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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 employes. 
They have organized a pension System, hospitals, schools, 
and a kiudergarten, 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 Lon 
don 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 Ex 
hibition of the Gartenbau-Gesellschaft, 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, Mödling, 1871. 
Dithmer’s Beick and Clav Ware Company. 
The Actien Gesellschaft der Dithmerschen Ziegel 
und Thonmaaren Fabrik, in Rennberg, Schleswig-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 wiudow 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 valne of raw materials. Tliere are four establish- 
ments, with 228 workmen and three steam-engines. 
There are three Standard colors—yellow, red and gray—in 
which the various articles are made, bnt they are also enam- 
elled or glazed, in ahnost 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 coat- 
ing of color, and seemed particularly well adapted for decora- 
tive purposes and for walls where a clean, smooth surface, 
capable of being washed indefinitely, is desired.