A MODEL RAILWAY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3886, 3 January 1884, Page 4

A MODEL RAILWAY.

A correspondent of the Chicago Herald writes as follows of the Stailtbahn, or city railway in Berlin: —" It's flic most perfect thing iiny city in llie world has. Compared with this .system of elevated railroads, those of New York look like toys. The main line of this elevated railroad in Berlin traverses the city through the entire length, and leads, of course, through tho principal busiiu'Ks streets. Then there is a ' guertebahu,' which encircles the whole city, as is the case in Paris. Now, the company had to buy its entire riuhtof way, and a great many households hud to be torn down, and it, had to construct the road very substantially. Just iiniigine a lon<r white wall extending all its length, built very massively, and yet not clumsily, the surface of which is probably about thirty feet broad. Tnei'O are depots at regular intervals, aud these depots are, evory ono of them, solid stiino structures of very pret'y design. Underneath these depots there is an arcade, which is rent ill, and has been transformed in evory instance into a restaurant, beer garden, or store. It is deliciously cool and filiudy undur thoso aivudus, even un the hotust days. Gardens or small parks for publiu uso aro generally connected with thosu places. When you tiro seated there, and a train passes by right over your head, tho ma-sou work is so thick that ono hears but a low, rumbling sound. 1 hardly think this elevated line is profitable as yet, but I believo tho city has guaranteed thu company against any loss, and, as far as the convenience of tho public is ciincerncl, nothing more perfect could he imagined."