The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-01

direct him which road to take, which to
avoid, until We reached the sweet security
OF high roads and gas lamps. On a dam
evening, when the earth is covered it
fog, the Eifel tower seems a chandelier
hung from the sky. This and the great
machine y hall will remain. NJ. Eiffel mas
already been paid for his outlay by the in
lux Of visitors. He has a lease of twenty
years to go on and make d colossal fortune
as high as the Tower.
This. remarkable man locks like Gen.
Grant. His manner reminds US all of our
modest hero. He is vice president of the
Society of Civil Engineers.
AN ENGINEERING MARVEL.
The most expensive and the most diff
cult part of his vast enterprise was to give
bis gigantic child foothold. In thus build
ing a Colossus of Rhodes with four feet
instead of two, a sort of Centaur of towers,
he was obliged to find a place for him to
stand. There was the Seine very near, a
dangerous neighbor. They must sound the
depths of the earth where he was TO strike
his giant hoofs, lest he get swamped. | de-
clare 1t is poetry to read how these in
genious creatures sent down their piles with
chambers of compressed air until ey
found ''une cOuche iHc JmpreSsible." What
with compressed air and hyd aulc pressure
and the electric force it seems that ere is
nothing that cannot be done with matter
and yet, in the light of all our science
and knowledge. Johnstown is >wamped
and poor miners are stified and
ships are wrecked or collide, and WITHIN
sight of the great Eiffel Tower life is still
uncertain and justice imperfectly admiuis-
tered. We have not yet read the riddle If
the Sphinx, even by the electric light. We
are awaiting anxiously the awards Of the
art counoisseurS. The pictures most talked
of in the American department are those of
Chase, Allen, Deming, S. Weir, Melchers,
Sargent, Brldgman, Harrison, Rosina En-
met Sherwood, Weeks, Mosler and Rein
hardt. Harrison has an immense reputa-
ton, and Dannat is very strong. taink
the English critics rank him very hig e.
Mr.. Walter Gay paints admirably. His
LA Charlie" has been purchased by the
French minister of public instruction and
fine arts
81 find myself going back to Harrison's
"Chateaux en- Espagne," "La Vague, "Cle-
pascule" every time l go to see these pict-
ures. And Ridgway Knights "L'Appel au
Passeurn is file picture. Euge % Vail is
pictures, which is an eyidel of study, but
there is genious in Sur ia Tamise."
Mr. Mosler's delightful Breton subjects
are so salt and SO full of sea breeze that
they are comfortable in this very hot
weather.
1t is, however, very credltable exhibit
ton to both Nonresident and resident
Franco-American artists.
On Monday the art jury flooded the
ground with medals Old Meissonier, now
rs years Of age, has presided every day,
going in at o'cl ok in the morning-he
was married last week, by the way, but it
is said that it was az "old attachment" An
English artist who was on the jury told me
tnat too many medals had been given. He
felt naturally that Frederick Goodale de-
served more than a medal of the third
class" There will be a sudden making of
spleadid Names" much heart-burning and
great deal of difference of opinion on this
question of medals.
Paris already begins to be outlined with
those miles of gas, wires and adornments
which Introduce July IA. The GaLjgndni
says: The repuUic has been fortunate i'll
its birthday, far more fortunate than tue
empire, which never could keep Paris to-
gether till Aug. Is. July IA is just the
time for closing festiviUy to the great set
piece which ends the season -