The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz
McClure's Magazine

[Max Hasak, Der Dom der heiligen Petrus zu Köln am Rhein, 1911, Bild 22]

THE COLOGNE CATHEDRAL [IN 1824]

When Carl Schurz was a ten-year-old boy in Cologne in 1840, this cathedral, now the admiration of the world, had stood unfinished and decaying for centuries. Mr. Schurz tells how one day he saw a man jump from the top of the old crane tower, seen dimly [at the left].