The Journey Day by Day

  • Berlin, July 4, 1909

    This Sunday and the glorious fourth. Herman Jacoby, son of Bernhard J. called, and placed himself at our disposition. We took breakfast at the hotel and all went to church service. After that we walked to the Tiergarten and walked up and down the Sieges Allee (Avenue of Victory) containing 32 marble statues of Prussian…

  • Berlin, July 5, 1909

    I spent the morning writing letters and we all went to the Friedrichs Strasse to one of the large Restaurants, I think, the Spatenbrau for dinner, took the car to Charlottenburg, which now is a part of Berlin. Here is a Royal Palace erected by the renowned architect Schluter in 1695, but not occupied by…

  • Berlin, July 6, 1909

    It is hard to get up and started before 10 o’clock, and that’s where you had the advantage over us, for I suppose that you were out and sight seeing by 9 o’clock. We went to the “Dom” (cathedral), a huge structure in the Italian renaissance style built in 1894 to 1902. It is at…