The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05

ats products, wears a very solemn counta
nance and has a most deferential manner
but ne must chuckle inwardly tin his rihS
ache as party after party of Americas
tourists leave the vineyard with hottIas
fully wrapped in old newspapers under
their arms Ni"er
Nearly everybody, of course. who vtsits
the place IS eager to taste the famous vim
winch is fed only to kings. The guide 10
always horror-stricken when YOU asl. hin,
IL ne cannot somehow smuggle out a bot-
Tie, or even glass of it. He rebuIxas n
suggestion as country parson talks to
BOY VINO mas been. fishing on Sunday. Bur
just before you leave the place. he s1irg
over quietly to your side and tells I-o,,
IhdC II you care to pay the price he viii
ASH the steward to sell you a BOTTLE
OF the precious liquid. OF course vo,, 80
Wiling to pay nything-Americans al
ways are. he goes off on tiptoe as if he
were about to commit felony and soon
returns with package wrapped in a news
paper, and with an air of mystery sins ~
package INTO your hand, tells you it is a
sample of the best vintage that has baeT1
known for many years; that il is straisbt
from Lord Rothschild's private cellar. ana
was taken from an invoice that is helm.
packed for shipment to the ameer Of AZ
shanlstan. He insists that the matter he
treated with absolute confidence, for if If
should be discovered both he and tba
steward would undoubtedly he discbar,r
ca. You promise most solemnly never 70
reveal the secret and he tells Won 49,
the price is so marks-$125 So You nav ~
orlbe, walk off with an air of pride AMI
satisfaction, and try to look unconscious
until you get to the hotel at Bingen sn5
borrow corkscrew from the waiter -
winks at you out of the corner of his eve
ana tells you, after much ouizzing +bat
every visitor to the Johannisberv castIa
eiin away similar bottle, which is
Illled' not with the genuine wine of tbar
name but with the product of the naiof
boring vineyards. and thar the stewards
revenue from this source often amounts -
several hundred dollars a dav when 49,
tide of tourists is heavy. ''o
Inc Apollinaries spring can he 600,
from the deck of the steamer. II lies m
der the shadow of the beautifnl cotti.
four-towered Apollinaris kircbe ero o'tilI
IN 1853 by the architect who restored tba
cathedral at Cologne. The town is know
as Apollinarisberg, and was named IN
honor of the highly revered st. ApolIina-
RS, VINO was bishop of Ravenna Tba
story goes that in 1854 Frederick Isorh
rosa presented the head of that eminen+
SAINT to Archbishop Reinald who was ~
the act of conveying it to Cologne r.
gether with some relics of the Mo-
when, by some miraculous agency. The
vessel stopped in the middle of the Rhine
opposite the now famous spring ana re
man was taken ashore. temnorar',
shelter was erected for it, and then a
chapel, and finally the present elaborate
structure, which was paid for nv tbe
pious Baron Fuerstenberg. The head or
St Apolhnaris is preserved in a beautiful
silver casket, and the walls of the church
are decorated with pictures by modern
artists representing scenes in his event.
full life.
The spring is on the other slope of the
mountain, and is surrounded by a large
group of buildings. in which the water js
bottled and packed. 1t is owned by the
Kreuzberg family, but is leased to an
English company upon royalty About
100000 bottles are filed daily and 75oO0o
are shipped every month TO the United
States which is its largest market. Ships
arc loaded for London at the river bank
The company has fleet of its own and
sends cargo at least once a week. There
is very little local consumption The
-Mineralquelle, which is ONLY
little farther up the valley, is free to
everybody and the water is preferred by
| the inhabitants.