Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-08
The Vienna Exhibition.

1t is gratifying to know, says New
York paper, that the catalogue of Ameri-
can exhibitors at the Vienna University
Exhibition will be much larger than at
any previous industrial fair of this char
acter. Comparing the number of
American exhibitors who displayed
their various goods in the last Paris
fair, with the present one in Vienna, in
the former case there were but $50, at
present there are inscribed on the books
of the commissioners the names of over
700 American manufacturers, who are
prepared to send their choicest works
to Austria. So far, all the disburse-
ments, from June last to the present
time, amount to 100000 This money
has been advanced by certain members
of the commission, and although $780,,
600 has lately been appropriated by the
United States, as yet no official notifica-
tion of the fact has been presented to
Gen. Van Buren. To-day, the Ameri-
can ma9 ufaeturer has been made sensi-
BILE of the great advantage to be de-
rived from the exhibition of his articles
in Vienna, and the demand for space
now is largely beyond the means of the
commissioners to crafty. England has,
at present, secured five times as much
space as that asked for by American
commissioners. The United States
might have obtained similar area, but
were uncertai~ whether they could OBJ
tain the means to pay for it. As it is,
the delay in making the appropriation
has, in a measure, caused extra ex
penses to the United States commits
sioners. For the additional machinery
a court will have to be covered with
glass, at a cost of fully $25, 900, besides
an extra building to be erected in the
park. The United States has furnished
two vessels, stationed now at Brooklyn,
ready to receive freight, but there being
as yet no money to pay for the handling
of the goods, there are now nearly 700
packages stored there, and only some
fifty cases have as yet been put on
board. Some of the clauses in the ap-
preparation bill are peculiar. One is
that not over $50, 900 are to be paid in
salaries. Out of this seven scientific
men and eight artizans are to receive
81 900 each, but no single officer is to re-
ceive more than $4,000. For Office ex-
peuSeS dlOuo NTedG DGlIhlu uuS dppTO-
priated $4,000. How the measre
amount of 100000 is to pay for the
expenses of so vast an undertaking is
difficult to determine. Out of this must
come cost of buildings, railroad freights
in Austria, (from Trieste to Vienna eR-
penses for loading and unloading goods,
office rent at Vienna, hire of clerks and
cost of decorations, boilers, and an in
fnity of other expenses, not counting
the printing of voluminoxs report, to
be published when the exhibition is
over.
The display Of goods will be of the
most varied kind. Particularly notice
able will be the agricultural depart
ment, which will cover space of II 900
square feet, the total area devoted tc
the United States being about 70, coz
square feet. By estimate based OF
former exhibitions, it is thought tha
the number of exhibitors at Vienna vii
be $4,000, and that $50, 900 persons viii
visit the fair each day, and that during
the six months the astounding number
) of 78,OO0,O00 people will visit Austria
of which 100000 will come from the
! United States.