The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-05-09
THE WORLDS FAIR.

The Great Vienna ExpOsitiOn-Somcth hin
About the Old City of VIENNA Conn
pnrisOn with Previous Worlds Fairs
The Buildings-Thc Monster Dome
The Departments-Life Ia the Austrian
Capital.
The temptation to be resisted in the refer
ence we propose to Vienna and the Worlds
Exposition soon to open, is the one to which
nine out of ten of the correspondents abroad
will fall victims--to draw from the guide-books
and encyclopedias the entire history of the city
since it was " the Nindobona of the Romans, y
and to set up such a portico of archaeology
that the main structure of the narrative Will
be lost behind it, or only appear as small tail
to very huge preface. Let us treat Vienna
with no awe of her eighteen centuries, and
look at her as she is, vast city of 1,0O0.000
inhabitants, or about the size of New York.
like Paris in its style of buildings and inhabi-
tants, and, since Sedan. ambitious to snatch
the social crown dropped. or at least shaken,
in the French reverses. 1t has two parts. the
inner and outer city, the first the old quarter,
the other the suburbs, the spread and de-
velopment of which in the past few seasons,
the emulation Of improvements, the parks
and bouleyards. has not been surpassed even
by the growth of Chicago The population OF
Vienna, which in 1865 was $50, 600, increased
in 1869 to S25 600. and in 1872 to $50 900 souls.
The inner core of Vienna is about four-tifths
of mile in diameter, and compactly built.
Here are the principal retail shops, the resorts
of banking and finance. The periphery of this
minor city is a broad street over hundred
feet wide, called the Ring Happy Vienna if
she has no other.
The suburbs extend for several. miles west,
southwest and north, the avenues diyerging
from the Ring as radii the cross streets on
arcs parallel to the Ring. Street communca-
ton is by omnibuses, street-cars, and the
omnipresent hack (tiacre) which you may hire
for 40 cents an hour. At night rates are
double.
On the east of the city is the blue rolling
Danube" now being wIdened and deepened,
and diked, and an entirely new cutoff channel
is being excavated nine miles long and ZOO
feet wide, along which on the city side extends
a magnificent quay to be lined with business.
Thus Vienna is to be made Il great port, and
reached by large steamers from the sea. On
this quay (the DOnau Ddn) is the Prater or
Central Park of Vienna. And now we are
coming to the Exposition.
THE ExPosITIoNs.
The Vienna Exposition will cost from ST.
COO 900 to IS, 000. 000 and, ii il estimated, must
receive 20 600, 900 visitors to reimburse the
outlay Here are the comparative figures of
area in the great European Worlds Fairs that
at New York the Crystal Palace, not enumer-
area, feet.
London QIyde Park, 1s5I................. $4,000
Paris Champs dEsyees), lS5j............. 123,2l4
London (Brompton), 1862. ................ 222,3l6
Paris Champs de Aiars), 1867. 6I1,640
Vienna Prater), 1873. ..........: 2IS3,SO9
Thus the area of incosed space in Vienna
is FIVE times greater than that of Paris III
1867.
WHERE 1T IS BUILT.
The Prater is the pride Of Vienna park of
SIS acres said to be the most magnificent III
the world 1t is accessible from the heart of
the city by steam-cars, horse-cars, omnibuses
Ca new line of 600 vehicles just being especially
mr.
the Danube, on a canal penetrating the heart
of the city, and by hacks, or other vehicles,
along a magnificent avenue, along which Il
free walk on foot for twenty minutes may
perhaps at times supplant all other NODES if
you are good pedestrian and worthy OF the
'Alpenstock you bought in Switzerland.
THE ARCHITECT.
The great English architect, Mr.. Scott Rus
sell, designed the structure, and another En-
glishman, Mr.. Harcourt, has executed the
plans.
THE BUILDING.
The former Exposition buildings were care
fully examined for errors and features to be
avoided. The improvements secured are nota-
ble and mainly in respect TO ease Of approach.
and a broad ground AREA, doing away with gal
leries. Our map shows the result at glance,
and the scale appended will give dimensions.
1t is not so striking as the vast and lofty crys-
tai palace structures of England, nor so pic
turesque. perhaps, as the varied arrange
ments of the Paris Exposition, but it is plain.
simple, clear, every way feasible and excellent.
THE GREAT DOME
Having determined to secure broad floor
area instead of height, to relieve the confessed
objection of too little effectiveness, grand
dome was made the central feature OF the
long, low building. This dome is 35S feet in