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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
REPORT OF MR. HILL.
The undersigned, appointed an Associate Commissioner on the part of the State of Massachusetts to the Exposition held at Vienna, is directed, by the terms of his commission, to report to the next legislature. In conformity with this duty, he begs to submit the following:—
Under the arrangement made between the writer and his associates, the general organization and conduct of the Commission in Vienna was undertaken by the Chief Commissioner, and the undersigned was charged w r ith the special duty of examining the details of the Exposition. This Report will therefore be principally devoted to a description of this Exposition, a consideration of its relation to the productive industries of the world, and the proper lessons that we should draw from it as citizens of Massachusetts.
The writer, having received his commission on the 31st day of March, 1873, took passage from Boston by steamer of the 12th of April, and arrived in Vienna on the 11th of May, having made only a few days’ delay in England, to examine some of the large manufacturing establishments of that coun- try. The troubles in the United States Commission had but a few days before come to a head, and everything connected with our portion of the Exposition was in a state of disorganization and confusion.
Mr. Jackson S. Schultz, appointed by our government to succeed our former Chief Commissioner, arrived, however, upon the 15th of May. The writer considered it his first duty to qffer his services to Mr. Schultz, in case he could thus serve the interests of any Massachusetts citizens, or advance the badly delayed exhibition of the United States. Mr. Schultz, however, undertook his work with the help of a small num-