The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1873-03-24

TIE VIENNA ExHrB1T1o DEsrRrprios
OF THE sBriLptNu AND M SUgaoUsDisga.
Gigantic as are the preparations for the
worlds fair in Vienna, everything is In q
state Of forwaryiness, and likely to be ready
by the. LIST of May. sThe. huge building re-
| sounds with hammers. and smells OF paint,
and there is still bgiyy work for tue black
smiths and carpenters; but the galleries are
all finished. except the exhibition clscs
which are TO Gil them The central dome Is
alive with busy laborers, and il as noisy as
an iron ship.buiIding yard. Here spreads
ont an enormous roof Of iron, and in the
centre arises a sort of wooden tower of
Babel, whence come confused cries and
bursts of hammering.
The dome is the largest ever attempted,
and is to other domes what the Great East
ern Is to other ships. 1t is so vast that one
looking up to the far platforms can hardly
bciicye that the animated specks moving
about on them are men.
The building itself Is one mile long, and
will afford ample exercise for pedestrians
who want to run back and forth and coin.
pare things at the extremes. And there are
four square miles of circunferent gardens
and pleasure-grounds in which one can
wander at will. The main front of the build
ing is quite imposing. and for the kind may
be considered an architectural success. Tbir-
teen millions of forms is large sum to put
into one building, but when one has seen it
he wonders that so much could have been
accomplished with the money. Evidently
the commission have not stolen any Of it,
Outside the railing of the exhibition
grounds, in the corner of the Prater nearest
Igl nit ~ Ian
huts and sheds, theatres, restaurants, and
peep-shows, giving one the impression when
| he enters it that he is in the worlds fair
itself. But this is only the work of outside
spectators, and is only trifle to the scale OF
| the inside arrangements.
Besides the main building the enclosure
| contains Il detached gallery for machinery, a
separate department of considerable size for
! works OF art, and numerous smaller struc
lures scattered about the garden. The Khe.
dive Of Egypt has pavilion where Egyptian
| life is cXcmplifed, the Prince Scllwartenburg
another pavilion for bis valuable collection
| and close to the western entrance the Neuc
| Fi'eie PrcSSe newspaper has established it,
| self IN q royal manner becoming the great
| modern power Of the world. Here it, cxhi.
| bition No. will be printed and published
during tue season, and there is to be nc
conceaImeni Of its operations. People
may see how Il great newspaper i
| edited and produced, and perhaps learr
whence comes the wisdom which is so in
| fallible in politics, literature, science. ant
reli Gion. There will be double issue o
the paper, one containing the political ant
commercial! news, and the other devoted t
special articles on the exhibition, and for thu
| latt large CORPS of special contributors i
engaged. This extra No. will be givel
away to regular subscribers to the journal
The pavilion in which this newspaper is &C
commodated is to cost the prOprictors 100
900 ilorins, and il must make large outla,
besides. 1t is piece of newspaper enter
| prise hitherto unnltched in the world, an,
throws all other special reporting into tn
shade. But we shall see what our cwn me
tropoli' an journals will do when our centcn
NAL comes.
Visitors to the Vienna exhibition will nee,
to go well provided with money. Price
have already doubled for nearly everything