The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1878-08-17
Our Paris Letter.
[From Our Regular Correspondent

PHoSoG PIP COMFORTS FOR NEWSPAPER
MEN-MARBLR ExHIBITs-THE CANA
DIAN 1kopHY-+THE GREAT ELEVATOR IN
TRocADERO.
In spite of the tropical heat OF the
past week, the number of visitors to the
Exhibition has not materially diminished;
and yet it is intolerably hot i'll the galleries
of the Champ de Mars, and the sun burns
down mercilessly on the promeneurs out
of doors. Still there are shady hooks
here and there. If there is the least
breeze stirring, it is to be felt on the
Trocadero terraces, where the flowers
and grass are kept fresh by a system Of
incessant watering, and where the foun-
tains and cascades help to cool the air.
Since it has been found impossible to
install military band in the Exhibition
grounds, several of the restaurants have
set up music OF their own. One band
plays at the British bar, and another at
the Spanish cafe. Several small Bullets
for the sale of cakes and iced drinks are
newly opened, and the visitors, including
ladies and children. are now well supplied
in this respect; they may also buy Turk
ish sweetmeats, Algerian fruit, Russian
kumes, English buns, Partisan gauffres,
and Persian scraps in various places.
The captive balloon in the Place du
Carrousel is ROW visible from all parts oil
Paris, its huge bulk towering over the
buildings of the Louvre and Tuilleries.
! The pubic is TO be permitted to make
ascents next week, the price being fixed
at 20fr. each person. In the mean time
the balloon has been up twice, to q height
of 1900 feet, the second time Nine.
Goddard and Nine. Darsois were of the
party.
The exciting moment for the exhibitors
is arrived, the jurors are finishing their
work, and the question of prizes, and
especially of the grand prizes of honor,
is burning one. OF course, nobody
knows any thing of what is going on in
the jury room, nor in the jurymen's
breasts but there are certain rumors and
some not of o pleasant kind, These do
not however refer to any Of thu American
exhibitors. Yesterday some very intef>
esting experiments with the telephone
and photograph combined were made in
the telegraphic section, before the jury.
The mouths of the two instruments were
placed together, and the words engraved
upon the Photographic cylinders were
soon heard distinctly in the telephone
reception room at Versailles, and Uice
rersa, After this the interlocutor at
Versailles sang an original song through
| the telephone, which was taken down in
the photograph at the Champ de Mars,
and it was sung and repeated by this IN
strument, amidst general applause.
These are among the first experiments
which have been made with the two in.
struments together, and it is evident that
they may be very usefully applied.
If you have duly obtained Press pass
to the Exhibition adorned with your
photograph, aud with official signatures,
which render it doubly valuable to pos.
terity, then you have the right to claim
admittanee to the Press Pavilion. 1t il
situated near the postoffice, and had q
telegraph Office of its own but this has
practically broken down, and the journal
lists use now the same wires and letter.
boxes as other men. The value of the
pavilion is in affording cool and quiet
retreat to write in, and one supplied with
newspapers, Here are all the principal
papers in the world, and through the
care of some Polish gentleman canne0ted
with the Partisan press, the pavilion il
especially rich in Slavonic papers. The
pavilion has many studies and boudoirs
n addition to the great reading-room /;
and ladies and music are, it is said, not to
be excluded from it. It is hoped, how.
ever, that some rooms will be preserved
for solitude and quiet, or the benefit nI
Fall its other advantages will be lost to the
working bees OF journalism, for whom it
was designed.
France, Italy, and Belgium contain the
chief centers of production of marble.
work. In consequence of the increased
facilities for transport, and the decrease
in customs duties, this branch OF in
dustry has hourished and increased con-
siderably in France since 1870. Paris in
this, as in so many other industries, is
| the chief seat OF the trade. The marbles
are brought from the north, also from
Marseilles, the Pyrenees, the West, and
from Jura. The great works at the
Louvre, the Tuilleries, and the New
Opera House have brought the employ
ment of marble decorations in luxurious
habitations into general favor. Work
ing in marble is divided into four distinct
branches namely, buildings, decorations,
clockmaking, and monuments. Each OF
these branches is well represented in class
IS; but the merit of the French manu~
facture is especially noticeable in the
marble decorations, the execution OF
which will bear comparison with the work
of the Renaissance, or the time of Louis
XIV. The art of ornamental sculpture
employs a comparatively large staff of
artists and workmen. Thus, the models
executed in potter's clay are cast by the
moulder, and the ornaments are stamped
either in statuary, pasteboard, millboard,
staff, or plaster.
The Canadian trophy is one of the
great sights of the Exhibition, and comes
prominently before the notice of Amer
lean tourists, because it is close to the
American refreshment department. Solid
petroleum is among the riches shown in
the Canadian section, and, as the sight
seer makes his way towards the trophy
he comes upon great gilded mass raised
in the air, apparently without any sufi-
cient means of support, which, neverthe-
less testifies to the riches of Canada, by
an Inscription setting out that it repre-
sents in bulk the amount OF gold gath
cred in Canada up to the end of the year
1877, namely, 1852, 900 ounces in British
Columbia, 81 900 in New Scotland, So
900 in other provinces, making a total
amount of 4,l73,000 ounces, worth $685.
100000.
The elevator on the Tricadero is at last
finished, and will be placed at the disposal
of the visitors within two or three days.
Even those who know the building well,
and have watched the progress of the
elevator are astounded by its enormous
proportions. The tower in which it is
erected rises to the height of 283 feet
above the surface of the hill on which it
stands. and to 800 feet above the level Of
the Seine. The piston by which it is