The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-18
Correspondence
OUR PARISLETTER
Echoes from Paris TrOcaderO, the
Grand Palace of Festivities-FOun-
tains, Cascades, Gardens and Flowers.

IARIS, Oept- 70, 1910.
The trains are yet flooding us with Wis
itors, they bring hundreds, nay, thous-
ands, from the provinces daily. Only
the other night one train from Dieppe
brought five hundred. 1t is almost i'm
possible to crowd the Exhibition, two
hundred thousand would not do that,
except in a few comparatively confined
sections where committees of arrange
ments have created what are practically
cul de sac-a sad mistake. The average
has now reached nearly 10000 day;
the average for the whole period to the
emo ol August is over $1,000 day; and
the money taken for tickets, alone, con-
siderably over 100000 francs.
September has been the grand month
for pleasure, partridges and Exhibitions,
and our own countIymen have, next to
England, doubtless, supplied the largest
foreign contingent. The Trocadero has
grand character ofits own; it is COM
plete in itself, and deserves special treat
ment. He must be an ardent sight seer
indeed, who will get through the Indus
trial Building of the Champ de Mars,
and finish his day by working up the
Trocadero. The Trocadero not only
has its own facade and grand entrance,
but these form one of the remarkable
features, from an architectural view, of
the whole Exhibition; and what is more
1t is considerably more easy of access
than the other building. On the Ante
nil line of railway a special station called
the Avenue du Trocadero has been built:
visitors from the terminus of st Lazare,
or any other station on the line, reach it
in few minutes, for four or six sous,
and ten minutes walk, or comforta-
BILE tramway carriage will set them down
at the building.
The Palais des Fetes, as it is baptized,
is peculiar in its architecture, and has
been dubbed Byzantine Renaissance Of
the 10Th century" but 1t is a very strik-
ing building, grand in proportions, cap
ped with two elegant towers, and occu-
pies most imposing position. The ap-
proach to it is especially striking; in
front is the largest basin of water con-
tanning the grandest fountain in all Par
is. The water is not spouted out of
shells, nor out of the mouths of amphib-
ious, mythical, or any other kind ofani-
mails, but is thrown up in grand gerbe,
or sheaf, from mass of bronze bulrushes.
In the centre isone fine jetand all around
falls the limpid and sparkling water in
exquisite curves, breaking into spray
and rejecting the sunshine with the
most varied and beautiful effects. This
fountain is alone worth coming to Paris
to see. The basin is probably hundred
feet in diameter and the fountain is quite
large enough for such basin. Around
the former is broad band of brilliant
flowers, outside this gain an emerald
slope and slight iron fence, and again,
beyond, there is fine circular promen-
ade with double row of trees. Oppo-
site this grand fountain is the great Sale
des Fetes, not, however, visible from
this, the Passy, side. Two grand
entrances, one On each side of the GEN.
trail portion, lead into noble vestibules,
the roof supported by massive polished
pillars of Jura stone, with handsomely
sculptured capitals and bases, and be-
tween these some pieces of sculpture in
bronze, including fine Buddha from
Japan. From these vestibules, doors
lead into the grand sale, or amphithea.
tre. The decorations of this sale are
light and effective. Right and left of
this gigantic central body, like those of
an extra large specimen of the
famous roc, the outspread wings
of the palace. extend more
than a thousand feet across the whole of
the hill, and, curving gracefully, seem to
half enclose the lovely grounds in their
embrace. The park front of the central
sale, as well as of the wings, is arcaded
throughout its entire length, and from
it an admirable view is obtained not
only of the river and the Exhibition on
the opposite bank, but of a considerable
part of Paris on the one hand, and of the
suburbs on the other. Here, too, the
great cascade, the fountains and the
plantations are seen to advantage. On
the plinths of the head of the cascade,
and on others which surround the basin
below, are fine emblematical figures of
personages and animals in bronze gift,
by some of the best sculptors in France;
and below and beyond, the French and
other gardeners have exhibited their
utmost skill, The cascade is not consid-
cred success. There is large body of
water, but the frilf is altogether too
measured, too artificial to produce much
affect, except when regarded from the
edge of the great basin the garden below.
l should mention that the immense ba-
sin referred to above is the reservoir
that supplies the cascade. Below are
fine jets of water, and at the sides of the
cascade a number of small fountains
which have charming effect There is
however, much to notice before descend
ing into the grounds beneath.
On the first floor most OF the congress