Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03
OUR PARIS LETTER.

"ASDERISGs ABOUT OLD STREETS OF PARIS.
correspondence OF The Evening Edrl
PARIS, June 18th, 1850.
TneSalon reopened on Saturday after recess
OF nVe Gays Ia this time the important work oil
adjudging the medals, prizes and honorable
mentions has been accomplished. There have
also been many changes made In the hanging
OF the pictures and the placing OF the statues.
The florists who had arranged the parterres In
the great court filled them with fresh products
OF their greenhouses and presented fine
show OF roses. begonias and calceolarias.-
All the other favorite dollhouse plants helped
In the display. The delicate ANIMALS had
large space, and showed TO American
eyes a great variety OF new ana charming
flowers. These were particularly tempting to
the evident amateurs, who went about with
notebook ard pencil making lists with which
to replenish the miniature gardens In the hid
den-away courts, the suburban villas and the
more distant and extensive country homes.
These fresh and glowing flowers, with their
wonderful masses of color, the stained glass at
either end OF the vast hall, and the SOFT light
coming through the shaded glass OF the roof
upon the moving crowds circling and prone
nading In every direction. seemed TO Inform
with life statues and plants. pictures and
flowers; while the great corridor surrounding
all like frame maze a gigantic and vivid
picture, as one stood on the staircase and took
all In with delighted eyes.
The appearance of the court was very differ
ent and far more agreeable than when on an
evening OF the previous week. i made visit
TO see the effect by electric light. There was
then a strange, uncomfortable glare over the
green Of the garden, the faces OF the visitors
and the pictures. Properly managed the cleo
trio light would certainly show these last to
better advantage than any other ARTIFICIAL Qf ft
can be so called Illumination but 1t is placed
so high and Keeps up such bewildering flicker
that really many OF the pictures were quite
CHASTITY under It,. But 1t is something of a
novelty. and so the evening hours at the Salon
drew we'll.
Now we can go from the court to the Salon
ana see the prizes, the envied Me1aileS
d'HonDeuT, the prix du Salon, the first, second
and third class medals and honorable mentions
1t is always qualification to Sef-eSteeI1 to find
ones taste ana judgment confirmed by high au-
thorfty, SO that IL was real pleasure to find
that the Coed Samaritan" had won the great
distinction, the Metallic d Honneur and honor
indeed 10 hold the first place Ia such a con-
course, Monsieur MorOt, who has heen steadily
ascending since, in 1913, he won the PTtX de
Rome, must be proud man to feel that he has
touched tie highest point In modern French
art; add tie verdict OF the public aceords it to
him as unanimously as did the eminent jury Of
his peers. In sculpture the prix du Salon is
borne by N. Luchetet. An exquisite re-
Ginning figure, 'Bi6lis Changed Into a
Fountain" has Inatie him foremost of
French classical sculptOrs The medal OF
honor belongs to Monsieur Carzin for his
statue OF Monsignore Laudrot, made for the
Dagnau, ItrOlle and Pelery. Many are marked
Acquired by the State" very solid and salts
factory marx OF approval Among these are
the Lavoir {washhouse} of Pelery, q wonderfully
real and strong group, with laundreSseS busy
among the homely accessories of tubs and boil
ers soapsucs and indigo blue; large landscape
py Matthias; In the Country" By L&rolle and
The lsblnaei OF RauO, noticed In previous let
Ter. There Is another 1Shmael by CAIN much
admired. The figures OF the lad and his mother
are painted with the most touching sentiment.
and the landscape is fine and true to nature
The list OF honorable mentions Is long, and In
this appears the only American name dlstin-
gulshed by the Jury,-that OF Mr.. Picknell, of
Boston, pupil of Gerome. He exhibits two
pictures, On the Shores Of Marsh" and THE
Road TO Conearneau"
To-day, Thursday, after 10 o'clock. the entree
tCthe Salon was free. 1t was a new aspect.
