Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-30
VIENNA FAIR.

VIENNA FAIR.
TRUTH ABOUT THE VIENNA AFFAIR-EX-
oRBITANr CHARGES FOR FANCY DRINRs
-DELUDED BARTENDERS PENNYLESS IN
A FOREIGN LAND.
In regard to the exposition we have
not much to say (; one word expresses
all-Humbug. We give such informa-
ton not accessible to the American
newspaper correspondents. Take for
instance the American bar swindle.
Boehm & WHEEL, the proprietors, are
German Jews from New York. Mr..
Boehm himself says that he paid Mr..
Van Buren, ten thousand dollars for the
exclusive right for an American bar and
restaurant. AT present they have three
bars-the Pavilion, opposite the Ameri-
can department and near an entrance,
another in the rotunda called the Ameri-
can Buffet, and still another near
Strauss's band, called the American
Wigwam.
The firm of B. & W. induced twenty.
five gentlemen to go over to act as bar
keepers, each and every one paying his
own passage, they being in charge of
one Israel Boehm. On board the steam
er they Jared well of course, being in
the second cabin. On reaching terra
firma he acted his nature and jew char
acteristic out, nearly starving the boys
at one place even refused to supply
meals. He himself went to a hotel and
got square meals, and only on being
forced to it did he furnish the necessary
food to the men.
Up to July 8 they had not received
their salary nor even the one hundred
dollars due on their arrival for passage
money. and they are now waiting for re
mittances from their friends in America
to bring them home.
The principal drink they sell is a sher-
ry cobbler. 1t is made from mannfac-
tured ice, white as snow, with the fol-
lowing ingredients, viz: Tumbler of
fine ice, teaspoonful of % gar, table
spoonful of filthy sherry, manufactured
the night before piece of lemon, also
orange, and one straw, for which these
simple, generous Jews have the cheek
to charge fifty kreutzer.
They also inveigled about fifty of our
colored brethren in this magnificent
swindle, and I must say that with the
Vienna fair sex they were the principal
objects OF interest, in fact, quite favor
ties. Business Stacking up little, they
discharged two of the aforesaid favorites
July 5, without funds enough to come
home with. took them to the Ameri-
can Consul, and satisfying him that they
had served in the United States Navy
with me, he said he could do nothing
for them-that it was none of his bust
ness. We then ventured to ask him
what his business was, and he answered
that it was beyond our comprehension !;
and Judging from the fact that Useless
s. q. sent him, we came to the conclu-
sion that it was far beyond our COM
prehension or that of anybody else.
We next went to John Jay, our Min
lister, and asked him if he could not
send the boys home. He answered,
"No not if they were starving" Don't
suppose he would help them even to
the extent OF kreutzer out of his own
pocket. OF course he needs all the
Government funds for himself, even if
his daughter did marry one of the che
nobility. Come to think the matter ap
or l am not surprised. As o general
thing there is a good deal more title
than the needful, which would iustif
noble representative of noble nation
allowing its subjects in foreign coun-
try to starve for the sake of q few dol
lars to help support the necessary style
befitting the aforesaid noble, etc.
We next called upon the President of
the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing ma
chine company, and stated the case. He
Immediately started a subscription,
heading the list with good sum
Jewett and Tracy, twenty-five forins
the Commissioner from Lowell, whom
we found to bo perfect gentleman
we have forgotten his name-twenty
fiorins n Mr.. Kelley, ten forms Mr..
Norton, ten forms Mr.. Bowling, ten
forins and several other gentlemen
whose names cannot remember now.
The firm of Boehm and WHEEL, not a
red nor their salary.
AT last accounts they had obtained
enough to come home by steerage. By
the way, one of the men lives in Brook
Ign, and is worth about twelve thousand
dollars.
In Van Buren, we expected to find
perfect gentleman, but are sorry to say
that We were sadly disappointed. Posi-
ton is everything, and / rather think
V. b. thinks so, as since he has fallen
his drinks are mixed with the poorest
liquors; patronizes B. g. W., who show
their natural instinct in their treatment
of him, although he had an interest in
the Rotunda, the same consisting of
what he wished to drink-in other
words-free rum.
We are disguised ; if we think we are
tired and wish to sit down, it costs fifty
kreutzer for cane-seat chair, twenty
five for wooden chair, and ten for
settee, and every time you ask
"gevus" where street is, five kreutzer.