Year: 1873




produce the catastrophe but it is only one OF many
causes, and probably only subordinate one Ef-
aggerated estimates were formed IN an business
circles of the amount Of trade it wonld oring TO
| Vienna the number of foreigners who would come,
the quantity of money they would bring with them,
and the pood-natured stupidity with which they
| would snbrnit 10 extortion and Hwindling. Having
| counted in advance the value Of the golden eggs
| their poose yyas TO lay the greedy Viennese pro-
ceeded TO kill her before she had fairly begun lay
| ing by trying TO make her lay bigger eggs ana
| oftener than anv GOOSE however obligng. was ever
known to Law before. They have driven away thou
sands of strangers by their shameless charges,
| and have kent thousands Of Others from coming
who would gladly have spent. the Summer here II
| they had not heard that 1t was like falling among
thieves for foreigner to go to Vienna during the
| Exhibition so the prospect for the Vnnnese
becoming rich this Summer by drawing on the
akin of strangers over their ears" one of the city
papers expresses it, is not fattering and many
speeulations built upon the supposed business to
grow out of the Exhibition will not return the
original outlay. The Viennese are the most mercu-
rial of all people speaking the German language,
and like the French go rapidly from one extreme to
| another The magnificent attendance of strangers
| ON the opening day. the dissatisfaction on they ex-
pressed at the prices charged them the small
| amount of money they spent, the haste they made
to depart after the ceremonies of inauguration, and
worst of all the fact that 80 few camo 70 take their
places all this together with the dismal weather
and the chaotic and unattractive condition OF the
Exhibition. produced rapid transition from hope
to DESPAIR among those who expected to find mine
of wealth in the great worlds fair and this no
doubt preciptated the financial crash III the bourse'
which otherwise might not have come so soon.


The despair Of the landlords and the stockholders
in the great hotel companies does not excite any
commiseration among strangers. 1t may be Imagined


and even the Vienna papers express satisfaction that
these harpios have speedily come to grief Night
before last one hotel had over hundred vacant
rooms and only six guests. Many establishments
are making haste to lower their prices, hoping
thereby to keep the guests that still remain.
room for which eight guldens day was asked on
the first could be had yesterday for two. The comic
papers have made the rapacity of the hotel and
restaurant propretOrs the subject of no end OF satire
and lest In one of them there is q caricature IN
which q waiter in fashionable hotel presents
guest with his bill. 1t is about ten feet
long and the total is so enormous that the
despairing victim leaps out of the window into the
Danube Canal at the first sight of it. Here are the
specimens of the squibs that till the papers on this
subject foreigner in one Of the Exhibition res
taurants after paying three guldens for glass of
beer and bit of cold meat calls the waiter back
and in mysterious tone asks, Where am / - In
the Exhibition to be sure" answers the astonishod
waiter All indeed" says the stranger with
look of great relief thought was IN the Abruzzi
among the brigands." One friend meets another in
the Prater and says, Have you heard the newsP
mo, what is it 7" asks the other. |" A regiment OF
infantry is to be stationed in the Exhibition
groundsn "Pray, what for ~ inquiries No 2. There
are 80 many robberies committed in the restaurants
that the police require assistance" replies No l.


The enterpnsing exhibitors who were early on
hand and displayed their goods on the opening day
began to make complaints of the damage done them
by the dust and litter made by their tardy neigh
bOrs in mpacking and arranging their wares, and
Of the frequent breakages of fragile objects caused
by the clumsy workmen. General in-hunor APP
pears to prevail among the exhibitors and most OF
all among the Americans. who have thus far done
almost nothing but critcise the Commissioners and
complain about tho positions and space allotted
them. In the American Department of the Indus
trial Palace less than dozen cases have been
opened The room is full of boxes, lying just as
they were received fortnight since. When the
cargo of the Guard arrives which will probably be
in two or three days. it is to be hoped that our
American exhibitors will conclude that the time
has come to stop talking and begin work.