The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1878-07-31
No. 81.

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Champs Elysees and the grand out
lines of the Arc de Triomphe,
It may be considered remarkable
that, from the magnificent man
sions that surround the Place de
lEtoile, not o flag waved except
from the beautiful hotel of Madam
Mackey, the wife of the Great
Bonanza King, and from the man
sion of her mother, Madam Hunger,
ford. Madam aIackey's house was
elegantly draped with the flags of
all nations, the stars and stripes
floating alongside of the tricolor of
France the porch was covered with
the loveliest Of flowers, and the
beautiful little ladys patriotism and
taste made her mansion one Of the
marked features of the fete. Both
houses were elegantly illuminated
in the evening, and grand recep-
ton given by Madam Hungerford
in honor of the event embraced
many Of the elite Of Paris.
In order that the public might
not be inconvenienced, the passage
Of vehicles was interdicted from
many of the principal streets. No
act Of the present age marks more
certainly the change that has taken
place in France than this. A hun
dred years ago and the fellow with
the blue blouse would have had to
fly for his life, while mylord or
monsieur le due dashed along the
street with his mounted positions.
To-day monsieur lie due takes a
back street because the boy in the
blue blouse will not allow him on
the Champs Elysees.
AS the shadows of night fell the
main streets and boulevards be
came a wild surging mass of hu-
man beings who seemed to spring
by millions from the very ground.
Parties of young men and women,
with little flags stuck in their hats
and bearing umbrellas hung with
miniature Chinese lanterns, parad-
ed the streets, singing the Mar
selllalse and shouting Justify ''Vive
la Republique." There was beau
tiful Illumination and fireworks
at the Lakes, a concert of six hun
dred instruments and voices in the
garden of the Tuileries, and the
winding up of the fete was a pro
cession of famabeaur, the lanterns
resembling flowers, the whole being
arranged like. a magnificent and
gaudy parterre of light. When the
procession had passed the crowd,
till then held back by the steady
lines Of the soldiers, closed on their
track like a resistless torrent, made
the welkin ring with shouts Of
'Vive la Republique, and so closed
the grande fete of the Both of June.
The Exposition grows more in
teresting every day from the grad
ual perfection of the display and
the continual additions which are
being made. Much invidious COM
parison has been instituted between
the English and American exhibits,
comparisons which are unfair as
they are unjust. In the first place
England was awarded about five
times the space of any other ma,
tion, and her plethoric treasury was
opened at once to sustain the efforts
Of her high commission. The Uni
ted States space, on the other
hand, was circumscribed within
the narrowest limits yet small as
wasthe beggarly appropriation was
not sufficient for it's absolute ne
cessities. Besides this, there was
not single person, except the
Commissioner General, who had
ever had any prominent official con-
nection with any international Ex-
position before. England, on the
contrary, comes up to the work
with a corps of trained diplomats
and workers who, for this particular
business, could scarcely be matched
in the. world. At the head of the
British commission stands the
Prince of Wales who, aside from
the advantages Of his exalted po-
sition, has had the benefit of re-
peated experience in every great
fair given throughout the world
ever since the first international
Exhibition opened by his honored
father in 1851. Next, comes Mr..
Cunlif.O Owen, a man of exceptional
administrative ability and Of vast
and varied experience in all the
the minutest details Of Interna-