The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-16
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NOVELTIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION OF 1873.

t. Is perhaps premature1y rumored that the
authorities of the city of New York intend
sending TO the London Exhibition of 1873
eeries of models and diagrams illustrating the
more important peculiarties of our metropo-
Titan works and their maintenance and
-monaoement. The models will be constructed
40 exact scale and of very large size and the
colorinp and decoration of the originals will
be scrupulously preserved in the copies. In
order to meet the enormous expenses of this
noble undertaking, five times the estimated
amount of money Will be appropriated by the
city authorities.
The grand central figure about which the
Others will be grouped, and which will princi-
pally magnify the glory of democratic insti-
tutions, is the Washington Market Readers
nnacquainted with descriptive geometry can
hardly realize the difficulty of reproducing
this mutangular pile, in which no two lines
are parallel, no two compartments uniform,
and no two slabs of similar size. To faith
fully COPY the coloring of the original by the
Yainstaling processes of art, would occupy
foo much time and leave too little margin on
tbe estimates But, us is often the case when
art fails, science strides in to the rescue. 1t
having occurred to the Commissioners that
the eTaining of doors and the variegation of
wall paper in striking likeness to wood and
stone are done square foot
at a time by the dexterous handling
of ny-ingered tools rather than the painful
penciling of particular lines, they were seized
with the happy inspiration we are about to
disclose. A bucket of yellowish whitewash
having been spattered over the model by
means of a watering pot, syringe full of
blood will be squirted on the walls and case
ments, and the base of the model will then be
violently soused into pool of pigment repre-
senting as nearly as modern art will allow the
unapproachable hue and texture of West street
mud From specimens of this style of deco
ration which we have been permitted to gaze
upon, we venture the opinion that no Claude
can show such brilliant blending of colors,
nor no precise Pre-Raphelite painting of the
period such fidelity to nature.
The exhibitions Of models of public works,
however, is not unprecedented The novel
feature of this spectacle will be its illustra-
tion by panorama and pantomime. A num-
ber of skilfully manipulated marionettes
will represent the adventures of a party of
Englishmen on the way from the North
river steamer to the Cortlandt ferry in a
West street car. No expense will be spared
to make the spectacle gorgeous and COM
plete-the magnificent pile of Washington
Market looming up six or seven feet from
the sidewalk in the morning fog, the rapid
car teeming withJsmiling peasantry (ffty-
seven in number) on their way to gentle
labor, hundreds of lovely butcher carts, with
red wheels interlaced like a tropical thicket
across the thoroughfare, the happy, classical
faces of market men and women fitting
among cheerful customers. Plenty, illus
trated by one continuous cornucopia of
melon-rinds, rotten fruit, and decaying garb-
age knee deep from wall to wall-all this will
be viyidly portrayed; nor this alone. There
will be the busy hum of men, the gentle plea
santry of the car driver, the quiet humor of
the butcher boy, and the patient expostula-
tion of cornered hackmen. This is an exhi-
bition of which Americans may be proud,
and, as we think we have before hinted no
expense will be spared to make it worthy of
its originators
Another model illustrating the beautiful
adaptation of the facilities to the wants of the
Western Metropolis will be a North river
wharf. This will be a composite piece,
selected from the choice bits of scenery and
art all along the west side. It's chief features
will be pier of semi-decayed plank and tim
Der, supported on piles of all known dimen-
slons, standing at every conceivable angle on
two sides and crushed down under water on
the third by few thousand of brick.
Ihe warehouse or structure at the entrance
OF the pier will consistof alegend of the period
painted in red, blue and yellow letters seven
feet high. Half the adjacent street will be
permanently occupied by old steam boilers
and stacks OF lumber, the other half by mer
chandlse on the move. The sidewalk will be
arranged as general market and the flank
ing buildings fitted with every appliance fol
hosting in-rum. A drove of mad cattle will
fill up the foreground, and an offal barge or
its way to the Communipaw Flats will reev,
the offing This beautiful spectacle will glad
den the hearts of American tourists in Lon
don, and they may be assured that its proiec
tors were not hampered by any narrow notion
OF economy.
But perhaps the bijou of these art treasures
will be a New York hack, with its horses
driver, and runner in costume-fare five dol
lars a mile, including lesson in department
The New York Post Office $50 soon to be bu
memory of the elegant past), the Hudson
River, New Haven, and Harlem Railway sta
tions, the Fulton Ferry conveniences, the Ne
tropolitan system of utilizing sewage, the
street-cleaning operations and the tenement
houses on the east side, and the other artistic
economical, sanitary and engineering con
structlons and arrangements that illustrat,
the wisdom, enterprise, and fidelity of oul
city rulers, will be faithfully portrayed b,
models and panoramas, at a cost not only
adequate to the Immediate charges of the ar
lists, but ample for contingent expenses.
The object of the exhibition is two fold
First, 1t will convince the British public tha
the lll-natured stories told by their tourists
about our markets, our city transport an,
other Metropolitan works are utterly un
founded. Secondly, it will reflect upon thos
VINO perpetuate these princely monuments o
taste and science, that degree and kind O
no!nIorlety which every right-mnded citize
names. "-'1 '-'0
The ISSUES OF 1869.