Year: 1873

81 ... ..".H 't.r-


German LIfe--Rooms to Let--The Parks.


A correspondent writing to the Balti-
more american says "We have hap
one weeks experience of life in Q Ger
man restaurant, and it has beenaa very
pleasant episode in the rontine of travel.
With our friends here, all Baltimorians,
our party numbers seven. The saloon
in which we usually dine has nearly two
hundred tables, and when we enter at
half past two o'clock, each. of these
tables has from six to eight persons
seated at them, partaking of their din
ners. Being regular customers, table
is reserved for us, and as we march
through the hall there is a general buzz
of curiosity at the sight of so many live
Yankees, nearly half the party being
ladies. We are thus living as the peo-
pie of Vienna live, and find the life has
its charms and is quite merry one, and
happy escape from the nauseous table
dhOte dinners of the hotels. We are as
Jolly as the rest of them, and have taken
a decided liking to the famous beer of
Vienna, which is said to be the best in
the world. Everything is served up
fresh and hot, and the variety is equal
to that furnished at the tables of the
best of our American hotels. The in
teresting sights and scenes around us
also gives a zest to the dinner hour, and
we are so happy and contentedin in Vienna
that we shall probably remain for three
or four weeks longer. At the supper
hour the hall is still more densely
thronged, but with appetites sharpened
by the active life we are leading, we do
not mind the clouds of tobacco smoke,
and some of us soon join in increasing
its volume. Surrounded by those who
are jovial and happy, We have come to
the conclusion that to properly enjoy
foreign travel it is necessary to live as
as the people live-when "you go to
Turkey, to do as the Turkeys do" The
coffee furnished at the coffee-rooms is
excellent, and breakfast, consisting of
bread and butter, coffee, and eggs, can
be had for about thirty cents. These
cafes are very immense, and are always
crowded with customers from seven to
ten o'clock in the morning, and also in
the evening. The best of them furnish
their guests with all the European and
some American papers. .4,.... 81.


American readers will scarcely be able
to fully comprehend the system of liv-
ing in Vienna without further explana-
tion. There are very few houses in this
city in which from ten to twenty fami-
lies do not reside, nor are there any
houses, in the new sections of the city
especially, which cover less than the
half of square, though most of them
take in the whole front, from corner to
corner. The lower story, and very fre-
quently the two lower stories, are taken
for business, and the three or four up
per stories are let out to families. Many
of these families take more rooms than
they require, which they furnish and
let out to students, and others, at so
much per month. Thus it is that almost
every housekeeper has furnished rooms
to rent Many of these occupants of
rooms contract with the landlady to fur
nish them with the usual German break
fast, consisting of cup of coffee and a
roll of bread. The rest of their meals
are taken at the restaurants and cafes.
The only building somewhat in the style
of the Vienna houses in Baltimore, is
that in the course of erection on the cor
ner of Charles and Centre streets, which
is to be rented in suites of rooms to
families. 1t, however, is to have res
taurant connected with it, and will
probably lead to the introduction of the
"Vienna flat into Baltimore. Among
the poorer classes, there are some hous-
es containing from eight hundred to
three thousand people. 7gl5al


The parks are the property of the
people, and under the protection of the
people, and need no iron railing to
guard them. The removal of these fen
ces will also, it is to be hoped, lead to
another European idea, that of placing
the squares in charge of an active and
industrious young gardener, instead of
some old broken-down politician, who
will employ his time in planting and
cultivating beds of flowers, and other
wise ornamenting the grounds under his
charge. The numerous Rings" scat
tered through Vienna are not only
breathing spots, but beauty spots, dur
ing spring and summer. The most
beautiful beds of flowers are placed
wherever they will add to the attraction
of the promenade, and for any one to
disturb them would be regarded by the
people as an offence akin to burglary.