The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-10
AT WEN Ma
GREELEY TOURISTS TELL
WHAT THEY SAW.
Miss Myrna Woodruff Home After
Spending Five Months
in the Austrian
Capital.

Five months spent in Jenna with
nothing else to do than to sightsee
and grow healthy, should give one 4
fairly liberal amount OF information
about the place, as we'll as a new
lease upon life. Both Of these things
a sojouIn In the Austrian capital
have done for Miss Myrna Woodruff,
who returned home a few days ago
from her tour abroad. Miss Wood
ruff, who has been teaching In the
deaf and blind institute at Colorado
Springs, in company with Miss Her
mine Haupt, another teacher In that
institution. last summer secured
years leave Of absence from the
school duties In order to rest up and
recuperate their health after long
strain Of hard work. Vienna was
chosen as the place most likely to
furnish complete advertisement from
work and care. The results, at least
| IN Miss Woodruff's case, have fully
justified this selection, as she says
she gained twenty-five pounds in
weight in less than five months.
Miss Haupt has not as yet returned
home.
Miss Woodruff not alone visited
all the places OF interest in the old
city as laid down in the tourists
guide book, but spent considerable
time in the country. studying life
and conditions among the peasants.
There are many poor in Austria:
exceedingly poor. So poor are some
OF them that they cannot afford to
hire a carriage to carry the coffin at
a funeral, although the cost is but a
fiorin, or forty cents in American
money, but Miss Woodruff watched
one funeral procession, where coffin,
I! corpse and ALL was carried on the
strong shoulders of mourning rela-
tive. The poor are, however, fairly
we'll taken care OF by the government
in the matter Of food and <lothing.
All must also have their fun In the
evening at the "gasthous, or beer
gardens. All are musical, all are
Bohemian. The Viennese are nat
uraI musicians, and to them flock
music students from all countries OF
the globe; that is, If they wish to
study the piano. Americans are
numerous in Vienna and English
can be heard spoken everywhere.
Among the attractions of Vienna
are the beautiful and dense forests
surrounding the city, among these
the world famous "Schwarzwald, "
or Black forest, aud the Imperial
forest. In these deer are as thick
as rabbits in America, and just to
walk along tine wooded paths, says
Miss Woodruff, will show many of
the frisky animals bounding among
the trees. The city itself is almost
as gay as Paris, with its grand
operas, concerts and gayly dressed
people. Miss Woodruff and her
friends were in the city when the
Russian car made. his visit to EN-
peror Frantz Joseph, and she saw
the procession OF royalty and has a
photograph OF the czar il his car
riage. She also saw King Leopold
Iof Belgium while there. But the
visits OF this gay old sport are made
with more or less frequency and but
little attention is paid to him. He
is principally interesting to Amer
leans now on account Of his threat
eped visit to this country.
In many respects Vienna looks
like New York with its tall build
ings, asphalt streets, electric cars
and parks. There are, however,
many places of interest, such as the
Hopper Market, Votif Kirche, the
stock exchange, the museum of nat
u1al history, which according to Miss
Woodruff statement far surpasses
the Smithsonian Institute in Wash
inpton in the completeness OF its
equipment. Then there is the arse
nal, the Vienna University, founded
by Duke Rudolph ~ in about 1860,
and the House of Parliament, en-
trance to which had to be paved with
silver in the hands Of guards before
the visitors were permitted to enter.
That, saws Miss Woodruff, is only
one instance of what tipping will
do in Vienna.
Although the young ladies ire
ouently became homesick while away