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i i f.T i i JKMiiMASia THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1902.

3 Mm fi! lll IT till MB II I iTW jggi i i I jl I SLs! j3fe iC 3 wj wntKrNHVAVM i AK t'At DRAGON ROUGB OU ITH the opening of tho season of 190;) will be seen the initiatory of what is destined soon to bo be a new Coney Island. Many pretentious and praiseworthy plans have r.t i been suggested and devised for heroically filtering the moral atmosphere of the famous amusement resort, without detracting, from its popularity with the mafscs. N'o other pleasure resort in the world has as many visitors as Coney Island. Last year 22,000,000 of men, women and children visited the place and millions of dollars were spent by the pleasure seekers. To cater, to this great multitude, hundreds of merchant, showmen and other contributed their best efforts.

Withal, however, "Coney" did not appeal to the better element. Park Commissioner Young's plan to transform into a. magnificent pleasure ground'the mile and a half strip of land lying between the ocean and Surf avenue, and extending from Ocean parkway to Sea Girt, was a suggestion that in the near future old "Coney" is destined to be not only a resort for the masses, but a grand national pleasure park. In order that the surroundings may be in consonance with the Commissioner's sehemeUor beautifying the place, the ugly old buildings that mar the picture must go, and in their places must rise structures that will be a delight to the. eye; It needed some person or persons to take the lead in this great transformation.

The firm of Thompson Dundy, has the credit of taking the first steps and they are going into a new enterprise that will not only involve the expenditure of many thousands of dollars, but they have set a pace that others must follow or be left under such an eclipse that they will 'be lost to sight if not to memory. This firm owns the twenty two acre tract on the north side of Surf avenue, heretofore known as Sea Lion Park, but which will in the future be known as Luna Park. It is the largest of the many enterprises on Coney Island, and is the most conspicuous to all who approach from the land side. Most prominent in the park stand the chutes, and "shooting the chutes" proved one of the most popular diversions of the great resort. Next season, however, there will be nothing left of the old park, except the chutes, and they will not be recognizable, for the great slide vill be transformed into a mountain stream the White Horse Rapids and the present skeleton like framework will be backed up by a striking scenic representation of the Rocky Mountains.

Instead of "shooting the chutes" visitors may shoot the rap Ids. All tho old buildings of large park have been torn down and in their places will POVERTY BANISHED a or the of the in or of this our will for will size Jk. ii tEET HIGH iiooo LICjHTg. tors, horses and the famous elephant Topsey, who easily does the work oi a dozen horses in moving buildings or heavily loaded wagons. "Things are soniewhnf ehaniie illsr now htf we are well along with (he work and will be in perfect readiness for the opening on May 2.

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flr wagons. "One great feature, which I think will prove most popular, is ihe series of colonnade. thai will 1 1 i i all ihe buildings. Visitors will be enabled walk from tho very entrance from one huil iiiut to another throughout ihe entire grounds under cover. This will be specially advantageous on in days.

It will also be a part of the ornamental scheme and will add greatly to win F'TI LOBBY" OF 0.000 floor area of 60,000 square feet. Of the new features the most important will be an illustration of Jules Verne's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," which will cover 55,000 square feet of ground, and a naval spectatorium, which will have a water area of 60,000 square feet. Beside these we will have many novelties, including the River Styx, the 'Whirl of the Town, Shooting the White Horse Rapids, the Grand Canyon, the 'iS Mining Camp, Dragon Rouge, overland and incline railways. Japanese, Philippino, Irish, Eskimo and German villages, the infant incubator, water show and carnival, circus and hippodrome. Yellowstone Park, zoological gardens, performing wild beasts, sealions and seals, caves of Capri, the Florida Everglades and Mont Pelee, an electric representation of the volcanic destruction of St.

Pierre. "Among the prominent features of the German village will be the. Rath Haus, or old town hall, which will combine many free conveniences never before provided, even by a world's fair. There will be a grand ball room, a convention hall seating 1,000 persona, a banquet room and handsomely furnished receptionrooms.for the gratuitous use of associations and societies of all kinds: for ciubs and private parties. Connected with this hall will be a spacious roof garden, profusely beautified with tropical foliage, rare plants and flowers of every hue and variety.

"The Irish village will be laid out in a gigantic reproduction of the map of Ireland. It is the intention to have each county filled in with the genuine soil from the one in Ireland it represents. In the Philippine village the natives will be "found at their customary occupations of basket making and cigarette rolling. The Streets of Venice will show the gayer and lighter phases of life in the 'Queen of the Adriatic' The Eskimo village will contain both the winter and summer homes of the natives, and the customs of the people of the Arctic regions will be shown in every detail. It is the purpose to show real life, also, in the '40 mining camp, life as it was in the early days of the gold rush to the bonanza mines of the Golden Gate.

