Munsey's Magazine, February 1892

This issue of Munsey's Magazine (February 1892) contains a lengthy descriptive essay titled "Berlin, the City of the Kaiser" by William Horace Hotchkiss. The article surveys contemporary Berlin as a modern European metropolis, documenting its recent explosive growth following German unification in 1871 and the subsequent economic boom and bust of the 1870s. Hotchkiss describes Berlin's major thoroughfares (Unter den Linden, Friedrich Strasse), monuments and architecture, and social character, with particular attention to the Prussian military presence, the city's expanding middle-class residential districts, and its entertainment culture. He chronicles the Stadtbahn elevated railway completed in 1883, profiles characteristic urban types—cabbies, police, Guards officers, students—and notes the controversial exile of Bismarck and recent death of Moltke. The essay emphasizes Berliner leisure habits, theater culture, and the city's continued expansion into suburbs like Charlottenburg.