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Styr glimter i Solen, naar de jager afsted langs
Kørebanen. Det er som Sildeglimt, og Cyklisterne
selv er som Stimer af vævre Smaafisk, der smutter
ud og ind mellem Automobiler og Sporvogne i Ga
dens Strøm.
Men alt dette hører Dagens senere Timer til. I
denne blanke Morgenstund fængsles Blikket mere
af Duernes Vrimmel mellem Raadhusfløjens Mur
tinder, deres Mylder i Raadhushavens Gange eller
deres Flugt, naar de kredser i Flokke ind over
Industriforeningen
og
Tivoli, Glypoteket
og
Dantes
Plads,
hvor Byen l\oms Gave til København, en
antik Marmorsøjle, staar smukt mod Boulevardens
Træer, bærende »Poesiens Genius« højt mod det
tindrende Blaa.
Solen spiller i den forgyldte Kugle paa
Palads
hotellets
slanke Taarn til den modsatte Side, men
selve Facaden med de mange opslaaede Markiser
og Pladsen foran med
Lurblæsersøjlen
ligger i
Skygge. Fortovskaféen blunder mennesketom u n
der Laurbærtræerne. »Muslingeskallen« foran
Raadhuset ligger kølig og blank efter Morgenvan
dingen — som en aaben, nyvasket Forstue til
Byens Hus, paa hvis Trappe Arbejderorganisa-
several large restaurants ancl finally
the central
railway station.
Particularly typical of Copenhagen is the enorm-
ous
cijcle traffic,
the like of which is seen in no
other city in the world. The level streets are also
highly favourable for this light means of trans-
portation, and it may be said to be availed of by
practically all Gopenliageners in all ages and of
both sexes irrespective of their class or station. Of
I Gopenhagen’s 725,000 inhabitants it may safely be
said that at least 400,000 use a cycle, thougli, of
course, not every day and in all seasons.
A particularly interesting impression of this spe
cial feature of Copenhagen traffic is best obtained
on a spring or summer afternoon at 5 o’clock either
in Frederiksborggade (the street cønnecting the old
part of the town around Kobmagergade and the
large proletariat suburb Norrebro) or in Vesterbro
gade opposite the central railway station and Tivoli,
but perhaps best of all in Raadhuspladsen itself.
The thousands of Gopenliageners, the weaker sex
being by no means in the minority, come cycling
from their offices and places of business in serried
columns. The shining handle-bars glisten in the
Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek.
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