The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-06
THE WONDERS OF VIENNA.
VIATOR DESCRIBES HIS VISIT TO
 THAT FAMOUS CITY.

Great Palaces and Works of Art Which
 They Contain-An Account of a Drive
 Through the Prater-Landed Proprietors
 Are Men of Great Wealth.
 Dresden, Jan. 19 1895.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 As intimated in my last letter. I will give you an account of my visit to Vii enna. On the 29th of August we left the Anhalter railroad station at Berlin and proceeded to Vienna via Dresden.
 We wished to break the journey at the latter city, as the ride in the cars from Berlin to Vienna occupies no less than seventeen hours, and is conse- quently very tedious and exhausting. We slept at Dresden and on the follow ing day at Il a. m. started in the through express train for Vienna. We passed rapidly through Saxon Swift zerland," and enjoyed the delightful view of "the Bastei," "Lillienstein" and "Koenigstein;" concerning these localities I wrote you some months since. At D. m. we arrived at Tets chen, an important frontier town of Bohemia, where the custom house off, cers examine passengers luggage and make considerable delay to tourists and others who desire to travel along and mind their own business. Finally at p. m. we pulled out from Tetschen Ion 5e. Ia ruins of the chateau of Schreckenstein, place of great interest, built right at the bend of the Elbe river, which it commanded some hundreds of years ago. The view of the mountains and Bohemian plateau, which is of vast ex- tent when viewed from this spot, is of peculiar loveliness. We traversed this broad plain, beautiful with it's rolling hills and wide fields of corn, wheat and sugar beets; we rushed by many will lages, some of which were of no partic- ular historic interest, and others whose history is world renowned and extends back to remote ages. We passed Ko- len and viewed the celebrated Gothic cathedral built in the thirteenth centu- ry;I it is a striking structure with it's old. At Sedletz is the ancient convent built in 1280, now used as a tobacco fac tory. Near Sedletz is Caslau, where Frederick the Great defeated the Aus trians in 1742 Ziska, the terrible chief of the Hussites, was buried here in 1742. Close by is "Deutsch Brod," town with singular name. Here Zis- ka gained his celebrated victory over the Emperor Sigismund in 1422. Bohe-
 mia has been the scene of frightful car mage, and Europe has stood 'breath1ess while the Angel of Death has been toil- ing, while over these fields he was reap ing his grim harvest amid the corn fields of Bohemia, while his servants strode at his side, those gruesome ser wants, the bullet and disease. At length we arrived at Zwaim, city of twelve thousand inhabitants. Tn 1906, after the battle of Wagram, Napoleon and the Arch Duke Charles concluded an armistice in this town. There is an ancient chapel here which was built nearly seven hundred years ago. Not far off is Schoenwald, noted for the manufacture of faience, and beyond is Korneuburg, formerly fortress dur ing the thirty years war and in the war between Matthew Corrinus and Emperor Frederick III. cannot be- gin to mention all the interesting places on the line of the railroad. Bohemia is full of such places and fairly teens with history. Austria, including Bohemia | and Hungary, is a grand country and | of great size. The Emperor of Austria | spread over a territory comprising no | less than two hundred and forty | thousand thousand square miles. The l Emperor of Russia is the only poten- tate in Europe who rules directly over a larger population and a greater area than, that of Franz Joseph of Austria. As we ride rapidly along we cannot but admire the beautiful scenery, and at last the sun goes down and we rush through the forest and plains with the moon at its full and not a cloud in the sky, when suddenly we find ourselves within the limits of Vienna, and we suddenly stop at the Franz Joseph rail- road station. We entered carriage and drove for half an hour through many streets and past many magnifi- cent buildings till sight met our eyes which we shall not soon forget. It was the beautiful Gothic "Votiv-Kircher." radiant with it's two lofty spires of carved stone tracery like fine lace; it glistened like silver, and as the moon- light shone distinctly through the in terstices of the carvings the effect was magical and one which shall always with great delight We , stopped at our destination quite near ( the Votine church, and after partaking of hearty supper retired to rest and I slept soundly till morning. Vienna is $ ] city of Celtic origin. The Romans built here strong for , -ress in the year 14 A. D., and Marcus $