The Alaska daily empire., 1914-09-11
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wv -" Generally the impression has gone out that Vienna, the capital of Aus tria. is located on the banks of the Danube river, but In fact the city Is built mile from the river and 10 connected with 1t by canal which Is not nayigable by vessels of any size. At the point where the canal enters. the Danube is very wide and the current unusually swift.
 As one gets acquainted with the city he finds the Church of st. Steph. ems forms the heart O. Vienna and from the square before this church the streams of life and trade cir culate throughout all of the outer dis tricts. The building itself is Gothic structure, which dates from the be. ginning of the fourteenth century. It's ! interior Is famous for its beauty, and i in addition to the more usual of it's ornaments Is the handsome monument of that insignificant Emperor Fred. orick III and the tomb of the famous Prince Eugent. whom history ranks one of the greatest generals the world has known.
 Among the many places of worship in Vienna is the votive Church which Twas built in commemoration of the Elm. peror's escape from the hands of an assassin in 1858. The interior is rich ly decorated and It's many beautiful windows have claimed universal ad- miratlon. Someone has remarked that if European nations in general were accustomed to build such edifices every time their sovereign escaped from a murderous knife or ball the ecclesiastical architecture of this age would easily surpass that of any pre- vious period
 Going on through the city one comes to the Market Place, in one corner of which stands the little church which marks the burial place of the imperial house of Hapsburg. A flight of steps leads down to the spot where crowned heads repose. The utter lack of ornament surprises one at first. The floor Is covered in every direction by plain copper caskets and only few of them have more / than very simple tablet.
 The earliest Emperor who rests there is Matthias. the founder of the vault, who died in 1619. The last is Ferdinand the First, who died in 1875 . Among others entombed beneath the little church are Empress Maria Tere sa, Empress Marie Louise, wife oi , Napoleon I, and her son. and the III } fated Emperor Maximilian of Mexico Nearly dozen imperial rulers sleep in this plain vault while the world , moves on in the street above. "Hu . manity was ever dull of memory" one visitor has said. "and those who cease to be abreast of the current are early cast aside and forgotten" and as one reviews the history of the Hapsburgs more or less of the statements truth is revealed,
 . Vienna has numerous collections oi many sorts. which rival even those oi Munich. The chief gallery of paint. ings Is the Palace Belvedere, which stands in the midst of large park in the southeastern quarter of the city. In the lower palace Belvedere one finds museum of Roman and Egyptian antiquities. and collection of medieval arms and armor, which is probably one of the most interest. ing collections of it's sort in existence. Beside this particular collection the museum contains two other very fine assortments of arms of different per. iods. In opa.<' these Is the skull of the Grand y,izier Kara Pustapha, who led the Turks in the siege of Vienna in 1883. After he had been driven back by the Polish King. John Sobies- Ri, he was strangled by order of the Sultan for his failure. The wretch was pursued by fate even after he had suffered death at the hands of his friends, for when Belgrade was taken by the Austrians under Prince Eu. gene his body was exhumed and his skull, shroud and cord with which he was executed were brought to Vienna
 
 by the victorious army. Thus the bones of the unfortunate Turk are exposed to the gaze of the curious in the very city he yainly tried to cap. ture.
 Like all European cities Vienna has a goodly number of statues and parks. The Notifications of the inner town have been leyelled to form boulevards which are noted for their beauty. In the broad plain between the city and the Danube there is an immense for. est-like park called the Prater. which is the fayorite resort of all ranks of Viennese, from the chimneysweeps to the Emperor. The principal aven. ues one finds lined with literally all kinds of wonders under canvas A Sunday evening in this park finds the Germans in their glory, the chief source Of his greatest happiness cen. tered in his Stein and his meer- schaum.
 KAISER FRANCIS JOSEPH
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