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Show Berlin Business Men Forced to Exercise Berlin Is rapidly becoming a city of fences in the truest sense of the word. Busy squares are being fenced in; low wire fences are being erected between the tracks of the street cars, where they run on a strip of grass in the center of the road ; everywhere substantial sub-stantial metal fences are being put up. This Is done to force the pedestrian to cross certain squares and thorough- fares only at specially marked corners. cor-ners. The population, however, is not exactly grateful to the authorities for thus taking care of them, for the fences smack too much of the old Prussian discipline. Not infrequently It happens that a man who has to catch n train or who is otherwise in a liuity jumps a fence and thus many a sedate business man is gradually acquiring considerable athletic skill. Exchange. |