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Show oOJ mmm YANKEE SPENDS RIOTOUS DAYS i GERMANY AND QUITS WITH MORE MONEY THAI! WHEN HE ARRIVED iit OR vr GORDON Special O.rn-xjxmdmt of w Slaiid-aj'tl- Kxnmlncr. tCopyrlght. 1922. by The Standard-Examiner) Standard-Examiner) CHERBOURG, France, Oct. 14 An American who arrivod here today has bud ;i vacation In Germany which, Car from coating him money, has left him with moro than he had whon he started. VJihn h got off th boat h heard that the mark waa quoted at 2.200 to the dollar. This was aboxit twice as much as when ho loft New York. He made haeto, in his delirious Joy to con-vert con-vert $1,000 Into marks. Losing no time, he set out the same night for Bavaria. When he arrived in Rothonburg, that charming old Bavarian city with Its glorious medieval architecture, he . began to wonder what ho would do, (with over two million marks. His 'hotel informed him that the charge I would be 1.100 marks per day. with I board Included. He spent an evening wandering among tho picturesque llt-'tle llt-'tle crooked streets of the ancient city, trying to think up a scheme for spending spend-ing his money in the time at his disposal dis-posal ltothenburg is not a town of luxurious luxur-ious cafes and all-night dancinj palaces. pal-aces. The town closes up tighter than a fashionable shoe at about 9:30 p. m Shortly ufter our friend had turned In, he heard the rumble of a high-powered high-powered motor and looking out the window saw a parly of Americans In a Mercedes racing car. with .a Gorman Gor-man chauffeur. A hired car. obviously. obvious-ly. Here was the Idea. Automobiles aro a luxury, evon in Germany. Next morning early ho saw the hotel ho-tel porter. That pompous, whiskerod individual with his gold-rimrncd spec tacles and gold-trimmed uniform, was quick to respond to tho suggestion. Ho knew precisely what our American friend wanted. It Just happened that jtho chauffeur of tho ex-klng of Wurt-lemborg. Wurt-lemborg. Herr FYsy, was in town with, the 90-h. p. car that the king had left behind. Herr Krey was nent for land was happy to meet our American friend, and speaking through the por-ter por-ter as Interpreter was ready to pilot1 Ihlm all over Bavaria for ;:0,u00 marks Is day and board and lodging. 1 After lunch next day they started' They whizzed along the German highways, high-ways, stopping only for meals. Nur-J lemberff, Ingelstad and Intermediate, points were vlalted, and each made, to bring forth the best It possessed J for the delectation of tho millionaire traveler. Munich was reached and! two days spent In exploring tho boat It had to offer. Then Augaborg. Hero an altercation with some of tho nu-ttvofi nu-ttvofi resulted In a warning from the police, that our dlspendous American had better leave Bavaria and the sooner the better for his health. Stepping Step-ping on the gas the i-king of Wurt-temberg's Wurt-temberg's ehaufie.ur l.rought him to tho Bavarian frontier at Ulm In an Incredibly In-credibly short time. "Don't forget," said the American by now respectful of Bavarian law "that we must stop at tho police headquarters head-quarters in I'lm and get our papers put In order " Tho chauffeur looked at him pityingly pity-ingly and nalcl nothing. When they reached L'lm, the watchful Bavarian polico wero on tho Job. Tho other cars, which seemed all to be full of Americans, wore lined up. and officers of-ficers were examining passports. Tho ex-klng of Wurttemberg4 S chauffeur looked at them contemptuously. As a group of police officers opproachod. ho snouted something that tho American Am-erican did not understand and they saluted. The gaa was again stepped on and car shot forward. At Stuttgart our American discharged discharg-ed the chauffeur, paid him for six days' travel, with a stiff tip. gathered' Up his suitcases full of knick-knacks I that ho had bough) for hlfl friends and! relatives buck honie, and entrained fori I Paris. Arriving there, he discovered that he still had 1.500,000 marks In Uls pocket. He had spent exactly I TOO. 000 marks In his week's holiday In Germany And as the remaining marks were of no further use to hlrn, he carried them to a bank and received precisely $1,050. or Just &0 more than he had paid for the 2.200,000 marks with which be started out because of a 'hinge :n the exchange rate And today he Is wondering who In '.he world It is that has paid him $50 for enjovlng a motor ride through Bavaria. Ba-varia. nn |