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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
The projectors and managers of this great enterprise have given special attention to the well-being of their employés. They have organized a pension system, hospitals, schools, and a kindergarten, concerning each of which, full details, with sanitary statistics, are given in the publication before mentioned as accompanying their exhibition, and presented to the international jury.
The establishment, before and since the organization of the company, has been honored by the following prizes or awards : At the Industrial Exhibition, Vienna, 1845, and at Pesth, Hungary, in 1846, the great gold medal ; at the London Exhibition, 1851, the large gold medal; at Amsterdam, 1853, the great silver medal; at Munich, 1854, and at Paris, 1855, the large medal; so, also, the large medal at the Exhibition of the Gartenbau-Gesellschafty in Vienna, 1858-1859 ; the great gold medal at the International Exhibition at Lon- don in 1862, and at Paris in 1867 ; the great prize medal at the International Agricultural Exhibition, Vienna, 1866 ; the large medal of the Agricultural Exhibition, Môdling, 1871.
Dithmer’s Brick and Clay Ware Company.
The Actien Gesellschaft der Ditiimerschen Ziegel und Thon waaren Fabrik, in Rennberg, Schl este ig-Holstein , German Kingdom , made one of the best exhibitions of plain and ornamental bricks and terra-cotta ornaments, particularly of cornice, coping, moulding and arch brick, for corners of buildings and door and window openings. There were also terra-cotta columns, capitals, pedestals and urns.
This establishment dates from 1782, and in 1871 produced 65,000 thalers’ worth of bricks and ornaments, using 21,550 thalers in value of raw materials. There are four establishments, with 228 workmen and three steam-engines.
There are three standard colors—yellow, red and gray—in which the various articles are made, but they are also enamelled or glazed, in almost any desired color; but browns, greens, yellow and lilac are the most common. All the glazed bricks shown were perfect in form, with an even coating of color, and seemed particularly well adapted for decorative purposes and for walls where a clean, smooth surface, capable of being washed indefinitely, is desired.