Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1886-10-30
LIE In YlENkA
Erpeziszce Of . Generous American IN nv
Gay Austrian Capital

GAY Austrian 0ap4tAh
Le, the American. wear!ed OF The
nono,onous yea Of republican SIM
pgc.,y, and longing to imagine himself
4 Duke. or a Prince, or q King or ;
Kaiser. or whatever IS great and glori-
ous, but come TO Vienna and st the
ho,e. in which | hsve been making Do
servations. He viii only have "a ask
for the b!gges; and the finest. and he
will come all right The k~lnd-hearied
man who points the way viii INFORM
him tbs; i, IS ruinously extrayagsnI
and that il will send him forth without
q kreUtzcr. but TO the American no
ton il VIII seem cheap, and even were
/. four times Is dear il would SiA seem
cheap. For what Is money when COM
pared TO the sweet sensation OF feellng
that you are stirring up by your arrNa!
in the capital Of a great empires Your
eoachmsn, with an art THAT only Austrian
drivers possess. stops h horses Il sucn a
way tina, they keep poundingth hoofs
up and down on the pavement win Is
much cla.ter as though there were
twenty Of them. \ stout boy with BIG
muscles on both arms. and who Is pad
for no other labor, grabs hold Of q rope
S. soon as you appear. aud FOR three
long minutes rings a bell with a voice
loud enough TO ut q cathedral tower.
While the bell is ringing, three men,
very tall and powerful, are conveying,
with many signs Of respect, your Lille
yellow valise and your umbrella 10 the
foo, OF the stairs, and s, the same time
sny where from six TO eleven hotel
| clerks. white bosomed waters and well
eome-bresthing proprietor' are bowling
down before you. II is a reception
worth paving for, and an incidentcheer-
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 q cot in the parloC II you
want il.
Green cars were trotting along the
great Ring Strasse, on which the hotel
IS, and | told the porter that | wanted
10 ride in on one Of them. Having got
~ the Vienna horse cars, il IS Just as
well 10 tell about them, for they are ike
those which carry our tree and inde-
pendent voters only ina much as they
aredrawn by two unhappy horses that
can be fastened on at either end Of the
car.
Filst they cut the car up int two com
partments, one for those VIII DO and
one for those who do not smoke. Then
the seats are put in altar a most charm.
inglv original fashion, with any number
OF aisles, and, finally, the conductor
who completes the outfit, is a poem a.
by himset. His uniform in point o
gorgeousness and completely, woul
serve as an excellent model for s
country regiment of mill ia. And hi
state OF perfect coltentment Is some
thing cheerful to look upon. Tn
! passengers who travel with hin
=. and from whom he collects fares, ar
: al about his equals, and while his p
lteness is complete and exhaustive
: He is in his element and has a pleasan
l time. There is nearly always on boar,
I some red-cheoked young personnel net
: to be sociable and merry when he work
> his way to her end Of the car and tn
. necessity Of thinking every time {
! something new and smart to say to hel
: insures for him that mental activity III
known to the spirited collector OF nicb
l els. There is missing that outrage
t class of beings which in America is FOL
ever taking Somebody number, and !
short the life OF a ear conductor OF V
emma, while it may not be the most G!
citing and satisfactory in the world,
n certainly not the dullest.
As IL Paris, there is a limit to III
number of persons admitted on DoarC
but this cal not lie said to be yer
70 harmful to the %Tecuniary interests
TIE company, since the limit is reacht
d whnn every seat, every a Sic aud tot
platforms are packed so full that ii OF
o. man dur NC the %journc' were to sga
le low a sandwich the sides of the Ct
N might burst out, The fare varies a
W. cord ng to the journey which YOU ha
y. undertaken. The conductor lear
1t where you want to 90, and sells yc
ne tickets which range in price from OF
IN and three-fourths to three and eigl
~ ninths cents.
., This afternoon | travelled three al
er eight-ninths cents worth; and gave I
i. conductor a pie of silver plated non
Qhey have that here,) ont Of which
fraction less than two-thirds Of a c.
NJ in change was due me. The conduct
II dove down and got up the exact chang
he = Vienna Cor, in Philadelphia Press