St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-25

shoes of their ancestors. Japan sent its
representative workmen also, for the
Mikado has contributed a large museum
of historical curiosities, which are To-
Gated in house built on the Oldest pat
tern of japanese architecture. The
japanese workmen, unlike their Chinese
neighbors, discarded the costumes of
their country, and appeared clad very
much in the same fashion as the French
curriers' employed by the commissioners
to bnild the great palace. Below the
great cascade, between it and the Pont
de Jena, are two fountains of elaborate
design and workmanship, which throw
their streams thirty feet into the air.
Just at TIE foot of the cascade, on each
side of it, are two large restaurants, Co.
pable of entertaining thousands of guests
during each day. The intervening spaces
on both sides of the broad slope will be
occupied by pavilions, grottoes and the
model cottages exhibited by different
nations, among the latter being those of
Sweden, Norway, Switzerland: Egypt
and Turkey. In the extreme left
hand corner of the grounds, not
far from TIE Rue de la Tran
chez, stands the large Algerian pa
vilion. This building has been constructed
by native werkmen, and is one of the
most picturesque of all the foreign struc-
lures on the exhibition grounds. 1t is
in the purest style Of Arab architecture.
Among the principal features of the park
is the fresh-water aquarium, situated at
the left of the cascade. 1t contains 5000
cubic metres OF water, In which the fresh
water tribes of the whole world will dis
port themselves for the benefit of the
multitude of spectators. A circular
promenade runs around the aquarium,
while another subterraneous gallery en-
ables spectators to get bottom view of
the shoals Of finny prisoners. The aqua>
rum will be preserved, and become a
part of the permanent museum to be
established at the Trocadero palace.
One bright spot on the slope below the
palace will be the bed in the park COM
tanning 10000 Dutch tulips. Holland has
determined to once more inspire in the
minds of admirers of brilliant color ef-
fects that admiration tor tulips which
once amounted to madness and it is
by this means that she expects to accom-
plish her purpose. On the Quai de Billy,
fronting the river land over its very banks,
is the department of civil engineering,
to which large space has been devoted.
This department is separated from the
park by the sunken avenue Rue de Ia
Tranchee upon which one of the street
railways is built.
Visitors will cross the Seine in going
from the park of the Trocadero palace
by the Point de Jena, which affords a
broad avenue from the permanent exhi-
bition to the temporary one. The bridge
is used for conducting in pipes the inn
meuse supply Of water that will be needed
for the fountains and various exhibition
buildings. The city authorities have
given the use of one of the immense
reservoirs which they possess on the
heights of the Passy for the supply of
water. The weight of iron piping re-
quired for this purpose amounted to no
less than 100000 kilogrammes. Cross.
ing the bridge, ON the east bank of the
Seine, are found the buildings for the
exhibition of articles used in navigation,
which are built on the Quai d'Orsay,
Between the river and the palace of the
industrial exhibition is space of from
twelve to fifteen acres. The center of
this space is laid out as landscape
garden, with beautiful miniature lakes,
flower beds, fountains, and attractive
walks, It is danked by annexes and
other subsidiary buildings, such as res
taurants. Offices and the railway station.
On the right as one goes from the Point de
Jena toward the facade of the exhibition
building, are the pavilions for hor-
ticultural materials and tue English hot
houses. Further ON is the English res
taurant, and grouped behind it are the
handsome structures of the principally
OF Monaco, the luxurious castle of Spain,
floating the national colors, tAe derart.
ments illustrating the progress made in
the methods of caring for the crippled
and wounded, the departments of fire
and police, and, most important of all
in the value and extent of contents, are
the English agricultural anuexes. On
the left of the central approach are situa-
ted the observatory of Mount Souris,
the buildings for the exhibits of tobacco
manufacturers, society for the protection
OF animals, Vidaps Photoglyptique, and
the constructions Of the Societe du
Creuzot, the minister of public works,
the Paris gas company, the water cons
pany, the Conservatives of the horticul-
tural department, the smelling works of
St. diamond, the FORCES of the Black
country, and the Belgian restaurant,
which faces the English restaurant on the
opposite side of the avenue. On the quai
are dozens OF hot houses and an inclosule
for displays of cut flowers. All of these