The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-20
Serious Charge Against the Mode Of Appsin;
mcnt Of American Commissioners.
Citizen Vanity Said To Have BeeH
Tickled and Gratifed for Gold.
The Cry Of Cholera Circulated
in the City Press.
Journalism Said To BE in Spiteful
Antag0nism to the Director.
TELEGRAM TO TINE new YORK HERALD.

TELEGRAM TO TINE new YORK HERALD.
The following special despatch to the
HERALD has been received from our correS
spondent in the capital of Austria:-
VIENNA, April 10, 1873.
Swindling is reported in connection with
sioners to the International industrial ExhibN
ton to be held in this city.
CITIZEN VANITY AND THE ITCHING PALM"
It is asserted that many of the Commission.@
ers purchased the position for the sake Of thd
honor of appearing in an official character al
the assemblage of the Fair and during til
management. One of the gentlemen says ha
paid the sum Of $4,000, but the rate generally
charged wass somewhere in the neghborhood
of 1000.
NCApACITY AND INQUIRY.
The majority of the Commissioners are in.
capable persons. The more respectable among
them are engaged in instituting inquiry into
the matter of the swindle.
THE CRY OF CHOLERA.
The city journals, contrary to the customs
of the Austrian metropolitan press, give
prominence to reports which allege that
cholera is present, and that the medical
statements show the occurrence of five deaths
from the disease in Vienna. The journala
say, also, that cholera has been raging in the
province of Karnthen (Carinthia), in the
northwestern portion of nlyria, during the
whole Of the Winter season, and that out Of
1000 cases 465 have proved fatal.
POOR IDEAS OF JOURNALISTIC ANIMus.
1t is supposed that this publication is made
through spitefulness against the Director Of
the Exhibition, but the facts are as reported.
The Austrian Vice Consul on the Prepa-
ratiOns for Visitors at Vicnna-Tho
Exposition Building and the Cholera.
Imperial AID Royal Austro- hungarian Consulate
General Neac Fork.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
Seeing a special despatch in the HERALD from
your correspondent in Vienna to the effect that the
Industrial Exhibition building in that city il in
backward state OF preparation and cannot possibly
be finished for use on the LIST OF May, and rumora
having been circulated again and again that a
OF the opening OF the Exposition Is
contemplated beg leave to state for the informa-
ton of the public, that according to advices just
received from the Director-in-Chief Of the
Worlds Fair, the grand opening Of the Exposition
will positively take place on the LIST Of May, and
that all reports to the contrary are unfounded.
The preparations fer the opening were very fan
advanced as early az the middle Of March, and
nothing has been lett undone since in order ia
reach state of completion.
While on this theme would further say that the
reports about an existing scarcity OF accommoda-
tions extravagant rents and exOrbitant prices OF
all the necessaries Of life, &C., are greatly ex-
aggerated. superficial count taken in the month
Of March revealed the fact that there were vacant
at that early day 10000 places Of residence suitable
for transient visitors, at prices ranging from 81 to
IS per day.
At the Central Bureau for residences, No. LIGHT
ensteinstrasse established by the Director-in Chief
for the accommodation OF visitors, there were then
on the books two hundred to three hundred very
eligible residences at $40 to $50 month per room.
Lastly, several new hotels have been erected and
the accommodations OF the others increased, so.
that ample preparation has been made for the in
lux OF strangers.
Extensive arrangements were effected under tho
direction OF the State and municipal authorities fon
the increased demand for provisions OF all kinds tos
prevent rise In prices.
Excursion tickets to Vienna and back are issued
by all the continental railways and steamboat lines
at reduced rates.
The reports about the prevalence OF cholera are
totally untrue. The sanitary condition OF the city,
on the contrary is excellent and leaves nothing ia
be desired.
The authorities spare no pains to do all In their
power to contribute TO the comfort and conven-
Ience OF visitors.
have the honor to be, &C.,
H. o. PRrTSCH,