The Elbert County tribune., 1906-01-18
Wanderines in Tyrol
Hard Fare and Labor Compensated by
Meal and Rest on Mountains Summit
Especial Correspondence

By the end OF December, 1868.
Peters and had grown thoroughly
tired of Munich and its fog. and con-
cluded to try the effect of little pas
toraI atmosphere. We spent about
four hours, one bleak day, discussing
various plans for an outing, only 20
give them all up as being beyond the
scope of our pocketbooks. When a
mans allowance comes on the hf-
teenth of the month. and bills have TO
be paid, the twenty-ninth is a very
bad time to talk of a vacation; but we
felt the need of change of climate,
so concluded to try the effect of
walking tour on our tagging spirits.
We left our quarters at O'Clock on
the morning of the twenty ninth. with
no more idea of our ultimate destina-
ton than had Columbus when he first
sailed out to discover a new world.
We finally struck the Ostbahnhof.
however, and after studying the time
card, bought two third-class tickets
to Innsbruck and return.
No persons unacquainted with third
class travel OF the continent can ap-
preciate the various emotions that as
sailed us as the countless scents aris-
ing from a hundred lunch baskets
struck our lostrils, and but for our
pipes we must have been smothered
before the end of tine first half hour
We attracted but little attention dur
ing the first stages, for the Muenchner
is Z cosmopolite and takes scant notice
of any one: but by the time we
reached the Austrian border we had
begun to feel like circus freaks.
Hard Fare at Innsbruck.
AT last, after countless changing of
cars, we reached Innsbruck and at
once began systematic hunt for
lodgings. Peters had visited the place
once before. but as his acquaintance
with the towns hostelries was linn
tied to the .Europaischer Hof (rates
ten crowns a day and up), he did rot
prove to be of much assistance We
finally landed in the Gasthaus zum
Goldenen Some. where. for the sum
of 40 cents. we were allowed to rest
our bones in the most abominably
hard bed mortal ever struck.
Daybreak, the next morning, saw
us on our way. and after fourteen
hours of hard tramping, we landed at
the Gasthoff zum Lutz in the Stub
aithal. the queerest combination of
paradise and pig pen it has ever been
my fortune to discover stone tab
let over the door announced that in
the year eighteen hundred and some
thing Prince Otto of Bavaria and
Queen Somebody of Somewhere. to-
gether with their respective suites,
had spent the night there.
The exterior was far from prepos-
sessing, but we concluded that if roy
atty had been able to stand 1t, we
could, so we waded through the mud
puddle that surrounded the entrance
and asked for beds. With many fore
bodings we climbed the rickety stair
case, with thought of those dreadful
Innsbruck beds uppermost in our
minds. We were most pleasantly sur
prised, therefore, when the "wirtin"
ushered us into a large chamber of
immaculate appearance, in the corner
of which stood two snowy beds piled
high with downy "bettdecken." Four
teen hours of steady walking over
rough Alpine trails is a bit wearying.
and we were very glad to have our
dinners, which consisted of Wiener
Snittzel and "ein Glass Helles" served
to US in bed.
Up the Mountains.
The next day we spent resting
Peters giving up most of his time to
making sketches of the inhabitants
Four o'clock New Years morning saw
ne on ottr way Anime c1imhiup bad