The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-02-06

1 The population is aoout eighteen hun dred thousand, and the garrison con | sists of twenty-five thousand soldiers
 The new part of the city, built without l the Kingstrasse Q. e. the street whicf | occupies the place formerly taken uG l by the ancient wall of the city) is like g new city, with broad streets and wide | avenues, parks, gardens and every re- quisite of modern elegant city Old Vienna within the Kingstrasse is a
 network of narrow streets, ancient churches, old castles and buildings oi very great antiquity.
 Every foot of old Vienna is of great historic interest, for this portion is the old Roman settlement where almost
 two thousand years ago stood the i'm pregnable fortress Vindomina, one ot the most famous strong-holds in the Roman empire. In traversing this old part of the city one is easily lost in the maze of busy thoroughfares, and actu-
 ally wonders how people can live and occupy themselves in such a perfect network of by-paths and crooked streets, Right in the very center of
 this quarter stands the peerless cathe- dral of St. Stephans, which was built in
 the twelfth century whose Gothic spire
 extends upwards four hundred and fifty feet.
 The architecture of this great church
 is simply exquisite and the exterior as
 well as the interior is unsurpassed in
 beauty of design and execution. This
 is an historic church and has witnessed
 many historic scenes, but I cannot lin
 ger to describe it's beauty. We ascend
 ed it's tall spire and by means of tel
 escope viewed the wide plain where the
 battle of Wagram was fought in 1909.
 The view of Vienna from this church
 spire is grand and gives one a good
 idea of the size and magnificence of the
 city. Some years ago I beheld Vienna
 from this spot; even then it was large
 city, but now it is like a river in flood i;
 it has burst its bounds and is increas-
 ing on every side. Twenty-Five years
 hence Berlin, Paris and Vienna will be-
 come as great as London is to-day, but
 the charm of Vienna is not in it's great
 population; it's special allurement is in
 its long centuries of history, its galler-
 ies of paintings, sculpture and fine arts,
 in its libraries, it's university and mu-
 seums of industry and ethnography,
 and in thousand other things which
 render Vienna glorious. Herein con-
 sists the peculiar charm which Euro
 pean capitals possess over and beyond
 our two or three large American cities.
 We cannot but admire their past histo
 ry, the pages of which were written
 many centuries ago. while in our own
 country, although our cities are mag
 nificent in certain way, their very sites but a few years since (compara-
 tively) were covered with a tangle of primeval forest. Close by the St. Ste phans church is the Church of the Ca
 puchins, a very old affair and formerly the court church; beneath this is the fa- nous crypt, where are laid to rest all the members of the Habsburg family who have died during the past two hum dred years. This crypt is entered by very long and steep stone staircase, and is in all appearances similar to a church. One of the first objects to be seen here is the immense bronze and silver double casket den feet long, four feet high and six feet wide) containing the remains of the Empress Maria The resa and the Emperor Francis I. The on this casket is very beautiful and it's cost was fabulous; on it's huge lid are two life-size bronze of the royal occupants.
 Here are to be seen the bronze and copper collins of very many distin- guished personages. Marie Louise, the lovely Austrian wife of Napoleon l., sleeps here; at her side rest the re- mains of her son, the Duke of Reich stadt; strange to say, he died in the very room in the palace of Schonbrum which his father, Napoleon l., occupied in 1895. MaXimillian, the unfortunate Emperor Of Mexico, rests here in a cof- fin with two silver crowns. The Arch Duke Charles, Leopold IL, Joseph I and IT., and very many distinguished members of the royal family are laid away in this crypt. Thousands visit | this place. a shrine to which the feet of l patriotic Austrians are ever leading. | It is said that one hundred and fifty l thousand people descend the steps into | this crypt yearly. The Church of the | is. a place of great interest, and the music to be heard there is very inc and attracts many. In this l church is the celebrated monument of | Marie Christina, daughter of Maria | it is a pyramid of white mar ole twenty-five feet high, by Canova, with life-like figures of Beatitude, Vir- l ue and Charity This is one of the | inest monumental marbles in Europe. | Here is to be seen the monument of | Leopold IT., also that of Field Marshal 0aun, erected by his grateful sovereign Maria Thresa, who styled him the 'Liberator of his Country" It was baum who gave Frederick the Great uch opposition during the seven years var.
 In this vicinity is the Stock in Iisen;" this is a stump of tree, the ast survivor of the holy grove round which the original settlement of "Vin- omina" sprang up nearly two thou and years ago; this stump is full of ails driven into it by travelling jour- eymen; it is the great relic of Vienna, mich takes us back long distance ito ancient history.
 The two museums of natural history nd fine arts are, I think the finest uildings in every respect in Europe
 They are quite new and of most beau- full design. The grand staircases lined ] ,ith marble of great width and ceiling f over one hundred feet high are beau ful beyond description. At the broad |