Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-02
A WORLDS FAIR.
What Chicago Must Do to Surpsss Wen
na-SOme Substantial Hints for
Worlds Fair Projectors.

At a recent meeting Of the Austrian
Association Of Engineers and Architects
Baron Won SchwarZ-Senborn, Chic
Director Of the Vienna Exhibition. pavs
an interesting account of the undertak.
ing, its general arrangements, and IL,
specialties Of detail, facts most interest.
ing TO American readers. The Baron
passed in review all of the previou.
exhibitions, and pointed cut In detail
their various shortcomings. In the firsi
great building Of 1851, much incon.
v%enience was felt by the penetration OF
the rain, and the same difficulty 90.
Cured in Paris in 1857, oceasioninC ths
loss Of very considerable property. Thf
galleries, which had hitherto aIuavs
formed a partOf exhibition buildings. had
many drawbacks; they in~terposed diff
culties in construction and were a con.
slant O Of dust; besides, experience
bad shown that only a limited number
Of visitors ever assembled to them. A
further remarkable disadvantage Of for
mer exhibitions was In the inadeouacy
Of entrance and exit. 1t happened al
London in 1851 and 1852, and in Paris
in 1856 and 1867, that a great number OF
wagons and carts accumulated in the
last few weeks before the opening at
thegates Of the Exhibition Building. and
goods could not be unloaded for SIX or
eight days for want Of proper accom-
mOdahOns. The shape OF former build
ings and the distribution OF space WAS
such that the goods OF one country had
70 be carried across the space allotted to
| another, and much collision, confusion,
and loss was the consequence. The
distribution Of lightwas unequal. Some
exhibitors had too much, others were
altogether In the dark. II was the in
tention Of the Austrian Commission to
prevent the recurrence Of similar mis-
takes in the building under their charge.
The Parliament had granted three thou
sand Of gulden az a contribution and
three thousand more as a subscription to
the guarantee found, in all SIX thousand
gulden, or three thousand. The ex-
penses Of the Paris Exhibition Of 1867
were elevn milliOnsix hundred thousand,
francs, which were covered partly by
the admission fee and partly by the sale
Of the old building. The Subscription Of
the Austrian Government was, therefore,
on a most liberal scale, and likely TO
cover all possible wants. DIR. Scott
Russell was consulted upon the plan
proposed for the Vienna building, and,
after a full discussion Of the site and
future uses Of a portion Of the building,
a design was adopted and the work at
once begun. The imposing part Of the
exhibition building at Vienna IL a large
iron rotunda or dome placed in the
centre, three hundred and fifty-three
feet in diameter and two hundred and
seventy-fve feet high. The total weight
OF the iron-work Of the dome is four
thousand tons, and it rests upon founda-
tons made IN concrete built IN October,
1871, and is TO be finished before the
fifteenth Of September, 1872 10 convey
some idea o. the immense proportions
of the dome it may be vel to compare
it with st. Peters, az Rome, st. Paul's,
London, and the Exhibition Of 1862.
The span Of the cupola Of st. Paul's is
thirty-ive metres; St Peters f~orty-nine
metres; Exhibition Of 1862, fifty metres;
Vienna Exhibition, one hundred and
eight metres. The rotunda forms the
centre Of the main gallery or nave,
Is eighty-twO feet wide and two
thousand Dine-huDdred and sixty-eight
feet long. The nave is crossed at equal
distances by sixteen transepts forty-nine
feet wide aud six hundred and seventy
two feet long. Between the TRANSCRIPTS
are tWenty-f0ur courts, which are In
1osed On three sides, and have