Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 236, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 6, 1924 Page: 3 of 48
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A Trot Round the Ringstrasse—Where Music Is Born—In
the Footsteps of the Hapsburgs—Empress Elizabeth and
Her Swimming Pool—Francis Joseph’s Ten Dollar Bed-
Schonbrunn and Its Holiday Visitors—A Million Dollar
Estate Which Rents for $200 a Year. 6
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i VUIINNA.—Come with me this morning for a walk through Vienna.
You will have to take your foot in hand for the city is big, it has more -
joerrongyas people than Philadelphia, and it covers almost as much
assestiuet land as the city of London. Its electric car lines put
together would reach as far as from New York to
tostor caed, "* streets are twothirds " ma" "‘
But we can ride a part of the way. There are hun-
Redins. dreds of one or two-horse cabs that will charge us
IstuK 50,000 kronen an hour. Don’t shiver! That amount
would have meant $10,000 before the war. It is only
penne sixty cents now. Or we can go about in style in a
1 taxi and be charged by the meter. The register is
A the same as that used before the world war and we
Fsoci shall have only to multiply the figures by 7000 to
MR know the right fare. 4
CARPENTER This will give you some idea of the currency we
shan use on the trip. 1 have a bag half filled with it, for I have just
“drawn $100 at the bank and the cashier gave me 7,000,000 kronen for
that amount 1 M
“ The money was in shin-plasters
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If you could sweep your.slass
around the compass, you would see
that there are other passes through
the Carpathians, and that this town
is in the basin where all the low
lines of traffic come together. In-
deed, it is down grade from all- the
chief industrial centers all the way
to Vienna: and it is down grade
from Vienna to the Black Sea. The
railways follow the grades, many
of them having been built on the
Roman roads that came to this
point. T
Eeetrityins the Railways
It is its geographic position which
makes this great city, and which
will continue to make it for all time
to come. For centuries it has been
the meeting place, the banking and
trading center of east and west, of
the north and south, and today with
the development going on in the
new states all about it, it: will grow
greater than ever. It is now plan-
ned to electrify the railroads. The
transportation of the Danube is be-
ing improved by putting on motor
boats and oll-burniag steamers, and
green backs the color of an
American bank note. Some of the
bills were of a half million each and
a good handful or so were of one
hundred thousand, ten thousand,
and under. The one-hundred kronen
notes are endh. the size of a playing
cat . T Each is worth one-seventh
are still smaller notes going down
to ten kronen and one kronen. it
takes seventy of, the ten kronen
- notes to equal one cent and seventy
thousand of the one kronen notes
to equal a dollar. Anything under
n one-seventh of a cent is here known
as chicken feed and we can throw
1, it out be the handful, and not lose
very much. I have never really
- felt rich before: Cr. *
I may say a lso it makes me feel
, poor. My hotel bill for the week,
came in this morning. It was over
a 5.000,000 crowns, or what when 1
last visited Vienna ten years ago
I would have been $1,000,000. Think
of spier ing a million cold plunks
. a for a week at a tavern. But after--,_______... -.--------,___
all. this we only seven dollars a day, in the near future there will be a
and it includes two fine rooms and
two hathe and the breakfasts for
my self and secretary.
The Beer and the Fir
I-find I have to watch my hotel
bills. I laboriously count the great
sheaves ct bank notes when I sertic,
and the accounts are now. and then
short is So far I have found none
— in my favor, I had a queer expe-
rience last week in Munich. It is,
as you know, famous for its gnod,
beer, and to sample the beverage
I ordered a glass. It came’s a
pitcher that contained nearly a
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him the ny. n. threw up %
bands, grabbed the pitcher, and or-
dered the waiter to Bring me an-
other one. I drank some of that,
and when the bill was brought in,
found that both glasses were chare-
ed. 1 protested but the waiter said
I would have to pay. But said I.
o. “The, first glass had a fix: and
the head waiter took it away.”
. "But the fly, was not in it when I
brought it out of the kitchen. 1
shall have to charge for both
glasses.” Said he.
and *** the head waiter."
w.. He am so, and came back saying
would have to pay for the two
Bcamesses of beer. I consented pro-
72, he would mark on. the bill
one class had a fly in it. He
objected, but seeing that I would
" not pay otherwise and he would
WAthe five cents in question, he
dic" so and I have that bill as a
reliy, t. reans “1 kias bier onne
. fllese 8500 marks," and “I bier mit
fHese 3500 marks," The two items
made 7000 marks and today means
, just ten cents American.
st. Stephen’s ane the nomen Fir.
| . But Vienna is waiting. We shall
begin our walk at su Stephen’s
Place in the heart of the elty.
x.asot well known in history." It
had houses in the days of the Ro-
mans and there were stores here
when Charlemagne was a baby. 1
, the days of Maria Theresa and long
after the time when Napoleon, od.
eupled Vienna there were great
walls running round this place as ,
| center. The walls were almost 200
feet wide, and more than three
i miles in length. Several years be.
