Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-09
WIZARD EDISON
Greatly Troubled with Partisan Banquets
The Lion of the Hour

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The Lion of the Hour.
PARIS, September Sth.-One need only
spend two minutes in Edison's drawing
room in the Hotel Rhine to be convinced
OF the popularity he and his young wife
are enjoying in Paris. Baskets of rarest
| flowers sent to Mrs. Edison crowd every
| piece of furniture. The phonograph is iu-
visible behind a wealth of Passion flowers.
An enormous bouquet from Nine. Carnot
| hides the case of talking cylinders, where
| the voices of many princes and potentates
are bottled up for future reference for Edi.
son. There are photographs from all men
| OF note OF the day. There is Effel on the
mantel, Carnot on the buffet, Tirard on the
sota-all with autographs attached.
''At first" said Edison, who was looking
| rather pale, "it was my head which wor-
| ried me in Paris. l was quite dszed. Now
| the worry is lower down. All these din
ners-another banquet, or whatever ycu
call it-lsst night, upset me dreadfully."
What is this about your visiting Krupp's
gun works ~ the Wizard was asked.
Il haven't been there yet. ! am going
to Germany on the 11th, after another lot
! OF dinners" Here he groaned. "And l
shall go straight to Berlin, where | want to
see my friend Siemens. If | have time,
which don't expect, shall go to Krupps
place. They seem very anxious for me to
pay them visit"
AT the exhibition have you seen any,
thing that impressed you particularly p"
The machinery hall, for it is a sadly
trying place.
THE MACHINERY HALL
Is too big altogether There are miles and
miles too much of it. There is plenty of
room for improvement in small things.
There are clever little lodges, especially in
milling screw machines, ard many i'm
provements in matters of detail, but moth
ing new in the way of inventions. They
don't have inventors in the American sense
OF the word in Paris at all. They haven't
any professional inventors here as we have
on the other side-men who will go into a
factory, sit down and solve any problem
that may be put before them. In America
we have hundreds of such men,"
Il suppose you were very much disap.
pointed with the American section gener-
ally ?"
Well, | can't say that it is at all cred
liable show. 1t represents American in
dustry just as much as that cab horse out
side there represents the animal kingdom.
| am quite of Chauncey Depew's opinion
on the subject. Depew said: The Amer
lean dra2eS himself in the American flag
as he enters the exhibition. After he has
visited the American court be takes off the
flag, folds it up and puts it into his pocket
That's exactly how l feel about it. and SO
| may say, does every American l meet in
Paris F"
How do you like President Carnot? ?"
Very much. He is so simple and mod
est he Is an engineer, you know. He
seems to be very clever one, too. | fancy
OF all the thousands who have visited the
exhibition he is the man who has best un-
derstood and appreciated it. Think Eiffel
THE INCEST FELLOW I HAVE MET
Since came to France He is not looking
very we'll. | dare say constant attendance
has worn him out"
Did the pictures of the Exhibition
please you2"
"Oh, yes. They are grand lot. l like
modern pictures as much as dislike an
tique stuff. l think nothing of the pictures
in the Louvre. They are wretched old
things, and the pictures at the Exhibition
are all as modern as can be. What i'm
pressed me most at the Exhibition, after the
Eiffel Tower, was the Machinery Hall. As
a whole, it impressed ME almost painfully. |
on account of its immensity. | think if |
they had made everything at the Exhibi- |
ton on smaller scale people could have |
enjoyed it much more"
What problems in science do the French |
seem most anxious to solve?"
80 far as l can see they are worrying |
about the flying machines and balloons |
chiefly. l will have unpleasant recollec- |
tious of Paris if ever get back. There are
an enormous number of cranks and crooks |
here. You would be surprised if l read |
some of the letters l receive daily by the |
hundreds. / have given up looking at |
them at all. One man wrote several times |
who has an electrical tooth. brush, or some |
such nonsense, but the bulk of them |
wanted assistance. One young fellow |
wanted me to give him an income while he |
finished his studies. He hoped to get |
through them in about ten years"