Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-06-20
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PROFILE.

Those who have been unable 10 maxi the
Exhibition, have lost less and saved more
than they expected, and the odds are all
the other way with the crowd that has gone.
In the first place the expenses of the jour
ney and of the sojourn have increased enor-
mously above former years. In the next
place the discomlorts OF stopping in Vienna,
have been very great. The city has never
been subject 10 such an immense influx of
visitors and was wholly unprepared 10 ac-
commodate so many even at the exorbi-
tant prices that are now charged. In the
next place the exhibition, according 10 all
accounts is not up to the expectations that
were formed, if it is not decided failure.
We do not speak of it as sour grapes, but
from the testimony Of those who are there.
For the consolation of those who are COM
PEELED to stay at home we make some eX-
tracts from the correspoi- dence of those
who are enduring the fleeing operation
which is performed upon all travellers and
more especially Americans. The cores
pendent Of the London Daily News speak
ing Of the enormous rise of prices for every
thing in the always expensive capital OF
Austria, writes: LAGOS advice put mon
ey in thy purse will certainly apply with
exceptional force. Small change appears
to be reckoned mere rubbish. Here the
base just now seemsto be form, $50 cents.)
A cab drive, no matter how short, costs a
tiorin the cheapest bottle Of decent wine
costs a form; when you tip porter or a
coachman he looks disappointed if you do
not give him form. One positively shud-
ders 10 dine. There may be cheap places
and good as well as cheap, but all can
say is, can neither find them for myself,
nor meet with any residents who can point
them out to me. And then there il no es-
cape from the restaurant. 1t is not the
custom 10 eat any food in ones lodgings
indeed, there are few lodgings in which an
edible dinner could be prepared. Thus,
such of the residents as do not live en-
.fdmille, and all visitors are alike forced TO
10 without food altogether, or to be guests
of the rapacious restaurateur. How prices
are rising, the bills Of fare proclaim with a
irankness which seems almost reckless in
its audacity. 1 noticed yesterday a carte,
on which the price opposite an item had
been fifty kreutzers. This price had been
scored ont and altered TO sixty. The lat
ter figure again was no longer allowed TO
obtain the pen had been passed through
it, and seventy-ive written above"
The writer warns intending visitors that
''the drainage of the city is wretched, and
In certain parts the effiuvia from the sew
ers, etc., perfectly sickening.'
Bayard Taylor writes to the Tribune:
~ venture to say that no report which
has been sent from here by any correspond
ent has been so bitterly satirical, so merci-
less, as the articles and epigrams which
appear every day in the humorous papers.
There must be at least dozen of these,
a nd they seem to have a large circulation
among the people. The principal of them
are the Figaro, the Kikeriki (Cock-a-
doodle-do y, the Bonnie, the Vienna Punch,
the Floh (Flea), and the Humoristische
Bldtter. In regard to the scale of prices
attempted to be established here about the
lst of May, they have done good service.
There was no end to their illustrations and
imaginary dialogues between guests and
WhltcrSs cue IepIeSohtS stranger WIKI
ing away naked from a restaurant where
he has left purse and garments in payment
for dinner; another shows a waiter bring
ing bill about ten feet long, and the guest,
in despair, jumping out the window anoth-
or, again, has waiter--an exquisite pict-
urs of superciliOus condescension-saying
Heres glass of water, SirW while the
alarmed and embarrassed stranger replies,
I'D like to have one, but-really-P
afraid can't afford it, Some of the dia-
logues represent the waiter as adding five
or ten kreutzers after every dish, In order
to round Off or make even sums, while
another, after counting small piece of
boiled beof at one form, asks the guest,
was 1t good p aud when the latter answers
Yes adds, 'One form more ="
The various CONCESSIONS" out OF which
the Direction Of the Great Exhibition hopes
to regain large part oftbe outlay, are very
sharply ridiculed. Not only the restau-
rants and drinking pavilions, but the chairs,
tho music. and the provision for inevitable
human necessities are taken up, one after
tho other, and properly scarrifed. The
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