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Show A I i 0 ( - ' P- ft ' ' i , s - . - L 1 ; i i i ' f ? i , I ' . ' ' - A I- r , ' - a h . - ; ' 1 t "ti ' " ' - -'3 k i . x - , - ' r , A" ' ' f ' . , ,.VT V I - ' c v - t livsi i t -v , s- s - ii i 1 f u Street Scene in Stuttgart. WHEN the German au-men a little while ago bombarded the beautiful and ancient city of l'ar-le-Duc in France, the French promptly retaliated retaliat-ed by an air raid Kin the model city of Stuttgart. Xo two cities could be more unlike or more characteristic of their respective respec-tive countries than Bar-le-Duc and Stuttgart. As Bar-le-Duc is the symbol sym-bol of poetry, romance and antiquity, Stuttgart is the personification of all that is modern, scientific and military. Stuttgart is the capital of Wurtein-bei-g and before the war had a' population popu-lation of 280,000, which included some of its suburbs and a garrison of 32,000 men which was stationed there. It is delightfully situated, surrounded by ntractive suburbs and amid vine-clad heights. It is two and a half miles from the Neckar river, in the valley of the Nesenbach. All around It are vineyards which cover the nearby hills, while the distant mountains are in sight. It is a thoroughly modern town, although al-though its charter does date back to V2:",. There are few buildings of an earlier date than the nineteenth century cen-tury and many of them are of "architectural "archi-tectural importance. The stately ap-p'.",; ap-p'.",; ranee of the city is owing to the piC'iiounced adherence of its architects to the Renaissance type of building, instead of the varieties of styles most c ties permit. Nowhere else in the w prld is the revival of the Renaissance s-.yle as well illustrated as iu Stuttgart. Some of Its Great Buildings. K spacious street, the Konigstrasse, e'ktends diagonally from southwest to northeast through the city and borders the beautiful park, the Sehlossplatz, which is adorned with statues, llower beds and pleasure grounds. In the center is a jubilee column In memory of William I. The most prominent buildings are clustered clus-tered around the Schlossplatz. Among these are the old palace, from the. sixteenth century; the new palace, l'"om the eighteenth century and containing con-taining 270 apartments; the splendid Konigsbau, a huge modern building with a line colionado containing ball and concert rooms; the Akademio, formerly for-merly the seat of the Karlsehule where Schiller received part of his education; ed-ucation; the Iloyal library, the Court theater, the palace of the Duchess Vera of Wurtemburg and the palace of the crown prince. Besides these there are numerous fine churches, museums and other institutions. Not far from the Schlossplatz are the court of justice, the royal stables, the new post ollice, the Central railroad station, the finest in (iermany, and many fine statues. Besides the jubilee column there is another to the mem ory of Emperor William 1; one to Duke Ebei'hard the Bearded; a really splendid one to Schiller by Thorwald-sen Thorwald-sen and one to Christopher, duke of Wurtembcrg. The art galleries and museums of Stuttgart are numerous and valuable. The Museum of Art has a fine collection col-lection of pictures, casts and engravings. engrav-ings. The Iloyal library contains about 0011,000 printed volumes; 5,550 manuscripts, many of them of great value, and the largest collection of Bibles in the world, there being 7,300 volumes in more than a hundred different dif-ferent languages. There are 2,400 specimens of early printing. It is perhaps the finest library in Germany and is considerably larger than our own Carnegie library of Pittsburgh. Fine Industrial Museum. The Industrial museum contains samples and specimens of the textile tex-tile fabrics, machines, tools, patterns, models, etc.. of nearly every country in the world, all labeled with specifications speci-fications of patents, trade marks and price lists. The- importance of this collection to the German Industries canuot be overestimated. Of French i and English fabrics alone there are 2S0.000 samples, while of French and Gorman carpets there are 70,000 specimens. speci-mens. There is a museum of natural history that is wonderful and valuable. valu-able. In one of the palaces is a collection col-lection of Majolica vases that was purchased in Venice in the eighteenth century. The Wurtemburg Museum of Antiquities contains every sort of relic imaginable from royal cabinets and armor to a pack of cards painted in the fifteenth century. To see all the objects in these museums and galleries gal-leries would take a lifetime and then one would not have seen half. Stuttgart is the center of a network of railroads. It is also the center of the bookmaking and publishing industry indus-try of south Germany. It is noted for its excellent educational institutions, and especially its Conservatory of Music, where many Americans have received their musical education. It has a technical high school that confers con-fers the degree of doctor of engineering, engineer-ing, also a veterinary high school, and a school of art. Home of Famous Men. There are a number of great men wno nave lived in Murlgart. Among them are Hegel, the philosopher, who was born in 1770; Dannecker, the sculptor, also claimed it as his birthplace; birth-place; the poet Schiller was educated there, his father being the luspector of the gardens of the Karlsehule; Gustav Schwab, the poet, lived there and is buried in I he lloppenlau cemetery; cem-etery; and the tomb of .lohanu Kei.,ch-1 Kei.,ch-1 i ii, the humanist, is iu one of the churches. We can imagine the pride the Germans Ger-mans have in this beautiful city, which is a model for all municipalities, municipali-ties, and the consternation I here must have boon when it was attacked by airplanes. It seems an outrage to destroy de-stroy what is beautiful and valuable, and when the Germans realize the danger and perhaps loss of soma of their own art treasures it Is to be hoped they will recognize the perridy of their own act in destroying the cathedrals ca-thedrals of I.ouvnin and lleinis. |