| Show unfortunate HAMBURG the city of hamburg la Is complain ing bemuse because of the threatened commercial stagnation which now stares that city la in the face as a consequence of the great cholera scare a short time ago in a private letter from a resident and business man of the german city to a friend in new york he says that the hamburgers lost all fear of cholera several beveral weeks since but they do fear and have been fearing financial ruin and are at a lou lose as to how this la in to be avoided having been placed in quarantine by all the civilized powers power they have as the letter claims come near sounding the death knell to ham burgs burghi prosperity what shall ball we do if the boycott continues for any length of time the writer says my we shall simply be wiped out our workingmen and middle classes will starve and only the very rich may survive an exchange noting the above says very truly that hamburges Hamburg Ham burgs se ease case is a hard ova one and should excite wide spread sympathy it to is much to be hoped too that she will speedily recover from her prostration and be as an prosperous as ever before butare but she cannot blame the conduct of the outside world during the awful epidemic that brought her so low 8 she had not kept her premises in a sanitary condition and when the plague came she did not take the prompt measures for or its suppression and for the protection of the cities having commercial dealings with her that she should have taken she has been taught a stern lesson les sand should now be wise enough to do all in her power to prevent a re repetition on of her terrible exper experience lentie of the last three months hamburg Is in the greatest cc commercial port on the european continent she to is a free trader throughout vessels from all nations coming and going at will without lot let or hindrance it to is situated on the river elbe about thirty miles from its it mouth month and is connected by rail with all parts of the german empire re it is in not regarded as a beautiful city by any means the streets in the busing business 0 centers 0 0 tore being narrow dark and dingy and the houses house old fashioned ani and badly built some of its lt modern suburbs however are well built and attractive it has one of the largest theaters in germany and to inow somewhat hat noted for the number and size also of its public buildings its corn com morce merce li in greatly aided by its extensive communications from within and with out the elbe at the point at which hamburg to is situated widens out aty raptly and becomes from there on to the mouth virtually an arm of the ties aea rather than a river by means of recent improve ments menta vessels of all grades and displacements can now at any season or whether the water to i high or low doliver their cargoes and take on freights directly at the warehouses which was wan not so RO until lately vessels drawing more than eighteen feet of water being unable to come in at all and the others being only able to come near when the tide was waa in no has hai the city prepared itself for till still greater strides in the commercial world than the plague descend upon her and it be cornea comes a question not of en enhanced hancel prosperity but of merely sustaining uita ining it self the population at this time cannot be far from a quarter of a million |
