New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-16
OUR PARIS LETTER.
(From our regular correspondent.)
PARIS, sept. 26th, 1878.

PARIS, sept. 26th, 1878.
let us finish to-day our tramp and
rambles on Champ de Mars so pleas.
antly begun and described in my last
letter. The first house we visit con-
tains the exhibit Of the English
Navy. Not a single engine or boil.
er is to be seen, not one of those
gems Of engineering which propelled
the little steam launches of their
navy under charge of jolly British
tars, and Haunting under British.
bunting; in fact they have scarcely
any naval exhibition whatever, while
the marine exhibits of France are
superb What England shows may
be sumed up in few words. Cum
ard, White Star, and 1mrie compa-
MES, and two or three ship.building
companies and firms; one anchor;
one screw propeller, and one boat
lowering apparatus, models and a
few pleasure boats. And this is the
naval collection of Great Britain!
This pityful exhibition is all the
more compicuously small from the
extent of the crowded French annex.
es, which cover an area Of at least a
hundred times the extent cf the Bri.
fish naval shed, covering nearly the
whole extent of the river side.
The enormous French Annea which
fills the British side of the berge, is
appropriated to the special exhibition
Chambers of Commerce and parts Of
Flance. Each parts exhibits sepa-
rately its principal imports and ex-
ports, the packages in which they
arrive, marks, and other commercial
characteristics and local peculiari-
ties, charts, plans, statistics engineer.
ing and other reports and drawings.
1t is commercial museum on a
scale never before attempted, and
the arrangement is as simple, and
consequently, as sensible, as could
be conceived. 1t is an exhibition
worthy of the Government and local
authorities Of a great nation.
Passing beneath the dry arch of
tile Jena Bridge, another annex OF
the same size as the preceding is
reached. This is divided into three
sections. devoted respectively to
means of saving life from fire and
water and navigation, and all are as
we'll filled as possible. The last and
most important includes several en-
zines, boilers and other ship
machinery Of large size, and small
apparatus and fittings innumerable;
and there are some very curious
models Of coast protectors, floating
batteries, and special vessels built
for speed, and to draw little water,
double cigar boats, and several other
curious forms, one of these is lettered
''Havre ct New York
All the immense annexes which
run the whole length of the Champ
de Mars on the French side, which
occupy nearly all its width, proved
insufficient, for just beyond the nau.
tical annex is an additional one OF
considerable size, for pumps and
other hydraulic apparatus in motion;
and there almost every imaginable
kind of pump, lifting, forcing, cent
rifugal, revolving and chain pumps
garden engines, &c., are to be seel.
in action, bringing tons of water out
of the Seine and pouring it back a.
gain.
: At this point the waterside is
blocked but by ascending a large
flight of wooden steps, which
pass over the Avenue de Ia Bourbon.
niaye into the Agricultural Section;
or, if possessed Of season ticket,
by passing out Of one gate and en-
tering that opposite, you arrive at
the office and wharf of the little
steam fly boats that run from here
to Paris; and then a little further on,
the salt water aquarium is reached.
It occupies large space, but except
with respect to oyster breeding and
cultivation, which has been prose.
cuted with much skill and some sue
cess in France, the aquarium posses
ses scarcely any interest few eels
and small fish are all it contains.
The oyster beds of Arcachon and
other places. the mode of planting
them, and the processes employed in
the beds are well illustrated.
Returning over the bridge or
through the gates, the French d.
vision Of the horticultural portion