The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-04-19
From a Regular Correspondent

From Regular Correspondent
HOTEL DU LOUVRE, PARIS, March 25, '7S.
dams la NUT, tous les chats sout grey,"
Gin the nighttime, all cats look grayD, is
a faYorite French proverb, which is par
ticularly applicable to Expositions, it
seems to me. Standing on the Bridge
of Jena, which, by the way, is now un-
dergoing enlargement, and looking
across the Quai d. Orsay and up Avenue
D. Europe, in the Champ de Mars, the
object presented to view is huge mass
of scaffolding. timbers and cross timbers,
derricks, ropes, and pulleys, and work
men scattered, like ants, all over and
about them; precisely as we saw 1t at
Philadelphia in 1876, at Vienna in 1873,
and at this identical spot in 1867. In the
grey twilight of spring evening, it
would, indeed, be difficult to distinguish
the difference; 80 thoroughly are all the
silent points of architecture, which give
individuality covered up by the scaffold-
ing; and were it not for the military
looking and mous.ached gendarmes Sta
toned at the entrance to the exposition
grounds, whose decidedly French phys
iognOmies found no counterpart either
at Philadelphia or at Vienna, one might
easily fancy himself transposed to Fair
mount Park in December 1875, or to the
Prater in 1873.
The aforesaid gendarmes are, however,
not only ornamental, but useful, their
function being to keep all who have no
card Of admission from the exposition
grounds. Through the courtesy of Mr.
I R Pickering, one of our assistant com
missioners, who arrived in Paris a few
days ago, 1 had been furnished with this
requisite, and, therefore, found no diff
Guilty in gaining admission. Ithad been
raining the day before, and the grounds
were very sloppy, muddy, and altogether
inimical to partisan polished boots.
Huge girders lay scattered across the
paths leading to the main entrance. be
tween which other privileged visitors
were carefully picking their way. A
short distance to the left of the entrance,
a huge cage looking structure may be
behind which Austrian work
men, smoking enormous tobacco pipes
while they work, are engaged in putting
together the frame of the Austro Hun
garian house. A stones throw from
them are Norwegian carpenters putting
up . yellow pine structure in the pecu-
lar style of architecture Of the land of
Thor; and still further southwark We
pass the Swiss workmen, who are con-
a charming little chalet, the
Chinese and japanese, who are preparing
most gorgeous and grotesque showcases,
al resplendent with carving and gliding;
and the Turks who, Notwithstanding
their war with Russia, have found time
to erect handsome little chiosque from
which the banner with the halfmoon
floats ever so saucily,a as ifthe Car hadn't
said Turkey" once.
The annex now in course ofconstruc-
ton for the United States will cover
10000 square feet, which is additional to
the space allotted us in the main build |
ING. A short wing connects this annex
NTH the main nave or alley, just back of
the Swedish and Norwegian sections,
Who will be our ne1tdoor neighbour
The motive power for the American
Machinery Division will be Furnished by |
avry f;ne stsam engine ofone hundred