The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-01-05
FIon the Scientific Amsrican.)
The Paris Exhibition ESu: Id in.

From the variety of descriptions which
have reached US. we condense the i-llowing
outline of the enormous preparations made
by the French Emperor, in the Champs dc
Mars, for III. approaching Nv ord's Con-
srss.r of arts, products and manners
The mons,er building is OF an oblons form,
with rounded corners, coliseumlike, and
covers forty acres. 1t consists, IN fact, of
eight hollow elip,ical structures, one within
arioIneT, -hv~l --:.t-;- ,.LenI ranracrel hv
galleries and corridors, and united by on.
vast iron roof stretching over all. The Ia
most area. st the center, ls magnificent
p.rd-u of trees, flowers, shruhbery, pools,
fountains, cascades, statuary, and iiiu:tra-
ton, of the architecture OF all nations, in the
form Of bowers, cl0isters, Offices, dc. 1t has
a suspended roof OF iron and glass, and oc>
cupies an acre and quarter OF grouni. The
trees in this spacs-wbere six moaths ago
there was not q green thing-havc been trans
planted 1t full size, and the total number
here and elsewhere in The grounds, thus
,ransplantsd, is eight thousand.
Sixty grand arches open into this garden
form the main building around. Between
them, and opening likewise into the garden
are located the cafes or reireshm"nt rooms,
distributed in the divisions proper 10 thor
respective ua,ionnli,ie., and will each pre-
characteristic styles of their several coun-
tries.
The interior area is, of course. open 10 the
lofty roof; likewise the outermCst Ut the
eight .lipticsI structures enveloPirg it Two
grand traverse avenUei-sxtcndIng 10 the
root. but not continued across the centra
parden-divide the whole pile into tosr
1uadr.at shaped -ee,ions. Twelve intsrme>
diate avenues, radiaiing in like manner from
the center. three in each section, again snbS
divide the whole into sixteen grand national
aepartmsuts each core.ins about two and q
half acres. Passing from the ceutre ont
ward through these avenues. the visitor will
inspect ,hirteen successive departments OF
the civilization OF that nationality assigned
TO either side of the avenue the hrst being
that of the fine arts, and the second a mu-
scum of the history oflabor, from the rudest
ages. Following any OF the ei'pticai corrl-
.iers art und the building he will see single
aspect Of civilization, as presented IN diverse
forms and stages of each of the sixteen ma
tionalities. in succession
Light, ventilation, warming, cleansing.
draiEace. etc, are munihccntly provided.
Sof example, the great gaiery fer machinery
IL said to he lighted Oh each side by 2.0oU
windows. $40 in all each of whic'l is about:
pS tSot hlgh ana - leSt Wlue- j ue
ground galleries beneath all parts of the
structure for the various kinds service and
communication, are over three miles iii
length the length of drainage is five miles
Air IS to be introduced and distributed by
mean, of i'm mense steam pumps.
Bat the cost of ;hs work is. perhaps, the
mos. impressive illustration OF its vastness.
The ediics, it is said, will eos. $l6,000, 900,
and the transformation of the grounds So,
000O10 mere. 1t is built entirely of iron
and glass, except the two inner structures,
and the graad portal, which are of masonry.
Six thousand workmen have wrought on the
iron, two Thousand five hundred mnsons on
the foundations fifteen thousand laborers on
The ground, and eleven hundred carriers and
tean,sters, with w~nty>eight hundred horses
have conveyed the materials brought In OIL
removed-an army Of nearly twenty y-fvs
thousand men. And with all this incoaceiv
able forcs, perhaps the greatest marvel is,
that it has been - ably handled as t.. com,
plete the work $50 1t promises to do) within
one year from its commencement. and within
eighteen months from the examination of the
plans OF all the trophies OF human skill tl
be exhibited there. the French will he all,
to point to this dazzling creation with tn,
highest pride.