Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-30
THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1859.
Progress of Work on the Buildings.

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Progress Of Work on the Buildings.
Paris Correspondent of the New York Sun. Oct 10.
The business community Is more than ever
enthusiastic. The exposition of next year is
expected to make Of the River Seine new
Pactolus, pouring food of gold into the city
and country. And, most certainly, whatever
may be the ill-will or the sneers of the adver-
saries Of 1889, Of its principles and its mem
Dries, the preparations made for this Worlds
Fair and Worlds Meeting are on the most
gigantic scale.
THE ETHEL TOWER,
after a three or four days strike in September,
is ascending rapidly. The height is now about
500 feet, or one-half the total elevation. As it
narrows gradually in its upward progress, the
quantity OF material to be hauled up to the
dizzy working platform becomes less and less.
Besides, they have begun to employ a new
system OF machinery. Any way, it is to me a
wonderful spectacle to watch the SQUADS Of
men suspended aloft on their narrow plank
footng-Some turning gigantic cranes, some
blowing into a fierce blaze the furnaces
in which they heat their bolts and other
fastenings, while on all the four sides of the
tower these hardy workers in iron are seen
swinging their hammers, driving home the
bolts that fasten uprights and cross beams
platform the width of two planks 1t is a fear
full but marvellous sight, this monumental
tower, growing up, up, up till it surpasses any,
thing ever attempted by human daring. How
high up IN mld-air, far above the SUBMITS of
the loftiest hills around Paris, these poor
workmen will be able to continue their labors
through the cold and SHOWS of autumn and
winter is a problem of human endurance, skill
and perseverance which cannot solve. Mean
while, person looking over the vast space of
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is to stand as portal, like the Colossus Of
Rhodes, beholds
A FASCINATING PANORAMA.
10 the right and left rise up two gigantic and
graceful domes,now entirely rooted, glazed, and
timed. They are beginning to ornament them
here and there with brilliant settings of glazed
tiles, forming a sort of mosaic. Beyond the
Eiffel Tower, at the end of a broad sweep Of
gardens and shrubbery, interspersed with
and domed portico of the great central EXPOSE
ton hall. Nesting in the spaces between the
central building, with its two enormous wings,
are fast rising number of minor structures of
every form, destined to receive the products
OF favored industries. Then all along the Ouai
dOrsay and the river front, down to the espla-
made OF the Invalides, are series of long gale
rles for the reception of agricultural produce
and machinery. On each side Of the Pont de
jena, and fronting the Trocadero, they are con-
habitation of man in every country, among all
races. and at every stage Of civilization. Every
dwelling Is to be constructed, adorned and fur
nished as near to the historical reality as posi-
BILE.
The Trocadero itself, with its splendid posi-
ton, its central buildings its vast semicircular
galleries and colonnades, its cascades and
grounds, is to serve for a horticultural exhi-
bition. Besides this they have just opened in
the upper and lower galleries of the colonnades
wing are exposed casts of all the masterpieces
OF ancient, medieval, and modern sculpture,
together with casts and photographs of all the
most renowned buildings of the East and West.
WONDERFUL PSYCHOLOGICAL MUSEUM.
The right wing is an chronological museum, if
possible more attractive and more instructive
than the former. Here you have treasured up,
classified, and explained archaeological remains
from every land under the sun-buildings
mestic utensils, household furniture, weapons
for war and the chase-and for every country
and tribe, civilized or uncivilized, lifelike
statues OF both sexes in their respective cos
tunes. At the end of one gallery is Samoyede
encampment, which, at distance, seems
reality. The burial Of the dead is also wildly
illustrated for all times and nations. A very
large space is devoted to American ethno-
graphy. The various peoples Of the Southern
continent stand out before US faithfully por-
trayed. and the casts of monuments and life
like groups of Brazilian Indians, Caribs Pata-
gonians, Peruvians, are made more interesting
still by the large and beautiful drawings of
scenery from the hand Of the most celebrated
French explorers.
I was particularly struck by the extraordi-
nary wealth accumulated in the space allotted
to Central America, Mexico, New Mexico, Ari-
iona, California, &c. New Mexico and Colo
RADIO, with their pueblos, are moreover beauti-
fully and strikingly illustrated by artistic
colored sketches of scenery taken on the spot
in which some Of the figures appear to be as
large as life. The casts of the monuments
idols, &C., of the ruined cities of Central Amer
lea and Mexico fill the mind with wonder.