The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-05-02
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ceremonies, the eliminating point being the
solemnities beneath the high and vast dome
of the rotunda.
DULL SKI.
This morning opened with q dull, gray sky,
and the clouds seemed perpetua]ly threaten
ing rain on the capital To the eye of the
foreigner there seemed scarcely anything to
indicate that this was fesdvity which all the
world and his wife had agreed to honor.
LONG FILE OF VEHICLES
filed with Exhibition sight-seers, wound slowly
along the Ringstrasse. The Austrian police
men, with brand-new hats and in their best
| uniforms, stood by to marshal the extempore
procession, and oil their good offices were
| needed. A first symptom Of the interest taken
by the viennese appeared in the fact, strange
at first, that the faces of the passers-by were
all turned in
THE ONE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
But I cannot believe that the holiday was
universal, as the laboring classes seemed, in
many cases, to be following their ordinary
occupations. Every now and then the vehi-
cles would come to dead halt. This would
invariably happen as was preparing, auec
efusion, to gush over the glories of exhibition
openings in general.
COOKED HATS OF EVERY AGE
and style, and shakos with and without
pompous, doomed up like ghosts through
steamy cab windows. The sight Of mill
tary man looking in melancholy manner
through foggy glass is not cheering sight to
the beholder.
COURT DAY REMNIscENCE
In the old times, when Queen Victoria
gave her immense levees at St James
Palace, it was always q beautiful and
ennobling study to walk quietly up st.
James street and down Piccadilly to Hyde
Park Corner. There, in mile or so of car
riages and cabs, could be seen half the nota-
bilities of the kingdom, looking stolidly
miserable behind the carriage windows, like
| figures in O wax works. Life has its compen-
sations, even in a cab on the Ringstrasse this
morning Charming, enchanting
VISIONS OF AIRY TULLE AND cAMBnIc MUSLIN
are visible in the cabs and carriages
Momentary glimpses Of fair faces, cleaning
shoulders and shining tresses are obtained
amid the gauzy clouds. With all youths
abandon begin to dream of where all this
beauty comes from. 1t begins to spit rain,
and the vehicles manage to become involved
in deadlock. Under these discouraging cir
cumstances contemplate the mounted police
men who gallop here and there with
FACES LIKE SCOTCH sABBATAnIANs.
! While allowing time for the vehicles to be
extricated, amid much remonstrance from
cab drivers and much insistance by the police,
may tell you
| WHAT THE PRATER Is LIKE.
The Prater is remarkable Viennese insti-
tuition, an extensive park Of meadow and
wood belonging, by imperial courtesy, to the
people but to-day its beauties and advan-
tages are not revealed to their full extent.
The Prater is some distance from the central
part of the city Starting from the Opera
House, down the magnificent Ringstrasse, built
on the ground of the old Notifications over
the suspension bridge over the Danube Canal,
and quarter mile drive brings you TO the
entrance Of the Prater.
THREE ROADS ENTER THE PARK,
radiating from one point, and each passes
under slightly ornamental railroad bridge of
the Nordbahn Railroad, which here cuts d.
rectly across. The road to the right leads
you into the principal avenue of the Prater,
lined by two rows Of stately trees, under
whose shade the procession Of to-day winds
slowly along. The middle road leads to what
the Viennese term
THE wUERsrEI. pRArER,
| little city Of Swiss cottages, restaurants,
built in the Swiss style; circuses, marionette
theatres, indeed having all the characteristics
| of German fair, artistically planned and
carried out This part of the Prater was
opened with great festivities on Monday, the
14th of April, as is done every year. Ameri-
cans, who managed to wedge their way
through the crowd to get to the western en-
trance of the Exposition, were not little
amused at the sights. One Of the great