The hotel Južni kolodvor had a garden where in the summer months musicians of the Slovenska filharmonija (Slovene Philharmonic Society) would play; along beer arrangements on buying tickets for the journey to America were made, and prostitutes and local and foreign petty tradesmen would approach the travellers.

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