Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-25 | Page 5 | Vienna Bargain Hunters Mecca

IIA BARGAIN i Outsid ers With Real Money Picking Up Luxuries at Small Cost. BY FARMER MURPHY. Tiriikugo Tribune Copyright.) VIENNA, Nov. 30, via Paris, Nov. 21. It tt a pity that the woineu bmKa'.n bun ten of America cannot taste tlio Joys of shopping in Vienna at the present time. but If Americans are here In ngllgible numbers, visitors from neighboring nations na-tions aro Improving their opportunities. Italians, fc irg, I luncarlftnr, Krench, Jewish imdftnon of nil nationalities or no nationality at all have Mucked here to take ad a nt ate c of tiu great bu Ing ixwir of foreign money to Htock up on Che beautiful and valuable wares to be found In this city of luxury and good taste. Vienna la now the cheapest city In the world for toe foreigner who brings In thti money of his own country. Wtt!) one dollar you can get 100 enwne,. with on French franc. 11 . crowjiM, with an i-hig!sh pound lut crowns, with a Swiss franc IH cp'Wiih, and a lire y.&0 crown. The Vienna mercliMiit, In spite Of the great disparity between the ahe of the crown und the standards of value in other countries, has tn make his Dtfoee with son.-, referent. to tho ulwlliy of the pvpulatiou to buy; hence eveo-6inir eveo-6inir U a bargain to it toreigrrer. Vienna Is In the yoitton at present of having all the luxuries and none of the necessaries. There is no coal, no liht, almost no food, but the shops are full of lovely things ltt over froip former days or newly made from th. small stocks of raw materials obtainable with the art and graco and skill to bo found nowhere elee In greater pcrfvctlon. Many buyers arc here for frrcUjn I houses. Purchases of this kind are I taken homo and sold at SM or 300 per cent profit. Hundreds of foreigners here on oiflciai duty aro dofng a profitable bunnew of this kind op the side. One cannot go Into a shop that he does not see great piles of gloves or ajioes or hatb or stationery or some such thing which have teen bought, by an Individual to carry ut of the country lo sell at u profit. The best quality women's .glover oan be bought here for the equivalent o(.65 cents which would cost from 4 to .' a pair l:i America. Velour hats. Which would sell for at least J" or perhaps S12, In America can be had for less than $2. It Is said an Italian went into one of the best shops on Kaertnerstrasse, which carries leather goods and novelties, novel-ties, and offered to bay the entire stock Just as It stood at the retail prices, whicli were irfarked on the articles. Considerable alarm has been caused by this frantic buying by outsiders of the scant stocks left in Vienna. Writers In the newspapers have pointed out that Austria will soon be cleaned out of everything ev-erything and be left utterly destitute, with all her manufactured goods gone and with nothing but almott worthless crowns left with which to purcliase raw materials.