Year: 1873

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 The Beer Garden Business Beats

 the World.

 VIENNA. August 23.-I got here

 one week ago to-day, and have been

 making the most of the situation. In

 some respects the situation is making

 most of me. But on the whole, 1

 have no great fault to fnd-in short, am very glad l came. The city itself is we'll worth seeing for the money. The letter writers so far as l recollect, did not impress me with the idea that

 Vienna was one of the largest and finest cities in the world, and 1 could not imagine that I was in the city of school geography memory. London did not come up to expectations, be- cause I had the place somehow fixed up in my mind. 1 had not got half way from the depot to the hotel, be- fore I discovered that was in new world here altogether from what l expected. Vienna has population of about 100000, and is evidently one of the most fiourishing cities in Europe, and such palatial concern throughout! Stewards celebrated New York esta blisnment would be but one in thousand here as to size and cost. And then Vienna Is so ar ranged as to show off these structures to the best advantage, without be- coming monotonous. The old center of the city is palatial and massive in appearance, while the new additions are splendidly grand; and on all the surface cheerfulness prevails. Evi- dently the atmosphere has something to do with preserving the original whiteness of the exterior. To give you little idea of the lay of the land here, Vienna was once a strongly walled town on the south side of the Danube. During the present admin istration-the reign of Emperor Josef those old walls were torn out, ex- cept some of the principal gates left as mementoes of the past. This demo- lition afforded space to create great circular street - called "K9nig- strasse (which envelops the old city with grand park, rather, wherein there are lines of trees, broad side walks, carriage ways, &c. A still greater King street is in course of construction on the site of the outer circle of fortifcations--at least mile beyond. There is what is called the Donau (Danube) canal running through the city, and slicing off portion of the interior King street for some distance, but in a way to add special interest to the drive. The waters of the canal glide through more like swift river, and at inter vals there are special parks of trees along street and stream; and at night, under full head of gas, the scene surpasses anything in the city line I have ever met with. I am told by even sticklers for Vienna, that it is nothing to what will see at Paris, &c. I am unable to realize yet what Paris is, according to that. There are so many of these wonderful build ings that I can never get done look ing at them and wandering through them. They are constructed on diff ferent plan from anything l have seen in the United States. The en- trance is by way of tunnel, so to speak, to court in the center, from whence the stairs wind up as in a monument. When you go to hotel the carriage drives right in out of sight of the street, which seems a strange relief from being landed like a box or trunk on the sidewalk of our American, esta blishments. So with these dry goods and banking estab- Eshments-there may be booths and drinking saloons in front, but the main business is all got at from the rear, as 1t were. got here 8 week ago to-day noon, and first thing clim bed the steeple of St. Stephens church, from which in g. clear day (and unlike London, they have plenty of nice weather here, inferl one can get as nice view as from any place in the world, almost of the kind I thought 1t good to be here, and then proceeded to dive through these great houses and look at the displays of jewelry, &c.-forgetting all about the