The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-18
A Story Of Suffering at the Mid
winter Exposition.
THOSE THERE KNOW IT ALL.
Those Who Were Not, Have Heard Ru-
mors of the Fiasco, and Will Appre-
ciate the Complaints OF the Austrian
Restaurant Keeper.

Those who visited the Midwinter
Fair at San Francisco will remem-
Der Papa Seidl, who had a restau-
rant in the same building with the
Vienna Prater.
Those who did not visit the fair,
as well as those who did, will re-
call the frequent insinuations
against the management, and the
final declaration that the fair was a
failure, that it was only a scheme
fathered by M. II. deYoung in or
der to boost his political body, and
that everybody who had anything
to do with it except Mr.. deYoung
and his immediate friends, felt a
cold, cold frost in a financial way.
But the true story of the Mid
winter Fair was never told in the
San Francisco papers. They didn't
dare print it, because they know
not how the political cat would
jump.
Papa Seidl has returned to Wen
ma, and has talked to newspaper
men there. A copy of the period
ical in which his criticisms appear
has been sent to San Francisco,
and the Examiner has reproduced
the story. 1t follows:
s'The Coffee Boiler" is the literal
translation of the title by which Papa
Seidl is known in his own Vienna.
Having for many years conducted a
beer hall and restaurant there, he is q
local celebrity. He is now at home,
after having passed through a period
of prosperity at the Worlds Fair in
Chicago, and a season of adversity at
the Midwinter Exposition in San
Francisco.
Extraordinary relations he has
made of his experiences in America,
and these have been printed at great
length i'm the Vienna News Freie
Press, one of the greatest newspapers
of Europe. Column after column OF
this notable journal has been devoted
to Papa Seidl'S comments and criti.
cisms of San Francisco and of the
Midwinter Fair, where his restaurant
and concert hall was part of the Wen
ma Prater. A translation of part oi
the matter given by him to the Wen
nese newspaper is as follows:
eve were twenty-five of US, who
went to San Francisco. San Francisco
has been painted to me in most bril-
liant colors. The officers of the exhi-
bition and the director of the Vienna
Prater, Stephany, and several other
ton, appeared in Chicago to boom, as
they said, their fair, but, as matter
of fact, to look for suckers (wurZen) fol
San Francisco. What did those gen
tlemen not tell us of the glory and
brilliancy of the California exhibition
and the immense amount of money
one could earn there? These gentle
men were typical Americans, and We
alas, in spite of our long stay in Amer
lea, were only Europeans. We be
lieved them.
PROFITS OF CHICAGO LOST IN SAN
FRANCISCO.
every one of US had made a nice
snug sum in Chicago, and once there,
| that ia to say, across the ocean, why
The gentlemen found suckers, and L,
/ am sorry 10 say, was one of them.
! They seemed 10 be especially fond of
me, and, although all my life long
have never been victim in Vienna,
/ bad to play such in San Francisco.
Twenty of US left Chicago November
| 15, 1898. With me were POmmer and
his wife from the 'KOhlkreunZe,' from
Mariahilf, Rindespacher and Gusty,
| the sCngsters, thirteen waiter girls,
Gradi, the butcher o. Serviteu street,
who had been some time in America,
and who had conducted a marriage
bureau and employment office, who
hired to me as a waiter, because be
thought he could make more money
by that than by arranging marriages.
"On the way, after passing through
Utah and Nevada, We suddenly came
from the snow fields OF the sierra Ne
vadas 10 the smiling and beautiful
| valleys of California, where the per-
fume of fresh blossoms greeted Us.
Tender was their greeting IL order
to get to San Francisco the tlaveler
leaves the railroad at Oakland, takes
a boat and, sailing through Benicia
bay, reaches San Francisco.
"The city pleased Us tolerably well.
During our first promenade through
the streets we believed ourselves to be
on the Kahlenberg when the feast OF
st. Ann is in progress, because during
the feast beauty contest is always in