. fore our Civil War they were taken
1 , away, and in their place are efreu-
1 lar streets, which are cut by others
i running out from Stephen’s place
like the spokes of a wheel. The
| elty in fact is a gigantic spider-web
1 with st Stephen’s Pince in the een. Lwhae N ha to % make W’AronE
, “ They talk at first about trade, but
But what is that crowd on thea moment later drift into boasting
i corner or this great square in which, of Vienna as an art and musical
the mighty cathedral stands. They center, and as a elty which the
are looking up at the spire, which-----AL.....”
t is a gigantic stone finger pointing
i towards Heaven. with Gothic’pro.
jections clear to its tin.” We take
. our class and look up. Some daring
" man is trying to climb the great
y | structure. He looks a litre more
• bus AWN up there in the
-: “nut there are steps inmide the
tower. They number only 5as. we
so in and walk round and round
through thedarkness, past the
great belly on the second story
which weighs twenty tons, and fi-
i nally come out with all Vienna be-
fore us. (ewe
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daily service of hydroplanes be-
tween Vienna and Budapest. The
trip by boat now takes twelve hours.
It will then take less than two, and
the fare from one town to the other
will be just seven dollars.3
A Trot Round the Ringstranse.
But let us go down, hire a horse
cab, and take a trot round the
Ringstrasse. Like the Boulevards
of Paris, it encloses the old city and
it is the center of the life, society
and business of modern Vienna. The
street is twenty-seven feet wider
than Pennsylvania Avenue between
the treasury and the capitol, and it
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trees running through it, and there
are three roadways for traffic. In
addition are the wide flag sidewalks
lined (with magnificent four and
five-story buildings. —
Upon the ring are the principal
hotels, with many tables out on the
street where men, women and ehild-
ren sit and drink coffee and tea as
well as beer, wine. and syrups
while they watch the people go by.
A little farther along is the stock
Exchange where they gamble on the
rise and fall of the currency, and
near by the mighty university which
covers as much ground as our
National Library and has about 8000
students. 6
On other parts of the Ring are
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four, magnificent churches and so
many museums, art galleries and
other places of note that T cannot
mention them here.
This part of Vienna is composed
of.” huge buildings, everyone of
which altogether contain some of
the world’s great treasures in liter-
ature, science, music and art. One
of the finest structures is the Tech- 1
nical High School: others are the
Museums of Art and Natural His-
tory with the great Hofburg or
Palace of the former emperor hard
by. The whole forms a collection
of treasures which tourists from
everywhere come to see. Just out-
side the Ring are many palaces, em-
bassies, chateaux, and, great busi-
mess, streets with handsome apart-
ment houses like those of the Ring.
. Where Munle Ts Bern.
These Viennese are a strange peo-
ple. I have talked with all classes
from the statesmen and bankers
who are running the politics and
money matters of the republic,
down to the men and women who
work at so many kornen per day
for their bread. I have asked them
about the future of their city, and
whole world should see. W
It seems to me they are more
proud of their musical attractions
than anything else. The whole city
breathes muste. You can hear in
almost any important street any
hisht, a concert or opera that would
be a star performance in any large
city of the United States. There are
a half dozen opera houses, and no
end of small theaters where music
is, the chief feature. There are
band concerts in’ the parks, and al-
most every hotel hasexcellent
The two great opera hounds here
are famous the world over. The Im-
. Mieame from the Sky. are ramous tne world over. The Im
We look to the four points of the perial Opera. which is partly sup
compass. That great stream at the “Ata AL ** --------4 71--T
right with its long string or barges,
mere tow-boats in the distance, is
the mighty Danube, which rises in
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through Hun-
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ported by the government, has as
its conductor, Richard Strauss; and
the People’s Opera which is also
noted, is conducted by Felix von
Wengartner, who only a few years
ago deserted Berlin for Vienna.
Richard Strauss does not come or
the famous Strauss family, headed
of Johann Strauss, va native” of
Vienna to whose musle all the world
waltzes. It was he who was known
as the Dance Kins and it was he
who wrote the Blue Danube waite.
