The next afternoon found me descending1 the great avenue of chestnuts2, white then with blossoms, that leads from the Belvedere into the city of Weimar. The period was that between two sittings of the National Assembly in this temporary capital of the new German Volksreich, and the last residence of Goethe, had sunk again into its normal state—that of a leisurely4, dignified5, old provincial6 town, more engrossed7 with its local cares than with problems of world-wide significance. Self-seeking “representatives of the people,” frock-tailed bureaucrats8, scurrying9 correspondents from the four comers of the earth and the flocks of hangers-on which these unavoidable appendages10 of modern society inevitably11 bring in their train, had all fled Berlinward. Weimar had been restored to her own simple people, except that one of her squares swarmed12 with the Jews of Leipzig, who had set up here their booths for an annual fair and awakened13 all the surrounding echoes with their strident bargainings.
The waiter who served me in a hotel which the fleeing Assembly had left forlorn and gloomy was a veteran Feldwebel and a radical14 Socialist15. The combination gave his point of view curious twists. He raged fiercely against the lack of discipline of the new German army of volunteers. The damage they had done to billets they had recently abandoned he pictured to me with tears in his watery16 eyes. 344Did I imagine the men who served under him had ever dared commit such depredations17? Could I believe for an instant that his soldiers had ever passed an officer without saluting18 him? Ausgeschlossen! He would have felled the entire company, like cattle in a slaughter-house! Yet in the same breath he gave vent19 to Utopian theories that implied a human perfection fit for thrumming harps20 on the golden stairs of the dreary21 after-world of the theologians. Man in the mass, he asserted, was orderly and obedient, ready to make his desires subservient22 to the welfare of society. It was only the few evil spirits in each gathering23 who stirred up the rest to deeds of communal24 misfortune. The mass of workmen wished only to pursue their labors25 in peace; but the evil spirits forced them to strike. Soldiers, even the volunteer soldiers of the new order of things that was breaking upon the world, wished nothing so much as to be real soldiers; but they were led astray by the fiends in human form among them. These latter must be segregated27 and destroyed, root and branch.
I broke in upon his dreams to ask if he could not, perhaps, round up a pair of eggs somewhere.
“Eggs, my dear sir!” he cried, raising both arms aloft and dropping them inertly28 at his sides. “Before the National Assembly came to Weimar we bought them anywhere for thirty pfennigs, or at most thirty-five. Then came the swarms29 of politicians and bureaucrats—it is the same old capitalistic government, for all its change of coat—every last little one of them with an allowance of thirty marks a day for expenses, on top of their generous salaries. It is a lucky man who finds an egg in the whole dukedom now, even if he pays two marks for it.”
My German tramp ended at Weimar. Circumstances required that I catch a steamer leaving Rotterdam for the famous port of Hoboken three days later, and to accomplish that feat30 meant swift movement and close connections. 345The most rapid, if not the most direct, route lay through Berlin. Trains are never too certain in war-time, however, and I concluded to leave the delay-provoking earth and take to the air.
There was a regular airplane mail service between Weimar and Berlin, three times a day in each direction, with room for a passenger or two on each trip. The German may not forgive his enemies, but he is quite ready to do business with them, to clothe them or to fly them, to meet any demand of a possible customer, whatever his origin. He still tempers his manners to outward appearances, however, for the great leaden god of caste sits heavily upon him, in spite of his sudden conversion31 to democracy. Turn up at his office in tramping garb32 and you are sure to be received like the beggar at the gate. Whisper in his ear that you are prepared to pay four hundred and fifty marks for the privilege of sitting two hours in his airplane express and he grovels33 at your feet.
