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SAVOY-HOTEL
BERLIN
FRIEDRICHSTR. 103.

Berlin, den April 28th (Sunday) 1901
TELEGRAMM-ADRESSE:-
Savoyhotel-Berlin.

My dear Mother:
We reached Cuxhaven Sat. morning & went on to Hamburg at once by special train. There Mr. Pereira and I [his father was from Brazil, & his mother from New England, and he is buying goods here, is from N.Y., where he has a wife & children] went to the bank, then dined at the Rathausweinkeller, a famous place under the Rathhaus, & then walked around the town until train time. The canals & old houses in Hamburg are very interesting, and the inner basin, a bay of about fifty acres surrounded by modern buildings is impressive. The train to Berlin was a fast one, 45 miles an hour, including stops, & the journey not very interesting being thru a flat country. Passed Bismarck’s [[?]]
Came to the Savoy, where I have a room, very nice, at $1.00, breakfast (coffee) for 1m,25pf & other meals at cheaper places. I am going to change as soon as possible to a pension. 
Today I  piloted Mr. P. to Potsdam, and except that once I was in a hurry, to get him to go to a train immediately when it did not go for eight minutes, we got along all right. He can neither speak nor understand German. We took a [[drifche??]] with a driver who only spoke German. he pointed out the places of interest in the city, & steering by my map, using my compass to find the N. N. , end of buildings where the eingang was, I went thru two palaces, & saw the gardens. Mr, P. thought them far inferior to Versailles. I was interested in