The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-03-01
AMERICA AT VIENNA.

The Supply and Guard Loaded with
Articles Intended for the Vienna Exhi-
bition-Thc supply to Sail To-Day, and
the Guard ON the I5th Inst.-Interest-
ing Facts About the American DEPART
ment.
The United States will be well represented as
regards manufacturing industries at the Vienna
Exhibition. General Van Buren,, who has been
working day and night for the last two months,
has already obtained 700 exhibitors. At the last
exhibition In Paris there were only 245 American
exhibitors. To-day the Supply, commanded BY
Captain BabcOck, will sail for Trieste. The cargo
embraces every variety OF American products and
machinery, boiler, four steam engines, wood
working machinery, machine tools, sewing ma
chimes, pumps, shoemaking machines, fire engines,
scales, cloth-cutting machinery, agricultural ma
chinery Of every description, organs pianos, tele-
graph apparatus, rock salt, steam-made salts,
sugars, moss, various plants products Of the new
West along the Northern Pacific Railroad; oils,
1000 volumes of statistics, collection OF the
American Geographical Society ana other articles
intended for the exhibition. - n.iap" p4a hsm
The Guard, which Is also being loaded at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard, ana will be commanded by
Captain Kirkland, will probably sail on tho l5tp
inst She will carry minerals, ores, metal goods,
wooden ware, dental goods, hardware, chromos,
American wines (which viii be made the subject OF
special investigator by the jury, tobacco wind.
MILL soda fountain street car. ready-made shirts
and other articles too numerous to mention. Both
vessels will 90 to Gibraltar, where they Will meet
government steamer that will convoy them through
the Mediterranean. and tug whenever the wind
the 10th Of April, the Guard probably not before
the 25th Of April Both cargoes will amount to
or s tons M w ~ Mr.
landing OF the vessels and take charge Of the
goods which viii pe At once forwarded to Vienna.
to be placed in position by the st OF May, but 40
General Van Buren, has possession Of the space, he
e s sSs wss & have been loaded with heavy
machinery. only, but the roads have been 80 bad
that good many Of these machines WIN have TO
Yard from the railroad depo.s here has been
almost impossible. No goods will be received alter
loaded 70 their utmost capacity and good many
exhibitors intend sending their articles BY
steamer. Goods are arriving daily and are being
placed on the Guard. The stevedores desire 70
see all the goods before loading the vessel SO as TO
sent 10 and sone W BE- Received a. the Sroor
lyn Navy Yard without . special permit BY
General Van Buren,. In some respects the Ameri.
can department will net be a. complete as 10
might be. Not one American locomotive, not one
Of sur magnificent billiard tables, and not enc OF
KIND n EUrope.wHl be es sent Is Vienna What 10
stu more astonishing both Steinway ana Snicne,.
other nave ssas ~ TIER spaces at the exS
tion. Beth have declared their intention to send
none OF their pianos to Vienna. a.,..u -
On account Of the delay In the appropriation ~
Congress the United states Commisel0n VIII 20
compelled to build an extra building 10 order 70
make up for the space taken up BY England. They
will bald glass roof covering the court IN their
section of the palace, and which IL $50 BY l25 and
viii door It a. well, ct an expense OF twentyeght
or thirty thousand dollars. The school buildina
win b ony one story high the appropriation came
40 late that there il no time build second story
TWO or three elegant American restaurants and
drinking bars VIII also be opened. An American
newspaper viii be published In Vienna during the
exhibition 90 that American visitors win bs able
to read their paper, - usual, every morning.
which the United states wiz appear to the greatest
disadvantage. The COMMITTEES composed OF Dr.
Bellows, Richard Butler, Mr.. Tuckerman and
others, which was originally appointed, re-
Signed some time ago, And the "Councii''
Of the Academy OF Design, which supplanted this
committee, have dQle nothing. General Van Buren,
teegraphtd To Vienna to reserve 200 square metrea
for Works Of art and now IL seems as II only
dozen pictures nom Cincinnati and two OF Biss--
stadt will be sent to Vienna Is,.I tlI-
One OF the most amusing facts about these pre-
parations for the exhibition Is the number Oh apRn
cations for an appointment Commissioner 70 sne
Vienna Exhibition. One man came TO GeneIn 49,, va
Buren, and asked him to send his son, VINO wa tseJ
TO perfect himself In German;' anotnerr 81 nts,
to have his brother sent "for the Denenss ~ stad
healthy another said his son had nus s ss .o,,
General Van Buren, If he would put MS ss.o "a "a
that air vesselv so that he couiu oe 49,. 10 ma
at one Of the large hospitals OF Vienna SSS~ ~