaXimillian | it en-
tered the German confederation as
a free city, on a parity with other
German states. Only yesterday in
its history, in 1923, it experienced
Communist uprising that left a
deep impression that Hamburg
citizens remember, 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 1S42 left few traces of its
medieval architecture. Some of its
newer office buildings have spiraled
sides, in Northern search for sun
light; others have contours that
make them loom up in Hamburg
vistas like giant Europa enter
ing a narrow harbOr.
! Busy but Beautiful.
Industrial to its finger tips, mill
tantly so, Hamburg is a beautiful
city. 1t leaves a confused impress
sion of Minneapolis and Venice. For
the Alster river, en- route to the
EIbe, splays wide in the midst of
Hamburg's busiest quarter, giving
it the unique spectacle of great of
fee buildings, fine hotels, fashion
able shops, all along the lake front.
Clerks in the great, gray stone
buildings which is the office of the
Hamburg line, glancing
up from their ledgers, can look out
over a glistening sheet of waited,
1ecked with tiny yachts. motor
boats, scurrying ferries. racing
shells, ana 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 fire.
fly points of light bobbing all over
the surface. At one corner are
| huddled hundreds of canoes, their
occupants reclining on cushions,
listening to the concert of the Ais
ter pavilion. This sprightly cafe,
or coffee house along the lake
front, gathers its daytime patron
age from the great department
stores of the opposite side of the
| street
Luebeck's Commerce and Romance.
Lubbock, companion port of the
north, became, during the World
war, the foremost port of the Ger
man empire in foreign, water-bOrne
| trade. 1t is the smallest of the
free cities of Germany, but richer
| in "reminiscences of former great
ness than either of the other two.
| Hamburg, Bremen and Lubbock
| Joined the modern German empire
as free and independent Hanseatic
cities. Hamburg and Bremen have
developed into great stOneand-mor-
tar hives of present-day business;
have multiplied their wealth at a
tremendous rate; and have, more
and more, grown to the interna-
tional type of purely business cit
| les. Lubbock, on the other hand,
while it has maintained an impOr-
tance as a busy place Of commerce,
! is medieval, romantic, breath
from the past.
Lying ten miles from the Baltic
sea, on the River Trave, the chan
mel of which has been so improved
that boats of f6-foOt draft are able
to tie up at the city'a docks, Lue-
beck has been a nerve center of
North German trade with Den
mark, the Scandinavian lands, and
with Russia. The city has been
made into an island by its harbor
improvements, the Trave flowing
around its western border and a
wide channel around it on the east.
This city enjoys a location as fa-
vorable as that of Bremen or Ham,
burg for the distribution of it's
wares over Germany. 1t is reached
by rail in two and One-half hours
from Bremen, and is about as con-
veniently near to Berlin. The port
is connected with Copenhagen,
Stockholm and Danzig by regular
steamer services. It's chief ar
ticles of commerce are wines, espe-
cially claret, timber, tar, and north
ern cOnsignments of German man
ufacture.