New-York tribune., 1873-06-14
REMAINING FEATURES OF THE AUSTRIAN
DEPARTMENT.

TEXTILE FABR1Cs-MANUFACTURE OF COTTON GOODS
-wooLEN AND SILK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ARTICLES.
IFRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrBUSE.l
VIENNA, May 28.-Apart from the remarka-
BILE display Of articles OF luxury, taste aud fantasy of
which spoken In former letters, the Austrians
exhibit an immense amount and variety OF the products
OF the more useful and important industries In walk
ing through the many galleries, transepts and covered
courts that are filed with these articles an American
gets more information about the empoyments, tastes
and everyday life OF the Austrian people than he could
pick up weeks Of travel through the country He is
surprised at the evidences OF their industJ activity
and prosperity which he every hand Our COM
mercal relations with Austria comparatively insg-
nihcant and we have this account few opportuni-
ties Of learning at homo Of the great
progress she has made IN manufactures
within the past 20 years The market for her fabrics Is
not in Western Europe or in America, but IN the vast
populous East which lies az her doors. Hungary Ro-
mania GaIlica, Southern Russia and Turkey are her
heat customers aud her goods find their way into Asa
Minor and Egypt and to the barbarous tribes beyond
the Caucasus while her rich agriculture provinces,
teeming with busy population, make neYer-falnng
home market The display Of textile fabrics Is especially
large and interesting Cotton-spinnlng and weaving IN
spite Of the wreched disordered finances of the coun-
try the high rates OF interest and the lack OF proper
credit have grown 10 be some Of the most import
ant manufactures Of Austria, in which she
competes in many foreign markets with England and
Germany The raw cotton Of Egypt and the Levant is
brought up the Danube and mixed with American cot
ton which comes by rail from Trieste or the North Ger
man seaports. The principal manufacturing ceners are
in Bohemia All kinds colors, and textures shown
but the gaycoored coarse fabrics for peasants wear
most abound Tho gaudy cacoes, scaris, and handker
cb1efs-or rather headkerchiefs II may coin word.
for these SQUARES Of blue scarlet and yellow used
for head gearte Of the proximity OF the Orient where
the natural love OF bright tnts has not been eradcated
or much subdued by modern civilization. The arrange
ment in all the stages through which 1t passes
from the boil 20 the finished fabric made by several
large manufacturing establishments makes an
interesting and instructive feature. Tho best thing
Of the kind Ia handsome pavilion in the main gallery,
the supporting columns OF which are made OF :he
four kinds OF cotton which used In the Austrian fac
Indian, Levantne, Egyptian and American
in bales carded feeces and yarns The interior is filled
with cloths displayed tables and the walls are hung
with photographs Of the factories OF the company and
the machinery used Next 70 the cotton section comes
naturally the linen-work another extensive Bohemian
industry The damask cloths pretty and there
is piecea copy Of ono Of KaulDachs illustrations
Of G6ethe's poemswoven with black thread upon white
ground THAT all the beauty Ola fine etching II was
made upon seven machines, with 1900 spools, and 5000
"desgn cards" descriptive placard states, and with 1t
are 10 be seen photographs OF the complicated machinery
used in its manufacture.
The display OF woolen goods nils entire transept,
and this section s tho most systematically arranged OF
any in the Austrian Department. The center OF the
TRANSIENT ia occupied by the Of darkcoored cloths
the srecirpeDs stretched up and down and overlapping
each other so that only just enough Of each s shown TO
exhibit well the color and texture, while the walls are
lined with cases Of gay shawls and the briant-hued
cloths Of all the beautiful shades that modern chemistry
has produced which used for the gorgeous uniforms
and veres that both amaze aud amuse sober Western
people every step take IN the land Of color The
wOoen industry of Austria oenters In Brlnn, IN the
Province Of Morayia. An Austrian friend AZ my elbow"
who has vea In America says that many OF the cloths
for mems wear sold in the United States as French
goods, from the Moravian factories. OF the silk
industry whose products also take up great deal OF
| space Vienna Il the chief manufacturing point, the
raw six coming from Southern Tyrol aud the Adriatic
Provinces where the mild climate fayor5 It's produclion
The Austrian silks said 10 be inferior TO the french
II would require an expert 20 judge Of their compara
tive merits, however for the plan OF the Exhibition
buildings makes IL impossible 20 contrast the objects
shown by country with similar objects from another
without passing over long spaces hed with other things
and occupied by other countries. For example, 10 20
from the Austrian 10 the French Department one must
| traverse all Germany, skirt the borders OF
| Switzerland and Holland, aud pass through Italy
| and Be gium. Unless the jnrofs are men
OF remarkable powers OF mental concentration and OF
memory, they will have hard task in trying make
fair comparison between articles widely separated
To return 20 silks let say that they are certainly
handsome enough excite eOyeeOusness IN the
Of our far American tourists 40 CIysSt u kLy tALv