New-York tribune., 1867-05-02
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.

BELGIAN, ENGLISH, AED AMERICAN SCHOOLS 49, THh
UEPARTMEET or EGYPT AND BARBARY-PRER ITALvs
txHIBIT GREECE AND RUSSIA FRANCE AND III
eIAED-THE AMERICAN DEPARTMENT
P,m Our Special Correspondent
PARIS, April 10. 1867
When the Emperor opened the great Fair of the
Chaap de Mars. wrote yOu a hurried story Of the
,eepe Il has until now been impossible TO speak of
the interior so vast was ITS confusion; but at last
order method and splendor have developed out ofits
chaos | can. as well now as at any future time,
satisfy YOU upon the contents OF the Exhibition
There is to be considered the Exhibition proper,
huee circular building and one separate building IN
the great park for the surplus goods OF each nation
The articles exhibited in these are said TO number
sOOOO0 and TO be presented by $4,000 individuals
The population OF the Exhibition exclusive OF Visit
ors is 10 Geo. I'm the main building everything rs III
Guided save the most bulky machneries, and the
furnitures and statues designed to ornament the
grounds. and its numerous pleasure houses The
s,s of money paid by suffers and camp-followers OF
every SORT for licenses and spaces make six hundred
thousand gold dollars For exhibitors space tie re-
CENTS are threeourhs as much. The alleged cost of
the Government work. including park and grounds,
was g., 100000 of the private enterprises within and
around it, $4OOOOo. There are 10 separate bureauX
snd edificcs within the enclosure. The mere cata-
ogue of the articles shown requires closely printed
octave book of 1900 double column pages.
The products are divided into classes, grouped in
10 great departments, viz: Fine Arts, Liberal Arts,
Furniture Clothing, Products, Machinery, Food Pro
ducts Farming Horticulture and lastly, Social In
strumentalities, both OF Tools and Plans.
The French Exhibition comprises very nearly one
half of the great buildi; e. and is parceed into 9G
spaces each exhaustive OF one branch of trade
or art Equal method does not extend TO the other
nations but both French and foreigners follow the
general plan of continuing certain sort OF goods
around the concentrc circles of the building and
crossing the fabrics with the nations. The United
States occupies One-siXteenth of the half remaining
from the French, and the English one-fOurth. Bel
gium is second only 10 the English in space, aud
Prussia aud Austria come next in consequence.
Switzerland and the United States rank sixth and
seventh. The United States has retired but
pleasant position, and though it is more backward
than any other nation in point of placing its goods
properly the last few days have advanced il very
much. To traverse the circumference of the great
building takes married couple about 20 minutes.
The married couple gait is the average one believe,
and at the same agreeable speed the park itself wre
quire 45 minutes 10 complete the recangle of IT, With
all this kept well in your mind, come with me from
the City of Paris the Bridge of jena, and Mr.
Beckwith does not give the correspondents tickets
land ho has no other courteses worth accepting as
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prefers he shouldn't we viii each lay down one
franc upon the tun-stle. and the satA cato that
admits ms re stcrs our number. Woe he 10 the gate
keeper if the wicket at night says 1900 visitors and
the box says only 800!
Straight down the Grand Avenue, among mnumeT-
able fountains, statues, and curious ediccs under
the green and golden veum canopy that the wind is
rending as if it were King Lears embroidered shirt,
you find the great arched portal broad and high he
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iron and glass, sweeps away into distance, crowded
with whiTling, humming machineries. To the right
you see the English looms and engines, to the LETT
the panorama of tine French between them straight
before yOu the grand vestibue flashes into the heart
of the Palace and shows the statues and fountain
| lights of the garden at its extremity Down the
circle of the machinery there is a platform raised
| above the wheels and belts, and as wide com
| mon road. Along this YOU walk, and make the
widest circuit of the Worlds Fair This is what you
see France lies TO the left her gallery stairway sup
ported by enormous pyramids of copper, zinc, iron,
| and steel, and at their erests two revoly-
| ing lights, like giant diamonds 60 wheeling
crystal all the while. Along the gallery, at in
ervals great engines stand in the solid floor below,
/ to turn the shafts that put all the machines III mo-
ion. These engines represent each city in France.
and the machines they turn represent all the prac-
cal arts which France essays steady line of work
men, male and female, reach among the blasses and
wheels and these arc dressed in the blue beHae and
paper caps that the French ourrer keeps neat and
| 80 WELL Now and then a committee makes IT'S APP
pearance, armed With eyeglasses and questions,
aud then the master of the manufactOrg comes up
with his = best and most nervous volub bility.
There are series of railway bars from the forges of
the Mosele that show beside them the history of
i their construction: the mine the MILL the process:
and near to these hundred fabrics, made from the
Il copper from Ardennes, arise beautiful and refined
A. so much gold and silver Next you remark. for all
marine uses leagues of ropes of wrought iron from
gpinae and Blanzy such as bind the naves. Vet do
not conduct the lightning. Magazines of cntlery and
we apOns equal to the outfit Of small army, stand
Reaming in their cases and the great Powell engines
~ RolIen close st hard Stand in their monumental
hrames like Sampson bending at the pillars OF GAIA.
Here are long lines of spinners moving the spOOs
Ethat ride upon their railways, with thousand teeth
Ayarn TO give back cloth and silk Alternated With
Hsll these are frequent models OF pubhe
works-the forts, bridges aqueanctf, tunnels sys,
Items of sewerage OF FIance-ahd now some
EbOnnet apparatus, Of GINNING thought which covers
dozen heads at every revolution, gives tlits with Its
Nrenected bbOns to the eaOfnOus lighthouses OF Cher
bourg and Nazaire their innumeable crystals bigger
each than gamblers dream of a diamond pin. Again
you see in of srm0ial OrnsmenaiOn, models OF
the whole French marine. from an oar up to A-gun
ship with monitors all cleared for action, and every
irOnclad in miniature with her engines and screws
succeeds. headed by the Paris locomotives. and
followed by experimental trains that are, IN
reality, not only sleeping cars. but households
some of them three stOTied. Over the gallery
I reaches the grand arch of an organ. built like
cathedral. with every pipe Gothic shaft and out
of it pouring the glory of music, as 1t the morning
stars sang together As one advances in midi air so
looking down at the competing instruments of such
Il wonderful hives of industry as R0uen, Lyons and
Lille Le sees the nestDess Of the nation and its tond-
ness for ornament shown OF every oiled lever. The