The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-08-22
The United States at the Vienna Elk
hibition,
[From the New York Herald. ]


The complete official catalogue of the
American department of the Vienna ex-
hibition has just arrived. This cata-
logue has been prepared with care, the
title of each article being given in Eng
lish, French, and German. It makes a
volume of $50 quarto pages; is hand
somely printed by J. NJ. johnson &
Sons of London; is illustrated with
maps and plans, and in all respects, ex-
cept size, is a most creditable produc-
ton. Americans have contributed to
all former exhibitions of an internation-
al character, but not to the extent
shown in Vienna AT the London exhi-
bition of 1857, the Crystal palace, as it
was named, there were 500 articles on
exhibition from the United States,
which ranked sixth in the list of nations
contributing. Five grand council me-
dals were awarded to our citizens, and
ninety-five prize medals, being a large
proportion in comparison with other
nations. At this exhibition were pre-
sented, for the first time in Europe,
Colts firearms, Goodyear's improve
ments in India-rubber, McCormick's
reapers, and Chickering's pianos. The
yacht America during this year gained
the victory in the international
yacht-race, and in many respects our
country made creditab1e display. In
1855 the first French international ex-
hibition was held at the building
erected in the Champs Elysee, which
still remains as an art-exhibition hall.
There were only about $50 exhibitors
from the United States, and yet we car
ried off two grand medals of honor,
three medals of honor, seventeen first
class medals, twenty-eight second-class
medals, and thirty honorable diplomas.
This was largely in advance of any other
nation represented, in proportion to the
number of exhibitors. Again in LON
don, the Worlds fair of 1862 brousf
together people from all nations. As IS
well known we were pretty well occu-
pied at home at that date, and made
little effort to contribute. Yet for the
third time in competition with the Old
World, and under every disadvantage,
the 1872 American exhibitors received
fifty-six medals and twenty-nine diplo-
mas, being a still larger proportion
than at the two former exhibitions.
The Paris exhibition of 1867 was the
first stinternationaI exhibition (Which any
special attention was given on thepart
of the government of the United States.
We had in this exhibition III representa-
tives, who received five grand prizes,
one artists medal, eighteen gold me-
dals, seventy-six silver medals, ninety
three bronzed medals, and ninety eight
honorable mentions, again in the first
rank as compared with Other nations.
It is to our efforts at these international
exhibitions that so large a result is due
in the greatly increased sale of Ameri-
can manufactures in Europe, and it
has been estimated that over 81, 10000
has been realized abroad in the sale of
single articles first made prominent at
the international exhibitions. At Wen
ma the United States is well represented,
every single state, with the exception
of Delaware, having something to show.
This should be lesson to Wilmington,
so largely manufacturing center. The
following is a complete list of all the
states, with the number of exhibitors
from each: