The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-06-14
PRICE 5 CENTS.
ABBEY OF KLosTERNEUeERe.
-rr.asrre Room and Imperial ApaT0'
-.G-Snated on the Throne.

g. = Treasure Room and Imperial APoE
ments-Seated on the Throne'
FINALLY after much waiting and wander
.. o. ND and down along chilly corrloOfs
q GREAT strong staircases worn with the
,Cnastic tread of long ages, iG occuI!e N
r. some of the more commercial HlehA%c,S
MT they turn an honest kreutzer' %
~ ,e of the more enterprlslng "ayidlo
brother a little more protusely CoNtheo
with gold than his fellows, ana cDeSlln -
permission to show me the ooJecUs "a
Greatest interest. Several servants at
Tanoed among themselves to pass me
from hand to hand, to extract ana sup.
| divide the greatest amount or Zee. VI
hot 7 saw I will speak briefly OF only
| tbe treasure room and imperial apart
! roonts rarely visited. These treasure
| roonns of converts, churches and abDeys
contain objects of greater or less sun
| ilarity. There are usually among ulenI
the annliances of Catholic church worship
richly adorned with precious stone eo oiso
sknIi of some saint blazing with Jewels
Tn This case it was that of st. Leopold
tha founder of the abbey. The COLLECTION
;s worth many millions of horlns the
principal value being in great diamonds,
r,1bies. emeralds and sapphlres, many Oh
Them embroidered on priestly roDes'
themselves precious on account OF the
sanctitv of those who once worN
them, These treasure rooms are JealOusly
guarded. You enter by aponderous uOor
which yields unwillingly to Key rs
large as that of the gate of a nedlfeVa
oitS The treasure is ranged round the
o-.o,,, in ocreat cases, each closed with
doors almost as heavy, which, thrown
omen. disclose the objects, the most pre-
rious in show cases covered with thick
glass. .4,,,o,+,
nv an aged daniel whose soiled appareA
did not correspond With the enormous
wealth of the abbey. The novel ana
striking feature of her face were two
teeth which, descending from beneath
the upper lip, projected over the helCher
). like the tusks of a walruS. Ihey were
, two of the pearls that one time had peeil
gtamens 'twixt the pouted petals OF hCt
Gps,'' as a now forgotten American pOeS
has sung. There was nothing unusually
ranoarkable in connection with the apart
Oh nents. except the view across the Dan
ube through the long series OF windows
= that lighted them. The polished hoor:
were more slippery than a skating rink
II and the walls were ornamented VIII
Il raner OF with frescoes or pictures OF In
different merit.
At the corner, at the farther end OF TIT
Z lono SHIT. was the thrOnerOOIn, circular
lofty and imposing. Its decoration
we're of a higher order. The view iron
S, the windows was superb. l seated my
seIf on the vacant throne. The wltel
smiled approval. Them quite unex
oectedly, she emitted a series OF shrll
sbrieks. that came back in an alarming
IN vollev of echoes from walls and ceilings
One would have thought it was the cav
of a. sorceress and all the demons wer
bowling in chorus. Before had falrl
W. recovered from my establishment sh
turned toward the windows, and, e1
tending her skinny hand, executed tn
i've pyratory movement Of a dervlsh as SD
pointed through each, ana repeated mi
rhanicallv and simply the words: WelS
. ling, Leopoldsberg, Florisd orr, Iedlersdor
redIersee, Stammersdorf, Bisambergal
kenbr1m They were the names OF II
hills or towns that were in sight or IN Il
Erection indicated. looked back att
had parted from her In the corrldo
Fer tusks were saving the ar as 81
droDned the kreutzers I had given
slowly from one wrinkled palm into Il
ZEE other. I took a draught of the exceHe
KIreterneuberger wine in the abbey c.
lars in an adjoining street., and taking
last look at the huge imperial crown
shining copper that surmounts the chaE
tower, descended the nil and made 4
vay as hastily as possible across the bro
1rassv plain to the landing OF the Da
ON Oh boat.--Austria Cors San Francis
.T1rOnicle.