The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-01
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PARIS, March Is.
The admission of the public to the works
going on at the Exhibition having been found
to be a great hindrance to the work
men now occupied on the building in the
Champ de Mars, the Imperial Commission
decided that it should be closed after Sunday
last against the admission of all ordinary
paying visitors till the great opening. This
admission of visitors has been a source of
much annoyance to the chief foreign Commits
sioners for some time past, and it was only
after their repeated complaints that the I'M
perial Commission acceded to their demand.
1t must be remembered that between work.
men of all kinds, exhibitors, exhibitors stats,
and officials, there are at least 5000 people
who have work in the building and grounds
around, and when to those are added 600
idle visitors, all of whom, Of course cOngre-
gate where there is most doing, and where,
therefore, they are least wanted the incon-
venience becomes serious, and just now,
when the period comes near for the opening,
is doubly felt.
To prevent the intrusion of these prone
naders, many of the foreign courts closed
themselves in, or rather forbade entrance to
all not actually employed on their own works.
This rule or plan, however, led to fresh in
convenience, as those employed in the build
ing found it difficult to get about at all with
out making a considerable detour from one
part to the other.
Everything is still dreadfully behindhand;
however, the English court is fast advancing
now. 1t is not subject of entirely unmixed
satisfaction, for exhibitors, visitors, and all
who enter it see, with feeling of surprise,
the English certainly with 1nconcealed annoy
ance, that nothing is intended to be done to
improve either it's management or appearance.
1t threatens, beyond all question, to be the most
ill-arranged and unsightly of all sections in
the structure; indeed, to speak plain truth, it
seems no more like national court than a sort
of exhibitional lumber room, to which all ill
fitting, Unmatched, and ill-sorted cases have
been banished by common consent.
These remarks may prepare British visitors
for the disappointment they are certain to
undergo when they enter it; but l fear that
all could say would really fall short of the
effect of what the completed aspect of this
portion of the show will be. 1t was always
understood, when the whole court was painted
of the siokly drab green which most disfgures
it, and makes its poor, heavy constructive out
lines seem poorer and more heavy than ever,
that it was intended, before the cases came
in, to relieve its very inappropriate hue with
lines of lighter and more varied colors. Such
change could not, indeed, make the struc-
ture handsome, but it at least would help to
conceal many of its most glaring defOrmities.
At the last moment, however, it has been de-
ter1nined to leave the color as it is, and now,
fear, it must remain so, an eye-sore and
national discredit to the English taste. When
it is recollected that the British did so we in
the coloring of both their great Exhibitions,
the falling off ON this occasion appears all the
more conspicuously painful,
Some very heavy machinery and goods have
arrived from Prussia, including Krupp's great
works an steel The guns, which are OF
immense size, are yet not turned out with that
exquisite completeness of finish one always
looks to find in the ordnance which WhitwortI
and Armstrong send forth from their shops
A trunnion piece, single forging for gun
weighs about ten tons; and this presume tt
be meant for the great steel cannon. Some
very fine English locomotives are also il
their places. The best of them have eithe
been made for, or since their completion have
been purchased by, the Pacha of Egypt. His
Hiebness seems to have a liking for the bes
engines of the kind, and in 1862 bough
nesrlv all the finest shown. trophy speci
men of English brick in the British depart
ment is attracting much attention. 1t is
lofty screen built entirely of the finest brick
work. relieved by JaS-relief panels and beau
tifnllv decorated columns of terra-cotta
There will be nothing like this for workman
shin in the whole Exhibition. Indeed, tn
Freneh look upon it as the very perfection
xvbat suoh work should be- The terra-cotta
as sharp and clear as if it had been cast i
bronze, while the colored bricks are laid wit
tbe neatness and finish of cabinet work.
Mr. Beresford Hopes archaeological court
which is now advancing, viii also have som
unique samples of terra-cOtta. The FFenc