Show erl I 1 n H v HIM L 0 N 0 the bcd P ERLIN at 0 today the capital at 0 prussia Is the residence of the german emperor and the seat ot of ment tho the german imperial boeru it is also the greatest manufacture I 1 ing IDS city in continental europe As such it offers a striking contrast to the berlin of 0 the forties with re its two storied shabby houses rough cobble 6 tones stones and apen gutters into which the ell eil smelling sewage was poured war and politics have been the principal factors in its progress and the fact act that the chose berlin as their home during the last two decades the rier spree beside which it stands has been reduced to the proportions of a large canal confined by walls of 0 solid masona mas maso onri nr which facilitates the transport of heavy traffic and indeed serves serles as a means of transport be kneen different points within the cit citi thus relieving the local streets street 0 of ra railway ilNay traffic this extensive tern tem of inland water traffic greater than that of the rhine has been potent in ill the rise ot of berlin the neighboring city cit of charlotten burg has been absorbed into the cap ital as have hae willersdorf wilmersdorf Wll Wil FrIe friedenau denau schoenberg tempelhof alsdorf rum flesburg ml esburg and a dozen other places north south east and west In depend ent Nil lages a few years ears ago they the have dropped into the maw mai of 0 the in satiable siti able capital the provincial town of the forties Is now noi a seething me tro polis with a population of 0 over three million inhabitants greatness born of war of 70 the strongest impulse to the city s growth came of course from theroun dation of the empire and the alov of the french ds toi toward ard the spree both ot of which resulted from the prot prof liable war liar with inith france within the last decade or so whole new quarters have sprung into existence el stence each one as large as a fair sized city in many of the broad straight streets a tree shaded footpath runs down donn the center one walks on the banks of the spree under an avenue of trees eer ENer thing Is spotlessly clean even the trunks and branches ot of the trees you never see bee a grim house you never meet a dirty person at least in the principal streets all that Is kept well ell out of ordinary sight thero are no werlin cries news s papers are sold almost in silence stlene e by spectacled men who look like p protes sors handbills Hand bills most of them ing to cafes of 0 the cheaper kind are offered at street corners b old gen flemen who might easily pose for or des dea cons no plino piano organs play in the central streets no hucksters bawl their wares ares the only sound I 1 in n the city Is the constant clatter of horses hoots on the asphalt and ot of course tho the grinding ot of electric tramcars tram cars on their endless journey around the city and the hoots ot of the automobiles detachments ot of men work night and lay jay to remove ever every speck ot of dirt from the streets not do they sweep the main streets with nith scrupulous care but actually scrub eiery ciery square inch st df them once a dayt day therefore berlin whose streets were former or merl 1 a dumping ground tor for bell sewage age has recently acquired the reputation ot of icing being among the cleanest cities in ill the world nobody litters up the street or puts sv sweepings keepings on the dewalk Bl wire alro baskets are fastened on lamp posts against houses fences or r breeb in which the public ma throw paper wello walking along tho the householders householder must sweep 0 a the center ot of the street in front of their sidan iks every morn morning irig bi fore bix bis 0 flock the most remarkable under undertaking tabing of barlin hoi however Never is its method ot of sewage dispo il horn the alf different ferent parts of 0 the cita the liquids and solids in conducted through a ot of e ors to dutral stations along uio the spree situated at the lowest cleve cleva tion lion of the city here the sewage la Is collected li IL large central irs from which it is ib forced by means of largo pump through great iron tubes into the country it then passes into central stand boxers toilers toi lers and Is thence distributed through a system of irrigation pipes and ditches upon the land thus the sewage of the elt cit becomes becom the fertilizer of the soil which pro duces fruits and vegetables tor for city con the area of the fields irrigated la Is more than twenty thou sand acres the total cost ot of the drainage system vas yet ovi ing to the enormous yield of the lr ir righted land it has been an exceeding 13 1 profitable As many man as five crops ot of hay are cut in a single scar er and several crops ot of vegetable air are 0 obtained each season reason berlin la Is rapidly becoming less lan and more cosmopolitan among other signs ot of this change may mai bs be mentioned the existence ot of bev eral Sport dented denoted to lamn alis te nis and other british games while there is a nine hole golf course in charlottenburg Charlott enburg Everi here there are signs of 0 bus tle tie and one ona feels somehow that the emperor has baa communicated his rest less energy to the inhabitants of his capital and the balger Is much in evidence in grand parades on th taft feld beld in gala nights at the opera open at openings ot of municipal buildings in dries and rides down doan the unter den linden lindell it at the head ot of his brilliant staff amid a blare ot of mu sic or strolling NN without escort through the Thier thiergarten garten avenue of kingly statues probably rol nowhere here in the orld is there such a magnificent promenade prom enado as the SIege salle salie or victory agnue in the thiergarten Thier garten lined anith marble statues ot of 32 emperors ot of the ancas tors from albrecht the bear to kaiser vilhelm I 1 and nhat a superb ave A h jp t A r IR mn brit TP T P t f 4 r P ta I 1 tf 36 ll 11 ha IV f r Z a I 1 74 PON 7 V 4 an N RIO A t j raf nua ol of approach is thus formed to tho the with mith its gilded lectory column in the center which has now been adorned by the imperial parlia ment meat house or reich de the visible sign and symbol of their political unity resides besides its system 6 stem or olf electric surface cars and elevated ele eleia abed ted steam railway the latter traversing the city alt in two loops in the form of an elongated figure eight there la is an electric rail road subterranean in the central por par eions of the cita and elevated eleia ted in the southern and western prec precincts I 1 net S v bich Is remarkable kable for or the artistic beauty ot of Us its stations bridges and even or dinar viaducts the above ground stations are of stone steel and glass no two alike underneath each sta tion there is an arcade which has been transformed in every instance into a restaurant beer garden or store |