New-York daily tribune., 1854-08-23
BADEN-BADEN AND WHAT'S DONE THERE.
From Our Own Correspondent.
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BADEN BADEN, Saturday, July Is, 1854
MY last bill at the Sun Hotel amounted to eighteen
and half forms, say seven dollars and halt-and
this was for board, lodging and bathing in a large
clean wtlserved house, in the most frequented
watering place of Europe in the hight of the
The sun is not one of the fashionable hotels of the
place but one Of the oldest and thoroughly comfort
able. dinner at the table db0te costs dty cents it
consists Of four courses Of sods-fsh, flesh al fowl
in vaTety-with PREDATORY soup and sequent dessert
schOppe-equal to half bottle-Of white wine
such grown in the neg ghborhOod is set at each plate
1t is quite drnkable, hut if not drunk, It's price eight
cents is subtraced from the bill. Markgraier white
and Afenthaler red, are light Baden wines of much
better quality at twenty -four cents the bottle. halt
Jug of SeItzer or Rippoldsau water is furnished for
eight cents This is the one O'Clock dinner. At the
sun as at tie other large hotels there is little
elegant and expensive table d'hOte at FIVE o'clock,
rarely attended by Germans, with whom the day be-
Gins aud ends earlier than with French and English.
]. is only the presence of the latter that has intro
duced The custOm of late dining. In the morning
unLeatlfuliy large portion OF coffee, jug of un-
chslked milk and delicate little rolls are served for
sixteen cents tenderl0in steak, small but cooked
t0 charm, with cOncOnitant potatoes, costs twenty
cents; scrupulously clean, airy room up one pair OF
stairs with bed not quite long enough nor quite elas
tic enough, and superabundance OF pillows, thirty
ty.twO cents Add 10 this luxurious warm bath for
twelve cents and you have the prices of all the crea
ture comforts under the hospitable roof of the SUM-
lOspltdbIe, you receN td ana waited upon
by the host and his family who by their friendly aten
tions make you feel though you were their guests
rather than their customers and if the presentation
Of the BILL like the falling of the curtain in theater,
destroys the Illusion there is, as you have just seen,
nothing in it of nature to disturb your pleasant re-
membIance of the entertainment, or 10 prevent you
from returning to it, as did yesterday, from the
ond Of my foot tours in the Black Forest. What few
notes made by the way for the future benefit or bor
ing of TIE IRiBUNE's subscribers are penclled on
the backs of Herr Stambach's two tavern bills-the
only blank paper had about me-and so l came to
look at them this morning and write the above regard
ing his establishment.
The distance from Baden Baden to Wildbad which
lies over the Wurtemberg frontier is eighteen miles.
1t should be walked for the sake Of the scenery,
which begues of the WEAKNESS of the way by it's
changing beauty and wldness, and for healths sake
and economy's sake. coachman promises to carry
you thither in SIN hours seven, but he keeps little
more than hall his promise. For between the two
places there three ranges of high hills up which
you walk out of compassion for the horses down which
you ride slow out Of regard to the careful law of the
State, that orders the wheels to be locked where
Vermont driver would put his horses to the gallOp.
There are many points on the road where one needs
to rest and take in at leisure the full beauty of the
prcspect-the visual appetite growing by what it
feeds ou-and there others where it is worth the
while ard efcrt to turn aside and visit the natural
wonders that lie in the vicinity OF the main rOad-such
tie curious vaults in the old red sandstone
near LOfonau, and further the curious
OF sandstone blocks, piled upon each other and bear
ing much the appearance of powerful that anti
qUaries and popular tradition respectively ascribe
their arrangement 20 the Romans and the Devil
leaving cut of the account the Druds and the Deuge
incline ~ tie lOl ular belief. The Romans had no
motive to build here; the other one had. For long
ago, before the Prince of Darkness was mediatsed by
modern philosophy and progress of the natural sci
ences, there was an obstinate miller who set up mill
on an ill-chosen spot the banks of the Murg. AS
often there fresh the violence of the waters
carried away the wheel or some other parts of the
works which renewed only TO be destroy ed again
~ the next mood. At last the miller lost all patience
ard cried out in lis yexatiun, wish the devil would
"buld mill on the Steinberg." The words were
hardly out OF his mouth when the "God-be- witus as
Germans fgurativoly name the individual presented
himsef 10 contract for the new ml. After Il good
deal Of hacgng il was agreed tha. the miller should
give up lis soul at the end of forty years in exchange
for the undisturbed enjoyment meantime of aultless
mill on the Steinberg, to be completed in the next
night. Some time after i2 o'clock, Satan called on
the man 10 60 up and the new mill. There il
stood built partly in the solid rock; a lively brook
drove oyer-shot wheel twice fast the old one
ever turned 1t wac all very fine, but the miller was
grown sick Of bis bargain. While anxiously thinking
OF a means To break IL, be spied gap, a chnk
in the sluceway, which he pointed out to the builder.
be other made haste 70 repair the error and al
ready lowering with fit stone in his claws over the
mill when cock crowod in the neighboring village of
Lofenau. The Old Nick was So enragcd at being Just
cut of tine aid losing all bis pains that he smashed
tie stCne down n TO the In and cOmiag down AFTER
II limse tore The building III 70 pieces hrrng them
about IS The! rev lie. Ana 10 .His day they have no
othtr u&ue t.su tie Lccps AA
Tie wcsihei-tlc standing plain. Of inLk-e rs,
'~N.,IsSnd aTm,rs the pa; ten uoathl-nas not