Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-07-05


Mars, the chairs and benches being converted
into extempore dinner tables. Some seek re-
mote hooks out by the Avenue de Sufiren,
where they may enjoy themselves in more
quiet way; others climb the rock work be-
meath or round about the tower, or take pos
session of the stone steps of pavilion, while
the less bashful deliberately straddle the first
stray plank they come across and eat their
victuals in full view of those who walk about
the grounds. There is little false pride about
these sturdy sons of toll who earn their daily
bread, behend kings and queens and over.
throw Bastiles
Those, however, who, like myself, had come
unprovided with edibles, had to look out for
a restaurant There is no lack of eating
places where good meal may be had at
fair charge; the difficulty lies rather in max
ing choice out of the heterogeneous con-
clave and in getting q seat when choice has
been made. There is, for instance, an Arab
restaurant where pungent cooscoosoo may be
had, as well as excellent coffee-the genuine
stuf-as thick as mucilage and as black as
the devil is painted. There is also Turkish
restaurant where kebabe and midya plaki
may be reiished smoking hot, and where
creamy makalebi is brought in at dessert.
There is, again, am told, an Annamite
restaurant, where you may feast on birds
nest soup, boiled bats, fried camel hump,
stewed bowwow and such delicacies. But
felt like battening on something less exotic.
eschewed as equally unsuggestive the Hun
garian czarda, where genuine beer from the
brewery belonging to the freemen of the
borough Of Pilsen and peppery goulash, the
national dish, are to be obtained; also the
Russian eating house, with its inevitable
pilav and caviar; and even the Dutch beer
house, where alluring damsels in pretty lace
colts and gold fligree ornaments smile upon
the visitor. -
Suddenly the name of Spiers & Pond
suggested itself to my bewildered brain
But the question at once rose: ITO
which of the five different places owned
by that enterprising firm shall di-
rect my footsteps?" One is a large
grill room in which two large grills
with downward fiues exactly like those lately
set up in Windsor castle. have been fitted
up This was tempting. Then they have
also temperance room for afternoon teas,
place modelled on the Criterion, an Anglo
American bar; and finally, a restaurant on
the first platform of the Eiffel tower With
out further thought decided upon patroniz-
ing the latter. So up went with batch
iron framework of the monster pile.
Although Spiers & Pond have spent
sec, 600 on their different concessions there
can be no doubt that the Eiffel restaurant
they own will more than pay the whole ex-
pense. found the rooms crowded with the
elite of French and foreign gentlefolk. Ihad
my ineal-a cut from the joint and bottle
OF old Bordeaux wine, etc. lat height just
Tow orx1c iol,o -
Dame, plainly visible in the distance Nor
is the outer gallery, round which took a
stroll, too high to render indistinct the
various features of the magnificent panorama
of buildings, parks and hills which, with the
winding river below, surround one on all
sides. The sun, as gazed out on the lovely
prospect, was slowly sinking behind the I'M
pregnable fortress that crowns Mount Vale
rien, and flooded the whole western prospect
with crimson and gold.
By the time got down fromsmy lofty
belvedere and had a cup of colonial tea
at the Ceylon cafe the illuminations had
begun. may here state that the first at
tempt to draw the public to an international
exhibition in the evening was made at Paris
in 1867, when some Of the buildings on the
Champ de Mars were kept open from . until
II p. m. But this effort ended in signal fail
ure, on account Of the imperfect lighting
obtained by the aid of gas and oil lamps It
was the failure that attended this expert
ment which decided the authorities not to
renew it in 1878
The lighting Of the exhibition by electricity
alone is quite q formidable affair. There are
no fewer than 17O, 900 burners of various sys.
TENS, some of them sun lights, others Jabloch-
koff candles and very large number of in
candescent lamps for the galleries and pavil-
ions of the Champ de Mars and the Esplanade
des Invalides In the central garden, terraces
and facades of the palaces there are 100 large
electric lamps. The lawns, shrubberies AID
gates of the palaces are lit by $3.50 arc lamps
like those in the Paris restaurants The ma
chinery hall is lighted by 296 large and l, ,l3O
small burners, and for the whole exhibition
there are over l,1O0 large and 10000 small
burners
The result is unique Palaces, pavilions
and parterres, fountains and statues, cum
ningly devised architectural effects in green
and gold, silver and azure, are brought out
in the clear air with an intensity of relief
that suggests dream Of Wonderland, Elec-
trio lights irradiate the leaves Of the laurels;
fantastic luminaries glimmer among the
trees, while the flower beds and grass plots
OF the central garden are fringed with long
rows Of soft white lamps that, give to the
grounds fairy like aspect such as has rarely
before been seen. The amount Of light dis
tributed is equivalent to about one candle for
each square foot Of space The grand cen
tral dome sparkles like a tiara cinctured with
jewels Of golden fame, and the twin palaces
consecrated to the liberal and the fine arts
are uniformly resplendent with rows Of un-
broken light The machinery hall literally
,glares with electricity. Il to this be added
tho tlluminations afforded by gas and other
means, such as that Of the Trocadero palace
and gardens; and the Eifel tower. with It's
triple girdle Of opalescent globes; and the
orange colored Venetian lanterns that Oil the
trees en- every official night fete: and the
I illumination Of the Jena bridge; and tho
blaze Of Bengal lights that give to the huge
tower q nue from base to summit as red Is