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Seeing Europe via Letter Amsterdam Holland. Dear Ventnor Newsites: Amsterdam is celebrating her six hundred and fiftieth birth day this year. One is thorough ly amazed at this splendid an tiquity for never was there a city so thoroughly “dammed” as this self-same city of Amster dam. Dam! dam! dam! wher ever you look. When we arriv ed in the city the first sign an nounced that this was the Dam station. Now it was not so very auspicious as stations go but surely it might, with just a little veneration, have escaped that sobriquet at the hands of the sturdy burghers. We are soon to discover that this is quite the thing in Holland. The Dam tramway circles the loop in the city and, because the Queen’s Palace faces the open plaza called the dam, even that is often referred to as the Dam Palace, to differentiate it from the Palace at The Hague. But most ridiculous of all was the experience that, because of late reservations, we could not put up at that modest little hos telry called the Dam Hotel and instead were sent to the “Hotel Suisse.” Well now that we have been through the mill, we feel assured that the other hotel should have been called “The Suisse.” Fate certainly played a mean trick on the quiet, unassuming, God-fearing people of this city. Whoever heard of such profan ity oh every hand. When Sun day came, we actually went over to The Hague to attend church. Now don’t get the impression that we did not have a wonder ful time in this old city. It was one of the real showplaces of our trip. These people live a life separate and apart from the whole world and do things in much the same way as did old Peter Stuyvesant or Hendrik Hudson of old. Our first .day is a day of sight seeing with a guide. Now our eyes are opened to sights that we had not perceived before. All the buildings are built upon, pil ings (that of the Queen’s Pal ace requiring over five thou sand.) Streets, where they ex ist at all, are just narrow tow paths along the canals and all paving is done with broad flat Dutch tiles or bricks. The buildings, even the largest, are not over four or five stories high and, because the foundation pilings often sink ir regularly, the facade of the rows presents a reeling, slanting, appearance as though the whole town were just recovering from the wastrel effects of the night before. Some buildings lean out of plumb several feet. Every now and again workmen are seen busily wrecking some build ing that has followed the bias too far. An ancient Roman Catholic church attracts our attention. It is situated in the middle of the Ghetto district and bears the un usual name of “Moses and Aaron.” Another > strange edi fice is that of the Portuguese Synagogue, built in the four teenth century by the sea-faring people of that nation who held maritime intercourse with the Dutch East India Company. Its architecture hears a semblance to the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem and it is illuminated by thousands of little candles set in brass candlesticks throughout the whole building. Never- have we seen such an impressive sight. The very plain, worn woodwork within is smoothed by the reverent seating of worship pers since ages past and the giant wooden columns were never painted or polished save by the many hands that touched its surface in devoted service. We are permitted to visit the Queen’s Palace, for a considera tion. It really is a magnificent building, far more impressive and imposing than the actual dwelling place of her majesty at The Hague. We enter through the vaults of the basement and a be spangled servitor collects the dole which, he insists, is for the Queen. We pay- it with the usual resignation, wondering how much that guilder is shaved down before it reaches the royal treasury. The building is three hundred years old and was originally built for the Town Hall of Am sterdam. Outside it is of bold, broad blocks of granite and within of the finest alabastar and Carrara marble. In the earlier days the grand gallery was con tinuous around the inner wall but now this space is divided into various rooms and halls for the Queen’s use. She holds high court here about once a year and then only for a very few weeks. “It is too cold,” they explain, and we surely agree that those funny stoves, like small gas tanks tiled about and banded with iron, would give less heat than the English fire places that burn your nose and freeze your back. The throne room is panelled with the carved heraldry of the different sectional states of Hol land and is truly regal in its ap pointments. The last wonder of all, in this palace so dreary without, is the grand recep tion hall 100 feet high, 120 feet long and B8 feet wide (dimensions furnished by the guide), the largest audience MOVING STORAGE Cold Air, perfectly dry, cir culates continually in our warehouse, to keep your gar ments in lit condition. ELDREDGE EXPRESS AND STORAGE WAREHOUSE CO. OOcaai Mia ATLANTIC AVENUE ui Naa-rtra»r*al IhnK Pfcoa* Maria* UN EsL ISM Ha*ay Ha alia* aa< IU(|li| Hi A Traaalar Coaqway Rapraaaatathr* %»ri*Hria la Laa* Dlataaa* HaasakaU Maria* chamber in Europe without pil lars. The furniture is of the exquisite gold and mahogany of the period of Napoleon III and the giant chandeliers of the fin est rock crystal. Here the Queen greets the foreign ambas sadors when she holds receptions at Amsterdam. Now another day is set aside for the excursion to the Island of Marken, situated in the Zuyder Zee, just a little way off from Amsterdam. We must take you along because we know that you have been longing to hear some thing about those wooden shoes and those voluminous contrap tions for which the Dutch call pantaloons. All aboard for the canal boat! As we glide under the vaulted bridge the steersman shouts something that we do not under stand and then quickly changes it for our benefit to “low bridge.” We duck just in.time and note as we do that even the smoke-pipe of the boat has ducked too and straightens up as we emerge into the light. Marken is reached in % round about way. A short ride in a steam tramway, not. unlike our miniature railroads in the amuse ment parks, takes us. through the cleanest city in Holland, Broeck, and then through the most decadent city, Moniken dam, where the weeds grow be tween the paving bricks. Here we get our first view of the great Zuyder Zee and of the boat and boatmen who are to trans port us to the Island of Marken. The captain is two-thirds pants. Surely he must have em ployed Omar, the Tentmaker, to evolve such a masterly contrap tion and if you focus your eyes just below his face, you can not tell whether he is going or com ing, until you come down to his huge wooden shoes which point STOP THAT COUGH USE KOFIX 50c a bottle Yentnor Drug Store 6513 Yentnor Avenue Neptune 1784-1788-1789 the way. We are soon to see that his outfit is only a replica of many others on the island, greater and smaller. What fun it is to see the lit tle girls and boys, clad in their bright, garish outfits, clattering gleefully over the brick pave ments. How they keep the shoes on is an ever-present puz zle, but they do and without any trouble. They mix readily with the visitors, unerringly pick out the Americans of the crowd and then smilingly pocket the shekels which their souvenirs have elicited. To tell you all about Holland and her people in a single let ter would be too much, so our next letter will be of The Hague and Rotterdam. Mailed at Hook of Holland, Oct. 6, 1925. LOUIS E. WEIN. Hospitable, Homelike Chalfonte Haddon Hall Atlantic City la the very center of thing*. On the Beach and the Board walk. Illustrated folder and rates on request. LEEDS AND LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AwMcm Plan Osh QUAKER INN Just off the Walk on the Garden Pier Famous Home Dinners Celebrated Chicken and Waffle* If It’s Printing—We Do It AMUSEMENT PUB. CO. 506-8-10-12 N. Tennessee Awe THE PASTRY CORNER Our Fresh Baking at Retail A convenient spot for delicious things for the table at home WALTON BROS. RESTAURANT 1214 Atlantic Avenue, Between No. and So. 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