New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-05-03
THE VIENNA EXHIBITION.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE OPENING.


trRoM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUEE.l
VIENNA, April 19-Whatever short comlngs may
be found in the execution Of the details Of the Vi
emma Exhibition il viii be taken as a whole great
and admirable result of the administrative capacity
of its general manager and most curious collection
Of the production of human industry-perhaps the
,nost interesting and complete which has been made
The enormous extent of the building plan and the
eomprehensiyeness of the collection, make 1t GER
tain that great inequalities will be found though, az
vet no one can guess where they Will be.
Onr own industry will be well represented
and 10 gauge by the space assigned that of England
was more completely. 1t is to be hoped that the
extension of time for the reception of goods from the
LIST Of Nav to June l5 will enable india-rubber
work 70 be represented With the construction of
anew court for the light machinery not In motion,
we shall have abundant space, and to spare. We
have not only the western transept, with the eXcep
ton Of the small portion assigned to South America
of whose productions see no sign yet-but the
eourt now about TO be rooted in between the two
transepts equal nearly to the whole original space
awarded MS.
The reader will if he has not seen plan of the
Exhibition get an idea of the building by lmagln-
ing wide and short gridiron, with round disk IN
the center, the connection between the short bars
bepq by one long one crossing the disk and extend
trance being on the short bar that the disk
This disk is the rotunda, of which it can only be
said that il is very large, scafoding and plat
forms obscure every part of it, These short bars are
the TRANSCRIPTS each being 22 feet long, the long BAR
1000 feet in length, being the nave at each end OF
which is secondary entrance; while at each end OF
each transept is another entrance of less pretenOn
for convenience of exit and ingress. The principal
entrance is 60 the southwest and detached; and at
little distance southeast is the fine art building,
and still beyond this is small pavilion for rare
and valuable collection of articles of vertu, an
houe and middle age but nothing completely
modern, which l am assured will be one
Of the most remarkable collection of the kind ever
seem Its vases bronzes statues, etc, will be num-
bered by thousands. To the northeast is hall tho
whole length of the main building and and parallel
10 it. devoted to the machinery, mostly In motion.
The transeps are each 80 feet in width, except the
central which is 50, and are II in number; as the
enormous space given by their aggregate is already
found insufficient the space between some of them
is to be oored and rooted in All round this central
structure to be found among the trees restaur-
ants school houses dwelling houses Of different ma
TONS beer houses, a printing establishment whence
the Aete Frtie PreSSe of Vienna viii be issued. An
American club house has been projected but nothing
beyond the drawings made for want of MEANS The
divided into 26 groups.
Beside the general exhibition, there will be "ad-
dtona exhibitions" as follows: The history of in
yentions; the history Of industry; musical instru-
mens of CremOna; the use Of waste materials and
their products the history of misrepresentation
Of the commerce and trade Of the world; the in
fants pavilion and female work. With these will
he also temporary exhibitions of live animals,
butchers meat dairy produce, garden produce, in
GLIDING the vine aud fruits and living plants nuri-
Gus to agriculture and forestry The programme
for these temporary exhibitions is as follOws
Mayl-Opening OF the Exhibition.
May l-lC-First Flower Show; exhibition OF hot
house and preserved fresh fruits.
May 5I-june 9-ExAIbitiOn OF horned cattle, sheep,
June I5-25-second Flower show; exhibition of berry
August 2o-sO-Third Flower Show; exhibition Of
September i5-g5@Fourth Flower Show; exhibition of
September Is-2i-Exhibiuon of horses. poultry,
september n and international Horse-races.
October l-l5-Exhbition OF the products OF nursery
OctoDer 4-C-ExhbIlon Of game and dairy produce
October 3l-Cgse OF the Exhibition
hOed.
The medals, of five different kinds, viii he all of
bronze and Of the following character of award:
For fine art for progress shown by advance made
since former eXhbitiODs); for merit; for taste lin
work which cannot be characterized as fine art, and
for cooperation Ito be awarded all who have notably
contributed to the manufacture, wOrkmen and
assistants, OF any article which takes a pTize). 1t
will be hard if under such conditions something
cannot be done for all grades Of merit The repre-
sentation in the department Of fine arts will be
complete as TO nationality; but the English, French
Austrian, and other Teutonic, Italian, SwedO-Nor-
vegan, and Swiss schools viii be abundant. As
uearlr Too ind, from a. he
lists at the Office Of the management, the collection
will be the most remarkable made Tor
likely 10 be made for many years. of European art.
In the mechanical department there is only Wis
ibe the long lines of columns and iron beams which
are to carry the shafting for driving the machines
anumber Of steam engines, two or three enormous
looms and an immense assortment Of steam pumps,
with some few machines lying in piles of bars and
rods aud tramewOTks on the floor some fnghtfully
Tustedl, and boxes yet unopened. Northeast again
Of this mechanical hall is a line of boiler-houses
one corresponding with each nation driving ma
chinery in the hall Here men are very busy;
gangs Of sailors hauling and heavinp; masons
are plastering while women carry the mortar. sift
the gravel, and do all the lowest manual labor
Here goes line Of these women with boxes of NOR
tar on their heads another with boxes of sand and
others again with little wheelbarrows of
quaint and autiquated form, carrying tiny
loads of bricks or other solid material and
filing into and along the building like ants
Like ants, too, they are in their unintellgent
meandering. i noticed one line going from the
mortcr pit 20 the hall, and having to cross the
temporary raj way track on which was standing q
line Of empty freight cars they all climbed up on
the platforms crossed, and descended on the other
side, no one ha,Gg thought far enough TO push two
Of the cars part 10 make an opening between