"The Dragon Rouge or Red Dragon, will be a novelty in transportation. It will be in the shape of an immense dragon, which will run on an invisible track, laid with a waving grade, that will tend to impart a as to cover completely the small huts, the fences and pavilions. To show their gratitude and loyalty to fatherland flag poles were erected in the front yards with the black and white emblem fluttering high up In the air. The amount of wretchedness, the suicides and the gloomy lives that have been avoided by these simple, cheap potato patches is incalculable. They offered for the humble laborer with a salary of not more than i or $5 a week and a family to support at once a means of doubling income and at the same time giving wife and family the benefits of summer recreation such as the most wealthy and fashionable sojourning every summer at Baden Baden, Homburg, Carlsbad, Wiesbaden or the other aristocratic health resorts could not even enjoy.

Instead of spending his noon hours and evenings in the foul kneipe, with its liquor soaked habitues and suffocating tobacco smoke, the father coui enjoy the calm breezes and refreshing of his summer villa. He paid but a few marks a month for the privilege of staking a claim in these colonies. But this expense was more than tenfold repaid by the value of the farm products. Sometimes he even produces more than is necessary for his own table, and his wife may be seen going to the town markets early in the morning with baskets of vegetables. At one time there was danger of the colonies going to seed.

It was discovered that the promoters who made a business of leasing unusual vacant ground by subleasing it to these colonists resorted to other methods as well to make capital from their tenants. Taverns and beer halls were established near the settlements and the lessee or proprietor of lands would look with threatening eye upon a sub lessee who did not buy his supply of beer or liquor from his establishment. It became a traffic. But the charity board set about to correct this evil and has succeeded in almost weeding out this drawback. On the other the settlements have produced a new type of citizens, of sturdier manhood, of healthier womanhood.

But more than all else it opened the portals of a new life of sunshine, of flowers and freedom to the children who had, and others still who roam with pale faces and sunken, dull eyes in the congested courts of the city. Berlin is the most successful city in dispensing charity on a scientific system. "Socialpolitik" has become a pet phrase of fit LEPlGUSS under. crawling, snake like motion, it will be pro pelled by an automobile motor of the largest size, and passengers will ride astride, the dragon. There be many other ridinc; devices, among them bring a fleet of electric launches and gondolas, a moving sidewalk fifteen hundred foot long, the overland rail way to the mining camp, an incline railway to 'Pike's, Peak, a water buffalo that' will carry children through the Philippine village, and elephants, camels, ponies and donkeys, on which the little folks can have no end of enjoyment.

"The original Iok cabins in which Abra ham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were born will be brought here and will lend historical interest to the place. The romance of life in the Sunny South before the war will be portrayed in a reproduction of an old plantation, showing scenes in the cotton fields and the old time darky pastimes and dances. "The chutes will not be recognizable, for they will be made a part of a representation of the Rocky Mountains. The effect will be fine, showing the mountains of apparently immense height, in the great pass being the White Horse Rapids, which visitors may German social reformers and legislators, who may be inspired by genuine sympathy or by a desire to lure votes. The present Kaiser is the greatest "Socialpolitikcr." When Kaiser William ascended the throne the social democratic movement was threatening to obtain control of the legislative chambers.

Something must be done and speedily to estrange the social democrats and the masses to 'which the reactionaries appealed. Bebel. Riehter, the late Liebknecht, Singer and others demonstrated convincingly that neither the government nor the clergy of the Evangelical Church had or intended to do anything to ameliorate by legislation or by bounty the lot of the peasant and the city laborer. They promised to introduce and pass laws shortening hours of labor, compelling employers to pay higher wages, supply greater comforts, open libraries, gymnasiums, and, in fact, do everything possible within the prescribed constitutional limits to bring about the Kladerraddatseh as an earnest ot what should come just so soon as they were free to apply the theories of Marx, Proud hon and Lasalle. Kaiser William's cue was to anticipate the social democrats.

He, therefore, raised the banner "Socialpolitik." The government brought in scores of measures for the compulsory life insurance, for pension funds, for the creation of asylum for widows, orphans, cripples and the aged. In this manner the crown managed to bring back a large number, who had been lured away by the tempting social visions hold forth by the social democrats. But in pursuing this policy the Kaiser was much opposed by the agrarians, who wanted cheap peasant labor, high food prices and exclusion of cheap products. This struggle came tovthe surface just recently, when the agrarian faction of the Reichstag defeated the government tariff propositions at the second reading of the bill. Nevertheless, the Prussian government has applied the social reform, labor, pension and insurance laws with a rational and liberal hand, so that to day there is everywhere evidence of their beneficial influence.

