New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-09-26
THE MILAN EXPOSITION.



suKs AND OTHER WEARING APPAREI4-AN IN
TrREsTING COLLECTION OF PROVINCIAL cos
r1MFs-THE EXPOSITION HELD IN THE GARDENS
OF TIE KINGS PALACE
trRoN REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE rR1BUSE.l
MuAN. Italy. Sept. 4.-On Saturday the King
<nangurated the exposition OF domestic animals
which has been got up here sort of APP
,,endx to the great National Exposition. at the
same time also the jury appointed to award the
medals and honorary mentions to successful eXhiO-
stors commenced their task. And may fifty take
3b,s opportunity of saying few WORDS about either
show.
The King of Italy is always received with enthusi-
osm whenever he visits any portion of his kingdom
aut he Is especially popular at Milan; and his re-
eepioa there on the present occasion. with the adj
VANTAGE OF splendid weather to give it eclat was no
Exception to the general rule. The number OF
visitors gathered together in Milan was almost
eonal TO the capacity of the city for receiving them
aefore the opening of the show OF hV-
ING animals; and that attraction has caused a
further influx, which has sent up the price of beds
20 fabulous rate. and led to all sorts OF shifts to-
find eauiyalents for them The newcomers consist
.nainly of the flower of the rural proprietors OF
dtaly Among these i'll all parts of the peninsula
shis exhibition of animals has excited immense ill.,
terest and the show fully justities the expectation
of those who have maintained that the progress
made by Italy in this respect during the last ten
great room for Improvement The exhibition has
1een divided into three parts to be held consecu-
lively Tho horses, due to the nobility of their
race lead the 1t was intended to exhibit the
camels from the Royal farm at San RossoIe near
Pisa. where they have been kept for than
two centuries the only place in Europe where the
ran,e has been successfully bred and reared); but
the presence Of them caused the horses to become
so much alarmed and un,uana geabe that they
~-ora obiiped TO be sent away. to the diSnn-
nointment of the mere sghtseers. l may mention
that the show of stations, especially such as were
Intended for agricultural purposes, struck me as
being extremely satisfactory.
And now as to the National Exposition. There
can be no doubt that it has been a very marked
spcoess: and my visits to the building, or rather
series of buildings, containing it, have abundantly
convinced me that it has deserved to be So The
FIRST corp doll which strikes the visitor on enter
ing imp-esses him with the plain, buSiness-lle as
poet of he whole affair 1t has evidently been sought
to render tho show sodly useful to the indus
trial aud commercial interests of Italy rather than
showily attractive to t-seers. Two depart
nents may be selected for special mention. one of
which is calculated to make En- gland aud America
look 70 their laurcls. and the other equally so to
make France open her eyes. The first is the gallery
for the exhibition of machinery in action This
show of the engineering skill of Italy has already
attracted mute and were careful notices from
several special English publications; and all agree
that the progress made by Italy in this department.
is most remarkable. Though unable to boast an
professional knowledge of such matters. | have
known Italy long enough and well enough to be
perfectly certain that such show as that brought
together in Milan now would have been wildly
impossible i'll Italy ten years ago. The number of
apparently very complicated ana costly machines
for dealing with rice. with grain indeed, of ali
sorts. bat especially rce,-for wiDnowing it,
cleansing 1T, Frightening it. and in some cases
triturating it, Is very remarkable Rice culture is
avery important element in rural economy in the
north of Italy. especially Lombardy. And in truth
1t much to be wished that such was not the
For il if the lot of the cultivaors Of
the rice fields is exceptionally and it to be feared
Inevitably wretched. The culture itself involves
labor not only of very severe kind but under
circumstances which render 1T terribly unhealthy
And the sight of the machinery in question exhibit
ing the results of the highest civilization and
mental culture. unpleasautly associated in my
mind With recollections of the almost bestial con-
dition of the unfortunate populations doomed TO
provide the material for them to work on.
tBut perhaps still remarkable is that depart
xnent of the Exposition of which | spoke as calcu-
lated to attract the very serious consideration of
France. 1t is not only that the silks whether plain
or brocaded, and the velvets, fully capable Of
competing with those of Lyons in quality and price
but that the delicacy of the tints in the fancy
articles and the genuinely artistic harmony of the
combinations of colors is truly remarkable. There
is in the of most If the exhibitors in this group
nothing gaudy, nothing vulgar. nothing coarse.
lSignor VernazZi, OF Milan and Como, may be men
toned as having contributed show of goods truly
remarkable in this respect. The soal of Mr.. Morris
poet and paper hanger, who has done so much for
the creation of genuine artistic feeling in the
matter of wall papers curtains and the like, would
De rcjoced at the taste and feeling for color dis
played by S ignor Vemazzi's productions. The
glass cases containing them q vertable study
for an artist.
may mention for the behoof Of your fair readers
that many of the exhibits in the main gallery of
the Exposition show that Paris will not be able to
retain much longer her recognized supremacy aud
monopoly in matters of female costume. Those
who wish for q costume calculated to make the
heads of all the passers along the Boulevard DIES
Italens turn round to stare at it, may perhaps still
rooms of sympathetic Partisan millner. But if
specially ladylike style of toilet OF that class
which requires specially ladyke eyes TO recognize
it as such. be required, she who desires such may
find it TO perfection at Milan. / may cite {" put
up" to it, you will understand, by competent
lady friend) O certain brown silk dress the color
somewhat deeper than that known as Vandykc
brown,-the production of Slgnora Ccmcntina
Brovell, Of Milan. 1t Is labelled autumn" and is
ornamented in monochrome with vine leaves and
punches of grapes in high relief. The design is
essentially artistic, and the effect admirable The
cost is only 600 fran es.
Another extremely interesting and curious fea
ture of the Exposition may be mentioned, although
IN truth it hardly belongs very strictly to an ex-
hibition OF the industrial products of Italy at the