The price was high, but it would have been several times more so for those unable to buy their marks at the foreign rate of exchange. A swift military automobile34 called for me at the hotel next morning, picking up a captain in mufti next door, who welcomed me in a manner befitting the ostensible35 fatness of my purse. On the way to the flying-field, several miles out, we gathered two youthful lieutenants37 in civilian38 garb and slouchy caps, commonplace in appearance as professional truck-drivers. The captain introduced me to them, emphasizing my nationality, and stating that they were the pilot and pathfinder, respectively, who were to accompany me on my journey. They raised their caps and bowed ceremoniously. The pilot had taken part in seven raids on Paris and four on London, but the biplane that was already fanning the air in its eagerness to be off had seen service only on the eastern front. It still bore all the military markings and a dozen patched bullet-holes 346in wings and tail. The captain turned me over to a middle-aged39 woman in an anteroom of the hangar, who tucked me solicitously40 into a flying-suit, that service being included in the price of the trip.
Flying had become so commonplace an experience that this simple journey warrants perhaps no more space than a train-ride. Being my own first departure from the solid earth, however, it took on a personal interest that was enhanced by the ruthlessness with which my layman41 impressions were shattered. I had always supposed, for instance, that passengers of the air were tucked snugly42 into upholstered seats and secured from individual mishap43 by some species of leather harness. Not at all! When my knapsack had been tossed into the cockpit—where there was room for a steamer-trunk or two—the pathfinder motioned to me to climb in after it. I did so, and gazed about me in amazement44. Upholstered seats indeed! Two loose boards, a foot wide and rudely gnawed45 off on the ends by some species of Ersatz saw, teetered insecurely on the two frail46 strips of wood that half concealed47 the steering-wires. Now and then, during the journey, they slipped off at one end or the other, giving the ride an annoying resemblance to a jolting48 over country roads in a farm wagon49. One might at least have been furnished a cushion, at two hundred and twenty-five marks an hour!
The pathfinder took his seat on one of the boards and I on the other. Behind me was a stout50 strap51, attached to the framework of the machine.
“I suppose I am to put this around me?” I remarked, as casually52 as possible, picking up the dangling53 strip of leather.
“Oh no, you won’t need that,” replied my companion of the cockpit, absently. “We are not going high; not over a thousand meters or so.” He spoke54 as if a little drop of that much would do no one any harm.
The silly notion flashed through my head that perhaps 347these wicked Huns were planning to flip55 me out somewhere along the way, an absurdity56 which a second glance at the pathfinder’s seat, as insecure as my own, smothered57 in ridicule58. There was no mail and no other passenger than myself that morning. Regular service means just that, with the German, and the flight would have started promptly59 at nine even had I not been there to offset60 the cost of gasolene at two dollars a quart. We roared deafeningly, crawled a few yards, sped faster and faster across a long field, the tall grass bowing prostrate61 as we passed, rose imperceptibly into the air and, circling completely around, sailed majestically62 over a tiny toy house that had been a huge hangar a moment before, and were away into the north.
Like all long-imagined experiences this one was far less exciting in realization63 than in anticipation64. At the start I felt a slight tremor65, about equal to the sensation of turning a corner a bit too swiftly in an automobile. Now and then, as I peered over the side at the shrunken earth, the reflection flashed upon me that there was nothing but air for thousands of feet beneath us; but the thought was no more terrifying than the average person feels toward water when he first sails out to sea. By the time Weimar had disappeared I felt as comfortably at home as if I had been seated on the floor of a jolting box-car—the parallel is chosen advisedly. I glanced through the morning paper, scribbled66 a few belated notes, and exchanged casual remarks in sign language with my companion.
