| Show BERLINS STRENUOUS AMERICAN COLONY 4 Everyone Who Belongs to It Has Something to Do and Keeps Busy Doing Doil g It While the Embassy and Consulate Unlike Some Others Keep Open r Doors and Help the Exiles Both in Business and Socially So I Special Correspondence Aug 30 Amor BERLIN B It II a II quality which characterizes lI American colony colon Col Columbia oj as II It Is 18 often called Just as II It characterizes tho Iho Columbia C the American colony In dominated by h Its working spirit ThoroIs Thoro lIIro Is III or ot course our hero ns os ft tL up er or oty devotees Hut But these thase are are In tho minority From tho humblest Amer American ican student In III to I tho mo t prominent of or tH It Il limy nia almost bo ho fa rold Id that every oelY American lit hi lias como here to do something und and It Tho rho IH II u Il or All 11 told lold there are Itro about 1000 1 1 American residents In whit what may ma tie called tho of the tho colony tho Iho 11 or of transitory I ra II litO Americans who especially In the tho r tho alan Blan capital only a IL day or 11 a 01 week ck before taking train or motor ur re With Ith tho col colony bl ony nn little a tho 1110 ephemeral visitor to t rank ranka a limns Americas 1111 11 men 11 a In Inthe till the cae e lit r Theodore Then rhen literally ad ail go If 0 up ul tu to honor him and he III may maybe be he suro 1111 or a IL welcome of ur from his 1118 exiled f In Berlin TUG Tim T 1 I n I Intel eels uru tho Iho chief r r tor at Ill attracting Americans to 10 n Ameri American can LIUI lien of or business living hero here who hae American mer mercantile cantile su s lone In III n that they Ih might bo excused for In Incoming L coming moro mill German than American merJ an Jut Hut Americanism dies 1111 hard and even llen tha Iho retain nationality to Iho un to tu the rn hon un st to luI in III goodly numbers In Berlin An n American university student uni wn called Into liCe recently representing American students Is III tho Iho dub club Last 18 t but loul not 1101 In III nn all of tiC III American colon must bo mentioned great Iteal bod of ut American lIn inu and to the III hull hub world with Its Ibl good 1000 Us Its teachers finally II II a II Itu musical atmosphere Till of the IIII American A 1 colony olon IH of oC n R friendly Informal The colony colon Is III I Its hospitality and for the tho warmth with which It II nil 11 newcomers from the Amerl raft cnn professor feted by II court university alike down don to the humblest budding American artist t who lins hils yet el to become known In Her Ber Nuclei of ot the lol na life In Berlin tho Iho American embassy the American the consulate I gen general en eral nd the American Woman club The American embassy U b according to 10 time honored custom CUll thrown open olen olento to nil 1111 Americans In on at al least two great fete daya dILa or ot the year Years du birthday It remains r each Illch ac ne according cording to hta hl personal 1110 nil I Inclinations to decide whether hi hospitality hO to 10 th colony shall or lIr not nol on u wider moie Jope and Mrs Hill lilli genial democratic to 10 a u decided emphatically In the affirmative Few Fell national holidays have pawned Inco neo their advent In III which l have hae not us liS tho Iho occasion for in ceremony at t the to 10 which the colony ns 1111 n II whole receives rec nn open upen Invitation Imitation Formality lion lire aru conspicuous by h nt these embassy y 8 which conducted In n u spirit of ot pure Ameri American can In Ono One of or the centers which busily with colony life lit Is the of ot the American consulate In n In the heart h of ot Berlin nt the Iho cor Or corner Orner ner of or Friedrich and Us dryer duties as commercial conn America and the Ih consulate Is hound tu to todeal dent deal with a hundred tacks bringing It Into clo do personal touch with the colony It II IB 18 n kello to perform an all us II or ot from ct connected with Hie Iho transport orl in tu America of ut the Ih rn R iet l holding the of a 1 cremated Amer American Am r rIcan ican to nuking for fora rura a J girl firl student has dl for tk since Ing ut lit ur or An All Im and d lio te feature of u thu r lies In calm calming 1 InK ing the wrath lor t