The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-13
THIS SIDE up
A Tailor Travels From Vienna TO Par Is
in Box
From ne Dondon Telearaph.


From The Dondon Telegraph
Securely packed in big box, labeled
This side up" "With care" "Frag-
lie" and other re ninders to railway por
ters, an Austrian tailor named Hermann
Zeitung, according to the police report, has
come in train all the way from Vienna to
Paris. The affair seems Incredible, but it
is none the less an adamantine fact, and
this very afternoon the daring tailor was
sent off from the Eastern railway custom
house to the Paris central police station.
| The following is the true and authentic
version of the strange voyage and advent
ures of Herr Zeitung. He found himself
| bankrupt in Vienna, but as lie was an able
cutter, and had invented a new style of lady s
| riding dress, he thought by going to Paris he
might be able to make capital out of his in
J vention. He accordingly ordered box,
| lined it well with straw, and got into it sup
piled with beer, bread aud sausages. A
trustworthy friend or assistant formerly in
his employ, wrote the necessary directions on
the box, which was then forwarded to the
railway station for Paris. Ingenius Her
mann, the tailor, was thus conveyed by tn e
Orient Express across Austria, Bavaria,
Wurtemberg and Alsace into France During
nearly sixty hours he suffered purgatorial
pains, for he WAS unable to move. drink, or
sleep, and could only squeeze few pieces of
bread and meat now and the into his mouth
Sometimes he felt himself thrown violentlyon
handcars by porters, while being transferred
from one car TO another; at others he was
buried beneath a pile of boxes which threat
ened to crush in his ribs or smash his SIX ull
at any moment. At last after having under
gone time of indescribable torture, of which
probably no one has never before had ex-
perience. Herr Zeitung suddenly found him
self longe than usual out of a railway van.
Then he knew that he had arrived at his dist
ination but the difficulty was now to extri-
cate himself from his narrow wooden prison.
He heard voices and people abont him at
every minute, and consultations were evil
IDENTIFY being held over him, or rather, his
box, which was lying by an unusually long
time without anybody coming to claim it.
AT last he began to sneeze, and heard some
body mutter an exclamation. Then he
coughed. and he heard himself tapped over
bead. Suddenly the lid of his case was lifted
off. and out he jumped, to che amazsment, if
not cons.ernation. of a gronp of custom house
officials, who uttered a chorus of interiectory
EXPLANATIONS at beholding veriteabl Jack
in the box" in the shape of stout, under
size man, witha brown mustache, and
clothes all covered with straw, salute them
III hang-dog manner and accost them in a
language which they did not understand
The practical donaniers soon recovered from
their very natural surprise. and taking in
the situation, they promptly made prisoner
of the sartorial paycel and marched him be-
fore their chief officer who handed Hermann
Ieitung over to the police. At the station
the tailor coolly remarked in German that
he did not care about the consequences of his
action as he was now in Paris. He also
promised the station superintendent to re-
pay hin as soon as he could, but all this ne
Will have to settle with the magistrates.