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Oeer 5000 Persons Employed on Tie
Exposition Buildings- Immensely Of
the arrangements Probable Prices
Of Adnussioa--A Matter Of 81
100000.
Vienna Correspondence OF the New York World.
According to the verbal statements
of the nianager-in-chief, Baron
Schwarz-Senborn, made to inc yester-
day. there are between 1900 and 5000
persons employed OIL the grounds and
buildings. AT various times during
the winter the number has run as high
as 1909. The force will be reduced,
Of course, from time to time, accord
ing as the buildings become success
sively finished. In compensation for
this loss the number of special work
men is increasing. Many of the
buildings, it should be known, are not
built by the exposition itself, but are
private national enterprises, so to
speak. Thus the German Empire is
erecting an education building of its
own. The Sultan Of Turkey and the
Khcdiye Of Egypt have their own
palaces. The Emperor Of Austria has
his own private pavilion. The Japan
ese and other Oriental nations are GO
ing to erect several buildings Of their
own. There is to be an oriental club
house, an aquarium, Gust outside the
grounds), an American school house.
Innumerable restaurants and beer sa-
looms will spring up like mushrooms
between now and May.
All these structures do not form
part Of the exhibition proper, although
under Its supervision. There is a great
deal Of work then to be done in the
way Of minor details. The nationali-
ties Of the workingmcn become more
motley from week to week. Each
country is beginning to send on its
own hands to attend to its own de-
partment. There are now on the
grounds, Frenchmen, Norwegians,
Russians, Bulgarians and Turks. The
latest arrival was that Of company
of Persians few days ago. And
then when the goods come dropping
in by the box and carload, and the ma
chinery is to be set up and put In run
ming order, the number of these spe-
ciai workmen win become larger still.
Finally, the hands necessary to work
the machinery and attend to the goods
on exhibition will be numerous. I'm
til one goes over the grounds himself,
and realizes the dimensions of the ex-
hibition, he can have no idea of the
force that will be necessary to keep
things in order. The more ! see of
the exhibition the more am impress
cd with its magnitude. 1t covers two
or three times as much area as the Pa
ris Exposition, and will probably be
more truly universal. In some re-
spects the arrangements will not be SO
good, at least not so convenient for
the visitor. In Paris the arrangement
was that Of concentric rings for the
and the radii for the de-
partments. The result was that by
going around in one ring one could
cover an entire nation In all its de-
partmcnts, and by going up and down
ON one radius could compare nation
after nation in one single department.
1t was not found possible to adopt this
arrangement in Vienna. 1t would
have required the incest adjustment of
space, for which the time was wanting.
The Franco-German war was partly
to blame for this. II caused much de-
lay. and evan thraatenrd at one time
to defeat the exhibition altogether. l
am inclined to believe that the Vienna
system will be found, after all, TO be
quite as satisfactory rs the one adopt
cd i'm Paris. There will be plenty
of space in which to breathe and
move.
The visitor will.be able finish part
of building at time, and enjoy a
rest in the open air. In case of rainy
weather, there will be the covered
trellis ways leading from the entrance
gates to the main building and from
this to the other buildings. The
grounds will present every variety Of
tuif and fountain and shade, aud
buildings Of all shapes and sizes and
styles OF decoration, from the Turkish
kiosk to the Italian renaissance. There
will be no need of letting ones eyes
be overwhelmed.
As regards the prices and arrange
ments for admission, am unable to
make any definite statement. But one
point, am informed, has been agreed
upon so far, namely, that there will be
absolutely no free tickets except for
exhibitors. Everybody, from the roy
al family down, will have to pay. The
reasons are two. In the first place,
the exhibition will cost the govern
ment heavy sum, which il is desira-
bic to cover rs far. as possible. Were
the door once thrown open to dead
heads, there would be no foretefling
the waste. And in the second place,
the committee will be saved an i'm
mense amount Of time and worry.
The mere labor of answe, ing applica-
tions, to say nothing of the responsi-
bility of deciding as to which is and
which is not entitled to free ticket,
would be discouraging. There will be
season tickets of course, and probably
tickets for shorter periods-say for a
month-besides mere day tickets
There will also be u distinction made
among the several davs Of the week,
one day being higher priced than an
other, so as to afford the Weather or
better informed visitors chance OF
Inspecting without being disturbed by
the crowd. But all these Details are
still under discussion, and will proba-
bly, not be finally settled for a month
or two. "a
The present is perhaps AS good q
place as any to say a sword about the
cost of the exhibition before Il should
be forgotten. The original appropria-
tion was 100000 n. This has been
more than doubled. The price Of la
bor and building materials have risen
rapidly during the construction, and
because Of the construction 30 that
the commission has had to apply for
fresh subsidies. II is estimated that
the final cost will l3,OO0,O00A. Reck-
oning . florin at 40 cents in gold, we
shall get the sum of %, 10O,0 600 iu gold.
II should be borne in mind, however,
that building, for all the recent rise in
prices, is stiIl cheaper than IL is in
America, that the ground has cost the
commission nothing, and the most rig
id and scientific economy has been ob
served throughout. ! should say tha,
100000 In America would not be
too high an estimate for like results.--
Moreover, even this sum does not GOV.
er the various so-callcd private build
ings TO which / alluded in prcyiou,