Hungary : a Quarterly Review of Hungarian Life, Letters and Affairs

BUDAPEST, THE QUEEN OF THE DANUBE Ry KAROLY LENDVAY View of Fisherbastion View from the Garden of the Royal Castle 32 National Bank of Hungary The chivalrous ways of the Hungarian race, known Museum of Fine Arts are invaluable the Hungarian hospitaly and the courtesy of the works of Michelangelo, Lionardo, Raffael, Hungarians are renowned all over the world. Since Correggio, Goya, Murillo, Greco and also the the time when Mr. A. Thomas Edison, one of our works of great English, French, German, greatest genius of the present age , has been in Budapest Dutch, Hungarian old and modern masters. is saying, which he confirmed by writing became well-known ,,Budapest seems to me to be the most beautiful and progressive city I have so far seen in Europe” . The continuous great progress of the Hun garian and American commercial connections is due to Mr. E. Horwath, the president of the American and Hungarian Chamber of Commerce, who is residing in New-York, and to Mr. K. Balkanyi, manager in Buda pest of the same chamber. The picturesque situation of Budapest on the mighty Danube with the beautiful corso on its embank ments crowned by the Royal Castle, the Church of King Matthew, and its other monumental buildings, among them the most beautiful Houses of Parliament of the Continent, National Bank of Hungary- the Supreme Court of Justic, the Opera house, the wonderful sur rounding, the exquisite cooking — first class cooking can be found also at third rate restaurant s— the entirely modern, but cheap hotels and boarding houses are the preliminary conditions that Budapest should become an international tourist town. Budapest possesses a large number of culture works which are property of the whole mankind. In the well- St. Gellert statue on the Gellert hill 33 The castle of Vajda-Hunyad The Agricultural Museum has no equivalent structs one regarding various accidents and their in the whole of Europe. It is instructive for every prevention. Here we can also have a general view body, who is interested in agriculture and hunting. on quackery and quack medicine. The Budapest World famous is also the Ethnographical Museum East-Asiatic Museum gives one the opportunity to of Budapest in which one can admire the lovely study the history of arts and treasures of Japan, works of the Hungarian folk-lore and its origin China and other countries of the Far East. of the olden time to our present time. Worth seeing Budapest is the largest watering place of the is also the Museum of Public Health which in world. There are modern and monumental thermal Supreme Court of Justice 34 The Parliament baths, 80 thermal springs, a great number of equipment of the bath is most luxurious and modern sanatoriums, clinics and many medical modern, one can get radioactive mud packings, ray professors, who are world-known. treatment in special halls and asthma treatment in The St. Gellert Hotel and Bath, which is special halls. under the management of the Town, it is one of The St. Lucas Bath is fed from a warm the most distinguished hotels of Europe, The source of 50-60 degrees; the swimming bath is well The Opera house 35 St. Margareth Island bath The suspension-bridge 36 The Agriculturalmuseum visited in summer and winter. The oldest thermal bath of the Town where 2000 persons with several bath of Budapest is the Csaszar bath with its full basins, a Lido situated amidst the Town Park at baths, swimming school for ladies and a large the end of the magnificient Andrassy street. basin for swimming competition. Unique is the St. Margareth Island. A green A special sight of Budapest is the Szechenyi place in the middle of the Danube, there is no The Elisabeth-bridge 37 Si. Gellert ware-bath equivalent in whole of Europe. Old trees shadow spring is used for complaints of stomach and in the walks, the baths, hotels and restaurants, where testinal complaints. one is absolutely away from the noise and heat of Budapest as a water resort is open in winter the town, although its being in the centre of same. too, when other spas in Europe are closed. The St. Margareth Island possesses a thermal bath, The autumn is exceedingly beautiful in Bu a hotel and a sanatorium. In the centre of the Is dapest, one can almost say that in the month of land is the huge strandobath with its fine sand the October the days are bright and no rain is falling. so-called Palatinus bath, which can accommodate There are big motor races held in the mountains 6000 visitors. Various clubs and elegant coffee of Buda, where a new golf course was recently houses with music make the island very lively. One opened. It is well-known that sport is playing a still has to mention t he Elisabeth-bath' the old considerable part in Hungary and the parks in Pest salt bath. are full with tenniscourts. The bitter waters in Buda are known every The Hungarian vintages are also very well- where, the radio-active water of the Hungarian known. 38 THEtjDREAMER BY JANOS CZENCZ 3 9 The Hungarian Wireless began to give its The studio building is quite modern. A regular programme on the 1-st December, 1925, speciality which is mentioned so often, with regard though the original concern from which it was to its success, is the conductor’s box in which the constituted. — The Telephone Broadcasting Society music conductor instead of direct hearing hears — has given its news and programme since 1893, everything through a kind of microphone. He is naturally with the aid o f wires and not by wireless therefore in a position to hear as do listener-in broadcasting. Therefore the first broadcasting and is able to accomplish his work successfully. establishment was in Budapest the Telephone The excellent broadcasting of the music is in the Broadcasting Society and though they tried success first instance to be attributed to this equipment, fully to connect two large provincial towns with and foreign experts very often come here to Budapest, they had to give it up owing to economic- study it. reasons and they again broadcasted for Budapest The „Radio-Budapest” is Hungary’s only only. broadcasting station. The number of their present subscribers is 320.000, the daily work of broad The wireless broadcasting began in 1925 with casting is twelve and a half hour. 2 kw., later with 3 kw., through the transmitting The Managing Director was from the very station of Csepel, from the Studio which was in beginning Mr. Erno Szots, at the head of the com a flat of a dwelling house. Since 1918 the pro mercial matters is Dr. Bela Havel. The chief gramme has been transmitted from Lakihegy manager for music is Dr. Erno Dohnanyi, the well- station, output 20 kw., and the studio is now situat known composer and the administrator of literary ed in a new house specially built for the purpose. matters is Mr. Gyula Somogyvary. The new 150 kw. large broadcasting station and The interval and calling sign is the melodious the development of facilities for the relaying on a electric signal. big scale is now receiving attention. The announcement from 9.30 a. m. to 6.30 Lakihegy is 18 kilometers from the capital p. m. is in Hungarian and from 6.30 p. m. to 12 on the island of Duna-Csepel. p. m. in Hungarian, German and French. Wave length 550'5 is Budapest. It has the most artistic programme. Gipsy music five times a week ! 40.

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