Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-04

Sensational Fairs, one in 1866 and one in
1867; the United States one in 1853 at New
York; Holland and Belgium on in 1861
England a second one in 1862; one was
held in Dublin in 1862, which, by the way,
proved pecuniarily failure; and England
has now permanent exhibition at South
Kensington. sr7 saE r 10
Tomore fully appreciate the great pro
gress made in the line of International
Expeditions since 1851, the first one insti-
tuted on a grand scale, [ will for the
sake of comparison, recall some of
the data of former Expositions.
The cost of the first London Crystal Pal
ace Exposition was about e350,000, to
which the Queen contributed by opening
the subscription list with. 81, 0001 The
building was constructed OF glass and
iron, and covered an area of thirteen acres
There. were. over 900 exhibitors and over
100000 of people visited the Palace dur
ing the five months it was kept open. The
largest number of persons present on any
one day was 109,760, and the average
about 43, 600 The total receipts were
$500, 00O The second English Worlds
Fair was held in 1862, in a vast brick
building at South Kensington; it covered
about seventeen acres At this Fair there
of people visited the grounds than the
Crystal Palace in 1862 The receipts, too,
were less, while the OUTLAWS were 1921 900,
leaving a clear balance of little over
$4,000 The next and most successful
grand show was held in 1867, on the
Champs de Mars The space covered was
thirty-seven acres. The building was Of
an elliptical form, with twelve concentric
circles and small central garden. This
Grand Exposition" as the F'renchlloved
to call it, was visited by 9,921,666 persons.
As to the receipts and expenditures, they
were never fully known to any one eX-
cept to the Emperor's satraps, who did
the managing. One thing is certain, how
ever, that there was large deficit
: ~ Now we have come down to the Vienna
Exposition of 1878, which has been com
menced on grander scale than any of its
predecessors. The space covered here by
the public buildings, exclusive of the pri
vate pavilions, is over seventy-five acres
It is as yet difficult to give any correct
data as to actual space covered, and as to
other matters connected with the Exposi
ton, as there has been none officially pub
lished yet by the general management. [
had occasion, in some of my former let
tiers, to give you the dimensions of the
various buildings, and the general divi-
sion of the grounds. The latter, however,
have been so much changed, and are still
being changed, from their original plan,
thatsI have concluded to wait until shall
be certain that Baron Schwartz active
mind will not over night bring to naught
my descriptive efforts The size of the
main Industrial Palace is the same as
given you in my letter of October 30, 1872,
namely: length 5000 feet, and width 100.
In the centre is the Rotunda all complet-
ed, with the magnificent and glittering
Austrian crown, 10 feet in diameter at its
top, This great chef d'9u0re, the Rotunda,
is 450 feet in diameter, and 272 feet high
to the pinnacle, underneath which a gal
lery affords the most magnificent
sight of the surrounding country, as
far as human vision aided by
optical instruments can reach. The
main Industrial Hall is traversed by
eighteen smaller halls from south to
north. Each one of these halls is about
five hundred by eighty feet The first one
on, the west was originally assigned to
the American Continent-the south half,
or $50 feet, to the United States, and the
north half to other American countries;
but this has been modified 1.-THE United
States retain their original space, with the
addition Of the adjoining court, that has
been rooted over for the use of the Ameri-
can sewing machine interests; while the
north half has been divided between Bra
zil and England. Not only have all the
twenty-siX courts that intervene between
galleries been turned into halls, but
all the space between the main Industrial
Palace and the hall for machinery has
been completely filed up with halls, pa
vilions, restaurants, etc. [ should not
forget to mention that the courts which
have been turned into halls are each 100
by 200 feet. The buildings erected on
them are all balloon-frame, with skylight
roofs, somewhat in the style of our United
States fair buildings. They are called
zubauten additional buildings. Almost |
every country has its Zubau, as the orig
inal space assigned proved too small
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