Show L ETTER FROM the journal Jo correspondent in a grand old german city cily ITS conservatory 0 R Y 0 OF r K X US U 9 10 with t two va 0 students from utah one of whom at rne one time studied music masi i e in LOS logan to see an old german t city with narrow crooked croo keil streets meeting each other at all sort of curves and and angles and closely built with old fashioned five and six eix story sut colored hou houses irsa a person need only visit leipzig r in the older parts of tile the city no two houses are built in the same lire line and the roofs are all decorated with quaint little dormer windows the streets tire are crowded with busy people from all puts of the world A person meets hosts of people from every station in life the larze large the small the old the young youn the crippled and the sickly rol soldiers diers sto students dents doctors old won women en with will packs on their cheh backs and here bere and there as ho ha works wilks along his eye is caught and if he io i not careful liis his heart too by the pretty retta face of some sweet young haills damsel el the coachmen as they ait half asleep in their hacks backs waiting for a job are the most idle of fill all eight hundred years ago ago leip leipzig zi was only a small fis fishing bino villa village e situated at the junction of three small today i it t is one of the most prosperous and enterprising ing M cities in ill germany the supreme sup p reme court of tile empire is held b here ere and a massive sandstone sand stone b be completed d jor fo r its use ich where ere once stood an old wall around the city is now a fine promenade andin and in the newer districts outside of the promenade the buildings s are large and of elegant design since the founding of tile the university in 1409 Leip leipzig 0 has been one of the most important literary and musical centers i in n europe but today it is thought b by Y home that berlin takes the lead leipzig is inov known ii almost the world over for its excellent conservator of music which was founded in 1842 by Mendel solin Dart bartholdi holdi and is attended by students from nearly every part of the world utah is represented by ron eon and A 11 II lund who seem to be making 11 very good progress 0 jode anderson tells me that tha t the teaching t he received in logan was as good as ho he would have received here and that lie he was ablo able to continue his course without any trouble As a business center leipzig leads in the book and fur trade in the book trade even taking the lead of london and paris there are upwards of three hundred publishers and booksellers in the city and eighty printing works dinty per cent of the inhabitants 5 in number are Luthe rians and strange to fay eay ac according cordiner 0 to population leipzig has more suicides than any other european city cily one and two are reported nearly every day by the news papers leipzig can boast of no very beautiful churches or cathedrals but it has a very old one the uni hersity Kir clie that was dedicated by martin luther A notable feature of leipzig Leil izig is in tile the which has been held here for over seven centuries and is still held three times a year it is a large far fair to which business bu einess nien men from all over nver europe and parts part of As asia ia gather with their samp sample leg to buy and sell it is 3 said aid that during durin 9 the year over worth of business is done and that strangers conic come to each fair for the nole mole purpose of visiting or doing business at it most of the bu business si is done in booths or places erected for the purpose and every vacant spot or square is brought into we use along with the bus business ineis part ame soa circuses tilde shows birne Bw irig merry go p rounds etc and ia a person can buy anything from a dish of ice cream or a cocoa nut to the fairy pit i ry queen or five minutes in heaven it is quite inte to see and hear bear chete germans Geril lans as they ply 1 their I air trade A punch and judy show with german characters is not so very exciting but to see a big fat german full of lager laer beer get up and auctioneer till the sweat 11 pours ours from his face like rain and his voice fades down to a faint whisper would attract most any blodys attention and holds a mormon morion n ion missionary spellbound spell peli bound J jr II SQUIRES |