Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-09-17
Exhibitions, Abroad and at Home.

That the Vienna Fair was IN most re.
speets a failure has been apparent from
the first. That it is a grievious financial
failure we are now assured by Edmund
Yates and other observers, who put the
receipts at not over two million forms
against an expenditure of eighteen mil
/ lions However economical may be the
bent Of the german mind, the official Au-
strian is evidently spCndthritt and not
shrewed in money matters. The exhlbi-
ton cost almost precisely twice as much
as the one at Paris $50 600, 900 as against
81, 900, 000) and the one at Paris cost
nearly twice as much as the great London
exhibition of 1862 The Vienna exhibit
tien is eight-ninths of its expenses out Of
pocket. The Paris exhibition paid a
small dividend to stockholders, but the
government appropriated for it S2,400,.
900 outright, which it never got back, ex.
cept as l! was national benefit. The
London fair was the only great one that
ever paid expenses.
With the rapidly accommodating expert
ence Of the world in these matters, we
ought soon to know the limitations and
the possibilities Of these Industrial ex-
plolts. Is there limit beyond which in
crease of magnitude makes the project a
failure, both as speculation and as
stlmulent to industry One of the earl.
est exhibitions on record would seem to
convey that moral, we refer to the now
widely international exhibition of the ma
ternal frog Initiating herself for the de-
light of her exacting offspring. Did the
Vienna project swell ulI it "bust," or
were there more secret causes for its
failure
This is not an idle intcrogatory for
American citizens. An area of canten-
NAL exhibition is sweeping down upon us.
1t already seems to have covered US with
its penumbra. The period of greatest
observation, singularly enough, will coin
eide with the Third Term campaign. An
exhibition indeed And one that will as
tonlsh the fathers Of the republic, look
ing down from their canvases in Inde-
pendence hall, quite as much as auy-
thing else to be seen. But is our conten.
NAL exhibition to be a paying affair,
good speculation Why not 1t is to
be managed by stock company, now
chartered and in operation as the "ccn-
tenniai board of finance 1t is great
business opportunity. 1t will be at least
great American exhibition, and we hope
America will be thoroughly canvassed for
it, so that it may bring North and South
together in amity, as they have never
been brought together before, since they
mingled their blood in q common cause.
We believe it will be "a grand affair, aud
1t ought to pay expenses. 1t is already
provided that the United States shall not
be liable for any of the expense of it.
We trust furthermore that it will not be
asked to contribute to it. We have here
an opportunity TO show the world new
phase Of our skill with the almighty del
lar.
One Of the Philadelphia papers heralds
the appeal to be made to the country for
subscription to the centennial exhibition
stock with an exultant display of the in
tegrity of the financial managers of the
enterprise. 1t insists that they are all
honarable men, and names them all over
lingering fondly upon peach bright articu-
lar of honor. 1t is willing to make oath
tbatthe money matters will be straight.
Conscience alive we should hope so, os-
pecially in the midst of the distressing
mania for honesty that is now attacking
CT public men. But 1t is ose thing to