The roar of the machine made conversation impossible. Whenever a new town of any importance appeared on the animated67 relief map far below us, the pathfinder thrust a thumb downward at it and pointed68 the place out on the more articulate paper map in his hands. The view was much the same as that from the brow of a high mountain. I knew a dozen headlands in the Andes below which the world spread out in this same entrancing entirety, except 348that here the performance was continuous rather than stationary69, as a cinema film is different from a “still” picture. To say that the earth lay like a carpet beneath would be no trite70 comparison. It resembled nothing so much as that—a rich Persian carpet worked with all manner of fantastic figures; unless it more exactly imitated the “crazy-quilt” of our grandmothers’ day, with the same curiously71 shaped patches of every conceivable form and almost every known color. Here were long narrow strips of brilliant green; there, irregular squares of flowery purple-red; beyond, mustard-yellow insets of ridiculously misshapen outlines; farther off, scraps72 of daisy-white, and between them all velvety74 brown patches that only experience could have recognized as plowed75 fields. I caught myself musing76 as to how long it would be before enterprising mankind took to shaping the surface of the earth to commercial purposes, advising the airmen by the form of the meadows to “Stop at Müller’s for gas and oil,” or to “See Smith for wings and propellers77.” All the scraps of the rag-bag had been utilized78 by the thrifty79 quilt-maker. Corn-fields looked like stray bits of green corduroy cloth; wheat-fields like the remnants of an old khaki uniform; the countless80 forests like scattered81 pieces of the somber82 garb cast off after the period of family mourning was over; rivers like sections of narrow, faded-black tape woven fantastically through the pattern in ridiculously snaky attempts at decorative83 effect. Here and there the carpet was moth-eaten—where a crop of hay had recently been gathered. A forest that had lately been turned into telegraph poles seemed a handful of matches spilled by some careless smoker84; ponds and small lakes, the holes burned by the sparks from his pipe.
We had taken a rough road. Like all those inexperienced with the element, I suppose, I had always thought that flying through the air would be smoother than sailing the calmest sea known to the tropical doldrums.
349Experience left another illusion ruthlessly shattered. It was a fitful, blustery day, with a high wind that rocked and tossed us about like a dory on a heavy sea; moreover, at irregular intervals85 averaging perhaps a minute apart the machine struck an air current that bounced us high off our precarious86 perches87 in the cockpit as a “thank-you-ma’am” tosses into one another’s laps the back-seat passengers in an automobile. The sickening drop just beyond each such ridge88 in the air road gave one the same unpleasant sensation of vacancy89 in the middle of the body that comes with the too sudden descent of an elevator. Particularly was this true when the pilot, in jockeying with the playful air waves, shut off his motor until he had regained90 his chosen altitude. There may be nothing more serious about a faulty carburetor a thousand yards aloft than on the ground, but the novice91 in aerial navigation is apt to listen with rapt attention to anything that ever so briefly92 suggests engine trouble.
Yet none of these little starts reached the height of fear. There was something efficient about the ex-raider who sat at the controls with all the assurance of a long-experienced chauffeur93 that would have made fright seem absurd. I did get cold feet, it is true, but in the literal rather than the figurative sense. After a May of unbroken sunshine, early June had turned almost bitter cold, and the thin board floor of the cockpit was but slight protection against the wintry blasts. Every now and then we ran through a rain-storm, but so swiftly that barely a drop touched us. Between them the sun occasionally flashed forth94 and mottled the earth-carpet beneath with fleeing cloud shadows. Now the clouds charged past close over our heads, now we dived headlong into them; when we were clear of them they moved as does a landscape seen from a swift train—those near at hand sped swiftly to the rear, those farther off rode slowly forward, seeming to keep pace with us. Villages 350by the score were almost constantly visible, reddish-gray specks95 like rosettes embroidered96 at irregular intervals into the carpet pattern. It made one feel like a “Peeping Tom” to look down into their domestic activities from aloft. The highways between them seemed even more erratic97 in their courses than on the ground, and aroused still more wonder than the pedestrian would have felt as to what excuse they found for their strange deviations98. Gnatlike men and women were everywhere toiling99 in the fields and only rarely ceased their labors to glance upward as we droned by overhead. Many enticing100 subjects for my kodak rode tantalizingly101 southward into the past, emphasizing at least one advantage of the tramp over the passenger of the air.