Richard Strauss is a native or
Munich but his great compostesc
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bate thoduled after Vereomen. no
building itself is not large for a
palace. It is a two-story structure
only six hundred and fifty feet
twenty acres of lawns and beautiful
flowers. Some of these benches are
free to all, others are iron chairs
which are charged at so much a sit-
ting. I took two chairs for myself
and companion, and a little later an
old woman came” around and told
me the charge was 180 crowns each.
I’handed her a thousand crown note,
and she started away. I called her
back demanding my change. She
grumbled but handed me back 640
crowns which I was tempted to re-
the darkest hours or Vienna’s star-
vation. the operas and concerts were
held right alons. and now that the
city is again on its feet, good mu-
aid is to be found everywhere. 3
in the Peetaters et the Hopaburge
The art, music and education of
Vienna form a part, of the un-
earned increment which the new
republic has from the long reign of
the Hapsburgs. Kings and em-
perors have their advantages in that
they construct mighty buildings, ese
tablish opera houses and theaters,
and gather paintings and seuip-
tures that are practically free to the
people. In addition to these public
Institutions. Vienna now has the
palaces of the monarchs themselves
with the treasures which have ac-
cumulated during the ages.
The Hapsburgs were only one of
the oldest of the royal houses of
Europe. The first of them, an old
robber-baron named Rudolph, took
the throne of Austria more than
200 years” before Columbus discovn
ered America. It was in 1273, when
the family, began to live at the ex.
pense of the people and they have
fed at the public crib from that time
to this. And how well they have
fed one may know by going
through these mighty palaces. ev-
ery part of which is now open to all.
Franels Joseph’s Ten Dollar Ned
I visited this afternoon a little
summer palace which you will not
find in the guide books. It was
built by Francis Joseph for his wife,
the Empress Elizabeth, who was
stabbed to death in Geneva by an
anarchist three or four decades ago.
Afterwards it was used as a sort
of hunting lodge by the family up to
the time of the war. This palace
consists of a cream-colored brick
building of the dimensions of a
seaside hotel and it has about it a
tract of 7,000 acres of forests with
magnificent lawns and long wind-
ing bridle paths and roadways. It
is filled with beautiful paintings,
and one great hall had its celling
and walls painted by great artists
with scenes from Shakespeare’s Mid-
summer Night’s Dream. It has some
splendid furniture, including beds
as wide as the great bed at Ware,
and also a plain simple room which
was the emperior’s own. This room
was that of a hermit. Francis
Joseph had no frills and furbelows
about him, and his bed was of a
three quarters size and made of
sheet iron. I can buy any number
just like it in any town in Amer-
ica for ten dollars apiece.
I asked in vain for the bathroom
and was told there was none. This
is so notwithstanding the great
building is lighted by electricity. I
am told I am the first newspaper
man who has ever gone through
this establishment. I had access to
it through the present lessee who
tells me he gets it at a bargain,
paying what in American money is
just two hundred dollars a year for
the great house and grounds. .
t. The Show at Sehenbronn.
The great palace at Schonbrunn
and the vast structures occupied by
the emperors in the heart of Vienna
are now thrown open to sightseers
who tramp through with hats on or
hats off as they please and stare
at the pictures. The government
charges a fee except on certain
days.
Schonbrunn was where the em-
peror lived in summer and it was
accessible only during his absence.
It is now the great holiday resort of
the people. There were thousands
moving about through the grounds
when I went there last Sunday. The
swimming pool covers at least half
an acre and is so deep that any one
but a giant like Goliath, who was
as I remember nine feet and nine
inches tall, would drown in it. I
found it filled with men and women
swimming about at an admission
fee of a few cents per head. This
pool was sacred to the empress, and
she had it made deep for she was
one of the great royal athletes of
her time. She loved to hunt and
ride and swim; and I venture if she
could have had a fair chance at that
anarchist he would not have been
able to accomplish her death.
The palace of Schonbrunn has a
park of five hundred acres of woods
surrounding its magnificent gare
dens. The palace stands on the site
of a hunting lodge erected in 1570
and the present building was begun
in 1696. Maria Theresa often lived
there, and the present form was
largely the result of her planning.
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. east and west shall never meet
Frank G. Carpenter says they moo
at the capital of Hungary. Buda
pest is the beginning of the west
in his next letter Mr. Carpenter will
tell about the life. of the people
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(Copyright 1924, Carpenter Wo rid Travels)
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