The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-05-17
Vienna and the Exposition.

The year 1873 will witness tide Of
travel setting toward Vienna similar to
that which made Paris, in 1867, the
shore for which all argosies and pleas
ure barges set sail. And Vienna is just
the one city of the world which has any
claim to emulate Paris in the getting
up of great exposition. 1t is cosmo-
politan, it is brilliant, it is on the great
highway of travel, and it is hospitable
The sovereign and authorities of Wen
ma have certainly spared no pains OR
expense to make the Exposition sue
cessful. They have built in the Prater
the finest park in the world build
ings of surprising grandeur and con-
venience. The Prater is always a sort
of bazar, gay fair in which all nations
are represented, and the buildings now
built in it are as the centre of many
wings already prepared through many
years, and such as present attractions
which it requires generations and many
races to supply. The Austrian COM
missioners began by corresponding with
and securing the cooperation of the
most influential, energetic, and scientific
men in every country. The list of their
CO. operators amounts to many thou
sands. These commissioners comprise
many of the most distinguished scien-
tific men in every country. In consulta-
ton with them the Austrian directors
have issued to each country special re-
quests that its specialties of art or pro-
duction shall be carefully represented ;
this being carried to the extent of the
desire expressed to Mr.. Jay that an
American free school should be sent
over, with the children in it, all at their
regular tasks! A question may indeed
arise whether Vienna will be able to
entertain the enormous number of peo-
pie focking thither, and it is probable
that hotel prices may run rather high.
But Vienna is larger place than most
people think; including its suburbs, it
is almost as large as New York, and it
is not so crowded. We are told also
that the citizens have so much interest
in the success of the Exposition that
many who do not wish to make money
byit are offering moieties of their houses
for the use of hotel-keepers, in case
their establishments shall overflow.
In order to promote the success of
the Exposition the emperor has given
up to the chief commissioner, Baron
Schwartz, his private gardens, border
ing the Prater, so that the area occu-
pied is immense just five times as
large as that occupied by the Paris Ex-
position of 1867. This domain of the
Emperor. the Krisan, used to be deer
park, and though the animals have dis
appeared. there are still about it some
of the features of forest. Though
the commissioner has had to cut down
some of these to make way for the vast
buildings, he has preserved them as
much as possible, and he has left
cluster of small green trees in tie
centre of the rotunda itself. This ro-
tunda is the finest ever put up. 1t was
designed by the English architect, Mr..
Scott Russell, and executed by an En-
glishman also, Mr.. Harcourt, though in
Westphalian works. 1t is 40 feet in
span, 800 feet in height. weighs 40, 900
tons, and was raised by $40 workmen
to its secure place on th;rty-two massive
square columns. From this rotunda
there run great avenues, with numerous
transverse paths, all well lighted from