Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-06-13
THE GREAT SHOW.
A LONG WALK TO THE TOP OF
THE EIFFEL TOWER.
Other Marvels of the Paris Exhibit.
ion-Homes of the Cliff Dwellers-
Medieval Houses = M. Gustave
Eiffel.

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The great exposition of 1889 il nov
fairly well under way. Probably there
are some in the United States. saws s
correspondent, who will get no nearer
the immense show than the columns o.
the American newspapers. But there
are thousands OF Americans in the crowd,
that stream to the Champ de Mars tC
feast their eyes on the wonderful sight.
that are there spread ont for them.
But it is time to get to the Exposition
itself, though really half the interest
lies in studying the different types Of
the visitors. 1t differs great deal from
the American Centennial Exhibition in
this respect True, Paris has way Of
giving something of its own careless
gayety to the people that are here,
whether they be Russians, Hollanders,
Italians, English or Turks. They gel
more OF less Parisianized very quickly.
When You get on the Champ de Mars
you will see that the army of 5000
workmen that have been laboring here
for weeks have accomplished something.
There are hundreds of different struct-
ures in the Enclosure, and the Palais dies
Machines is a gigantic enterprise in it.
self and the apotheosis of ironwork.
A small railroad runs around the out
side of the Exposition, and stops at
different points. Another odd means OF
transportation, of which the ladies are
little shy, but which the children land
there are plenty of children, of coursel
delight, are the donkeys.
On the Quai a rsay is strange col
lection of dwellings,. They are very
novel, many of them, to the vulgar eye
but scientist would recognize the abode
Of the clifl-dweller, the lacustrine habi-
tation of the lake-dweler, the subter-
raneous holes of prehistoric human
kind, medieval houses, renaissance
structures, every sort Of structure which
man has lived in and reared his kind n.
1t is an chronological comp d'OeH of the
different way which men have housed
themselves from the beginning of the
world, and it is curious and interest
ing feature.
But the most striking feature of the
whole big show, and the one that every
body shows the most eagerness to see,
is the big Eifel Tower 1t cant very
well escape anybody S notice, as it towers
aloft, graceful despite its massiveness,
soaring up into the blue sky to such a
dizzy height that many are afraid to
commit themselves to the Gift" that
bears them to such a giddy altitude.
The natural result of this stupendous
height is to make the structure, solid
and massive us it really is, web-like,
fairy thing Of cobweb lines and lace-like
pattern.
When You get an interior view and
see the tens of thousands of massive
girders, cross pieces, spans and all the
countless bits of bracing iron that in
sures the stability of the wondrous
tower, you feel safer. The inside Of the
Goddess of Liberty, on New York bay,
looks complicated enough, and one
wonders how they ever managed to get
the bolts and sections and bars into
their right places without things becom-
ing irretrieyably mixed but that is a
bagatelle, child's doll, as far as me-
chanic difficulties and engineering COM
plications are concerned, to this marvel
GUS Eiiel tower.
1t is well worth trip across in itself,
for it not only is the one thing of its
kind in existence, but it is fascinating
and instructive. The view from the
top of Paris and its environs for miles
around is ravisling A person subject
to vertigo docs not altogether enjoy the
view from the swooning height, but
certainly the landscape is a most eX-
tended one, and after all, nobody has
tumbled down into it yet.
One thousand seven hundred and
ninety-two steps to the top, if you want
TO walk upl You won't have any wind
left to boast about when you get at the
airy top, but there are scores OF people
who are venturesome enough or foolish
enough, as one chooses to consider IL,
who. like myself, climb the fatiguing
stairs to the very top.
M. Gustaye Eiffel is a Frenchman
fifty-seven years old. He has large,
rather heavy eyes, an aquiline nose,
strong mouth, with rather full lower
lin, and broad, strong forehead. he
wears a pointed beard and moustache,
and his hair is thick and wavy. There
is something about his face which sug--
pests that of Leon Gambetta, that ldol
of the French whom already they have
begun to forget He wears ptnee ne7,
and jewelled scarf pin holds his quiet
four-in-hand tic in position. He is the
object of thousands of admiring glances
when he appears in public, as he oc-
casionally does. To conceive such a
mechanical work as his wonderful Ex-
position Tower is enough to insure HIM
the supreme praise of every engineer