The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-09
YANKEE IN PARIS.
,,vENToR EDIsON's REPORT OF
. TIE GREAT EXPOSITION.

Wanted to Oup1caIes Dut NeaTAy
rvarvtning Pleased Him-His Criti-
,,sn, Of the Old Masters-He Carried
Tape Measure.
From the Netg York Sun.
After a soiourn of nearly two months in
,.,rcs. Germany and England, Thomas
r,7ison has returned to his home in
,l.,ralvu Park, Orange. He arrived early
.a.-artay morning on La Champagne An
.,,nsiastic crowd of his associates and
'-,,loyes in the various corporations with
~bicb Mr.. Edison is connected had
.sartered a steam yacht and met the
+osnner down the bay, where they took
IN, on board the yacht and headed away
s,r tbe Jersey coast of North river in time
- enable him to take a train for his home
n,r;rc the time he has been in Europe
~ Edison has been honored there as few
80, over have been. At his home last
.;9bt he talked of it all modestly, and at
tiToos humorously. Nobody appreciates a
;ol,a more than he. When asked to tell the
S,,n,s readers what he saw and what he
+bonoht about the sights, he said:
az went over chiefly to see the exposition,
I'D devoted nearly all of my time to that.
7 was of course, particularly interested in
IT, machinery. The exposition was too
saSt m he seen in its entirety. | looked at
soroa things, of course, not connected with
s",-obsnics | was in the art department,
Gov instance. There was one great hall de-
voted to statuary. 1t was wonderful.
Everything saw had been created within
few wears They were masterpieces. Then
there were the picture galleries. Iguess saw
oIzarvthing in them. The Americans made
q very creditable showing there. I was
,7,oud Of the work Of the American artists.
Bnt there is nothing after all to equal the
York of the modern French artists. 1t is
bevond description. / saw all the old mas
ters Their work cannot be compared with
the modern. They painted pictures of i'm
possible men and women. No such human
frames and proportions were ever born.
had tape line, and | made measurements
of them to satisfy myself on that point.
They we're lacking in perspective, too.
"0utside of the art department the
American exhibit can best be described by
telling what Chauncey Depew said about it.
We we're all invited out to see Buffalo Bills
Wild West show. Bill gave us an Ameri-
can spread-pork and beans, fried beef,
mince pie, and peanuts. When we
got to the peanuts, Chauncey Depew
was obliged to make a speech. He
said we were all very proud of our
country and its products, and when we
went to the exposition we all had our heads.
We stopped before the entrance to the
American department, and each one of US
wrapped himself up in an American flag,
and the flag was so large that it went around
us fifteen times. Then, being properly
bundled up, we went in and walked around.
u ut nA
came out and we took off the American flag
and we folded it up carefully and put it in
our vest pocket
However, American mechanical genius
was not without its triumphs. The ele-
vators in the Eiffel tower were the product
Of an American factory. There was a
French elevator in the tower. 1t could
have lifted steamship. 1t was built for
safety. But the American was the elevator
that went to the top. 1t was the only one
that could go up around the curve.
1.-THE tower was too great to be fully com
pretended. 1t did not seem so very high
at first glance. But when one had been
about it for time he began to realize that
it was gigantic. On reaching the first land
ing where one usually got out to look
around he began to see something of its
size. The floor of the landing was 80 large
that it was laid out in lots and streets with
asphalt pavements, with restaurants and
other buildings facing The streets. M. Eiffel
has private room on top of all, at the
very pinnacle of the tower, above where
TIE public were admitted. He gave a
dinner there, to which | was invited.
There were seventy-five of us in the room,
and it was not uncomfortably crowded.
"You had good many dinners given to
you, the cables said"
HVoe T oot onau0h ~ 81 ,,,a Low
long time. / would be invited to go to a
grand banquet where I could not refuse to
go. AT the right time and place l would be
met by somebody who would conduct me
into great hall-those banquet halls
over there are something enormous
thirty or forty feet high, with table a
hundred feet long down this side, and another
hundred feet long up that side, and
another across here and there. They would
have the hall decorated with wonderful
taste and lighted with electric lights, of
course, while the tables would be loaded
down with the greatest profusion of the
most beautiful flowers you ever saw. I
would be conducted to seat and on each
SIDE OF me would be placed a man who
could not speak word of English. I could
not speak word of French, and somehow
Ohe conversation would lag in spite of U.S.
linen we would begin on those inter
mlnaole courses and labor along through
them until, after long while, we would get
TO the coffee and cigars. Then some one
would get up and talk French at me, and
they would all cheer, and then it would be
my turn, and didn't know what they had
oeen saying, and l couldn't tell what |
ought to say. Whitelaw Reid helped me
OUT several times. He did it up fine Once
SShauncey Depew spoke for me- wish
knew knew what he said. They all laughed till
tney cried when he was talking There was
Que reception that was different from the
resi- ! enjoyed that very much. Figaro
gave 1t to me. They took me into
q room fitted up just like a biJou
oneater. All the leading actors and
actresses In Paris were there. They had a
IN pbuonograph there. Young Coquslin was
t tLo sCage manager. He talked French into
.re machine and the machine translated it
a a'ont 1alked 1T to us In English. Then he
peu t9Id him | wanted has photograph
directly little door opened in the machine
IT. UuC eumbled photograph of Bismarck
anen, after other things of that sort. there
was singing and dancing and other features
sage entertainment that were given by
s sTe pest talent found anywhere, and, last Of
all refreshments.
bos bq5 to return to the exposition. They
lag an Sorts of electrical appliances there.
t; uV l uld not see anything new worth men
GHohing. The one thing in the mechanical
ule that l saw there that interested me
1ole than anything else was a steam
aslne. IL was marvel of perfection, and
bs' tnere was no feature about it that can
UUoueScrloed so that the readers of a daily
H0"spaper would be iutaraStad i'm IL