There  were  four  rooms,  a  kitchen  and  a  large  cellar.  The
height  of  the  kitchen  Avas  11  ft.  and  10  ft.  by  Tft.  wide,  and
the  other  rooms  were  U  ft.  by  11  ft.  and  11  ft.  by  12  ft.,  also
11  ft.  high.  These  were  on  the  ground  floor.  Rent,  61  mark
per  month,  and  5  per  cent,  for  water.  The  rooms  above  were
cheaper.  There  are  also  baths  attached  to  the  buildings,  the
charges  being  10  pfennig  for  a  shower  bath  and  25  pfennig  for
an  ordinary  bath.  An  Ji^nglishmau  who  has  lived  lO  years  m
Frankfort  told  two  of  our  party  that  in  Frankfurt  there  is
work  for  anybody  wbo  wants  it.  He  is  on  the  Committee  of
Management  of  a  charity  organisation,  and  since  Christmas
he  has  had  only  one  genuine  application  for  help,  and  he  was
an  Englislmian,  Trade  is  more  even  than  in  England,  and
there  is  no  poverty  whatever.  Fifteen  years  ago  an  English-
man in  German^''  was  treated  like  a  gorl,  now  he  has  no  advan-
tage whatever.
DUISBURG.
Visited  Bechem  and  Keetman,  engineers.  This  firm
was  visited  by  a  small  party.  The  works  were  splendidly
equipped.  The  sides  of  the  works  are  all  glass,  Avhich  is  cleaned
automatically.  There  are  three  splendidly-built  schools  for
apprentices,  who  spend  two  hours  per  day  to  be  educated  in  the
technical  part  of  tlie  industr3\  Books  are  found  by  the  firm,
teachers  engaged  from  the  town;  all  costs  covered  by  the  firm.