Indignant In who resent tho and manner of ot the U ubiquitous i Ilice lice SUNDAY SUNDA LH Tho rho American m church a primary so 10 social cial elal center foi Americans In holds 1101 1 besides Its 11 1 services on mornings nn afternoon let service 1 fur young people r sociable Ht JJ of If university ami After th tj 1 there Is I n U adjournment to In the thu church library vestibule whore during an all hour hOUI and a half hair of sociability ity It tea mid lion II made American cake cak hold huld the do In the evening comes S the social Institution which so lip to 10 lie benevolent b heart of nr on nit lIer recent visit to II church 30 to 40 men ild Id girl Irl tuu IU wiy w up on to III lIe l but m i r tty at al HIP top 1011 of or the n In which Mm Ma 1 the th church matron In h il contrast to I the Ih g Onnin n nn evo tu I lire regaled with lIh tin III If It simple American nl I winding up hun buns nd Jam ake tM The did not lot tato for a n to mount the Ihl sIllS to In tho Ih or f Hie Ihl church to 10 In Inspect the scene or of these Sunday stu student tu dent revels reel From om parlor JIB to III examined OW portion nr or the church small amRIt lowell home In which sho ob oh erod hr he would herself be quite delighted t 1 k up r Attached t Sli h American church Ii Ie another Institution n which plays n II use useful u e ful rul especially 11 II In the of the student colony colon This Is 18 tho Ih library II bra I and reading room the largest American II br ry In Founded I In 1904 with CO 10 books book for the uro II of or It hns haR gone On on developing until It has ha reached Its pre ont hiatus May hl this Ihl library which II III volumes has hit ns 1111 modest a II begin beginning ning as Harvard have a ns Krent use nn 11 1 hit a future rulure ahl Toner former armor abu sa saIm do Im to 10 at Its open opening ing It 11 now IIII hus volumes and annually Tho Louise Dickie Library Is the tho name now beginning to III lie he commonly upon 11 II In memory mar of or UK ItH founder and Mrs J F 1 Dickie of tho th former r American pastor under whom the church built hullt An Institution founded rou II d 11 especially to meet t lilt tho needs of the A 11 girl In III la 10 tho Iho American Woman lub duh called Into life In by h tho Iho wife of or Ambassador Andrew D While hlll Th club Willi founded with the Intention of or the Ihl home old and even the hardships hm I II of the lonely lone American living In and In lo to the tendency to III which life In III a J for city Is 18 apt to when not nol counteracted by b American Influence Tha 11 club roon though simple with excellent library II used continually throughout the tho winter for lectures anti and Many IRn young musicians anti and gladly take this of r making a 1 debut before run running running ning the gantlet of professional lonal public criticism In the tho dreaded Berlin Turning from students to 10 commerce Die of 0 American flims doing hire hAil hns t Increased until now nov there are upwards of or actively prosperously od an in Organisation wn found desirable 1 morl Inn men In ISO the various firms handed together to 10 form a IL cham chamber ber bel or of commerce for or promotion of their Interest Its protection IMn American A III business firm nourished like ilkI tho proverbial groon roen roenIa ibay Ia Working 1111 hand In hand with the Conciliate the organization tion tOIl hns hIs accomplished an In amount of ot good In the Iho Interests of or ns R well 1 ns nl American merian firing while under Ill name Tho Ass Aas elation daton of Commerce anti Trade It I linn II ed I greatly In And Influence ns 11 to I a areal really HJ real In In II th n 11 Id of or Half H M clown Ihor Institutions must bo h I n Component l of III th col ny of IC l ns ni It In I feels the Ih of or i f t Its II different el An American Fund nd for fer or orIl II 1 live III u ago b the J JF Il F 1 Mr F J W Wile n lending American Journal t from and Mr Ir 8 H At AI l secretary Ilan of tho r and Ind Tho fund hi ha ful th w f for r huh It was wa In Intended tended to 10 the Iho charily or ot the Ih colony olon no ll I undeserving prey on I it I that thai no worthy worth should r rai II or orthe orthe the Int help nr f tho th generous len rUI American COST HOOK |
