The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-06-20
THE JOURNAL.
THE VIENNA SHOW.
Devices for Obtaining Money Of the
Visitors.

Visitors.
The devices of the Exhib ton
management to tighten the pockets
of visitors provoke much sharp
criticism and satire in the Vienna
papers, and are sometimes resented
by the visitors in way that ex-
presses their opinion Enthusiastically.
The open air concert by Struss' or
chestra 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 oc-
cupied by chairs for which a gulden
each was demanded. Somebody
had got a concession" to monopol-
ize the space in this way, so that the
concert advertised as free to all who
visited the Exhibition, could only
be heard by paying an extra half
dollar. Music is almost as free os
air in Vienna. There are dozens Of
beer gardens and restaurants where
one can hear a really excel ent or
chestra for the few kreutzers that 8
glass of beer costs; and the best of
military band music can be enjoyed
any pleasant day in the parks for
nothing The people who went TO
hear Strauss were therefore natural
ly indignant at tn , trick, and refused
to pay their guldens. Finally the
clamor became so great that Struss
and his players and fiddlers march
ed off without paying at all. An
other petty and annoy ing device of
the management is to refuse TO
change money at the gates where
the entrance tickets were sold.
Somebody has concession for keep
ing an exchange Office near each en-
trance, where the visitor must sub
nit to shave to have his money
changed. Last Sunday, when the
admission price was half a guldeD,
the Cashier refused a gulden for two
tickets, aud gentlemen accompanied
by ladies had to 60 TO the money
changers and return with the ex-
act sum of so kreutzers for each
ticket wanted. The carriage regula
tiOns 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
official in uniform politely informs
you that it has gone to the Stand
pIdtz. But where IS the Standpldtzi
! A quarter Of mile away at least
You must send a telegram from al
Office close by the gates, which costs
you ten kreutzers, and after yOU
have waited fifteen minutes in tn,
rain, perhaps, the vehicle appears
But this is not the only imposition
you must submit to. A fellow will
red band around his cap and mum
erous brass buttons on his coat open
the carriage door for you whethe
you want him to or not, and o
course must be paid for this super
luous service.
Another catch penny device is tn
placing of chairs in various parts o
the buildings and grounds, with NJ
notice upon them that their use i
not free. The verdant visitor, tire(
of tramping about and gazing at tn,
"universal unreadiness" of the Exhi
bition, sinks into one Of these seat
with a disposition to be grateful fo
the thoughtfnlness of the manage
ment in providing rest for th,
weary, when q smart girl with {
leather bag strapped to her waist
pounees upon him, thrusts pape
ticket in his hand and demands tel
kreutzers for the use of the chair
Some Individual or company has tn,
concession of the right TO ren
chairs, it appears. There is sharl
bon mot in the Figaro on thes'
schemes to capture the guldens ant
kreutzers of the unwary, which cut
more ways than one. The root o
the industrial palace leaks in the rO
tunda and at other points. Th
Figaro noticing this fact, says tha
Baron Schwarz has rented these in
teresting points for 100000 gulden
to an American who will charge Wis
itors 25 kreutzers a minute for cool
ing themselves off under these show
er-baths.-Ba5ard Taylor, an Net
York Tribune.