The sun., 1889-12-08
CHARITY THAT PAYS.
CHEAP AND NICE RESTAURANTS FoR
THE POOR OF AUsTRIl'S CAPITAL.


THE POOR OF AUSTRIl'S CAPITAL
Ten Central CookIns and Eating Houses IN
Vienna Carried On at = Pront-Ths
Prices Paid snd the Custoners.
Frvp, the london Standard
vienna, Nov. 27.-What Mrs. Frank Snoed
described as burning need of the working
classes In London. and what has been put into
practice, as a solitary experiment, In BatterseA
has existed In Vienna on an elaborate scale for
not less than seventeen years, and is Just now
undergoing further expansion.
An association, under the patronaas Of the
Empress Elisabeth. called Erster Wiener
Volksknchen- -Verein opened in 1872 central
cooking kitchen for the benefit OF the poorer
classes. 1t has now Ave such Kitchens In difs
ferent districts Of the city. Several dstrica
associations. founded later on the same prinois
pie. have established Ave more such Kitchens.
among them one where food is cooked aos
cordinR TO the jewish rites, so that altogether
ten cooking Kitchens exist at the present mo-
ment In this capital. The parent institution
only last week transferred its offices and one
OF its kitchens 10 a spacious building OF its
own. erected at the cost Of 5000 forms. W hile
the other Kitchens and eating houses are still
In hired premises.
These kitchens are distinct from the soup
Kitchens, OF which we have many in Vienna
AZ to these IL Is unnecessary to say more than
morning and evening at flxed prices. Several
million CUPS OF tea are thus yearly sold, and
the institution; which is worked by the Soup
Kitchen Association has been self-supporting
from the beginning.
The Wiener voiksknchen -verein has 1873 lie
each; ordinary members subscribe yearly be-
B Bane a9oG2 %er6 0ns p4evseS on hs
tion OF the Emperors jubilee OF forty
years reieg. O.. The q, Kitchen apn9intmIents
nnd the association requires. no monetary
aep 4 nrG 1t w6o even tns makes
1855 to p'STt one "en thousand u sight hundred G
and twenty. three florins labout one hundred
and eighty.two pounds. This snrplus will be
meat and dainties SUPPLIED to The customers.
The money turned over last year was was not less
thousand pounds, and this sum. as all the
Others SPG b s S to hS
Soren kDpt SO o that he Total mst be doubed Il
applied to all the kitchens existing in Vienna,
The association is undeT the managemspt Of
are served in each OF the Kitchens three times
day-from to 8 In the morning from half
evening On each occasion two lady Nom bers
OF the committee: or two members OF q. sup
seen In the Kitchen during e.whoIe time It 10
oren One Of the ladies sells tickets. without
which no, no customer can . be served; while tho
servants Of the association. There are tickets
penny. pei T for which ten decisrams ms Of W good broad
can be bought; there are tickets for three
pte Of
nine kreuzers lthe price OF a portion OF meat
Th ae and 81 for Mh bbs
On at dinner time is Twenty-Five kreuzers IfouF-
ssas Of e With VII VeRe"bes % % ons snd
sweets: but 1t has never occurred that Gus.
Sss ss sSasss ed G h oSs as the
The average cost OF a dinner at these kitch-
ems is eighteen, krepEers tthreepence three
for that. a piece OF meat with vegetables, lefe
dishes S Sf' only yesetSSe s % SOUP 10 Is served Il tie
evening; besides tea and bread; as at break.
in the 1bn What Uars S ds6S
dishes prepared for @ dinner for each each day Of the
Of ordinary neat. i've e.! q roast roast meat meat
1T nine Of % sd pei rs" are memtioned eSie
list. as we'll as In the list OF recipes published
by the association for the use Of its oWn W eoofo
ing IN order to learn the art. The portions aFe
regulated by weight and measure, and care 10
BILE. nourlshlnR, and wholesome as can be found
on the table OF any middle class family. There
oe Se eh
ing kitchens of the poor can afford to buys
good article in the cheapest market
Nearly 5000 persons sit down 70 dinner every
day in the Ave Kitchens OF the Central Assooias
tion and 5000 more in the other Kitchens. and
nobody Is able to distinguish between the
workman who pays for his dinner out Of his
earnings and the poor student, or needy man.
woman, or child who are given the tickets
BY the Vienna Burgomaster. the Associa-
tion for the Relief Of Students, the
Society for the Feeding Of Hungry
SohooI Thildrap NV hanavnla0f
private individual It is becoming the
fashion in Vienna to give aims in the form q
tickets for the VolkskGchen instead Off money.
Whoever enters one OF the Kitchens must be
either provided with, ticket or must buy 4.
and he can then sit down in warm and well;
in q manner that can give him no feeling Of
humiliation. Whoever likes to take homo food
in his own vessels can do 80 three times day.
The number of Kitchens is constantly In.
creasinR, so that the poorer districts will Boon
have two or three each.