Show copenhagen GEN VIN 7 1 14 4 41 4 the white house of denmark rr pa 8 d b y N geographic W h 1 t D C WN U ervice e Koben havn to C copenhagen which leon trotsky exiled R russian issaan leader recently was transported almost in b bond ond to lecture before copenhagen university students Is a modern city in many ways ultramodern ultra modern but it has a long history it was a sizable fishing village years before columbus transatlantic voyage once it was mostly wood and it burned down here and there time and again and stone was utilized until now a train entering the city seems to be gliding gilding through tunnels tunnels of buildings made ot of rock until it in a stat station ton called one of the finest in europe certainly it Is among the neatest onn one of the cites numerous towers it alie te tower which remains of st nicholas church though the church Is gone Is a reminder of the days dais or nights of frequent fires there a king stationed a watchman who like our rangers scanned the forest of timber structures and when he saw a blaze he be would cry brand brandi brand 1 all over the town nocturnal windows would go up heads come poking out and cries of where where would be answered by pedestrian paul reveres who gave the fires location residents of the vicinity of the blaze would place tubs of water before their doors each ready to save his own i home while those beyond the danger zone would go back to bed the new town hall stalwart and impressive sixth to in the succession of the towns municipal buildings lies iles Copen hagens new architecture it Is a con conglomerate Ibm erate mass of rust red brick granite limestone and terra cotta a strange blending of ancient danish and italian touches its five tiers of windows for example are each of a different design there are additional casual orleas oriels that would be at home in nuremberg and battlements on the roof suggest the peak line of a modern new york skyscraper implanted upon its facade Is a bronze relief of bishop abalon ab salon the romulus of copenhagen along its roof are figures of the towns ancient watchmen flunked flanked by polar bears an ornate pigeon cote houses the birds that flutter about its musselshell mussel shell mosaic pavements A lofty tower 2 feet high which seems to have no bearing whatsoever upon its accompanying building Is pro claimed highest of its kind in northern europe which may well be true since its design approaches the unique to the haymans lay mans eye ee the strange ensemble achieves a surprising dignity and charm As for an architect well it was worth doing once but I 1 hope no one but ft a dane tr tries ies it again then it would be a mess view from town hall tower it Is worth while climbing the steps of the town halls tower because from its ita lofty platform armed with a few facts of Den marks history and geography one may catch a birdseye stint summary mary of Copen hagens reason tor for being to the northeast spread acres of bronze and copper domes steeples and towers towers of hotels business buildings even the railway station as well as churches and an expanse of elsh fis h tile gabled roofs alth dormer windows that make the cites roof surface look like a c hoppy choppy sen to the th tight right Is the sound narrowing into the channel that gives give s copenhagen pen hagen a downtown harbor central as an american union station beyond the smokestacks smoke stacks and masts in the harbor curves a promenade a de one of Eu ropes most famous and beautiful promenades to the citadel the cites one complete survival from the era of americas plymouth PI mouth and jai jamestown newtown nes town and be beyond yond the citadel Is a city within the city the famous free port key to present day Copen hagens commercial prosperity some or so years lears ago all the area ones eye ee now scans was a submerged reef of chaff and lime about that time the glacial period mammoth lee ice sheets a mile or more thick like those of Den marks greenland today thrust ponderously south from norway they piled up their earth and stones its as they cri crunched inched and ground upon this reef gradually forming the island of zealand to the west anti and amader to the eat east the channel which cuts through the heart of copenhagen today Is merely a fortunate furrow in the wake of these this happy whim of the HIP glaciers carved a writer water passage to the great sea opening to world trade the present day dav sweden finland russia latala estonia lithuania poland and even part of north germany also it cut an outlet to the south ot of the baltic not to the north as to in our hudson bay which was a mighty factor in the progress of all the baltic lands and most especially of copenhagen copenhagen means merchants ila ha ven en 11 for centuries it fattened upon the toll of passing ships by levying a tax known as sound due dues duea a tariff so profit profitably abl that it was called den marks e g i mine naturally such payment became irksome to marl maritime time powers a and n d in 1857 1837 the practice was abolished opening the kiel carial canal brought further loss to Copen hagens shipping but the city found a way out in its free port the free port it requires considerable explaining even in this least formal of all european capitals to procure perm permission assion to pass the sentries who guard every entrance even the railroad tracks into the free port once inside the visitor stands a amazed aed at the compact conglomeration of docks derricks grain elevators gaunt cranes ships enormous warehouses and puffing little engines scurrying about amid incredible mounds of goods nere here Is an array army of american harvesters piles ot of plows harrows barrows farm tools odorous resin timber mountains of coal wheat and corn soybeans from manchuria sunflower seed cake from russia cottonseed cotton seed meal from our south and heaps of auto parts of a familiar american make these are assembled within the free port five basins here sir acres of land 82 acres of water three miles of piers 40 electric cranes seven r team steam cranes seven coal elevators reels oft off your guide which Is the polite free port euphemism for the watchman who guards against t smuggling those elevators and pneumatic tubes can unload 1200 or 1300 tons in an eight hour day from that side while that ship on the other side Is discharging a tons of wheat an hour there are 40 warehouses here a grain silo that dominates them all a floating crane that can toy with 00 50 tons the free port Is a complete community it has its own power plant banking branches police postal and telo telegraph graph stations restaurants telephone booths display rooms and trading sheds the rest rooms that look like clubhouses club houses are waiting rooms for workmen awaiting jobs trams and liners are dis gorging goods and grains and machinery from england the americas even from australla australia while others loading cargoes consigned to all the great baltic ports trains of laden freight cars pygmy size to the american eye halt for inspection spec tion lon fit at the iron gates then steam away on direct hauls to central europe even to sweden by way of the short ferry crossing to malmo citadel and park emerging from the bustling modern free port one comes upon the stately mellow citadel remnant of the fortifications king frederick ill III built in the sixties of low 1000 around it Is the mosaic of lagoons and gardens that compose copen hagens beautiful park sloping toward the famous long line that bends gracefully from the free port to the cites own harbor to the south seaward lies iles the sound with ocean liners and pleasure yachts ferries and freight boats and in the distance the shores of sweden the dane should be cosm cosmopolitan 0 politan lie be can scarcely take a walk or scan the view from his wide apartment window without seeing the flags of many nations and the shores of another land Land wise a long line of Ruto automobiles mobiles american french german and an occasional italian car among them punctuated by hordes of bicycles glide over the level road with scarcely perceptible rises where it crosses the viaducts that limit knit the patches of land if one stops in a downtown copenhagen ingen hotel he will surely be awakened sundays by the tha outpouring of naive tive and noisy citizens seeking the outdoors and the sun week days the dane anne goes to work quietly sedately pedaling edall ng a bicycle which after all Is not lot a boisterous vehicle but sundays one will be awakened by the shouts of boys and girls cycling to the country hiking to pl picnics enles or to railway stations for the up ap excursions cur curs tons on that day the city sees to it that even the poor children get an outing |