The Coolidge examiner., 1935-10-04


store whose sign read. German
spoken here"
English words and phrases FIVE
o'clock tea. sport. morning coat"
gentleman" even "boule dogue'
FOR bulldog--are often sandwlched
In German speech aud news text.
Jar Is pronounced 'yotz" At the
theatcr one sometimes hears the
phrase "Echt Amerikanische Yotz
Bandit" meaning real American
Jazz baud!"
Germans take their pleasures Sc
rlously. Sport Is highly organized
SO that fuu-makIng may function
smoothly. Ike electric cargo cranes
In the harhorl Hamburg crowds
leaving Tor winter sports take every
conventional article advertised in
fashion journals
Watch the Luft Hansa planes.
whose pilots can't start tin uni
formed air policemen come with or
ders; or observe the race crowds
on Derby day. where many wear
monocles and London sport clothes.
and see with what clocklke pre-
cision all events are clicked or.
In busy cafes walters keep count
81 beers served by the number OF
paper coasters stacked under eacn
guests glass
Go out In Mccklenburg 10 shoot.
and servants carry your coat. lunch.
gun. shells. even a stool TO sit on.
while others drive the game past
you 10 easy shooting range.
In n vast ST. PAUL pleasure pal
ace sou see dinner dancers sudden
~ scurry from the floor when uni.
formed attendants rush In, as II
raldlng the place. dragging mats.
rugs. poles. wires. and all the gear
Of aerial acrobais. In n jIfy this
Is set up, and girls In tights are
/ flying through the smoke or swing.
Ing out over the tables BY trapeze.
Just rs maglcally. NIL this spec
racle yanishes: again the jazz band
plays. aud back TO the floor the
diners rush to dance again.
Aister lake In the City.
Alster lake is set IN Hamburg
ike reflection pool In some or
nate exposition grounds. Imagine
Times Square. In New York city. as
a tree-bordered lake, alive with toy
ferryboats. RATS. pleasure craft,
floats. and swans. Hamburg's Al
sfer lake is like that. only larger.
4 river. the Alster. on It's way TO
the Elbe splays wide as It's reaches
the city. A dam divides the lake,
cutting OF one end. the Inner Alster.
In Hamburg's busiest quarters: so
that hotel guests. department store
and Office building workers can
look down on cafes and canoes and
watch hinge focks Of swans fed
at troughs Ike pigs. Gulls are
tame; they ny past and peck bread
from your extended hand.
Neat white cafes. with glassed-ln
yerandas. fragrant with potted
plants and window flower boxes,
stand along the promenade that
runs about the lake. Crowds gath
er here 10 sit. and sup. and listen
10 the band or watch boat races,
but are politely blind TO open-alr
love-making In cozily cushioned
canoes that drift by often with
gramophone playing.
Riding TO Hamburg In a third
class coach affords a quick flash
OF life among the masses. Through
snatches OF salty dialogue overheard
run the themes about which work
Ing people think. Jobs. wages, the
price OF food and clothes. what the
government ought to do, politics In
| It's many variations-the same here
as everywhere. Also, you hear
many poor are leaving the city to
save rents and try 10 live on the
land. Some men in the coach. re-
turning from visits with country
kin, carry a goose. a sack OF fruit
or potatoes.
at was better before the war"
Zach. va, the good old peace
times :"
Peace, war; fires, foods, and cholera
Hamburg had known them all
since Charlemagne first laid out
the place as a fort from which TO
fight the Wends, the Swedes, and
other half-wild pagans hereabouts.
whose descendants later helped peo-
pie England. Danes. French, Rus
sians-all have struck their blows
at Hamburg. But, from the day
that Rome soldiers built the first
hut and sounded their bugle blasts
over the swampy Elbe lands down
TO the steam siren chorus OF today,
Hamburg has slowly grown in pow
er and influence, till now she Is the
greatest seaport in continental Eu-
rope. Heiress of the Hanseatic
league, Germans call her.
As In olden days her sailing ships
pioneered the Seven seas, so now
her liners, freighters, and tankers
follow every ocean lane and her
voice is the sound of steamers whis-
tling.