The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-10-28
LIFE IN VIENNA.
Experience of q Generous American In the
Gay Austrian Capital.

Experience Of q Generous American In the
Gay Austrian Capital.
Let the American. wearied of the
monotonous years of republican SIM
plicity, and longing. to imagine himself
a Duke, or a Prince, or a King, or a
Kaiser, or whatever is great and glori-
Gus, but come to Vienna and at the
hotel in which I have been making OBJ
servations. He will only have to ask
for the biggest and the finest, and he
will come all right. The kind-hearted
nan who points the way will inform
him that it is ruinously extravagant,
and that it will send him forth without
a .kreutzer, but to the Americans no.
ton it will seem cheap, and even were
it four times as dear it would still seem
cheap. For what is money when COM
pared to the sweet sensation of feeling
that you are stirring up by your arrival
In the capital of a great empirep Your
coachman, with al artthat only Austrian
drivers possess, stops his horses in such a
way that they keep pounding their hoofs
up and down on the pavement with as
much clatter as though there were
twenty of them. A stout boy with big
muscles on both arms, and who is paid
for no other labor, grabs hold of a rope
as soon as you appear, and for three
long minutes rings a bell with a voice
loud enough to tit a cathedral tower.
While the bell is ringing, three men,
very tall and powerful, are conveying,
with many signs of respect, your little
yellow valise and your umbrella to the
foot of the stairs, and at the same time
any where from six to eleven hotel
clerks, white-bosomed walters and well
concentrating proprietors are bowling
down before you. 1t is a reception
worth paying for, and an incident cheer
full to look back upon when in after days
you creep up the steps of an American
hotel and the clerk YEARLY interrupts
his important labors to say that you can
always have a cot in the parlor if you
want it.
Green cars were trotting along the
great King Strasse, on which the hotel
is, andI told the PORTER that 1 wanted
to ride in on one Of them. Having got
to the Vienna. horse cars, it is Just as
well to tell about them, for they are like
those which carry our tree and indie
pendent voters only inasmuch as they
are drawn by two unhappy horses that
can be fastened on at either end of the
car.
First they cut the car up into two conn
partments, one for those who do and
n for those who do not smoke. Then
the. seats are put in after a most charm
ingly original fashion, with any number
of aisles, and, finally, the conductor.
who completes the outfit, is a poem all
by himself His uniform in point of
g~orgeousness and complexity, wouli
serve Is an excellent model for a
country regiment of militia. And his
state of perfect coatentment is some
thing cheerful to look upon. The
passengers who travel with him
and from whom he collects fares, are
all about his equals, and while his pc
likeness is complete and exhaustive.
He is in his element and has a pleasant
time. There is nearly always on board
some red-cheeked young person inclined
to be sociable and merry when he works
his way to her end of the car and the
necessity of thinking every time OF
something new and smart to say to her,
insures for him that mental activity un-
known to the spirited collector of nick
CHS. 4uCIO 10 ulISSluS IudG outraged
class of beings which in America is for
ever taking somebody's number, and in
short the life of a car conductor of vi
emma, while it may not be the most ex-
citing and satisfactory in the world, is
certainly not the dullest.
As in Paris, there is a limit to the
number of persons admitted on board:
but this can not lie said to be very
harmful to the recuniary interests OF
the company, since the limit is reached
when every seat. every asia and both
platforms are packed SO full that if one
man dur ne the journey were to swal-
low a sandwich the sides of the car
might burst out. The fare varies ac-
cord ng to the journey which you have
undertaken. The conductor learns
where you want to 60, and sells you
tickets which range in price from one
and three-fourths to three and eight.
ninths cents.
This afternoon 1 travelled three and
eight-ninths cents worth; and gave the
conductor a piece of si~lver-plated money
(they have that here,) out of which {
fraction less than two-thirds of a cen,
i'll change was due me. The conductor
dove down and got up the exact change
-Fenna Cor, in Philadelphia Press.