Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-16
From the New York World
A TRIP TO VIENNA.
What it Will Cost-Important
Information for Tourists and
Exhibitors.

Inquiries have reached us as to the
programme which may best be follow
ed by parties or individuals wishing to
attend the Vienna Exposition, next
summer, and the following items of
route and probable expense will be
found to contain the information need
ed. OF course the ocean passage is a
question for every mans own decision.
Perhaps the pleasantest and most con-
venient route is to Paris via. Liverpool,
or direct via. Havre, though the Ham,
burg and Bremen steamers afford adj
vantages about the same. Should the
Paris route be decided upon, sleeping
cars can be taken at that city for Vien-
ma, which run through without change,
making the passage in thirty-six hours.
From the travelling centres of Vienna
the road to the Prater is no more than
the trip from the City Hall to the Amer
lean Institute Fair building. The Pra-
ter is northwest of the city, and a line
of cars, propelled by stationary en-
gine, will run during the exhibition as
frequently as its travel shall demand :;
or the walk is pleasant and short. For
American exhibitors the arrangement
of the department is peculiarly conyen-
lent. To the United States is allotted
the extreme western division of both
the main building (palace of industry
and the hall of machinery, being that
portion of the fair nearest the Vienna
road, and through which the exhibitor
or visitor must pass before reaching the
departments of other nations. The ex-
position, as we have already noticed,
will open on the 1st of May next and
close on the 1st of November. The
United States transport steamers will
leave New York with such goods as we
may send for exhibition probably in
February next. Except the United
States, all nations to be represented
have already applications more than
sufficient to fill the space assig ned to
them.
The backwardness of American eX-
hibitors is, according to Commissioner
Van Buren, attributable to an opposi-
tion movement made in the interests Of
q "patent ring" which, desirpus of main
tanning its monopoly of the sale Of val
uable foreign patents in Europe, has
given currency to statements to the fol-
lowing effect, viz: That every patented
article put on exhibition at Vienna
thereby forfeits its patent, and may be
copied by any one. The exhibition of
valuable patents at so widely attended
a fair brings the owner at once into di-
rect contact with crowds of purchasers
from all over the world, and the busi-
ness of the patent broker is thus inter-
fered with. GeneralVan Buren, declares
that this widely spread statement has
no grounds whatever. To every exhib-
itor the Austrian government grants
complete protection of his patent for the
time of its exhibition, which may at
any time be exchanged for a patent on
the payment of $1l. This patent is is
sued under the law of the country, and
grants protection for the space of one
year, at the expiration of which time,
il the article patented is not manufac-
tured, its patent is re-assumed by the
government. The question of the ex-
pense of attending the exhibition has
been asked. This again is, of course, a
variable quantity. Persons desirous of
making up party for the trip will do
well to look at the estimates made by
Messrs. Cook, Son and Jenkins, who will
open on the first of January, at 262
Broadway, branch of the celebrated
tourist Office in London. They have Sc
cured a special steamer of the White
Star line, which will leave New York
on the 2Sth of June next, carrying a
party, yet to be made up, of teachers,
male or female, on so-called educa-
tional tour through Scotland, England,
Belgium, the Rhine district and Bava-
ria, to the Worlds Fair, at Vienna, re-
turning via. Switzerland and Paris.
This party will pass much time at Wen
na, and visit nearly all places of inter-
est in Continental Europe and Great
Britain. Its members are limited to
teachers, but its price list shows what
rates may be made profitable should any
large party be formed. The round trip
every necessary expense included, costs
s4OO, gold, the party returning August
81. A masonic excursion is also organ
ized, concerning which information
may be obtained of A. NJ. Rambo, CO.
lumbia, Pa.