Morning journal and courier., 1881-05-04
Wednesday Morning, May 4, 1881.
A MARVELLOUS EXHIBITION.

The Electrical Exhibition which is to be held in Paris next fall will be truly wonder full affair. A correspondent of the Coas71es' gives some interesting particulars concerning the arrangements made. The immense nave of the Palais de rIndustrie will be filled with all important material of electric science. It will be reached by small elevated electric railway which will drop its passengers in the center of the building. In the nave will be a small pond in which miniature steamer will lay miniature submarine cable. In the basement of the building will be Illustrated all varieties of cable and wire manufacture, adjoining but not forming part of the official part of the exhibition, which will comprise all forms of governmental electric apparatus, manipulators, receivers, piles, telegraph posts, isolators, switches and a thousand oth- CT matters of necessary detail in the compi- cated system of commercial or military tele- graphy. Towering above the nave will be an immense lighthouse. By daylight the spec tator will watch the operations of whole army of telegraphers, machinists and other electric specialists, each in his own niche 1; while at night this swarm of operators and motors will be lit by the blaze of a thousand electric lights streaming from the roof-a grand composite of all known systems-Ja- blochkof, Werdermann, Jamin, Siemens, Gramme, Lontin, Noaillon, Meritens Suisse, Wilde, Brush, Swan, Edison, Maxim, Ar maud, Crompton, Brockie, &c., some in globes, others diffused by enormous Bales trieri refectors. Force will be supplied by magnetic and dynamo electric generators amounting to 1,5oo horse power. Fire alarms. electric dials, municipal and police calls, systems of railway signals, electric brakes, train registers, etc., will form part of the show in the Pavilion of the City of Paris. Ia4 s.=z- a
 The exhibition in the upper story will per- haps attract the most attention. Two tele- phone auditoriums will be arranged to con nect, one with the opera and the other with the Theatre Francais, will be richly furnish ed and supplied with some fifty telephones each, where the auditor, calmly seated in his armchair, may listen to the sonorous recita- tive of M. Villaret, or the bright dialogue of Croizette and Coquelin. In adjoining rooms the visitor may talk through the Herz tele- phone with distant cities like Lyons, Or leans, Dion or dozen others. Next will come series of eight rooms, literal copies of a Parisian apartment of the present day, where everything will be, so to speak, run by electricity The kitchen will be lighted by electric lamps; the range heated by electric currents passing through water; half dog en electric cooks, by means of incandescent platinum wires, will turn out ''electric waf- fes," and electrically heated metallic plates will serve for braziers and chaing dishes. In the dining room the central sunlight, in place of 8 chandelier, can be lighted by the press ure of button or the opening of a door. The dishes will be brought up on an electric dumb waiter. Doctors, errand boys, fremen and servants can be summoned by calls. The parlor will be furnished with electric chandeliers, mantel clocks going by electricity and adorned with electric groups and figures telephonic speaking tubes and electric freplaces. There will be an electric piano to be played by someone at 8 distance and having Carpenter me1ographe to make record of improvisstions. A bedroom, be- sides all sorts of electric calls, will have on the toilet table a set of electric brushes. The billiard room will have an electrical billiard table, which will enable the player to mark his carroms by an electrical indicator. The series of rooms closes with family theatre; !; stage, auditorium, flats and all lighted by the Werdermann electric lamp, which allows the footlights to be instantaneously raised or lowered, filling the room with blaze of illu- imitation, or leaving it in total darkness at will In this pleasant room noted Parisian musical artists will be invited to give con- certs. In addition to all this room will be devoted to electric views, projections and toys, miniature telegraphic apparatus, trick boxes, magic lanterns, railways, telephones, dolls and ;automata-
 Those who are so fortunate as to see this astonishing exhibition will be able to realize the truth of Carlyle's remark -s'The Age of Miracles is not past. The Age of Miracles is forever here" To see the show would be well worth journey across the water.