New-York tribune., 1873-05-09
THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING.

COynnssIoNERs-TIIE CHARGES AGAINST THE
| AMERICAN coNNnssIONERs-HIGH PRICES.
rFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUSR.l
VIENNA, April 23.-Between the two principal Ex-
hibiton buildings the great hal and It's transepts
and the main mechanical hall, there is assemblage
| of minor buildings-annexes-whi make a bewil-
dering maze | have spent an hour this morning in
| walking through them merely and returning TO the
point of departure by the outside. The first TO the
west is the Agricultural Hall for England, France
and Italy. The English section is already well
filed and the French tOerably so; the italian arti
! cles come in more slowly Flanking this
is the American Agricultural Hall, empty
and silent. the doors closed, and not
laborer visible about il. Beyond the Western
European Agricultural Hall is a Norwegian fish
house a very picturesque building, in which the
only articles are few boxes emitting most ancient
and ish-ke odor and some models OF fishing boats
very quaint and pictorial Next come two houses of
very attractive construction, not unlike the Swiss
chalet in general appearance but moro scientifically
framed and like it, all of wood both belong TO
the German Empire and far as could Judge from
the few articles unpackcd they devoted 70 art-
cles of domestic At any rate. in the second
there are stores and ornamental iron for house pur
poses and construction pianos. clocks, &c, with
arms and military equipments. NeXtcome three
buildings of similar construction, and also German
rails, wheels, &c, with some Knapp cannon,
the next entirely to Krupp's work, and the
third 20 mineral and mining products. This brings
us 20 the ROtunda and covered way leading from
the principal transept entrance to a corresponding
portal in the Mechanical Hall, beyond which is a
little pavilion devoted TO Dreher's brewery and its
products then 70 two little bnildi1gs with the col
lectiye exhibitions of the Prince of C0burg and
Schwartzenburg. anxious not to lose their ndiyid-
ualty among the works Of the greater TeutOnic
realms. Then come an iron workshop in process Of
construction, an Austrian iron exhibition and fol-
lowing on. in the easterly direction. building de-
voted to the Steiermark iron industry then come
three buildings in line Of which one is for q coec-
ton of Bohemian minerals another for mining, and
the third a carinthian brewery. The next is a long
building with a complete exhibition Of carinthian
minerals after which is containing the work of
the Vienna Railway Company.
We come next To the building appropriated to the
additional exhibitions Nos. and 2-the historical
collections. A quaint and complicated structure
succeeds this in which, as vet sign of its
appears but which inscription led me to Judge
was for horticulture and land administration Of
Austria. | interrupt my catalogue raisonRee 70 say
that nave never seen anything of which II was 30
difficult to get information this Exhibition.
After several days effort I have not been able to
Rtt pan ol tIt t-Ntpt " ltDetitsttN .'AAA
incomplete one published by the stationers. have
been able to see the General Manager except once,
by chance at in the morning as he came to his
office. Ihave since made several engagements with
him. an of which he failed TO keep and neither of
the general direction nor Of our own Commission
have been able to get the plan desire. Ii is inn
possible TO perceive the system on which things are
done. The clerks at the General Direction
could not give me the dimensions Of the
building but referred me TO the engineers on
the ground. II is not always that You can
find an official the spot who can tell you what
any building is destined for, and so through the
labels on the boxes have got most Of nv infOrma
ton and may have made mistakes. To the
rear of the last mentioned building is a substantial
and complete model farmhouse with inclosed court
yard &c, which might have stood a tOerable siege
in the middle ages and beyond this again is the
pavilion of the Danube Navigation Company, a
highly ornate structure of stucco and timber IN
which some portions of steam engines were half dis
closed. With this ends the space between the two
chief buildings but still beyond were the agricul-
tural halls devoted to Austria and Hungary, with
some German articles wedged in between. These
halls were not full the Hungarian showing very little
material Of interest but the adjoining building was
well filed and in an advanced state OF readiness
with the Bohemian, Tyrolian, and DalmsGan agri-
cultural impements and productions, with the
Manese silk industry, and an additional collection
of Prussian products. grains, wool, &c.
Among the departments the English is by far the
most advanced and will be pretty nearly ready for
the opening and Of all that have seen the Ameri-
can is the least so. This suggested TO me that COM
parson between the organization of the Commissions
might be instructive TO us IN case we have occasion
70 participate in another Exhibition. The English
Government made appropriation of E0OOO last
year and IA unpaid commissioners were appointed,
most Of whom have devoted themselves, and some of
them considerable sums of money 20 the work of
the Exhibition. The Secretary of the Commission,
Mr.. Owen. is an energetic and thoroughly capable
man. who has since July last, been going 20 and fro
between Vienna and London. In the early part of
the Winter he had all the space allowed
to England allotted and assigned, and every
exhibitors portion mapped ont on the foor and
marked with has name, that the instant any
case arrived il installed on the square II was TO
occupy. Since the middle Of February Mr.. owen
has been here uninteTuptedly. The Commission III
installed in a pretty little corrugated iron house
close by the English Agricultural Hall, house
which is in itself part of the Exhibition. In our
own department Congress first neglected the matter
till il was almost too late TO deal with IT, and then
the Commission made no plans, and seems TO have
had no organization. few of the members seem
to have exerted themselves actively to stimulate
contributions but no Que Was here 10 act, no claim
was made for space and when finally IL came to the
appOrtionment, a part of that which had been
assigned TO America given to England. owing
to the fact that authorities had
not informed the Imperial Commission of
their intentions, and there was imminent
danger that an important part of the main
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