New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-05-18
enough remaining to summon Europe to such a

festival.
| For want Of time saw nothing, and said nothing
! on Wednesday of the condition Of the CHAMP de
Mars nor how far the predictions OF friends ana
foes, or Of the impartial observer who IS sometimes
more dangerous than either. had been fulfilled.
will fill the gap today, though what have to say
must be of the briefest. Invent up to the Exhibition
this afternoon. Ny only title to admission was
temporary ticket which had expired with the month
of April by Photographic tIcket-Of-leaye had not
yet been ssuet-tickets like most other things, be-
ing behindhand. But no difficulty made on
this score. The only difficulty was to find out the
right wicket through which to enter. On some of
these there signs inscriptions of any sort.
The policeman, respectfully appealed to- supplied the
missing link and underwent for the first time the
formidable ordeal of regular entrance. small
donblc toll house, composed of central passage
with sentry box on either side, cOnfrOnts You. A
squad Of police surround it, but don't oppose your
approach. A policeman bars the narrow passage
way inside A wickct-keepeT TO tho right surveys
the new conner for a second takes my ticket IN
spects it on both sides, and is himself inspected
during the process by his colleague opposite. The
ticket proving satisfactory, wckot-keeper No. 1
mods to Inc and to wcket-keeper No. 2, who in turn
mods TO the policeman, who in his turn mods to Inc
again, and steps civllly aside. suppose that | am
now at liberty TO pass, but am wrong. | had for
gotten wicket-kecper No. 3. to whom my attention
is directed as pass on, and to him also have to
submit my purple card. He is satisfied with the
most cursory glance, mods, strikes bell, and this
time / am really through.
There has been n great change and really surprs-
ing progress; 50 much Is plain at the first glance.
There something to walk on beside pebbles and dust
and mud 4 pavement is down in the transept floor
escwhere-of itself good piece Of work in a single
day and night The annex for carriages which you
pass through first, is really in beautiful order and
the glossy black bodies of the carriages come out well
against the AubussOn carpets with which the walls
are clcyerly covered. Passing into the machine sec
ton see, with still more surprise, machinery actu
ally in motion; and only hear later, with disap-
pointmcnt, that the machines are running empty.
lis but a vain turning Of wheels after ALL and once
You are in the main French section, it is clear that
the best efforts to get things to rights have had,
they could have, but poor results. Group after
group class after class, court after court ii is the
same story. The entrance-way barred across, the
glass cases yelled and screened virines empty and
not a few still in the hands Of the carpenter and
painter; not one single exhibitor on either
side of the transept up which you advance
from the Porto Rapp the principal entranceD in
complete order; hardly anybody with anything to
show in its perfect state. Anything like study of
any one subject is ont of the question: until yOu get
10 the fine arts or TO the foreign sections Part OF
the French Art Gallery is ready all the English
part Of the American; part of other foreign exhibit
tors. The English section, as a whole, machinery
included, is in good order; not all absolutely com
pcted but cight-enths Of the cases well filled aud
aisles cleared of rubbish very little work going on
anywhere under the English flag. In our section
matters are much less advanced; the carpenter and
his packing-case are in possession; the cases which
are ready to look at are the exception and not the
rule Fifteen carloads are outside 200 tons still
10 arrive on French steamer SO elsewhere; Japan,
China and Switzerland excepted. Austria Is among
the most backward, Belgium not with the most for
ward ! still think the first of June likely TO wit
ness the Exhibition, whole, in fit state for the
visits of the public. G.w s.