New Britain herald., 1930-02-22
STEYR IS INJURED WHEN BANK FAILS
Austrian City Suffers When
 Chief Industry CoIIapses

Washington, D. C.. Feb. D. SlcA>, Austria, faces fiscal dirficul. t% because a bank failed which con- uolled Austria's largest auton obile plant, situated there. The plant was the industrial heart Of Steyr When the heart recently stopped bcly- ing. hundreds Of employes wa"o thrown out of work and the city's finances suffered.
 Spreads Across Two Rivers
 "Steyr is a city Of about 92.Oj0 people, located about 40 miles sout n ot the Czech oslovak border and about % miles west of Vienna. Fo. more than 500 years the city has made weapons; more recently it has manufactured automobiles and bi- cNclcs,' says a bulletin from the Washington, n. C. headquarters of the National Geographic Society.
 Tn spite of modern smoke stacNs rising from factories in its SUD- urbs, Steyr h1s managed to man. tain it's rank among the picture towns Of Austria. The main portion 0. the city occupies a tongue Of land with the Enns River washing it's south sea wall. and the SteNr' River, it's north wall At the end oi the tongu",' bridges connect tha city with Ennsdorf. a suburb on the opposite side Of the Enns. and witl ct ctTNrIorf .nrpcc th1
 The railroad station is in Enna- dorf. A tcn-mnute taxi ride from inc station 10 the public square, hc center of life in Stcyr, disClosos q medley of medieval and modern sights. For about three Of the ten minutes the auto passes a spacious parkway with shaded walks.
 Castle and Cathedral Dominate Citv
 "Anothcr minute or two is con- sumed crossing the Ems bridge, u1- Ger which swarm small river boats Then come streets that take one back 10 centuries before Amcri1a as discovered. Steep gablcd houses O. three and four stories line the clean, Cobbled streets Above them
  rises the graceful tower of a Gothic cathedral, and the bulk of it's nave. Stcyr Castle (Schloss Steyr) is situ- ated near the end Of the tonguge,
 'The square gradually opens for a block and then it's sides run par allel for two or three blocks SO tn il tt bird's-ece view suggests the sharp end of a stubbv pencil,
 MIX Maids" at 65
 "Thc square, too, is hemmcd in by fine old buildings. Here is q gem Of the fifteenth century. it's facade adorned with 8 sign eXtolling the quality Of lob Stcrs served in a restaurant on !t5 first floor. Next door is a laundHN where proprietors admit in large lttters, that they use strong chen,- icals to clean your clothes, Frequent rows Cf kegs, piled in front Of CUP laincd windows, indicate that pro- hibitiOn has not touched SteNr.
 Hotels n he square furnish cCmfora ble rooms and interesting, panoramas. From the windows Of upper stories. one may look down upon urban. suburban and rural Stcyritcs. The peasant men wc1r clothes like those seen in the streets Of Vienna but now and then a peasant will appear in garments of a bygone fashion. Modern styles adorn some of the womenfolli but there are milk maids (some are maids of 65 ycars), in voluminous, sole length skirts. These women are often seen between the shaf-s of diminutivc dog carts, but more often they are directing their ca nine charges.
 Industrial Suburb is City's Pulse
 "1'he Rathaus (City HalD has stood, notwithstanding the haranGu- ing of city fathers in it's great CouA- cil Chambers, for nearly two cen turcs. Facing it is the Lowen Wirt- shaus Uion RestauranO. Nearby is the Dominikancs Kirche, butt 800 years ago. It's present interior was adorned while George Washing ten and his army nearly froze at Valley Forge.
 An architectural gem Of the city is the Parish church, begun nearly a half century before Amec- ica's discovery, and completed one hundred years later,
 "All these historic relics of J nr tongue Nearly halt of the old town bordering tho StcYr is parkway.
 ''Stcyrdorf. across inc Sicyr, is the manufacturing suburb and pulse or the city. SjcNr was first mcntion- cd in historic documents in 9So. By the twelfth century it's fine swords and other weapons, made from iron mined near the city, were shipped