We landed at Leipzig, girdled by its wide belt of “arbor gardens,” theoretically to leave and pick up mail. But as there was none in either direction that morning, the halt was really made only to give the pilot time to smoke a cigarette. That finished, we were off again, rolling for miles across a wheat-field, then leaving the earth as swiftly as it had risen up to meet us ten minutes before. Landing and departure seem to be the most serious and time-losing tasks of the airman, and, once more aloft, the pilot settled down with the contentment of a being returned again to its native element. As we neared Berlin the scene below turned chiefly to sand and forest, with only rare, small villages. One broad strip that had been an artillery102 proving-ground was pitted for miles as with the smallpox103. To my disappointment, we did not fly over the capital, but came to earth on the arid104 plain of Johannesthal, in the southernmost suburbs, the sand cutting into our faces like stinging gnats105 as we snorted across it to the cluster of massive hangars which the machine seemed to recognize as home. My companions took their leave courteously107 but quickly and disappeared within their billets. Another 351middle-aged woman despoiled108 me of my flying-togs, requested me to sign a receipt that I had been duly delivered according to the terms of the contract, and a swift automobile set me down, still half deaf from the roar of the airplane, at the corner of Friedrichstrasse and Unter den3 Linden—as it would have at any other part of Berlin I might have chosen—just three hours from the time I had been picked up at my hotel in Weimar.
The capital was still plodding109 along with that hungry placidity110 which I had always found there. Surely it is the least exciting city of its size in the world, even in the midst of wars and revolutions! My total expenses during thirty-five days within unoccupied Germany summed up to three thousand marks, a less appalling111 amount than it would have been to a German, since the low rate of exchange reduced it to barely two hundred and fifty dollars. Of this—and the difference is worthy112 of comment—eighty dollars had been spent for food and only sixteen dollars for lodging113. Transportation had cost me seventy dollars and the rest had gone for theater-tickets, photographic supplies, and the odds114 and ends that the traveler customarily picks up along the way more or less necessarily. There remained in my purse some five hundred marks in war-time “shin-plasters,” of scant115 value in the world ahead even were I permitted to carry them over the border. Unfortunately the best bargains in the Germany of 1919 were just those things that cannot be carried away—hotel rooms, railway and street-car tickets, public baths, cab and taxi rides, theater and opera seats and a few bulky commodities such as paper or books. Perhaps a connoisseur116 might have picked up advantageously art treasures, jewels, or the curiosities of medieval households, but for one without that training there was little choice but to follow the lead of all Allied118 officers leaving the capital and invest in a pair of 352field-glasses. The lenses for which Germany is famous had greatly risen in price, but by no means as much as the mark had fallen in foreign exchange.
Only one episode broke the monotony of the swift express journey to the Holland border. I gained a seat in the dining-car at last, only to discover that the one possibly edible119 dish on the bill of fare cost two marks more than the few I had kept in German currency. To change a French or Dutch banknote would have meant to load myself down again with useless Boche paper money. Suddenly a brilliant idea burst upon me. In my bag there was still a block or two of the French chocolate which I had wheedled120 out of the American commissary in Berlin. I dug it up, broke off two inch-wide sections, and held them out toward a cheerful-looking young man seated on the floor of the corridor.
“Would that be worth two marks to you?” I asked.
“Two marks!” he shouted, snatching at the chocolate with one hand while the other dived for his purse. “Have you any more of it to sell?”
At least a dozen persons of both sexes came to ask me the same question before my brief dinner was over. Their eagerness aroused a curiosity to know just how much they would be willing to pay for so rare a delicacy121. I opened my bag once more and, taking out the unopened half-pound that remained, laid it tantalizingly on the corner of my table. If eyes could have eaten, it would have disappeared more quickly than a scrap73 thrown among a flock of seagulls. When the likelihood of becoming the center of a riot seemed imminent122, I rose to my feet.
“Meine Herrschaften,” I began, teasingly, “in a few hours I shall be in Holland, where chocolate can be had in abundance. It would be a shame to take this last bar out of a country where it is so scarce. It is genuine French chocolate, no ‘war wares,’ So many of you have wished to buy 353it that I see no just way of disposing of it except to put it up at auction123.”
“Ah, the true American spirit!” sneered124 at least a half-dozen in the same breath. “Always looking for a chance to make money.”
