The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-09-14
THE EDITOR ABROAD.
Random Notes of Foreign Travel
LcoNrINuEp FROM FIRST rAaK.I


number of very conspicuous as we'll as
. creditable exhibits. William Sellers &
. Company, of Philadelphia, exhibit theil
improved iron and steel planning machin
cry. This exhibit is in charge of very
clever machinist who told me that a
Fren u engineer admitted in converse
ton with him, that nearly all machines
exhibiting new ideas in mechanics were
agricultural machinery leads all, although
the line of French and English machines
is large and varied. Philadelphia type
cast by MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan
leads the world. and is displayed here by
an English agent of this firm. When
landed at Glasgow in Scotland The bill OF
fare at one Of the leading hotels in that
city was printed in this firms type, orna-
mented with their illuminated borders.
When visited two other restaurants in
the same city, Johnston's types were
conspicuously displayed, and when in
London all the stationery and cards about
the hotel at which stopped, were of the
same Philadelphia type. The proprietor
of this hotel said to me that the best
printing done in London was from Amer
lean type, and he always preferred it al
though himself an Englshman. Boston
steam engines we're the finest saw in the
exhibition here, and a magnificent display
ofmeerschaum goods, consisting of bsauti-
fully carved busts of all the Presidents
of the United States from George Wash
ington down to Benjamin Harrison, was
the exhibit of New York firm-Demuth :.
1t may please my friend Harry Sanders,
of Baltimore, to know that no finer in
struments are exhibited here than his
favorite Weber pianos made in New York
and l welcomed the very pleasant picture
of a Pennsylvania railroad car aud its
sectional exhibits unexcelled if eaualled
in the exhibition. In fruit and food pro-
ducts we lead all besides, and while in
textile fabrics and the wide lines of art
and decorative productions France and
Belgium lead all other nations, yet in
machinery and useful inventions, young
as we are nationally. we rival success
fully the Old World.
| 1haYe, of course, within the limits of
a single letter but little opportunity to
speak of the exhibition as whole, but
have only space to say that not merely as
to extent, but in the vanity and character
of the exhibits, it undoubtedly surpasses
any similar exhibition previously held in
any part of the globe, and to study it
protitably would occupy weeks. The
grounds of the exhibition cover altogether
| an area of 173 acres. The machinery
Palace, the largest building under one
roof in the world, is considered by COM
petent judges as great a triumph of con.
structive skill as the Eiffel Tower. The
span of this building is 377 feet without
pillars or other support, being of glass
and iron. The art palaces are also con-
structed OF iron, and decorated elabo-
rately in colors in the artistic use and
blending, OF which the French are pre-
the buildings, the trees and shrubs we're
planted two years ago, and are now Of
vigorous growth, while the flower beds
are perfectly bewildering iii their gay
beaut%.
Of my tive days spent in Paris, two
were devoted to the exhibition, one to
Saint CIaul Ua,Sa;lIa, Sayrac op1
the two remaining days to sight seeing in
the city itself, 1t is beyond doubt now
the brightest and most attractive capital
of the world. Although it does not con
tain one single street of private resi-
dences as costly as Filth Avenue, New
York, yet in the general magnificence OF
its street architecture, in the variety and
interest of its public monuments in the
disdlay of taste and wealth in its shops
and magazines, and in its general gaiety
and hveliness, it is singularly attractive
city. It's museums, its places of amuse
ments. its public gardens, it's cafes and
restaurants are rich, attractive and nu-
merous. have no lengthy dissertation
to make on Paris as a city, but merely to
reiterate the common opinion of all who
have visited it that IL is the great pleas
ure resort of the world, and as such af
fords uurivalled inducements for spend
ing time aud money. 1t is a fortified or
walled city with upwards of sixty per-
manent openings. This line of fortitica-
ton extends eighteen and a half miles in
circumference, the geographical area of
it being thirty square miles. l. is only
about one third the size of London, but
is as bright and CHEEKY as London is dark
and sombre. The leading streets of the
city are called boulevards, and are gen.
orally planted with trees. At night when
the Ions lines OF cafes are brilliantly
| lighted and the wide pavements are
packed with customers of all nationali-
ties seated at tables INDUCING in every
| variety of refreshment aud drink, it pre-
sents scene peculiarly its own.
Paris once was cheap place to pur
chase every thing in the line of personal
wearing apparel, gloves, jewelry and OBJ
| jects Of art and taste. 1t is SO yet doubt
less, at least to native or resident Paris
ians, but the great and constant influx of
| visitors has, TO a large extent, changed
all this. Rich and lavish Americans are
held in high esteem by the Iegions of
fashionable Partisan shop keepers. You
see displayed in almost every respectable
shop window that inevitable placard
English spoken" 1t is sometimes, in
fact, generally amusing to put their Eng
lish to the test. Their English vocabu-
large class of Americans and English
who learn CD French at home and imag
Inc they can speak it in Paris. There are
very many leading shops where English
is correctly spoken, and which enjoy a
profitable traffic with English speaking
customers. The great dry goods depot
OF the city is Boucicault's Bon Marche,
located across the Seine on the Rue de
BAG. 1t is very much on the style of
John Wanamaker's Grand Depot, al
though much finer building, yet moth
ing like so we'll constructed for a miscel
laneous trade as Wanamaker's. For in
stance, when you purchase an article the
clerk who waits on you accompanies you
to the cashier and sees the article paid
for. This occupies valuable time, other
customers in the meantime waiting