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126 Section 4. BERLIN. Leipziger-Strasse.
staircase) model of the locomotive 'Feuer-Ross' of the Ftlrth-Nuremberg
railway, the first opened (1835) in Germany, postman of the Spreewald,
railway postal service. Room 14. Military post. Room 15. Selections
from the collection of Postage Stamps, one of the largest in the world.
First Floor. Adjoining the staircase are reminiscences of Stephan (Bee
p. 125). To the left is the interesting series of exhibits illustrating *Foreign
Postal Systems. The following may be mentioned: apparatus for collecting
the mail-bags in transit by English trains, models and figures from Russia.
Beyond the central room (adorned with stained glass), to the right, models
of steamboats; to the left, the very complete Telegraphic Collection,
beginning with optical telegraphs.
Second Floor. To the left of the staircase: Submarine Telegraphy
(cable-laying steamers), and finally the building of telegraph and telephone
lines (destruction of the poles by animals; effect of lightning on the
apparatus, etc.). In the Record Office copies and originals of old maps
and atlases are at present on view. — We now return to the staircase,
to the right of which is the Telephonic Collection (including various
devices for changing or reversing the current). In the end room are
exhibits connected with the pneumatic post, phonography, Rontgen rays,
wireless telegraphy, etc.
The Bethlehems-Kirche, to the right in the Mauer-Str., was
built in 1735-37 by order of Frederick William I. for exiled Bohe¬
mian Lutherans.
Continuing eastwards along the Leipziger-Str., we come to the
office of the New York Equitable Insurance Co., a building by
Schafer, standing at the corner of the Friedrich-Str. The traffic
at this point is very great, especially from 5 to 8 p.m. — The inter¬
section of the Leipziger-Str. and Charlotten-Str. is one of the centres
of the tramway system.
Tramways (pp. 15-21): Nos. 6, 9, 34, 43, 53, 54, 55, 66, 67, 69, 71-79,
83, 84, 87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 96, 97.
At No. 43, on the right side of the Leipziger-Str. and at the corner
of the Markgrafen-Str., is the silk warehouse of Michels & Co., a
brick building by Grisebach, with ornaments on a gold ground. —
Nos. 46-49 form Tietz's Warehouse, erected in 1900 from designs
by Sehring and Lachmann, covering over 6500 sq. yds. of ground,
and extending to the Krausen-Str. (comp. p. 32). — Beyond the
Jerusalemer-Str. the Leipziger-Str. traverses the Dbnhoff-Platz
and, passing through the Leipziger Kolonnaden (built in 1776 by
Gontard), ends at the Spittel-Markt (p. 159).
In the grounds of the Donhoff-Platz (PI. R, 22, 25) are the
bronze statues of two statesmen: on the N. side Baron vom Stein
(d. 1831), by Schievelbein and Hagen (1875); on the S. side Prince
Hardenberg (d. 1822), by Gbtze (1907).
Tramways (pp. 15 - 22) run from the Donhoff-Platz (94, P, R) to the
Brandenburg Gate (6, 9, 13), the Lehrte Station, Moabit (9, 12, 13), the
Friedrich-Str. Station (12, 13, 18), Gesundbrunnen (38, 39, 42), the Alexan¬
der-Platz (17, 59, 62, 63, 64, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74), the Silesian Station
(9, 78), the Gorlitz Station (12, 13, 18, 91, 92, 94), Rixdorf (94), the Halle
Gate (38, 39, 42, 64), the Kreuzberg (38), the Anhalt Station (17, 59, 62, 63),
the Gendarmen-Markt (83, 84), the Hackescher Markt (38, 39, 42), the
Museum Island (39, 42), the Opern-Platz (12, 13, 18, 39, 42), the Potsdam
Station (6, 9, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 78, 79, 87, 88, 91, 92, P, R), the