The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-19
PARIS SMILING.
The Gay Queen City Receives the
Homage Of the Nations.
ROYALTY BY WHOLESALE.
Republicans Merry Over Falsifed
Monarchical Prophecies.
THE GREAT EXPOSITION.
Progress of the Arrangements
The Laggards.
A PECULIARLY PARTISAN EXHIBIT.
The Denni-Monde Congress in
the Pavilion Gardens.
A FETE TO THE PRINCE OF WALES.
General Grants Distinguished VISITORS
lie Praises Polo.
Progress of the Arrangements
The Laggards.
A PECULIARLY PARTISAN EXHIBIT.
The Denni-MOnde Congress in
the Pavilion Gardens.
A FETE TO THE PRINCE OF WALES
General Grants Distinguished Visitors
lie Praises Polo.
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PARIS, May Is, 1878.
The weather for the past week has been
like that Of the opening day-sunshine and
plete transformation of the Great EXPOSE
ton grounds. The progress Of the trans
planted vegetation has been very rapid and
the verdure has delightful springtime
freshness about it which gladdens the eye
at every step. Paris IS full of visitors al
ready, foreign and domestic, although the
great delegations from the provinces have
not yet begun to flow Parisward, as they
undoubtedly will after the middle Of next
month
PROGRESS AT THE GREAT SHOW.
The past week has done much toward
putting all the exhibits in order The
American department is oil but completed,
the interesting educational exhibit and the
machinery in the annex being the only
backward portions thereof They are, how
ever, pulling up manfully for lost time.
LAIssEz-FAInE FRENcHMEN.
The same energy may be credited to all
the other foreign departments. The French
exhibitors are the greatest laggards. In
their cases it is more than ever true the less
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one is to procrastination. They whistle
and sing and progress as if the Exhibition
was to remain open for all eternity
ORIENTAL CIVILIZATION
The Chinese pavilion is finished and is
great attraction. The inner life of these
soi-dsasa barbarous nations, China and
Japan, is astonishing these vain French
men, who believe in no civilization but
their own. 1t is very curious to listen to
the comments one hears among the Oriental
exhibits. The Partisan artisan, above all,
can appreciate the delicate skill shown by
the cunning workmen Of China and Japan,
whose labor in many fancy branches is
coming into keen competition with their
own.
CAMILLE EXHIBITION.
One notable feature of the exhibition and
not the most creditable, is that the Partisan
cocoaes have already established their show
place within its eaceinte. At three in the
afternoon every day the lovely garden sur
rounding tho pavilion Of the city of Paris,
which, you may remember, is in the very
heart of the main buildings on the Champ
de Mars, is crowded with tho silk-clad
queens of the demi-naonde, and there they
hold their shameless l6vees.
AT THE COURT or pHnYNE.
The most notorious that is, the most
fashionable-of ces danes have quite court
Of idiotic young butterflies Of fash ion
around them daily, and many are the
troubles already charged to this unlocked
for addition to tho French exhibits. OF
course these whited sepulchres lead the
mode in dress, and it not infrequently hap
pens that ladies' of family are seen as they
pass to eye the groups of daintily clad
cocottes, evidently for hints upon costume
not, let us hope, for hints upon manners.
But we are easy-going here, and the most
sedate Frenchman, when the bad effect of
such gathering upon the young and in
nocent is pointed out, will shrug his shoul-
ders and say, "Eatin, que rouies rous p
they pay their admission like the rest"
AN IscESDIAgY sPEcrnr.
Last Tuesday night there was great excite
ment through the city upon the news being
circulated that an attempt had been made
to burn the Exhibition buildings. Some
said that the fire had been started in tho
French section Of the main building and
that only the promptest measures pre-
vented catastrophe. 1t was not known ut
whose door the attempt should be laid.
Some said the Communists others the
royalists but denunciations were 'loudest
against the latter.
ONLY FIRE BALLOON.
Investigation showed that the whole