In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter XVII. Mark Twain

CHAPTER XVII MARK TWAIN VERY soon after my arrival in Berlin in 1894, I received an interesting and quaint letter from Herr Dr. Ortmann, the evangelical pastor at Ilsenburg in the Harz. My predecessor, Dr. Stuckenberg, had shown him much kindness by sending him American tourists for their summer holiday. As paying guests in his parsonage they had been financially helpful to him, and as the stipend of a German pastor in a country town is never too generous, he had come to depend on this source of revenue. The letter had a doleful wail running through it, as he feared that, with the change of pastorate, he would become for- gotten and unknown. His letter was filled with a certain love of America that was at least uncommon in one who had never been beyond the borders of his own beloved Fatherland. Shortly after this he came to call upon me, and in the course of our interview he described a celebration of the Fourth of July which he had inaugurated for his American guests. He described their setting out from Ilsen- burg; each one carried an American flag, and ample provision had been made for their material wants according to the never-failing custom of Germans. Nor did they omit a generous supply of fireworks that the celebration might be * echt amerikanisch.” 182

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