Shortly after one o’clock, the assembled guests sat down to a sumptuous dejeuner à la fourchette, with champagne and other choice wines, servers by Messieurs Vallauri, the Pera confectioners, on several elegantly arranged tables on both sides of the Pera station. At the dessert, Mr. Albert, the general manager, proposed “The Health of His Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul-Aziz.”
The City and Its Region Observations 1 The City is only one element within an economic, social, and political complex which constitutes the region.
Schon in der vorigen Woche herrschte in unsrer Stadt die froheste Geschäftigkeit, da der Tag herannahete, an welchem die Durchlauchtigen Prinzessinnen Louise und Friederike von Mecklenburg Strelitz, Verlobte Ihrer Königl. Hoheiten des Kronprinzen und des Prinzen Ludwig, ihren Einzug in Berlin halten sollten.[...]
Our age is preeminently the age of great cities. Babylon and Thebes, Carthage and Rome, were great cities, but the world has never been so covered with cities as at the present time. [...] [p. 1] Yes, cities, and their resources, must soon become, in a greater degree than ever, the acknowledged wealth and power of nations.[...]