The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-25
HIS NAME WAS DENNIS
LAST RESORT OF CJRNIE WANDER
BILT AFTER VISITING VIENNA.
The Young Millionaire and Wife
Both Titled and Common.
New York Press.


clubs they are telling "a good one on Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, jr., and his fame as a
millionaire. If you suppose it's all pie and
sugar plums to have the reputation of a
Croesus. be convinced of the hollowness of
that popular view, and if you think that a
man who runs away and assumes an alias
must necessarily. be coward, don't mention
it at the Lotus. for instance. or you may get
dubbed. Certain men have changed their
minds on the subject since Cornelius re-
turned from Vienna with his tale of finan-
cial woe.
The August sun, say Mr. Vanderbilt
friends. smiled brightly on imperial Vienna
when, few hours after the Wiener Neue
F'reie Presse had announced the arrival of
'Ndr. Vanderbilt, the American millionaire,
and his young wife at the Hotel Imperial, -
and Kaertner Ring branch postoffice, which
handles the mail for the Imperial. issued a
hurry call for assistants, as the superin-
tendent found it impossible 70 work off.
with the regular help, the volume of mail
and Geographic matter pouring in.
Every incoming letter and package col
lector was staggering under load of en-
velopes big and small, or of boxes and
packages addressed Herr Cor Frau Van
derbilt, Hochwohlgeboren (high and well
born), or even dochgeboren (high born).
Hotel Imperial and every yellow black
imperial and royal mail wagon drawing
up at No. kaertner Ring was piled high
with such articles. And the wires were hot
with messages for the same parties.
The Neue Freie Presse appears at Z in
the morning. and owing to it's high price
and the stamp duty, its circulation is linn
tied, but the two-line announcement quoted
had caused by noon the influx of 312 city
letters and more tnan fifty kilograms, some
of them from Prague, Pressburg, Buda-
Pesth and even more distant places, where
the Presse Is issued at the same hour as in
Vienna
What was Fraulein Peppi Leitner, the
charming blonde vOrstand superintendent
OF the branch to do? So much mail as ar
rived in the last three hours she had never
handled in three days, and she was not go
American millionaire too who travels with
his young wife.
FIRST INSTALLMENT ARRIVES.
Vienna officialdom is proverbially slow,
but it rose to the situation when F'raulein
Peppi's petition arrived over the telephone.
A mail clerk and an additional letter carrier
were at once dispatched to kaertner Ring,
and by l o'clock Mr.. Vanderbilt was sur
prised by having a voluminous mailbag de-
posted on the floor of his salon in the Ho-
tel Imperial.
by Jove!' exclaimed Cornelius, ''are they
sending the accumulated mail of the Van
derbilt system after me?" The bag was
opened. and it was seen that all the postage
stamps were of the two-headed eagle and
kreutzer variety-city letters and packages.
Hartog, the courier, who speaks all lam
g9ages. was called in. He reported for duty
at the moment when an employe of the post
office brought in a lot of kilograms. many Of
which were sent collect" Besides, he de-
manded gratuity of kreutzers for each
Hartog did a little figuring: Seventeen
forins, % hellers. TOR kreutzers) for tele-
rival in Vienna. If we stay here week, we
won't be able to pay our hotel bills.
ao What Is it all about asked Mr. Van
alre junge frau-this is quoted from the
Wiener Montags .Reyuez':yes, let's srsee
what's in the PACKAGE psgf
nuded of it's plush cover it's fower-stand
and card tray. Hartog, scissors in hand,
took up one package after another and
opened 1t, while Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt
looked on.
There was Number /. a brick, dirt-be-
grimed and uncertain as to color
This brick explained the accompany
the Saint Johannes Church, belongs to a
chapel erected in honor of the patron saint
Of King Sobieski, who rescued Vienna from
the Turks. The chapel has been con-
demned as unsafe and must be pulled down.
to your Hochw ohlgeboren. enabling you to
ship 1t, brick for brick, windows, gates and
affairs, to America, where you can re-erect
the historical chapel on the original plans.
All American travellers point out the one
deficiency in your otherwise rich and pro-
gressive, countrywide lack of historical
landmarks and monuments. Hare. Mr..
Vanderbilt, is a chance to correct that one
fault by acquiring our chapel, and we are
foresight and generosity. Enrich the sights
of New York by the chapel of Saint Jo-
hannes transpllanted from the Danube to
mesnt1 ap9 the ncrssas sn nassenge y
traffic of your railways will repay you a
hundredfold, for all the Germans of Amer
lea and all the Poles. too, will want to see
this ancient monument.
GAVE HIM A CHURCH.
I'm exchange for the ancient church we
humbly petition you to set up a new one
large enough to accommodate the present
st. Johanness congregation, which has
vastly increased in the course of centuries
We also request bonus of 100000 forms
for the benefit of our poor Soliciting a
gracious reply, we are, etc..
A good-sized box that was next opened
contained drinking cup of stoneware, said
TO be several hundred years old prince
Windischgraetz drank out of this cup or
his flight from the city in June, 1S4S Nv
father presented it to him full of native
wine the minister. who was pursued by ar
angry mob, being in haif-famished condi.
ton" This the substance of a letter that
accompanied that precious cup, q replica OF
which might be bought in any china shor
for 60 kreutzers. The owner demanded 500
forms for it,
The Vanderbits looked amused, and Har-
tog unwrapped another prize, small one
for q change.
II understand" said the sender that Mrs
Vanderbilt possesses a priceless ruby, for
which you have vainly tried to find the
mate. | have invented a method for pro-
ducing artificial rubies, and include a speci-
say, three weeks, viii produce mate for
1t which,, to all appearances, will be its
equal in form, purity and texture. 1t will
be so much like the precious stone that you
Will be unable to distinguish the one from
the other
The inventor asked 100 forms for
the job. but it's just possible that he had
never hoped TO collect even that small
amount. If Mr.: Vanderbilt loaned him his
gem for say. three weeks" what would be
the use of collecting 100 forms in
addition? The Vanderbilt ruby is probably
worth one hundred times the amount the
man asked for.
More packages. A rosary blessed by the
florins; the original Martin Luther Bible,
only $4,000, other books, dozens of them,
ranging in price from forms to 5000:
drawings of a new air ship 1.-The plan of
payment of a thousand forms, which shall
enable the inventor to finish the model
When fifty packages had been unwrapped
Mr.. Vanderbilt cried enough. and asked
Hartog TO translate the kilograms for him.
first those that were sent collect"
TOUCHING KILOGRAMS.
There were five widows and one orphan
a. male orphan, if you please, 80 years OF
age-who were to be dispossessed that day