The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-09-03
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Special Correspondence Of the Register.
vienna, August 10th, 1873.
And now we have reached the I'm
perial City, where we propose sojourn'
ing for week or two to refresh our
selves, view the city and see th'
Worlds Exhibition, which is just at th'
eliminating point Of it's greatness. W.
have secured elegant apartments at tn
new and spacious Hotel Britannia, ,wher'
everything necessary for the comfor
and convenience Of the weary travele
is readily found. On our arrival W
beheld the Austrian cspi tai in blaz
Of glory.
THE sHAH OF PERSIA
was here, and the city was illuminated
in honor of MIS- presence. Fire work
were displayed, bands of music wer'
playing, Austrian soldiers were march
! ing, drums were beating, Vienna ladleI
in all their beauty and fine clothes
were on the streets, and Vienna pre-
eented the most charming and inviting
appearance OF any city we had yet seen
end before we had secured our apart
ments we had fully resolved that VIZ
emma should be one OF the principal
resting points on our journey. After
refreshing and invigorating ourselves
with good nights sleep, we started
out in the morning to see the city. On
our writing desk we fed s. chart con.
tanning the plan of Vicn9a. And this
waA what our Mitchell and McNsl'y
Biographies taught US was
VIENNA on THE DANUBE"
For once we have found our geogra.
phies mistaken, when they tell us in
their description OF Vienna that the
Danube river flows through the city.
He who come. to Vienna to see the
Danube river will 90 away dissppoiut-
ed, unless he takes a good long walk or
drive out OF the city. The only waters
of the Danube flowing through the city
are those passing through the "Danu-
bian Canal" an artificial arm, inferior
in both breadth and volume to the river
itself. No doubt many visitors to VII
emma have believed the canal to be the
river tuere ia plan, weare informed,
partially executed, by which the river
| will flow through the city at some tu'
ture time, as the bed Of heriver, which
formerly stretched far out between the
city and the Marchfeld, is being filled
in or enclosed, and on the grounds thus
reclaimed, rows OF new houses, forming
an imposing suburb, are being erected.
Until this is accomplished, the old
description OF "Vienna on the DAr.
ube" is a mistake, as tie
Danube river is over three miles from
the city. 1t is more properly Vienna
on the Wien, small river flowing
through the city from the southwest
and discharging it's water in the Danu
bian Canal at Aspen Bridge.
THE SUBURBS.
Like all European cities of imper'
tance, during the middle ages Vienna
was surrounded by ramparts, bastions,
fortified gates, and deep moats. As
time rolled on and the population in-
creased, the space included within these
Notifications became too small. Many
people consequently settled outside, and
thus the foundation OF the suburbs was
laid. These increased in size and pop>
ulation till they reached thirty in num-
Der and formed a densely inhabited
ring OF houses around the city, the old
ram parts and walls still remaining until
about ten years ago. when the contin'
ually increasing traffic rendered their
demolition necessary. A boulevard
round the stadt or city, planted with
trees, separates it from the suburbs.
The city is the commercial part and
also contains the Imperial Palace and
the greater number Of the ministerial
and ambassadoral residences. The
streets of the city are narrow and winds
ing. The shops or store rooms, are
little, low, dark places, about ten by
fourteen feet in dimensions, at the rear
Of which winding stairways lead to the
floors above, where goods, wares and
merchandise are both manufactured
and kept for sale.
THE BOULEVARD
Outside the ramparts is very wide aud
forms the most beautiful and delight
full street in Vienna. It is called the
Riugstrasse (Ring street, and together
with the Francis Joseph Quay along
the right bank OF the canal, affords a
fine drive around the old city. Ancient
Vienna, from the midst OF which the
dome o! ST. Stevens towers into the sky,
forms even at the presen: day the real
centre OF the modern city, not only in .
local but also in a commercial sense.
Around it lie the environs which are
incorporated into nine municipalities.
The whole, forming THE Grand Com
mune, is encompsssed by what is call
ed the Lime Rampant" and most,
which offer serious distractions to trade,
and through which only fifteen streets
pass. This fortified boundary is utterly
useless for military purposes and only
serves to separate the city proper from
the country beyond. Outside the outer
moat and separated by it from the su-
burbs, lie those numerous districts BY
which Vienna is surrounded, and
which, although considered, but villages,
have in reality, all the appearance OF
and are considerably more populous
than ordinary provincial towns. These
outside villages stand in close proximi.
~ with the capital itself, 60 that the
most is as great an snachronism to-day
ss the fortfcations of the inner town
were q decade ago. 1t isvery probable