News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-22
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
The Tower which will be 1000 Feet
in Height.

The bush community is moro than
ever enthusiastic about the approaching
centennial celebration, says Paris let
ter to the New York Sun. The EXPOSE
ton of next year is expected to make OF
the river Seine new Pactolus, pouring
a flood of gold into the city and country.
And, most certainly, whatever may be
the i'll will or the sneers of the adver-
saries of 1889, of its principles and its
memories, the preparations made for
this Worlds Fair and Worlds Meeting
are on the most gigantic scale.
The Eiffel Tower, after 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 pro-
gress, the quantity Of material to be
hauled up to the dizzy working plat
forms becomes less and less. Besides,
they have begun to employ new sys-
tenn of machinery. Anyway, 1T is to me
wonderful spectacle to watch the
squads of men suspended aloft on their
narrow plank footing-some turning gl-
gantic cranes, some blowing into 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,
with nothing beneath them, frequently,
but platform the width of two planks.
1t is fearful but marvellous sight,
this monumental tower, growing up,up,
up till it surpasses anything ever at
tempted by human daring. How, high
up in mid-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 q problem of
human endurance, skill and persever-
ance which [ cannot solve.
Meanwhile, person looking over the
vast space of the Champ de Mars, to
which the Eiffel Tower is to stand as
portal, like the Colossus of Rhodes, be-
holds fascinating panorama. To 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 broad sweep of
gardens and shrubbery, interspersed with
kiosks and fountains, you see the lofty
roof and domed portico of the great cen
trail Exposition hall.
Nesting in the spaces between the
central building, with it's two enormous
wings, are fast rising a number of minor
of every form, destined to re-
ceive the products of favored industries.
Then all along the Quay d'Orsay and
the river front, down to the esplnnade
of the Inyalides, are series of long gall
leries for the reception of agricultural
produce and machinery. On each side
of the Pont de Jena, and fronting the
they are constructing groups
of buildings representing the habitation
of man in every country, among all
races, and at every stage of civilization.
Every dwelling is to be constructed,
adorned, and furnished as near to the
historical reality Us possible.
The Troc ,dero itself, with it's splendid
position, its central buildings, its vast
galleries and colonnades,
its cascades and grounds, is to serve for
q horticultural exhibition. Besides this
they have just opened III the upper and
lower galleries of the colonnades, muse
ums surprisingly interesting. In the
left wing are exposed casts of all the |
of ancient, medieval, and |
modern sculpture, together with casts
and photographs of all the most re-
nowned buildings of the East and West.
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 |
sacred and profane, costumes, orna-
nents, domestic utensils, household |
furniture, weapons for war and the |
for every country and tribe, !
civilized or uncivilized, lifelike statues /
If both sexes i'll their respective cos
umes. At tho end of one gallery is a
oucampment, which, Mt u dis |
ance, seems reality. The burial of
he dead is also wildly illustrated for all
lines and nations.
A very large SPACE is devoted to
American ethnography. The various
peoples of the Southern continent stand
out before us faithfully portrayed, and
he casts of monuments and Iifelike
groups of Brazilian Indians, Caribs,
oatagonians, Peruviaus, are made more
interesting still by the large and beauti-
III drawings of scenery from the hand
If the most celebrated French ex-
olorers.
was particularly struck by the ex-
wealth accumulated in the
pace allotted to Central America,
Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, Cali
ornia, &C. New Mexico and Colorado,
With their pueblos, are moreover beauti-
ully and strikingly illustrated by arts
ic colored sketches of scenery taken on
he spot, in which some of the figures
ppear to be as large rs life. The casts
If the monuments, idols, &C., of the
uined cities of Central America and
Iexico fill the mind with wonder.
They are also constructing new
along the Seine, from the In
aides up to and beyond the Pont de
ana. At the Invalides the entire es-
,lanade is covered with Exposition
buildings, destined, for the most part,
o receive the produce of the French
olonies and dependencies, besides q
pecial department for the Minister of
Var, where French military science
viii display all its past and present
wealth.