Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-10-14
A STERLING NEWSPAPER.
SCENES IN VIENNA.
What the Americans with Money
Find in the austrian Capital.

Find in the Austrian Capital.
From the PhiIadslOhia Press.
VIENNA, Sept. 15.-Let the American,
wearisd or the monOtOnous years of
republican simplicity, and longing to
imagine himself duke, or a prince, or a
king, or kaiser, or whatever is great and
glorious, but come to Vienna and stay at
the hotel in which 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 man
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 notion it will seem cheap,
and even were it four times as dear it
| would still seem cheap. For what is
money when compared to the sweet SEN
| sation OF feeling that YOU are stirring up
| by your arrival the capital of great en-
pire?
Your coachman, with an art that only
Austrian drivers possess, stops his
| horses in such 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
rope as soon as you appear, and for three
long minutes rings bell with a voice
| loud enough to fit 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 anywhere
from six to eleven hotel clerks, white
bosomed waters and welcome breathing
proprietors are bowIng down before you.
1t Is reception worth paying tor, and an
incident cheerful to look back upon when
In after days you creep up the steps of an
American hotel and the clerk YEARLY in
terrupts his important labors to say that
you can have cot in the parlor If you
want 1t.
Green cars were trotting along the great
Ring Strasse, on which the hotel is, and |
told the porter that wanted to ride in one
of them. Having got TO the Vienna horse
cars. il is Just as well to tell about them,
for they are like those which carry our
free and independent voters only mas
much 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 COM
partments, one for those who do and one
for those who do not smoke. Then the
seats are put in after most charmlngly
original fashion, with any number of
alsles, and, finally, the conductor, who
completes the outfit, is poem all by him
self, His uniform in point OF gorgeous
ness and completely would serve as an
excellent model for country regiment
of militia. And his state of perfect con-
tentment Is something cheerful to look
upon. The passengers who travel with
him and from whom he collects fares are
all about his equals, and while his polite
ness 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 neces-
sity OF thinking every time of something
new and smart to cay TO her insures for
him that mental activity unknown to the
dispirited collector OF nickels. There is
missing that outraged class OF beings
which in America is forever taking some
body's number, and in short the life OF
car conductor OF Vienna, while 1t may
not be the most exciting and satisfac-
tory In the world, Is certainly not the dull
est.
As in Paris, there Is q limit TO the num-
Der OF persons admitted on board; but
this can not be said to be very harmful 10
the pecunlary interests Of the company,
since the limit Is reached when every
seat, every aisle and both platforms are
packed so full that IL one man during the
Journey were to swallow q sandwich the
sides of the car might burst out. The
fare varies according TO the journey which
you have undertaken. The conductor
learns where you want TO 90, and sells
you tickets which range in price from one
and three-fourths TO three and eight
inths cents.
This afternoon l travelled three and
elght-nintks cents; and gave the conduc-
tor a piece OF silyer-plated money they
have that mere }, out OF which fraction
less than twothirds Of cent in change
was due me. The conductor dove down
and got up the exact change. IL occurred