The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-08-17
Our Paris Latter.

hbits-The Canada 7rophy-THeg great Ele-
vator in Frocadero.
PARIS, Jnly 31st, 1878.
In spite ofthe topical heat the past week,
the number of visitors to the Exhibition has
not materially diminished and yet is in
tolorably hot in the galleries of the Champ
de Mars, and the sun burns down merciless-
ly on the promenadeurS 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 Frocadero terraces, where the
flowers and grass are kept fresh by system
of incessant watering, and where the foun-
tains and cascade help to cool the air.
Since it has been found impossible to in
stal 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 Turkish sweetmeats, Algerian
fruit, Russian kames, English buns, Partisan
gaufiers, and Persian scraps in various
places
The captive balloon in the Place du Car
rousel is now visible from all parts of Paris,
its huge bulk towering over the buildings of
Louvre and Tuileries. The public is to be
permitted to make ascents next week, the
price being fixed for 20 fir. each person. In
the meantime the balloon has been up twice,
to height of 1900 feet the second time
Nine. Goddard and Nine. Dartoss 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 a burning one.
OF course nobody knows anything of what
is going on in the jury room nor in the jury
mans breast but there are certain rumors,
and some not Of pleasant kind. These do
not however refer to any of the American
exhibitors. Yesterday some very interesting
experiments, with the telephone and phono-
graph combined were made in the teegraphic
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
uisa rerSd. After this the interlocutor at
Versailles sang an original song through the
telephone, which was taken down in the
phonograph at the Champ de Mars, and it
was sung and repeated by this instrument,
amid general applause. These are among
the first experiments which have been made
with the two instruments together, and it is
evident that they may be very usefully ap-
piled.
If you have duly obtained press pass TO
the Exhibition adorned with your photo
graph, and with official signatures, which
render it doubly valuable to posterity, then
you haye the right to claim admittance to
the Press Pavilion. 1t is situated near the
post-ofiice, and has a telegraph Office of its
own but this has practically broken down
and the journalists 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, and one supplied with
all the newspapers. Have all the princi-
pal papers in the world, and through the
care Of some Polish gentleman connected
with the Partisan press, the pavilion is es-
pecially rich in Slanomic papers. The pa
Wilton has many studies and boudoirs, in
addition to the great reading room and
ladies and music are, it is said, not to be ex-
cluded from it. 1t is hoped however, that
some rooms will be preserved for solitude
and quiet, or the benefit of all its other ad-
vantages will be lost to the working bees of
journalism, for whom it was designed.
France, Italy, and Belgium contain the
chief centres of production of marble-work.
In consequence Of the increased facilities for
transport and the decrease in customs duties,
| this branch of industry has hourished and
increased considerably in France since 1870.
Paris in this, as in SO many other industries,
| is the chief seat of the trade, also from Mar
| pai1 tbn
| Java. The great works at the Louvre the
| Touileries, and the New Opera House have
brought the employment of marble decora-
tions in luxurious habitations into general
! favour. Working 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
manufacture 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 com
paratively large staff of artists and work.
men. Thus, the models executed in potter's
clay are cast by the moulder, and the orna-
ments are stamped either in statuary, paste
board, millboard, Stof, or plaster.
The Canadian trophy is one Of the great
!
nentlv before the notice of American tourists
because it is close to the Amerscan refresh
ment 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 a great
gilded mass raised in the air, apparently
without any sufficient means of support,
which, nevertheless, testifies TO the riches of
Canada, by an inscription setting out that it
represents in bulk the amount Of gold gath
cred in Canada up to the end ofthe year 1877,
1852 900 ounces in British Columbia ,27l 900
in New Scotland, $4,000 in other provinces
making total amount of 4,l73,0OO ounces
worth SSs, 400 900.
The elevator in the Frocadero 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 2S3 feet above the surface Of the
= hill on which it stands, and TO 800 feet above
3 the level of the Seine. The piston by which
, it is worked descends into a well, which
passes through the old quarry below TO the
depth of l6 feet below the level Of the sea
S The eounterpoises, each of which is eompos
/ ed of Of q mass of iron 6j feet long anC