The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1886-07-15
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Preparations for the Next Great
Industrial Exhibition at the
French Capital.
The Tower Of Babel To Be Out
done by a Modern Structure
of Iron
An Elevation of One Thousand Feet To Be
Attained Scientific Experiments
in Prospect.


Times writes: Some French journalists
ire trying to prove that the exhibition OF
1889, having no other aim than the Gel
.bration of political anniversary, will
produce for France no beneficial result.
Ne can not agree with them, for a
universal exhibition" is always a re-
.apitulation of the progress made dur
ng certain period. If there be a
period when science has made gigantic
strides, it is this latter half of the nine
eenth century, when our custums have
seen revolutionized by steam and cleo
ricity. The Importance of these dis
overies that savants make from year
year would alone be sufficient to
Justify an exhibition where, from all
,arts of the globe. those interested may
,ome to study the results and partake
If the benefits
1t may be affirmed that since the ex-
stence of the world there have been
| .xpositions. The form has varied, but
he history of expositions is the history
# labor itself. Tyre and Sidon,
Babylon and Nineveh, Athens, in the
ime of Pericles, had expositions. From
his time until the renaissance we sell
lom read of anything which resembles
IN exposition of
THE INDUSTRIES OF A NATION.
Under the directorie, Francois de
Neufchatcau, French secretary of the
Interior, invited all merchants to exhib-
| t publicly whatever remarkable goods
hey might possess. After the first
french exhibition Neufchateau decided
hat every year there should be one sim
lar, and from 1898 to 1849 there were
lleven. These exhibitions took place
n 1902, 1909, 1916, 1928, 1927, 1884,
939, 1874, and 1849, At the last there
we're 4, 500 exhibitors, and material for
always was admitted for the first time.
since then We have had the expositions
# 1855, 1867, and 1878. The date of the
lext, 1889, is most natural one-the
entuary of one of the greatest events
# modern times. The French revolu-
ion could not be better celebrated than
" the peaceful assembling of the ma
ION on industrial ground. 1t is we'll
hat the time has been fixed several
ears in advance, because the exhibit
RS will not be so hurried as they were
1873. M. Lockroy, minister of COM
nerce, has decided that all the French
architects and engineers can compete
or the building plans, The buildings
will inclose the Palais de rIndustrie,
he Esplanade des Invalides, the Champ
le Mars, and the quays adjoining. The
splanade and the Palais de rIndustrie
will be connected--perhaps by a bridge,
'erhaps in some other way. The build
ngs will cover 291, 900 meters, of which
2,O90 meters will be
DEVOTED TO FINE ARTS,
5000 to architecture, 5000 to the
olonies, 10000 to machines, and 11S, =
100 to other sections.
A colossal tower one thousand feet in
eight will be not only the principal
ttraction of the exposition, but the
most daring work ever undertaken by
ny engineer. hepyramids of Egypt
It. Peters, the Washington monument,
IL these wonderful elevations will
eem the work of dwarfs beside this
massive iron construction, on whose
ummlt will float the French flag. This
over will survive the exposition and
,erpetuate it's memory, The English
lave much to say on the subject, and
re in gleeful spirits because 1.-THE
french centennial will be finer than the
american centennial. The Americans
will be conquered, because they will
lot possess the highest monument of
he globe" Why does not England
,ttempt to- conquer America, instead
# leaving the work to France?
Soon this dream will become
eality, and before the end of the year
IN army of workmen will have made
he excavations necessary for the foun-
lation of this modern Babel.
This tower consists of four iron
pyramids, placed $50 feet one from the
ther, each pyramid being so feet
1uare at the base and 16 feet Square
AT THE SUMMIT.
1t the first story, 250 feet above the
round, these pyramids are united by
lass covered gallery, fifty feet wide,
which makes the tour of the construc-
ion. This gallery will be used for
oirees, etc. At the second story is
DOM one hundred feet square, covered
y glass. At the summit is q cupola
With an exterior balcony. There will
e placed the electrical apparatus
Iestined to light the exposition. Each
,yramid will have an elevator, con-
tructed in the same manner as the
'wiss railways. 1t is startling to think
II an elevator taking one soven times
IS high as the Column Vendome, but
here will be no danger. The elevator
will be drawn by a cable, but steel
rappling hooks are to be arranged in
'uch a manner that, if the cable breaks,
he elevator will remain suspended.
There has never been an accident on
,he Rghi, and M. Eiffel, who is the or
ginator of this stupendous scheme,
ays his elevators will be even more se-
'ure than any yet constructed. A ver-
ical elevator will also take passengers
rom the central point to the summit Of
he tower. When at the top, we can
.dmire the night. Paris, and its mil
ions of lights.
IN PLEASANT WEATHER
We can sec the most splendid panorama
hat human thought can imagine.
Above the bills which with their green
oliage surround Paris we shall have d
Ifiew over one hundred miles. We shall