which this great exposition of art presented
hlied with the people, eager and interested, re-
speeding every rule OF the administration re-
framing from any movement tnimicaI to mic
lures, statues and flowers. Sitting on a bench
IN the park outside, later In the afternoon, 1t
was amusing TO watch them come troopinp to
the Salon. Over the Point de la Concorde. along
the QuaiS, down the COurs de Ia Refine across
sne VIDE. beautiful Place. and from the landings
Salon Is, IL must have been densely crowded ali
the rest Of the afternoon. $3.50
It has undoubtedly been the greatest annual
1A nea vi uouefn ART yet seen. alike in the Inn
menSe space, the number OF works and tae
variety OF hationalities of the artists ft is i'm
possible but that In such vast and mtxei Az
tures-thoroughly bad In subject and in treat
menI witness ito cite very few au amazing
ano namOoy ant yellow lady, high hung at ths.
Gnu OF one room; C0urtois' horrible scene from
Dante'S Inferno, wherein are such unnatural
ana revolving conceptions as make oae turn
away with sick shudder; and miserable in-
Ten ~here mere is drunken wretch sprawl
ing on the floor before his unhappy wife and
DaDies. What possible purpose can 1t serve to
paint such things at all? Surely art. even In
Ils DARKEST, most tragic and most sorrowful III
ana dignity. Here there is nothing but giie and
oeoaSed humanity and the nightmare of a sick
nhaSlnatlon. one must also wonder that In
such school OF drawing as Paris the
ASuru and glar1ng defects of some
OF fhe pictures In outline and anatomy did
NOT 81 once exclude them from even .'fiooringn
companion, as we gaze In establishment at
some ngures. suppose they should get down
ana walk what limping and reelfng there
would bte; how one would run to pun that arm
OIL lol ger; that head more on the neck: thar
nip joint a little less painfully asSeI-not 10
speak OF mouths that couldn't open, chins that
would let everything they hold 90 smash on fine
n0or" My dear, you are too critical. - an
sSeI; DON'T bother looking at the bad ones
there are SO many good, better best There
remains but ten Gays now of this menorabie
salon OF 1850. SO that every day and evening viii
PROBABLY See II as crowded as it is on this one OF
gratuitous admission. -
French clocks have be- 1noe of almost ,np,,,t
60 variety OF form; and Ii ne might nave been
ADDED, Tor really The differ nee or g. s. or even
10 minutes in the hour indiI ated by the ,iaIs All
ABOUT and IN Paris, seemed Of no consenna1ce
ana 10 ca Use no remark or co 1plafat But late,
" we nave changed all that All at once a
lew ~teks ago, sprapg up Oh the places and
pou!eNarus opposite TO the churches ana public
DulIuinSs, TAI brOnze posts bearing clocks. NOT
ntIy handsome In shape and feature but keep
mg liIne equal TO Old Sol himself. They are the
new pneumatic clocks, destroying al one fen
stroke all shifts and subterfuges OF belatad or
unpunctual appointment keepers and re-
morselessly crushing the trembling last hopes
0i nuri.l ing travellers u 1t they may be
little fast Or the railroad fine a
little Slow. sure as fate, ''Timel" Is signalled
from the observatory, and .aTiIoe.o responds
every Dig Clock, little clock, corner pendulum
ana mahtelpeee biJou. For Time is now Laid
on IKE water and gas supplied by pipes, and
nttea 10 the ancient family upright, as Wen as
70 the gold and ormolu boudoir Ornamental
Cox Nay, Is IL lot In the near future pOSsthll-
itt mat soon the breath OF tiin may issue from
~ marine pipe through some aerial faucet to
Tie ocean steamer lines, as the passengers watch
IN baud aSSaiI the much enduring purSers or
sic" ARDS with the daily question whats
ocicrk?' This unffcatfOn or Time "a tI g re
pc 20 IN the journals, Is the result OF the per-
seyeilng laoors OF Monsieur Victor Popp. lad
InlIe the apropoS OF the name). Since The i5th OF
last March there Is q central Office in the Rue
81 Anne. where pneumatic reservoirs steam
engines, machines OF most ingenious constrlc-
Uoli ana rows OF dfalS, reserves and stop COCKS
aie In communication with pipes placed In the
FAMOUS eoo,ts or sewers OF the city, which con-