Show 14 V 1 A I 1 I 1 5 e a ort 1 11 A 4 go W 4 a view of the port of hamburg d by the th national geographic society washington xian D C Q service thinks in term fernn of 0 afar HAMBURG ships of fish ash and trade with tar flung places overseas news especially spec lally news that affects trade for better or worse moans means more to it than all the politico social twaddle of berlin or munich since the days of sail its sons have rc scoured aured every nook of the world to barter buy and sell ain many ny now e exten sive german colonies in south america and the orient began as small groupe of traders and clerks first sent from here some marry forel foreign n women retire well to do and bring their families back here to educate the children this close tie with distant lands accounts for hamburges Ham burgs well known study of tropic economics and diseases its researches into new uses tor for imported raw raiv materials the worldwide world wide work of its trade groups and the desire of its young people to learn foreign languages and to travel abroad visit in any hamburg home or adv industrial museum where foreign products are seen and at once you are struck with youths eager interest in men events and things overseas during the years when endless ship loads of immigrants left germany for the new world hamburg was the port from which millions of them sailed including those from middle and eastern europe many a hamburg sitting room Is cluttered with curios aud quaint mementos brought back from distant voyages by father uncle or brother al ways hamburg shares its sons with the sea many never to return from here red faced crews in smelly oilskins oil cill skins and high boots sail each sea son to fish the windswept wind swept north sea boikin as far away as iceland the loss of life ships and nets in this trade Is recorded in many a north sea ballad herrings herring they harvest in countless millions herrings being to the north sea what bananas are to central america special fish cars gaudily painted like circus trains run at high speed from north sea fish ports to fish hungry cities as far away as vienna what the fret free port means that phrase the free port of hamburg means what only tills this away back in hsc frederick barbarossa the red bed beard gave gae hamburg its free charter though a state now in the german republic it still enjoys a peculiar degree of independence its ancient senate still functions in traditional dit ional spanish dress while hamburg joined the german customs union in hi IM the senate cannily maintained its free trade rights by holding back a part of its harbor area as a free port shut off by a high iron fence this section Is a city within itself free from the plague of duties and customs inspectors spec tors here are mammoth warehouses piled high with china silk frozen meats from argentina coffee from brazil farm machines from the united states many waiting reshipment to strange named baltic ports none to pay a cent of customs duty to germany here many of the worlds huge ships are built here are foundries and machine shops here too flocks of factories profit by the tree free use of imported raw material and easy shipping facilities hamburg as a german state has tariff protections but this part ot of it enjoys free trade in all its enormous transit commerce tills this benefit Is snared by american firms who mho have warehouses here like manhattan island crowded hamburg uses tunnels between st SL paull and the Stel side of the elbe in the harbor sections a double tube leads under the river it Is a similar to the hudson tunnels at new york except for approaches so crowded are the river banks that no space could be spared for inclines hence at each end men and vehicles use elevators which lift and lower them 77 feet below street level domed structures house these elevators whose high windows pour daylight down to the bottom of each shaft rig pig iron weights hold the tubes from shifting shit ting the tunnels their walls faced with glazed tiles and decorated with sculptured are brilliantly illuminated on bad days when fog or lee ice slows down the elbe ferries or crowds the bridges pedestrians and cyclists all prefer the dry warm warin tubes many languages language 1 there hamburg Is a polyglot ot port shopping street window cards read english spoken se sa habla espanol on parle francias Fran Franc cals ils syrian cafes display sidewalk dinner signs in writing the hoariest hoarsest hoa riest newspaper joke tells of one store whose sign read german spoken here english words and phrases five I 1 ten tea sport morning coat even boule dogue dogne tor for bulldog are often sandwiched hed in german and news text jazz 13 pronounced at the theater one sometimes hears bears the phrase lent echt Amerika bandit meaning real american bizz band germans take their pleasures seriously sport is ill highly MY organized so that fun making may function smoothly like electric caro cargo cranes in the hamburg dowds crowds leaving for winter sports take every conventional article advertised in fashion journals watch the luft hansa planes whose pilots cant start till uniformed uniform ed air policemen come edme with orders or observe the rice race cr crowds on derby day where many tainy near monocles monn mon cles ocies and london sport clothes nn and see with what precision all events are clicked ot off in ili busy cafes waiters keep count of beers served by the number of paper coasters staked stacked under each guests glass go out in mecklenburg to shoot and servants sen ants carry your coat lunch gun shells even a stool to sit or on while others drive the game past you in easy shooting range in a vast st paull pleasure palace you see dinner dancers suddenly scurry from the floor when uniformed attendants rush in as if raiding the place dragging mats rugs rug gs poles wires and all the gear of aerial acrobats in a jiffy tills this is set up and girls in tights are lying flying through gli the smoke or swinging out oer the tables by tra peye just as magically all tills this spectacle vanishes again the jazz band plays and back to the floor the diners rush to dance again alster lake in the city alster lake Is set in hamburg like a rel reflection lection pool in some ornate exposition grounds imagine times square in new york city as a tree bordered lake inke alive with toy ferryboats ferry boats rafts pleasure craft floats and swans lam ham burgs alster lake Is like that only larger A river the alster on oil its way to the elbe splays sprays wide as it reaches reachel the city A dam divides the lake ike cutting on off one end the inner A alster if ter in hamburges Ham burgs busiest quarters so that hotel guests department store and office building vior workers kers can look down 0 on cafes and canoes and watch huge flocks of swans fed at troughs like pigs gulls ire are tame they fly past and peck bread from your extended hand ban neat white cafes with glassed in verandas fragrant with potted plants and window flower boxes stand along the promenade that runs about the lake crowds gather here to sit and sup and listen to the band or watch boat races but are politely blind to open air love making in cozily cushioned canoes that hat drift by often with gramophone playing hiding to hamburg in a third class conch coach affords a quick flash ot of life among the masses through snatches of salty dialogue overheard run the themes about which working people think jobs JAS wages the price of food and clothes what the file government ou ought ht to do politics in its many variations the same here as everywhere also you hear bear many poor are leaving the city to save rents and try to live on the land some men in the coach returning from visits with country kin carry a goose a sack of fruit or pota toes it was better before the war ach ya the good old peace times pence peace war fires floods and cholera hamburg has known them all since charlemagne first laid out the place as a ort from which to fight the wends bends the swedes and other half wild pagans hereabout whose chose descendants later helped people en england land danes french russians an all have hav e struck their blows at hamburg but bill from the day that rome soldiers built the first but and sounded their bule bugle blasts over the swampy elbe lands down to the steam siren chorus of today hamburg has slowly grown in and influence till now dow sue she Is the greatest seaport in continental europe heiress of the league ger mans call her As in olden days her sailing ships shins plon pioneered the seven sens seas so now her liners freighters and tankers follow every ocean lane and her voice Is tua moo sound of steamers whistling |