The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-05-16
LANCASTER, OHIO, MAY 1e. 1885,
The Great paris Exposition.

George Alfred Townsend, the
special Paris Exposition eorrespon-
dent of the New York Tribune,
writes by the last steamer a very
interesting letter to that paper. He
says the population Of the Exposi-
tion, exclusive ofvisitors, is $4,000.
The French occupy about halt the
space, The United States occupies
one.sixteenth of the remaining
half, and has ga retired but pleas
ant position" The following pic
turesque passage from Mr., Town
sends letter gives a view of the
French department worthy Of
study:
"Straight down the Grand Ave-
nue., among innumerable fonntains,
statues and curious edi6ces, under
the green and golden vellum cano
py, that the wind is rending as if
il were King Lear's embroidered
shirt, you find the great arched
portal, broad and high, before you,
and the broad exterior circle seven.
ty feet high, iron and glass, sweeps
awayinto distance, crowded with
whirling, humming machineries,
To the right J ou see the Englieh
looms and engines, to the left the
panorama Of the French between
them, straight before you, the
grand vestibule flashes into the
heart of the palace, and shows the
statues ard fountain lights of the
garden atits extremity. Down the
circle of the machinery there is a
platform raised above the wheels
and belts, and as wide as COM
mon road, Along this you walk.
and make the widest circuit of the
Worlds Fair. This is what you
sec: France lies to the left, her
gallery stairway supported by
enormous pyramids OF copper, zinc,
iron, and steel, and at their crests
two revolving lights, like giant dia-
monds, 60 wheeling crystal all the
while. Along the gallery. at in
tervals, great engines stand, in the
solid floor below, to turn the shafts
that put all the machines in mo-
tion. These engines represent each
city in France, and tho machines
they turn represent all the practi.
cal arts which France essays. A
steady line of workmen, male and
female, reach among the brasses
and wheels, and these are dressed
in the blue blouzeS and paper caps
that the French ourrier keeps so
neat and SO we'll. Now and then
committee makes its appearance,
armed with eyeglasses and ques-
tions, then the master of the manu-
factory comes up with his best and
most nervous volubility. There
are series of railway bars from the
forges of the Moselle that show be-
side them the history of their con-
struction; the mine, the mill, the
process; and near to these a hum
dred fabrics, made from the cop
per from Ardennes, arise beautiful
and refined, as so much gold and
silver. Next you remark, for all
marine uses, leagues of ropes of
wrought iron from Epinac and
Blanzy, such as bind the navies,
yet do not conduct the lightning.
Magazines of cutlery and weapons,
equal to the outfit of o small army,
stand cleaning in the cases, and
the great Powell engines of Rouen,
close at hand, stand in their monu-
mental frames like Sampson bend
ing at the pillars of GAIA. Here
are long lines of spinners, moving
the spoools' that ride upon their
railways, with o Thousand teeth
apiece, and every tooth a prestidig'
itateur, eating your yarn to. give
back cloth and silk. Alternated
with these are frequent models Of
public works-the forts, bridges,
aqucducts, tunnels systems of sew
erage OF France-and now some
bonnet apparatus, of cunning
thought, which covers dozen
heads at every revolution, gives
tints with its reflected ribbons to
the enormous light houses Of Cher
bourg and Nazaire, their innumer-
able crystals bigger each than O
gamblers dream of ia diamond PIN
Concerning the American part o.
the Exposition, Mr.. Townsend
writes
"The American Commissioner in
Paris is a patriotic gentleman
without executive abilityrand witt
little knowledge of the idiosnycra
sizes of his countrymen. Our goods
are scattered, one.half of then
standingin shed or dnnere, ou
of the way while the total of then
could be made to fill the sector o
the main building appropriated t
} us. This main sector is ornament
ed with shields and seals of the
States A French engine, of thu
J size that we see grinding choca
late, runs our machinery but We
are now putting up fair Corlis'
engine, one out Of five that WI
show, in the American anner'
where you can see the French com
, mittees of award at work each day
looking learnedly, the most char
acteristic of our inventions stand
, Conspicuous in tho midst is tn
beautiful Grant locomotive, "Amer
| ica," the largest and finest eve
. seen in Europe, built at Patterson
D New Jersey, standing high ant
! colossal, its engine.house made Q