Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1926, Page 93

AMSTERDAM MUCH | LIKE MANHA]TAN; Dutch City Becoming More and More Like Its Former Namesake. Relief measures for the flood- stricken portions of Holland, which are being conducted from Amsterdam, direct attention to this commercial and military capital of one of Eu- 's smallest countries. though it may seem to rdam to New York, °d that the latter ke of the Dutch hustling, bustling Amsterdam of to- day is reminiscent to Americans of the metropolis of the New World, a bulletin from the Washing- ton headqua of the National Cieographic y. “Heridity is lhere apparently back tracking, for the | father is every day becoming mm-w[ like the son, and less like its pic- turesque Dutch neighbors. Much in Common. | “New York and Amsterdam have wuch in common. Each is the larg- nd most populous city in its re- Neither h ndisputed wnd_the key-point of milita Soh by dminort: wMNEIER analogy does not follow a; Rotterdam’s commerce e Amsterdam. Amst, headquarters g companies, Like New 50 an impor- industrial with, ship building plants, refineries, machine hops, many small factories, diamond polishing mills, ete. nts carrying the While New level on a ndation of solid rock, Amsterdam a city perched on wooden piles. No permanent structures can be erected on the upper um of loam and sand, hence the necessity for driving supports 15 to 60 feet below the level of the ground, and hence, probably, the jest of Erasmus of Rot- terdam, who said the natives of Amsterdam live on the tops of trees. Threat of Water. | .,.‘u\emson of heavy rains | [ loose stant battle that y and thel country must wage against the eternal enemy—water. Both to the sea and the Holland must ever present | u strong arm. Amsterdam, itself, is | shut off from tidal fluctuations by | dikes and locks, but the water in its many canals is constantly changed by inflows from rivers and u canal connecting it direct from the North Sea. The water in its huge harbor and street canals is kept at what known ‘the Amsterdam level,’ which may be considered a mean of high and low tide. “The City of Ams southwest corner of the great inland vdy of water known asthe Zuyder at the Influx of the Amstel and rivezs. Like Venice, it is built on number of islands, but with much more regularity than the Queen of | the Adriatic. Roughly, the city plan Jooks like the profile of a half wheel, with numerous water spokes and in- ner rims in sion. These | e e ling canals of expansion in the : with averues of lms and tall, narrow brick houses with the gables turned toward the 2t dsome and pictur- sidential sections. Not a Windmill in Sight. Americans who start their tour of am are likely to a windmill dam lies in the | be seen the hui on the like other Europe. are replacing th ho jostle one very much cam engines aracteristic wav- ing arms of the Dutch windmill throughout the kingdom. Only in the remote rural sections, and at tourist attractions, such as the Isle of Marken, can one find the bloomers, lace caps and wooden shoes of the old geog book pictures. A dam’s she mble Americ both in quality and in price, while the Bank of the Netherlands s one of the leading financial establishments llI lunny be said to be ting of nearly every dia- mond polishing and cut been famous since the when the art was uguese Jews after present | am might / diamonds come from although Brazil and are other sources of South “ar East he Dutch are great lovers of mottoes, signs and inseriptions. On some of the houses of Amsterdam can <till_be found printed legends, such as: “This is my pleasure and my life,’ “The place for song.’ etc. Public buildings are special targets through out the « for scription painter so freely drawn_upon, X were the Bible otherwise lost it could be replaced almost int: the inscriptions on Dutch town gates and mun halls. A sign which tention from Holland's “Dead Cities.” « ‘Near Amsterdam are the ‘dead ' of Holland. The term is mis ding, most of the cities still exist. Through the silting up of the Zuyder Zee in the last two centuries many former prosperot have lost their shipping. He fallen into disrepair been abandoned, trade and disappeared. The ctly dead, they have just ceased to live. { seaports ses have harbors have | has withered | Monnikendam, He voren, Kampen and othe amples of once powerful and pros. perous cities, with fleets of vessels | which brought to their wharves the | Miks and spices of China and the | Indies, which today are nothing more | han quiet little rur Pro- | saic vheeses have more | wxotic cargoes from the Peace- | fui. pipe-smoking burghers toy their feet from molding wharv whose boards once resounded to B bold seafarers whose tl vessels worried even the mighty ar- nadas of Spain.” FOET “4OOLIGANISM” BOBS UP. MOSCOW, March 6 All-Russian Commun; gress in the Kremlin, Bukharin, ne of the highest Communist offi- cials in Soviet Russia, declared that inquiries among the membership of ihe Young Communist League showed that from to 30 per cent of ti members wed druniards | bride and groom lovked THE SUNDAY "STAR, Independent Travel in EUROPE |; Sailors Once Made Slaves. In Alglers, before the French took upon itself the burden of regulating that country properly, sailors touch- ing on the coast of French-Spanish Algiers were sometimes taken as aves and in many instances were not veed. Slavery prevailed all over ] Africa at that time, and it was when {the abuse became flagrant that France stepped forcibly into the country and restored civilized order. NOLAN’S Tour to France 30 Days of Foreign Travel Smps Altar Cloth For Wedding Suit; Bridegroom Jailed | _— 1 By the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 6.—George Kue- for, 24, is spending the first four months of his married life in jail because he snipped off four yards of the altar cloth of the Regens- burg Evangelical Church and had a wedding sult made of it. The minister reported the theft to the police some time ugo. No clew to the church burglar was found, however, until Kuefor and his bride stood before the altar. Remarking how handsome both the min- ister noticed that Kuefor's suit was of the same material as the rem- nant which was left on the altar. He performed the ceremony and turned Kuefor over to the police. Kuefor pleaded guilty. He was fob- less and could not afford a new uit, he said, adding that the altar cloth had looked long enough to him for both purposes. OLD PRINTING PRESS PRIZE HELD BY MUSEUM | Appartaus Built 125 Years Ago by Adam Ramage Is Treasured | as Rare Relic. By th> Associated Pre S ing press built Adam Ramage University of Washington Museum | here. 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