Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-05-07
Vienna and the EXPOSITION.

Vienna and the Exposition.
The year 1873 will witness tide of travel
setting toward Vienna similar to that which
made Paris, in 1867, the shore for which all
argosies and pleasure barges set sail. And
Vienna is just the one city of the world
which has any claim to emulate Paris in the
| getting up OF great exposition. 1t is cos
ocolitan, it Is brilliant, it is on the great
highway OF travel, and it is hospitabe The
sovereign and authorities of Vienna have
certainly spared no pains or expense to make
| the Exposition successful. They have built
In the Prater-the very finest park in the
world--buiIdings of SURPRISING grandeur
and convenience. The Prater is always
sort OF bazAr, gay fair in which all nations
are represented, and the buildings now built
in 1t are as the centre of many wings already
prepared through many years, and such as
present attractions which it requires genera
tions and many races to supply. The Aus
triaD commissioners began by corresponding
with and securing the cooperation of the
most Influential, energetic, and scientific men
in every country. The list of their co-ope-
Iators amounts to many thousands. These
commissioners comprise many of the most
distinguished men in every country. In
consultation with them the Austrian direc-
tors have iSsued to each country special re-
quests that it's specalties of art or produc-
ton shall be carefully represented; this
being carried to the extent of the desire ex-
pressed to Mr.. Jay that an American Tree
school should be sent over, with the children
in it, all at their regular tasks A question
may indeed arise whether Vienna will be able
to entertain the enormous number of people
hJcking thther, and it is probable that hotel
prices may run rather high. But Vienna is
a larger P ace than most people think in
| cludlng It's suburbs, 1t is almost as large as
New York, and it is not so crowded. We
are told also that the citizens have so much
interest in the success of the Exposition that
| many who do not wish to make money by II
are Offering moieties of their houses for the
use OF hotel-keepers, in case their establish
ments shall overflow.
ln order to promote the success of the Ex
position the Emperor has given up to the
chief commissioner, Baron Schwartz, his
private gardens, bordering the Prater, 50
that the area occupied is immense-just five
times as large as that occupied by the Paris
| Exposition Of 1867. This domain of the
| Emperor, the Krson, used to be deer park,
and though the animals have disappeared ,
| there are still about 1T some of the features
of forest. Though the commissioner has
had to cut down some of these to make way
Tor the vast buildings, he has preserved them
as much as poss Bile, and he has left cluster
of small green trees in the centre of the ro-
| tunda itself. ibis rotundt is the foest ever
put up 1t was designed by the English
architect, Mr. Scott Ru sell and executed by
an Euglishnan also, Mr.. Harcourt. though
/ ~ w pE tnh lI1n rBG taat -,
span, 800 feet in height, weighs 40 900 tons
and was raised by 240 workmen to It's secure
place on thlrty-two massive square columns
From this rotunda there run great avenues,
with numerous traverse paths, all well light
ed from the sides, as well as from the rotunda,
1t being a bit Of experience, gathered from
the Paris Exposltio', that the lighting from
above exclusively is unsatis actory. The
general hues used in the decoratIop-which
is of the Florentine Renaissance style-are
blue and gold, which, relieved by dark red
pillars, have very brilliant effect. Since
November last the preparations have been
sufficiently advanced for visitors to be ad-
mitted, and the small payment required has
already netted a considerable sum. The
visitor passes through beautiful entrance
in Tyrolean chalet style, at which two noble
avenues of hOrse-chestnut trees converge
the splendid avenues stretch out on every
de, and the kiOsks, baz lrs, mosques, and
Gales make up sort of medley Oriental city.
here Is one respect IN which the Vienna
Exposition will far surpass in interest any
other that has ever been held-that is the
varieties OF races and costumes which will
be witnessed at it, A visit to tha. city even
in ordinary times is equal to year of eth
nological study. Of the two great navigable
water-paths between Europe and the Elst-
the Adratic, with Trieste at its head, and
the Danube, with Vienna for its portal-this
is the one along which the historic develop
ment of commerce and civilization has taken
place. The Turkish Jews, wh), driven out
of Spain, had to find among the followers OF
Mohammed the protection which the fJllow-
ers of Christ denied them, became the chief
agents of the great current of trade between
Asia and Europe. They still use S panish as
their regular language, while they wear-at
least the men do-the Oriental costume,
which makes their entrance into Turkey
more easy At the same time there is blend
ed with this costume most oddly certain an-
tique Syrian vestments. (Among those ban
ished from Spain was a patriarch who then
took the name Of Disraeli, the founder OF
the family which has become historical ir
England) The streets of Vienna ore agree
ably varied with Armenians and Russians
(realy Hungarians), all of whom are engag-
ed a plying between Vienna and the East
but are usually habited in the styles which
are more adapted to the Asiatic cities, where
dress is of more importance to free ane
easy intercourse. Nevertheless, as those
who have visited Asia Minor, or even Little
Russia alone. we'll know, these internationa
costumes have some features of compromise
and it wilt be at the great Exposition tha
the real masquerade of all the costumes o
the East will perpetually move along the
streets of Vjenna.-M. d. Con,oay in Har
per's Magazine for May.