I ignored the sarcastic125 sallies and asked for bids. The offers began at ten marks, rose swiftly, and stopped a moment later at twenty-five. To a German that was still the equivalent of ten dollars. I regret to report that the successful bidder126 was a disgustingly fat Jewess who seemed least in need of nourishment127 of the entire carload. The cheerful-looking young man who had bought the first morsels128 had been eager to carry this prize to the fiancée he was soon to see for the first time since demobilization, but he had abandoned the race at twenty marks.
“Now then, meine Damen und Herren,” I went on, haughtily129, when the purchaser had tucked the chocolate into her jeweled arm-bag with a sybaritic leer and laid the specified130 sum before me, “I am no war-profiteer, nor have I the soul of a merchant. These twenty-five marks I shall hand to this gentleman opposite”—he had the appearance of one who could safely be intrusted with that amount—“with the understanding that he give it to the first grand blessé he meets—the first soldier who has lost an arm, a leg, or an eye.”
The expressions of praise that arose on all sides grew maudlin131. The trustee I had chosen ceremoniously wrote his address on a visiting-card and handed it to the Jewess, requesting hers in return, and promising132 to forward a receipt signed by the recipient133 of the “noble American benefaction.” Then he fell into conversation with me, learned the purpose that had brought me to Germany, and implored134 me to continue to Essen with him, where he was connected with the Krupp factories. He would see to it that I was received by Herr von Krupp-Bohlen himself—the 354husband of Frau Bertha whom the Kaiser had permitted to saddle himself with the glorious family name—and that I be conducted into every corner of the plant, a privilege which had been accorded no Allied correspondent since the war began. His pleas grew almost tearful in spite of my reminder135 that time and transatlantic steamers wait for no man. The world, he blubbered, had a wholly false notion of the great Krupps of Essen. They were really overflowing136 with charity. Were they not paying regular wages to almost their war-time force of workmen, though there was employment for only a small fraction of them? It was high time a fair-minded report wiped out the slanders137 that had been heaped upon a noble family and establishment by the wicked Allied propagandists. Essen at least would never be troubled with labor26 agitators138 and Sparticist uprisings....
We reached Bentheim on the frontier at four. Most of my companions of the chocolate episode had been left behind with the change of cars at L?hne, and the coaches now disgorged a throng139 of fat, prosperous-looking Hollanders. War and suffering, after all, are good for the soul, one could not but reflect, at the sudden change from the adversity-tamed Germans to these gross, red-faced, paunchy, overfed Dutchmen, who, though it be something approaching heresy140 to say so, perhaps, were far less agreeable to every sense, who had something in their manner that suggested that their acquaintance was not worth cultivating. My last chance for a German adventure had come. Unless the frontier officials at Bentheim visited their wrath141 upon me in some form or other, my journey through the Fatherland would forever remain like the memory of a Sunday-school picnic in the crater142 of an extinct volcano—a picnic to which most of the party had neglected to bring their lunch-baskets, and where the rest had spilled their scant fare several times in the sand and ashes along the way.
355The same dapper young lieutenant36 and grizzled old sergeant143 of five weeks before still held the station gate. Apparently144 neither of them recognized me as a former acquaintance. At any rate, they showed no curiosity to know how I had managed to spend that length of time on a little journey to Hamburg. Perhaps the stamp of the Foreign Office on my passport left them no choice but to hold their peace. The customs inspector145 was a bit more inquisitive146. He rummaged147 through my hamper148 with the manner of one accustomed to do his duty to the letter, at the same time desiring to know how much German money the gentleman was carrying with him. A placard on the wall warned travelers that no gold, only three marks in silver, and not more than fifty marks in paper could be taken out of the country. Those who had more than that amount were the losers, for though the frontier guards gave French or Dutch paper in return for what they took away, it was at a far less advantageous117 rate of exchange than that in the open market. The inspector accepted my assertion of marklessness without question, but in the mean time he had brought to light the spiked149 helmet that had been given me in Schwerin. His face took on an expression of puzzled amusement.
“So! You are taking it with you?” he chuckled150, in a tone implying the belief that it had decorated my own head during the war.
“It was given me as a souvenir,” I replied. “I am an American.”
“So!” he rumbled151 again, looking up at me with an air of surprise—“American!”
He turned the helmet over several times in his hands, apparently deep in thought, then tucked it down into the hamper again and closed the lid.
“We-ell,” he said, slowly, “take it along. We don’t need them any more.”
356There was but one barrier left between me and freedom. Judging from the disheveled appearance of the fat Hollanders who emerged, after long delay in every case, from the little wooden booths along the wall, the personal search that awaited me would be exacting152 and thorough. One could not expect them to take my word for it that I had no German money or other forbidden valuables concealed about my person. Yet that was exactly what they did. True, five weeks of knocking about in a “hand-me-down” that had been no fit costume for attending a court function in the first place had not left me the appearance of a walking treasury153. But frontier officials commonly put less faith in the outward aspect of their victims than did the courteous106 German soldier who dropped his hands at his sides as I mentioned my nationality and opened the door again without laying a finger upon me.
“Happy journey,” he smiled, as I turned away, “and—and when you get back to America tell them to send us more food.”
My last hope of adventure had faded away, and Germany lay behind me. At Oldenzaal the Dutch were more exacting in their formalities than their neighbors had been, but they admitted me without any other opposition154 than the racial leisureliness155 that caused me to miss the evening train. A stroll through the frontier village was like walking through a teeming156 market-place after escape from a desert island. The shop-windows bulged157 with every conceivable species of foodstuffs—heaps of immense fat sausages, suspended carcasses of well-fed cattle, calves158, sheep, and hogs159, huge wooden pails of butter, overflowing baskets of eggs, hillocks of chocolate and sweets of every description, countless cans of cocoa.... I had almost forgotten that nature, abetted160 by industry, supplied mankind with such abundance and variety of appetizing things. I restrained with difficulty my impulse to buy of everything in sight.
357At the hotel that evening the steak that was casually set before me would have instigated161 a riot in Berlin. Moreover, it was surrounded by a sea of succulent gravy162. I could not recall ever having seen a drop of gravy in all Germany. When I paid my bill, bright silver coins were handed me as change. A workman across the room lighted a fat cigar as nonchalantly as if they grew on the trees outside the window. Luxurious163 private automobiles164 rolled past on noiseless rubber tires.
In the train next morning the eye was instantly attracted to the window-straps of real leather, to the perfect condition of the seat-cushions. A German returning to his pre-war residence in Buenos Aires with his Argentine wife and two attractive daughters, whom I had met at table the evening before, insisted that I share his compartment165 with them. He had spent three months and several thousand marks to obtain his passports, and the authorities at the border had forced him to leave behind all but the amount barely sufficient to pay his expenses to his destination. The transplanted wife was far more pro-German in her utterances166 than her husband, and flayed167 the “wicked Allies” ceaselessly in her fiery168 native tongue. During all the journey the youngest daughter, a girl of sixteen whose unqualified beauty highly sanctioned this particular mixture of races, sat huddled169 together in her corner like a statue of bodily suffering. Only once that morning did she open her faultless lips. At my expression of solicitude170 she turned her breath-taking countenance171 toward me and murmured in a tone that made even German sound musical:
“You see, we have not been used to rich food in Germany since I was a child, and—and last night I ate so much!”
The stern days of the Kaiser’s régime, with their depressing submergence of personal liberty, would seem to have faded away. During all my weeks of wandering at large throughout the Fatherland not once did a guardian172 of the 358law so much as whisper in my ear. In contrast, during twenty-four hours in Holland I was twice taken in charge by detectives—it seems they were looking for a “bird” named Vogel—once in the streets of Oldenzaal and again as I descended173 from the train at Rotterdam.
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gravy
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utterances
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fiery
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countenance
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