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to be intruded from across the water. I put the stamps on it 

 and mailed it to Professor Sears and he got it and ate the 

 apples. I counted up what it had cost me and the postage on 

 that box of apples, entirely unmailable in this country, from 

 Berlin to Massachusetts was just a trifle less than half it would 

 cost to send it from Portland to Old Orchard, supposing 

 I could have mailed it in this country. Now that was 

 a lesson to me along with a good many others, and I made up 

 my mind that I would not vote for anybody in this country 

 who would not vote for parcels post. 1 could tell stories all 

 night about the parcels post. It is an interesting theme. 



In the old country they have taken up very seriously the 

 questions of beautifying their streets, and one problem which 

 they have solved is that of taking care of their water fronts. I 

 am told that there is a problem in Portland of taking care of 

 the water front, and while I have not looked the situation over 

 T am not afraid to make a guess that there are not many miles 

 of the Portland water front that look as well as this little strip 

 of Hamburg I showed you a moment ago. The city hall is at 

 the left corner here fronting out upon this beautiful square of 

 water. We see it here in its narrowest dimension where this 

 magnificent plaza sets out into it. Here is a fine boulevard. 

 The great department stores are located at the left. On this side 

 are the big hotels of the city. Here are the finest and biggest 

 offices in the city. This used to be simply an old tide flat. Here 

 we have a flowing stream, a little narrow stream running 

 through a country town in Central Germany. You know how 

 they look up here in Maine with saw-mills and slab dumps and 

 things of that sort along the sides. In this case the banks have 

 all been cleaned up, used for the best buildings, and they have 

 been ornamented with double rows of trees, made into fine 

 promenades. Let us take a nearer look. Here is a nice public 

 music hall in the center, a nice friendly beer garden at the right, 

 with trees growing along both sides, pleasant, clean, sanitary, 

 attractive, ornamental, making all the property fronting on this 

 river ten times more valuable than it could be if that river was 

 treated in the manner we treat our streams as they run through 

 our American villages and cities. Even here in the country 

 there is no such treatment of the trees as we are liable to see. 

 This is a pleasant little German country village with its one 



