Sometimes we were allowed to go there with other boys.

We then had a few Groschen to get something at a restaurant, and were generally brought home in a Kremser carriage.

These carriages were to be found in a long row by the wall outside of the Brandenburg Gate or at the Palace in Charlottenburg or by the "Turkish tent"-- for at that time there were no omnibuses running to the decidedly rural neighbouring city.

Even when the carriages were arranged to carry ten or twelve persons there was but one horse, and it was these Rosinantes which probably gave rise to the following rhyme: "A Spandau wind, A child of Berlin, A Charlottenburg horse, Are all not worth a pin." The Berlin children were, on the whole, better than their reputation, but not so the Charlottenburg horses.

The Kremser carriages were named from the man who owned most of them.