The "Laubenkolonien" is the joint product of the conservative and the social democratic Influences which prevail in the Berlin municipality. Tho mixture is a happy one and the royalists and social democrats unconsciously go hand in hand. In the Berlin city council the social democratic and freisinnigo vote predominates. Ap GERMAN VILLAGE. 4 2sstri ran.

7.1 tss HONOR. loo mountain scene that will form the background for the chutes, it will be made realistic by the introduction of imitation geysers, spouting streams of water high in the air. There will be a mountain pass leading to the '40 mining camp. In the mountain will bo a mine in working order Irom' the main cavern of which the spectators will enter boats to shoot the White Horse Rapids. "All the work of manufacturing material for the various buildings, decorations, is being done on the grounds.

Wo have one of the most complete plants ever owned by a private enterprise, and our motive power is furnished by steam engines, electric mo boulevards and streets, including Under den Linden. This winter special efforts will be directed again to provide employment, and food as well as shelter for those who merit aid. On the other is every discouragement offered to injudicious charily and begging is prohibited entirely by the police. The traveler who visits Berlin sings its praises if for no other reason than thai, he is not. accosted by beggars at every stop as in other European cities.

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MONTREUX Uotei Breuer. Hulel des Balunces et Bellevuo. LAUSANNE Hotel Pension Beau Sejour. GUON SUH ilONTREUX Grand Hotel Victoria. rNVISlBLEi R.A.I1 WAV rise a beautiful "White City," surrounding handsome lagoon, forming a "court of honor" that will vividly recall that of the Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

All the buildings, of which there will be some forty fifty, will be covered with white staff, ornate in design. There will be gorgeously decorated courts, avenues, canals and la bordered with spacious exhibition buildings of unique and original design, and illumination at night will be the finest ever shown by any private enterprise. There will be sixty thousand arc and incandescent lights used in the outdoor display alone. To provide for this, the Edison. Company is erecting a special power house and building new dynamos at a cost of The cost the electric current to the firm will be a day.

Frederic Thompson of the firm who, by way, is the inventor of nearly all of the latter day most successful exposition midway novelties is the busiest man on the grounds, where nearly five hundred men are employed the work of transformation. He was found at work in the new "Trip to the Moon" building, which is nearing completion. He was suitably attired in corduroy overalls, heavy shoes, knit jacket and bicycle cap, and was directing the manufacture of decorations for the many grottos that will be a feature ot the new show. "Midway shows have become a recognized feature of all the great expositions, and from mere sideshows they have grown into huge holiday aggregations of the quaint and curious, the novel and exciting, the strange and marvelous things that have been brought from all quarters of the globe. We had, you see, a good precedent to bank on and to encourage us in the belief that a genuine amusement exposition would be a success at Coney Island.

Our plans may seem ven turesome and ambitious, but they have been carefully conceived and matured, and, make break, they will be carried out to the letter. We have unbounded faith in the future Coney Island and are risking a fortune In enterprise. "We have incorporated many new ideas In plans for the buildings. The visitor enters the grand plaza, in the center of which be a splendid electric fountain. On the right will be the Streets of Venice, extending a distance of 325 feet.

A grand canal run through the entire length of the grounds. Following the grand plaza will come the Court of Honor, with numerous colonnades and peristyles, to aid in the architectural effect. Distributed around the grounds will be thirty two towers for electrical effects. One will bo located in the center of the lagoon and will carry twelve thousand electric lights. "Our new 'Trip to the Moon' will exceed in that at the Pan American.

The building will be 70 feet high and cover a ground FROM BERLIN. Germany for the amelioration of the lot of the poor and laboring classes. They correspond somewhat to the pet "potato patch" hobby of the late Governor Plngree of Michigan, and to the fugitive efforts made by the Salvation Army to introduce truck farms for the poor of great cities on public or private vacant lots or unsubdivided lands. Attempts of this kind have, been made in Detroit, Chicago and other large American cities. But the idea has been nowhere so successful! and happily developed as in the subu': Berlin.

