Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-08-28
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| tue most lmpOrtunb tpdtlnncut-hVttl-
culture, including flouculture, and they
are not too ample for that. Across the
Seine from the Trocadero, whose elegant
| towers and graceful dome are among the
triumphs of French architecture, once
and for more than 1870 years stretched q
barren, sandy plain devoted 10 use as n
Underground for brigade and division
| drill. saIt was an immense plain, arid as
Sahara, and as sandy, No tree or shrub
or tgig or blade of grass even broke the
yellow monotony of its vast expanse. |
sought it on my arrival in vain and
/ here is precisely to me the master marvel
of the Exposition. In one short year It
| has been transformed into a scene of
FARMLAND. Terraces ten feet high break
its level dulness and stretch for nun
| dreds OF yards across its breadth. a
sward whose clean and vigorous turf is
not surpassed in the stateliest parks In
England trees thirty or forty feet high
and as lusty and firmly rooted as any
sisters in the forest flowers innumera-
| BILE evergreens and deciduous growths,
frs from Scotland, pines from Norway,
larches from the Alps, side by side with
| the Mexican cactus, cedars from Llba-
nus, palms from Algeria and Egypt,
young chestnuts from the beautiful
"Bois" a score of superb fountains
filed with allegorical figures; winding
walks, grottoes. cool caves of shade
and above and intermixed with these, q
very wilderness OF
WONDERFUL BUILDINGS
of every style aud shape and hue and
size, illustrating the highest taste in
architecture and color Of every nation,
civilized and savage, under the sun, and
crowned and capped by q central palace
of wood and stone and glass and iron, as
superior i'll every respect to the finest
| building in our centennial at Phlladel-
! phia as that was to the shanties tpdcc,
/ Brother Starke) Of our agricultural fair.
This is the tranformation that money
| and highest skill and faultless taste have
effected in the unsightly desert that erst-
/ while was called the Chdmp dG Mars.
But this vast space added to the former
exhibtion-gounds did not yet suffice,
and go from the Champ de Mars down 20
| tho golden dome OF the lnyalides the
whole left bank Of the Seine for large
| part of mile was pressed into service,
I and indeed the river itself, for there is a
great marine show, as well. until the
porphyry tomb and the awful silence OF
/ Napoleon's final rest arrested the intru-
sion and marked the limit Of the Expo
sltiOn.
THE EFFEL TOWER
OF the piccc dc resistance it Is not
necessary to speak at length, as tho world
/ has been very full Of it, and in descrlp-
tion and illustration you have already all
/ that can be communicated without per-
sonal inspection of the Eifiel Tower. BY
! the way, all the Americans and English
whom / have met mispronounce the
name, which is not called Eye-iel, but
/ Ef-fol. North Caroina's most illustri-
GUS son insisted all his life that his name
was "Makins, although he wrote II
" Nathaniel Macon, " and he justified bls
peculiarly by saying that so his father
called it, aud if a man had any right on
earth it was to say how he should be
called. The same plea must excuse the
pronunciation of the great engineers
name, for he certainly calls 1t Ef-fel.
This graceful work is TO remain. Gndel
the concession accorded to MIR.
Ellfel the tower at the expiration OF
twenty years becomes the property oi
tho city Of Paris. In some OF those year,
busy man may get chance TO 20 up
now it is impossible. The elevators can
not accommodate u tithe OF those who
wish to ascend.
ARCHITECTURAL UTILITY OF COLOR.
The tower, like everything else IN the
/ exhibition is lesson in the architect
ural utility of color. 1t is to be deyout
" hoped that one result of this great en-
terprlse, whose beauty is SO much due tC
color. will be to induce radical change
in orr housebuilding methods in that re-
spect. Without the contrast of various
hues, and especially the judicious use OF
/ gliding, half its beauty would berulned
but skllfullv colOred 1t is indeed a thing
Of beauty and probably will be JOY for
half century. The eye never wearles
of lookinga it. Why ? Why do thirds
and tifths make concord in music and
other intervals discord? Why do girls
always turn up the sides of their hat
over their ic0 ears, never over their
riQhf ones? Why did 1.-The Angelus, D
with It's two unheroic figures and
a couple Of bags of potatoes and an old
wheelbarrow bring nearly 6DO,O ,OOO francs
at auction tho other day? Why DO you
always draw a clowns picture bOwlegged
and parrOt-tocd?
Don't you observe" rs my friend
/ Crump would say, there are some things
for which the only explanation IS the
comprebensiye female one because
Hogarth insisted that the line Of beau
tv was his celebrated double curve and
that without it beauty OF form did not
exist: but this "line Of beauty" can
not be found in the tower, and yet its
beauty IS of that enduring sort that
/ it wakes rather than wanes with expe-
rience Of it.
Yesterday Edison, Of whom Paris IS
making a great lion, ascended with his
friends and breakfasted up aloft.
Perhaps fact will give you a better
idea of the universally of this exposi-
ton than any description. Next IueS-
day a Buddhist temple and Buddhis,
services. conducted by nine Bones, Will
be opened and conducted on the grounds
for the spiritual comfort Of over 200 be-
/ levers who are attending the fetc.
A POOR AMERICAN EXHIBIT.
The American contribution is simply
humiliating. Take away Edison depart
ment and the rest scarcely deserves men
ton. You have probably heard much
Of Tifany's display but it is not com
parable to many others here. The most
conspicuous object in the American sec
ton is an unsightly pyramid covered
with Waterbury watches arranged with
mathematical precision in horizontal
/ LAYERS Ahead of the world in agricul-
tural implements our show is the worst,
so with metal work. machines, and tools.
In mechanical dentistry and surgery we
are approached by no nation, but there
is not one exhibit in our section. In
forest wood only some tropical nation
/ can equal us in beauty and none can IN
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