The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-07-03
Vienna.

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! Imericaa from Vienna, says the man
ner III which the payments are made in
! the large Vienna restaurants is very
peculiar. In the one in which we dine
there are four collectors, each having
a section Of the hall. Parties sit down
TO the tables and order whatever they
NAV desire from the walters, and when
they are done. signal for the collectors
to come TO them. They tell him what
they have had. and he sets each item
down on card with the charge, hands
il TO the customer and receives the
money. They keep no account as to
what is furnished to any one table, but
depend entirely on the honesty of the
customer to make correct statement
of what he has consumed An account,
however, is kept III the kitchen Of each
dish that is furnished 10 the tables I'M
der the charge of each of the four col
lcctors. and they are required To pay
the cashier the full amount furnished
to their table. II they have been
cheated it is their loss, but experience
has proven that there is no loss from
dishonesty. These collectors not only
receive no salary from the proprietor,
but each Of them pays two florins per
day equal to one dollar) for their po-
sitions. They receive their pay from
the visitors. it being a settled custom
to give them few small coin on the
settlement of the bill. Under the sys-
TEN in vogue in France the waiter re-
ceivcs no pay. except what he receives
from the customers. Here the waiter
handles no money.
There is no doubt about the fact that
the drinking water Of Vienna is not
palatable, whatever il may be in the
matter of health Ii has most insipid
taste. is impregnated with alum, and,
as il is always tcpid warm in summer,
cannot he considered as desirable for
the shaking of thirst. Very few per-
sons in Vienna drink simple and pure
wafer even among the poor, as they all
continue to put something in il to give
il taste. Ii is what we would call
excessively hard water. soap instantly
curdling on the top of it. ON ques-
tioning people here, il will be found
that nine out Of ten will say IL never
drink water" ifcallcd for in hotel the
waiter looks al YOU in wonder. starts
off, and after STAYING long enough TO
go to the top Of the house, brings you
a decanter filled, and then stands off
and siares in apparent wonder at you
gulpim@ il down. If ice is called for.
nj least half hours further delay is
necessary. In fact nobody drinks wa
ter or uses ice and all demands for
them are extraordinary and out Of the
regular order of events. The water
here does not seem TO Stake thirst, al
though il is pure and sparkling to the
eve. There il no beer in the world
equal TO that of Vienna. and the guam
tity consumed in a day must be i'm
mcnsc. The city is surrounded by
b:ewcries. and if they should happen
10 all burn down, it would be as bad as
the water famine in Baltimore last
year.
have before alluded to the fact that
women perform the hardest kind of
laboring work in Germany, but was
not prepared for the sights have wit
messed to-day III Vienna. An immense
bailding near our hotel. occupying
whole block. is in course of erection.
on which not less Than four hundred
persons are employed. fully two hun
dred OF whom are women. All the
hard laboring work is done by women.
such as making and CARRYING mortar in
buckets on their heads TO the workmen.
and handling the brick. They are not
allowed Il moments leisure. several
ovcrsecrs being on guard 10 keep them
constantly in motion. We found the
same proportion OF women at work on
all new buildings, and there must be
many thousands of them to-day doing
this species of work in Vienna. They
are both young, middle-agcd and old.
but all seem 10 be strong and healthy.
Al dinner time they all swarm INTO the
shops 10 purchase a piece of brown
bread and fat bacon and Il mu" Of beer.
and eat their dinners sitting on the
curbstoncs. Their wages is one form.
or forty-cight cents per day. and am
assured by a gentlemen resident here
that most of them sleep about the
on shayings. or III barns or
sheds. having no homes. Amidst all
the splendor and wealth of this great
city. with its million Of Inhabitants,
there is. perhaps, more desiitution.
want and suffering than in all the cities
of America. Still. we frequently hear
some of our coumtrymen praising and
prcfcrring the governments of Europe.
While viewing this scene. the emperor
and empress, with his staff and out
riders, glittcring in gold and precious
stones. dashed along The Ringstrassc.
on their WAY 10 the palace. while a short
distance of stand the royal stables. a
structure. covering al least
four blocks of ground, as large as
Franklin square. the meauest animal /
in which is better cared for than these |
" omen. II i not 10 be wondered that !
Of the eight thousand births annually |
in The lying-in hospital of Vienna. less /
than five hundred are of children born /
in Wedlock