Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1873-09-03
LETTER FROM EUROPE.
About The Danes-Their Parks, Gardens
and Habits as a People.

anu hhDits as FeOple'
The following from two letters of one of
our citizens abroad to n friend in this city
will be read with interest.
VIENNA, July >, 1873.
DEAR Il / drop you hasty line to
say L am here. Have received but two
letters and no newspapers from you since
l left Knoxville.
We celebrated the Fourth here in style
yesterday. The Exposition, except the
American part) is big thing. 1t can not
be seen i'll less than month. There are
not so many people here as I expected,
and while there are many Americans l
find few old acquaintance. ] will expect
Wilder in a day or so.
l received .etter from Mrs. DIR. Hill
saying the Doctor was sick.
Vienna hotels are a nuisance and an in
cessant swindle. | will stay here until
about the 20th-programme not made out
after that. | have trouble about language,
as nearly every one else here does. | will
write you a letter from Copenhagen in O
day or two giving full partiulars of travel.
They say our Minister is unpopular with
Americans. l saw Freeman at Prague.
Expect a longer letter very soon.
VIENNA, July 6, 1873.
MY DEAR s = Presenting that
you if no one else take some interest in
my movements and hoping such an ac-
count, as | am able to give, will be of some
interest to you, write. commencing at
Berlin, which / tried to describe in my las
letter. Leaving Berlin, L found Northern
Prussia not so fertile or well cultivated
as the country, through which l had
travelled, much of it is rolling and sandy.
| At Stettin, we took steamer for
COPENHAGEN. ....
Which is well worth q visit 1t has
many, beautiful surroundings-nott the least
among them, is its immense
| DEER PARK or SEVERAL THOUSAND ACRES
Containing several hundred deer, larger
! than ours, and many of them perfectly
white, not wild.) This park and the pub
! lie grounds about the palaces, are places of
resort for the people, who take their fami-
lies there, and enjoy themselves generally.
| / find that the people of this country,
must have their public parks, their beer
gardens, and that they spend much of
! their time in them. L believe you could
change the Constitution of Denmark,
strike to the foundations of their liberal
form of Government, and the Dane would
| much more quietly submit, than if you
| attempted to take from him Tivoli, or his
public parks and gardens. Let me try to
describe
TIvoLI.
Which is nothing but beer garden, and
we find nearly the same thing reproduced
| in all the cities, so far in Europe. 1t is a
| private tHClOSeu park Oh say - acres, anu
besides the ground cost more than a mill
lion dollars. You pay a small sum for adj
! mittance. Go on Sunday night, if you
would see it in its glory. Many thousands
of gas lights in different cOlored glass and
1 porcelain globes illuminate there you
see stretching for several hundred yards,
| hanging in garlands from tree TO tree few
thousand-there miniature temple made
of gaslight and porcelain globes, a garden
! called Chinese garden laid off in beau
tiful beds, all gas light seen through
the rich colored tulip-shaped globes. There
are different kinds of amusements in the
! grounds In one place is trapeze per-
tormance-then a small theatrical-agaln a
a prima dona sings-Or dancing halls
where everybody who desires, makes TO
anylladylhe sees IA military salute and away
they glide in the waltz. A half dozen
bands. land good ones) make sufficient
music. Now fill up the picture with 10000
people at the many restaurants, and under
the trees, in the aTbOrs, around the foun-
tains, &c, laughing, eating, drinking beer
or wine, dancing, looking happy, and con-
clude with brilliant fire works, aud you
have Sunday evening at Tivoli. You
have the same thingOn other days, andnot
only at Copenhagen, but in all these cOnti-
mental cites, mot in Great Britain.) But
Sunday is the great day, yet you see no
drunken or disorderly persons. All drink
and all are sober and very polite, lin this
respect they attract your attention. If a
Dane meets only an ordinary acquaint-
ance, he takes his hat oft and makes him a
very polite bow If you ask the way to
a museum, palace or hotel, they will not
only take pains TO tell you, but often walk
a square or two 20 show you.
After seeing Copenhagen and its surround
ings, and studying this fair haired Saxon
people, we took leave Ofthe country where
there is no night except from ten to two
O'Clock, and where we wear light over
at coat six o'clock, T.. NJ, on Jluy lst