Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-06-26
AYARICIOUS A~USTRIANS.
Devices for Obtaining Money Mt the Vi
emma Exposition.
Vienna Cor. of the New York Tribune.I

Vienna Cor. of the New York Tribune.l
The devices of the exhibition manage
ment to Tighten the pockets of visitors
provoke much sharp criticism and satire
In the Vienna papers, and are sometimes
resented by the visitors in a way that
expresses their opinion Enthusiastically.
The open air concert by Strauss orches-
ira was broken up, the other day, by the
indignant audience, who found, when
they arrived on the ground, that all the
space within ear-shot of the music stand
was occupied by chairs, for which a
gulden each was demanded. Somebody
had got q "concession" to monopolize
the space in this way, so that the concert,
which was advertised as free to all who
visited the exhibition, could only be
heard by paying an extra half dollar.
Music is almost as free as air in Vienna.
There are dozens of beer gardens and
restaurants where n can hear o really
excellent orchestra for the few kreutzers
that a glass of beer costs and the best
of military band music can be enjoyed
any pleasant day in the parks for moth
ing. The people who went to hear
Strauss were, therefore, naturally indig-
nant at the trick, and refused to pay
their guldens. Finally the clamor be-
came so greatthat Strauss and his pipers
and fddlers marched off without playing
at all. Another petty and annoying de-
vice of the management is to refuse to
change money at the gates where en-
trance tickets are sold. Somebody has
a concession for keeping an exchange
Office near each entrance, where the visi-
tor must submit to a shave to have his
money changed. Last Sunday, when
the admission price was half a gulden,
the cashier refused to take a gulden for
two tickets, and gentlemen accompanied
by ladies had to go to the money-chang-
er's and return with the exact sum of SO
kreutzers for each ticket wanted. The
carriage regulations are also devised to
bleed the public. You leave your carriage
at one of the entrance doors, but when
you come out you don't find it. An Off
cia1 in uniform politely informs you
that it has gone to the Standplatz. But
where is the Standplatz? A quarter of
a mile at least. You must send a tele-
gram from an Office close by the gate,
which costs you 10 kreutzers, and after
you have waited fifteen minutes, in the
rain, perhaps, the vehicle appears. But
this is no the only imposition you must
submit to. A fellow with a red band
around his cap, and. numerous brass but
tons on his coat, opens the carriage door
~ JONt JOo Wul LII u hOo,
and of course must be paid for his super
fuous service. Another catchpenny de-
vice is the placing of chairs in various
parts of the buildings and grounds, with
no notice upon them that their use is not
free. The verdant visitor, tired of tramp
ing about and gazing at the &c universal
u~nreadiness" of the exhibition, sinks
into one of these seats with a disposition
to be grateful for the thoughtfulness of
the management in providing a rest for
the weary, when a smart girl, with a
leather bag strapped to her waist, pounees
upon him, thrusts a paper ticket in
his hand and demands 10 k~reutzers for
the use of the chair. Some individual
Or company has the concession of the
right to rent chairs, it appears. There
is a sharp bon mot in the Figaro on the
schemes to capture the guldens and
kreutzers of the unwary, which cuts
more ways than one. The roof of the
industrial palace leaks in the rotunda
and at other places. The Figaro, MOTTO
ing this fact, says that Baron Schwartz
has rented these interesting points for
100, O0~0guldens to an American, who will
charge visitors25 kreutzers a minute for
cooling themselves off under these shower
hatbs