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Prater is less picturesque, being fat, although
pleasantly diversified by wood and meadow
just now, it is true. beautifully fresh
and green. The Bots de Boulogns is likewise
more picturesque, but the Prater avenue is a
finer drive. With the Berlin Thiergarten
there are few points of comparison. The
Thiergarten is large forest, solitude just
outside the Linden and the Brandenburg gate,
that can be reached from the centre of the city
within five minutes, while the Prater
COMBINES BOTH FOREST AND MEADOW,
but lacks the quiet majesty that Is connected
with the Thiergarten. True, the Thiergarten
has nothing better than the muddy Spree in
the shape of river, but the Prater is washed
by the beautiful blue Danube" which, by
the way, is gray or lead color, I hardly know
which. The park is selected on all occasions
by the Viennese for their great festivals
A MAGNIFICENT FESTIVAL
was held there in 1854, on the occasion Of the
Emperor's marriage In 1858 the Third National
German Federal Schdtzenfest was held there.
The present Emperor, after visiting the Paris
Exposition in 1867, determined, after he re-
turned home, to beautify his Prater, and the
model he had in mind was the Bots de Bou-
logne. His plans have not yet all been COM
pleted; but
THE vIENNEsE BOAST
that when the park shall be finished it will be
the finest and most picturesque pleasure
ground in the world. But the natural beau
ties Of Prater forest and meadow should not
attract our attention longer from the won
drous creation of art that has risen in the
midst Of the Park
sATm GLORIOUS TEMPLE OF THE WORLDS
PROGRESS"
No wonder, indeed, the viennese feel proud OF
their achievement.
YATES coRREcTs YATES.
Here, while speaking retrospectively, let me
make an ansesde honorable to America. In my
description of President Grants Inauguration
for the HERALD painted glowingly the festive
appearance presented by European capitals on
gala days. Any one who had read that pic
ture and who happened to be present here
to-day would have thought my real name was
Ananias. The houses of Vienna are bare as
robins There are no flags on the roof-tops or
across the streets, no Venetian masts with
flying steamers, no draped balconies and no
triumphal arch until we have reached
THE SOUTH, Oh MAIN ENTRANCE.
The crowd here is rapidly increasing.
Il surges, huns and babbles noisily
around the entrance. The Austrian officials
pre phlegmaic under even the most trying
circumstances, and all the order needed is pre-
served. Satisfying oil the formalities of these
grave guardians of the gates, enter the en-
clio sure.
THE GROUNDS.
The Exposition building stands in large
enclosed space of the Prater, five times as
large as the Champ de Mars, on which the
Paris Exposition stood. On the space from
the entrance to the building six fountains
send up large jets of water. Tastefully ar
ranged lawns and flower beds greet the eye
To the left is long row Of low buildings con-
nected with the Director Generals Bureaux
TO the right similar row, for the police, &C.
To the left, further west the Jury Pavilion
to the right is the beautiful Imperial Pavilion.
Wherever the eye is directed are
PAvnIoNs AND ORNAMENTAL STRUCTURES.
Wandering amid the trees of the spacious
grounds one is met by constant surprises. We
enter veritable fairy land, although it must
be admitted that imagination has to complete
some of the structures, even though il is the
hrst Of May. Enthusiastically varisgated struc-
lures, with cupolas and minarets, take us in
spirit to the Orient and to the hieroglyphic
enchantment of the Nile, to the peasant huts
Of Alsace and Lorraine, to the plains Of Hun
gary to the steppes of Russia and to the
schoolhouses and wigwams Of America.
ALL PEOPLE AND RELIGIONS
can find their places of worship in this Prater
world. A Greek chapel Buddhist temple, q
Roumanian church and the Turkish minaret.
may all invite the faithful to prayer before
entering the sanctuary of industry and art.
HUGE SHIPS RIGGING,
TO the east is the signboard of the pavilion
belonging u the A,,ctr;o, iovJy To NV, corld