Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-05-02
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setting toward Vienna similar to that
which made Paris, ip 1867, the shore for
which all argosies and pleasure barges set
sail. And Vienna is just the one city Of
the world which has any claim to emulate
Paris In the getting up of great exposi-
tion. II Is cosmopolitan, II Is brilliant, IL
Is on the great highway of travel, and II is
hospitable. The sovereign and authorities
of Vienna have certainly spared no pains
or expense TO make the Exposition success
ful. They have built in the Prater-the
very finest park In the world.-buildings of
SURPRISING grandeur and convenience.
The Prater Is always sort OF bazar, a gay
fair In which all nations are represented,
and the buildings now built In it are as the
centre OF many wings already prepared
through many years, and such as present
attractions which II requires generations
and many races to supply. The Austrian
commissioners began by corresponding
with and securing the cooperation OF the
most influential, energetic, and scientific
men In every country. The list OF their
co-operators amounts to many thousands.
These commissioners comprise many OF
the most distinguished men In every coun-
try. In consultation with them the Aus
trian directors have issued to each country
special requests that its specialties of art or
production shall be carefully represented
this being carried 10 the extent Of the de-
sire expressed to Mr.. Jay that an Ameri-
can free school should be sent over, with
the children In IL, all at their regular tasksi
A question may indeed arise whether
Vienna will be able-t to entertain the enor-
nous number of people focking thither,
and 1t Is probable that hotel prices may
run rather high. But Vienna is larger
place than most people think including
its suburbs, II Is almost as large as New
York, and 1t Is not so crowded. We are
told also that the citizens have so much in
terest in the success of the Exposition that
many who do not wish to make money by
1t are Offering moieties of their houses for
the use Of hotel-keepers, in case their es-
tablshments shall overflow.
In order to promote the success of the
Exposition the Emperor has given up to
the chief commissioner, Baron Schwartz,
his private gardens, bordering the Prater,
so that the area occupied is immense--just
FIVE times as large as that occupied by the
Paris Exposition OF 1867. This domain of
the Emperor, the Krison, used to be deer
park, and though the animals have disap-
peared, there are still about it some of the
features of forest. Though the commits
sioner has mad to cut down some of these
to make way for the vast buildings, he
hao
and he has left cluster of small green
trees in the centre of the rotunda itself.
This rotunda is the finest ever put up. 1t
was designed by the English architect Mr..
Scott Russell, and executed by an English
man also, Mr.. Harcourt, though in West
phalian works. 1t is $40 feet in span, 300
feet in height, weighs 40, 900 tons, and was
raised by 240 workmen to its secure place
on thirty-two massive square columns.
From this rotunda there run great avenues,
with numerous traverse paths, all we'll
lighted from the sides, as well as from the
rotunda, it being bit of experience, gath
cred from the Paris Exposition, that the
lighting from above exclusively is unsatis-
factory. The general hues used in the
decoratlon-which Is of the Florentine
Renaissance style-are blue and gold,
which, relieved by dark red pillars, have
a very brilliant effect. Since November
last the preparations have been sufficiently
advanced for visitors to be admitted, and
the small payment required has already
netted a considerable sum. The visitor
passes through beautiful entrance in Ty-
rolean chalet style, at which two noble ave-
nues OF horse-chestnut-trees converge.
The splendid avenues stretch out on every
side, and the kiosks, bazars, mosques, and
cafes make up a sort OF medley Oriental
city.
There is one respect in which the Vienna
Exposition will far surpass in interest any
other that has ever been hed-that Is, the
varieties of races and costumes which will
be witnessed at 1t. A visit to that city even
in ordinary times is equal to year of
chronological study. or the two great nav
igable paths between Europe and
the East-the Adriatic, with Trieste at its
head, and the Danube, with Vienna for its
portal-this Is the one along which the his
toric development Of commerce and civil-
zation has taken place. The Turkish Jews,
who, driven out of Spain, had to find among
the followers of Mohammed the protection
which the followers of Christ denied them,
became the chief agents of the great current
Of trade between Asia and Europe. They
still use Spanish as their regular language,
while they wear-at least the men do-the
Oriental costume, which makes their en-
trance into Turkey more easy. At the
same time there is blended with this cos
tune most oddly certain antique Syrian
vestments. (Among those banished from
Spain was patriarch who then took the
name Of Disraeli, the founder of the family
which has become historical in England.)
The streets of Vienna are agreeably varied
with Armenians and Russians (really
Hungarians), all OF whom are engaged in
plying between Vienna and the East but
are usually habited in the styles which are
more adapted to the Asiatic cities, where
dress is of more importance to free and
easy intercourse. Nevertheless, as those
who have visited Asia Minor, or even Lit
tie Russia alone, we'll know, these interna-
tional costumes have some features of COM
promise, and 1t will be at the great Expo
sition that the real masquerade of all tho
costumes of the East will perpetualy move
along the streets of Vienna.-M. d. Con-
tcdy, in Hdrper's Magazine for May.
People generally take but little interest
In fha wara of tho Euronaon ooIon;.,. T.,