. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. have such things in Germany!), and rest as- sured that, including the tips, he will not have exceeded $5 or $6, American money. In smaller towns the advantage to the holder of American travelers' checks is even more marked. One who is so inclined can live like a prince on a very few dollars a day. From quite another standpoint: The atti- tude manifested toward Americans in Ger- many is a matter of interest. There seems to be no animosity, but only kindly feeli
. Impressions of European forestry : letters written during a six months' visit to England and to the continent . Forests and forestry. have such things in Germany!), and rest as- sured that, including the tips, he will not have exceeded $5 or $6, American money. In smaller towns the advantage to the holder of American travelers' checks is even more marked. One who is so inclined can live like a prince on a very few dollars a day. From quite another standpoint: The atti- tude manifested toward Americans in Ger- many is a matter of interest. There seems to be no animosity, but only kindly feeling. This cannot be accounted for by the fact that foreign money is welcome, for it was shown in various ways by those who had personally no advantage to gain thereby; small courte- sies by street car conductors, persons from whom one inquired the way, and the like. One small shopkeeper for instance, from whom I had bought only a few picture post- cards, accompanied me halt way down the block to point out the way to the post office. sons and by personal observation. It is cer- tainly true of the Black forest and is borne out by what one sees from the car window in crossing Prussia and in passing through other forested sections. The German army helped itself to the French forests on the west front, and to those of Poland on the east. The Ger- man forests came through the war essentially intact. And, contrary to newspaper stories current at that time, it is said there were no serious forest fires anywhere in Germany dur- ing the war. â The payment in forest products of a part of the reparations account is at the present time one of the subjects under active discus- sion, but so far the representatives of the French and the German governments have not been able to agree as to terms. Much lumber is going out of the Black forest. Of this considerable amounts, it is said, are be- ing bought by French wood merchants, who A STAND OF SPRUCE AND SILVER FIR IN THE SCHIPFER- SCHAFTWALDâ T
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