Originally tho "Laubenkolonien" was an. idea launched by the charity association of Berlin, which is au auxiliary of the municipal government and supported by a special fund reserved from the tax revenues. But the enterprises soon outgrew the bounds contemplated by the charitable association. All the public or city lands were devoted to these "potato patch" settlements and still there was clamor for more. Consequently private companies were formed with promoters to stake out vacant unsubdivided land near Berlin, and which was leased to families wishing to join the "Laubenkolonien." For each family a certain number of acres were staked off and a board fence prevented disputes about usurpation of property.

A well was sunk in each plot and that formed the nucleus of a family settlement. Upon this plot of ground the family constructed a summer mansion according to their own ability and tastes. They dubbed these mansions with charming titles just as the wealthy counts, barons, geheimraths and financiers who occupied the costly villas in Grunewald and Potsdain styled their homes. They painted across the tops of the entrances the names, "Zillerthal," "Emma's Delight," "Williams Heights," "Rosen Villa" and other similar names. Flower beds were planted.

Vine and foliage were trained so Scientific Administration of Charity Has Eeached Its Highest Development in the German Capital Little Farm Colonies for the City Poor Play an Important Part. ON COUR.T OF vtigto wax shoot in specially constructed boats, that will be a great improvement over those now used. There will be a stream flowing down the mountain side and the volume of water will be three times as great as that heretofore used in the chutes. "The German village will be at the base of a mountain, actually 70 feet high, though the scenic effects will make it appear many thousands of feet. On the mountain side will fje a Swiss village, and from the top of the mountain will spring an Alpine waterfall, the water of which will Iced the old mill that will nestle at the mountain's base.

"Yellowstone Park will be shown in the propriations and reservations made for the various charitable funds and asylums must first receive the approval of the financial committee of which a majority are composed of social democrats and liberals who have often been able to defeat the will ot the crown whenever the Kaiser attempted to use his prerogative as monarch to dictate the policy of the municipality. London, New; York, Paris, Chicago, Brooklyn and other large cities have their slums and submerged quarters. Berlin has no slum identified as such. There aro no wretched looking beggars and poverty stricken people to be seen on the streets. A stranger may travel for days through the various sections of Berlin without coming across any pronounced poverty or slums.

Ho is told that in Moabit, the Alt Berlin with its dense laboring population and in tho east end of the city there are "hinter. houses" sections where may be encountered instances of pitiable poverty. But he fails to find them with the ease experienced in London or New York. The large number of suicides ascribed to poverty and inability to secure employment doubtless prove that Berlin is not free from all such spots. But in the humblest as well as the most aristocratic section of the city there is always an evidence of the perfect control ot the police, which co operates thoroughly with ths charitable organizations.

For it is a boastful saying of the Berlin city council and its charity board "that no one need starve or die for the lack of shelter in Berlin." That is doubtless true. There are homes for the homeless. There are asylums for the crippled, for the sick, the widows, orphans and for all classes of helpless and needy. Most of these are supported from the municipal funds. But society in the German capital is most liberal with its bounties.

The ingenuity and success of the charity system in Berlin is due to tho intelligence and exhaustive attention to detail with which every charitable enterprise is worked out. Every fall, when there is danger of a swelling army of non employed, the city sends out its agents to obtain all information possible as to where the trouble lies. Then with the special funds at disposal tile charity boards and numerous committees work out some scheme for succor. Last winter the bad labor market was tided ovct by authorizing a wholesale repavement of ERLIN, November 12 Every observant tourist is astonished and somewhat nonplused by the sight which greets his eye as his train approaches the German capital city. After passing through the beautiful suburbs of Potsdam, the Versailles of Germany; of Schlachtensee, with its placid lake; of Grunewald, with its grim forests, the train rolls slowly through large stretcnes of level ground.

At first the scene resembles a gigantic county fair. The large stretches are covered with rudely constructed huts, foliage pavilions, tents of all shapes and hues. There is a sea of potato patches, beds of cabbage; onions, turnips, cauliflower and melons interspersed with typical German flower beds, rearing sunflowers and flag poles upon which waves the German national emblem. The picture is enlivened by hordes of rosy cheeked children at all sorts of nativa games, or cavorting in true pastoral fashion upon the greens. Men and women in their picturesque native dress are at work in the gardens or watching the children at play.

Tiny wreaths of blue smoke curl peacefully from crooked stove pipes protruding from the thatched roofs. "What is this? Who are these people? Are these the suburbs of your great capital?" A stream of queries like these may be heard from the lips of the astonished tourists. Ofteu their curiosity is appeased when they are Informed that these are "Laubenkolonien," or potato patches for tho poor. But if they pursue the subject further they discover that these settlements and strange colonies form one of the most ingenious and successful of the benevolent and comnrqnal enterprises of.