n EAST PRUSSIA TO THE GOLDEN GATE 



lighted— the appearance of a glass-arcade. This, then, 

 must be the street referred to. It is called "Alster 

 Arcade. ' ' 



I close right here, in order not to run the risk of tiring 

 you, my beloved ones, with this almost endless letter. 

 Before going on board I shall doubtless write once more. 



Meantime I send thousands of most heartfelt greetings 

 to all who bear me love. 



Most affectionately 



(Signed) FRANZ. 



Pardon the translator a few words in defence of his native 

 place, i. e., as far as St. Pauli and its manifold pleasures are con- 

 cerned, which some American readers may want to criticise. The 

 grand old Hansatown is a cosmopolitan seaport — eleven hundred 

 years old — of a set character ; St. Pauli is, as the author already 

 stated, the center of pleasure-seeking foreigners, mostly sailors 

 and visiting farm-hands. There the native Hamburger is very 

 much in the minority. — Germans drink their beverage as such, 

 but never otherwise. If therefore you think or hear of excesses, 

 treat them as exceptions if — which is rarely true — they can be 

 laid to the door of a native. The Northern German especially, 

 despises intemperance, though very few are total abstainers. — 

 J. C. B. 

 Transl. 



