The Washington times., 1922-04-16

TTHE 18th day OF last Noyembe
an exciting day in Vienna. M
hungry men. interspersed wit
ged women, stormed the hotels an
taurants and coffee houses OF the In
city. Thousands of plate-glass wi
tinkled in glistening fragments to the
ments of the Ring Strasse. Memb
the mob tore rings from the finger
diamonds from the ears OF the Wi
war profiteers. Blood flowed freely.
half,hearted efforts of the gend
failed to protect the profteers and
women folk from the fury Of the mob
principal thoroughfares of the city
took on the aspect of Paris under
the Commune,
Foreigners whose persons and
property had hitherto been held
sacred suffered serious indignities.
They shared the hate of desperate
men and women with the native
war prohteers. But unscathed
through the storm Of popular fury
came a determined little American
woman and her dog.
Mrs. Mazon Miesto, Of No. 43t
Riverside Drive. New York City,
was the central figure of this dra-
matte episode. For eight months
she lived in Vienna, a dogless city,
with her $500 four-year-old Pekin.
ese dog Toyo. Togo was bred at
some well-known kennels at Great
Neck, l.. l. Many times during the
eight months Toyo's life was in
danger, and its presence on the
streets and fashionable avenues
exposed his mistress to insults and
danger.
On the day of the uprising, when
the desperation of>hungry men and
women of Vienna could endure no
longer the/spectacle Of seeing war
profiteers and foreigners reyeling
and gorging themselves in the luxu-
rious restaurants and coffee houses
of the erstwhile metropolis of the
Austro Hungarian empire, Mrs.
Miesto, in a sable coat, with a bird
Of paradise on her hat, diamonds
In her ears, rings on her fingers
and bracelets on her wrists, was I
nading the Ring Strasse, the Fifth q
of Vienna, near the Babenger Stresst
saw ragged men and women armed
clubs fill the wide esplanade from c
curb. She saw bricks and cobble
hurled through windows and doors.
saw corpulent men and women \
bleeding, with their clothing torn, In
street.
Flee for your life," shouted a v
who saw Mrs. Miesto with her dol
they see you dressed like that the
kill you. They are out to-day for
Is 1t not enough that yor should wes
and diamonds that you need 20 have
A dog when children are starving 2"
Miesto looked around her. A taxica
passing. She hailed II. The
laughed at her. stepped on his aocel
and left her to her fate.
Mrs. Miesto noticed well-dresset
sons flee into the basement doc
houses. She attempted to follow
The janitress of one house slammt
door in her face. At two or three
houses the door was locked and she
rot gain admittance. Hoodlumi
preached and snatched at Togo. Wi
arm Mrs. Miesto grasped thesdog an
Il to herlbosom. With the other she
forth from her handbag a small Am
flag. The advance guard OF the
roared In execration. Foreigners ca
for full measure OF hate. There
shouts Of:
why do you Americans come h
eat up our food with your dollars 7"
xii the dogl" others cried as
rendarmes, half-heartedly retreatin
fore the mob, came into view. Mrs.
shouted at them and waved her flag.
attitude changed. They had been
ing the mob with the blunt sides OF
sabres Now they presented the I
They formed a buffer around her.