Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-29

New York Times FArls Corresponu-
ence: Hot weather with occasional show
.ers: q great deal of dust blown aboutby
the May winds: a vast litter Of packing
Aoxes. straw and waste rubbish being
slowly cleared out of the way into back
alleys; q daily swarm Of sightseers, en-.
thusisstic at noon, critical at 3 p. m,
footsore and irritable at dinner time,
wandering aimlessly about from Japan
60 Connecticut, from Belgium 10 Nor.
COCO. staring open mouthed at the be
wildering juxtaposi tioDs; a fairy city of
buildings like Aladdin's palace, irrides.
cent with the coiors of selected sunsets
from all the fairest days Of whatsoever
cline; Mongolians jostling their late an
tsgonlsts, the Parisians, male Americans
confessing that the EiiTel tower is really
very tail; Engiiehmen gazing with inefla-
bic hauteur at the inferior races through
single glasses, Egyptian boys in long
gowns beating their ~Conkeys, Belgian
walters trying to be- mistakcn fer French
men, and The pretty Americas girl reg
nant e~ygrgwherC-So after tee days ones
confused impressions OF the mammoth
exposition run.
Il is faid that the Parisians are remain
ing away until everything shall AaVe
been finished and until the swarm OF
foreigners shall have abated somewhat,
but the attendance is fully large enough
for comfort, despite the litter aud scat
folding and the Partisan Nho waits un-
I'll slr8ngeFs are fever tha- they are now,
VIII wait until after the exposition rs
Iihiready seems 90 ii English
National language of the ave
uavvu5 rOoera and the Boulevard des
- "a : = .gww go -W.1 A~9
how uncomfortable this affects the Par,
isian, who is aptly called The Chinamau
of Europe. he, poor deiUded mortal, is
cons0liBg himself with the fallacy that
some time later on in the summer the
Americans and English will have mostly
gone away, leaving nm his exposition
pretty sTeil 10 himself. II he only knew
what the booking agents OF the tlansat
lantic steamers could tell himi If he
only dreamed Of The tens o. thousands eff
English households where papa prom
Use Of a little holiday trip to Paris en-
famiile is treasured next TO the coRsol-
atoms of the established church!
There are compensations Of a sort, ii is
true, in the great machinery hall. What
Eiffel is to the externals of this exposi-
.icn Edison is to the interior. He towers
head and shoulders in individual inpor-
VNSA II tiS Ainh hhlhIh XII Ii
lists of the nations. His EXHIBITS have
the place Of homer. the largest space given
to any one interest in the whole exposi-
ton, ant they attract far more attention
than anything else. He has o 600 square
feet, or one-third Of the whole space al.
l0tted to America for machinery, and his
people hare utilized the space with sd.
m!rable intelligence in the main. The
electric light is obviously the most strik-
ing thing in the Edison budget for exhi-
bit on purposes, and it is used for all it is
worth, as we say. in Paris. There is q
mammoth globe lamp, which contains
and diffuses the light of some Is, 600 in
candescent bulbs. and is surrounded by
some 1000 more, of sll grades of power
and shades Of color, SO that at night ef-
fects can be produced throughout the
vast machinery hall which are more
easily dreamed of than described. All
sorrs of electrical machines in tel
egrapby, tie telephone, the phono-
graph and the rest of the Edisoniana
are spread cut in graduated depart
menis, until The hewildered observer
wonders why Franklin, Morse and the
others ever thought il worth while to
have pretended to discover anything at
al. Many of the appliances are new to
Europe, and the scheme for sending dis
patches from a running train-illustrated
here by a small working models es-
pecially attractive to the crowd. The
proper exhibition Of the ~phenograph has
been hampered and delayed a good deal
by the difficulty of securing silence. 1t
was finally decided to build q pavilion
with exceptionally thick walls, and this
has been done in the American industrial
section. although there are models Of the
phonograph az well in machinery hall.
In the pavilion the listener can hear any
one of the fifty languages from the won
deIful machinery, and fresh devices to
give q polyglot character to its work are
being added day by day. OF mere per.
manent interest is the intention to utilize
the train Of distinguished visitors who
Come this summer and collect for the
p~honegraph a sort of exposition opera Of
~utterances, songs, solos and sentiments
from ali the Gladstones, PATHS, Rubin
stems and Persian Shahs who come this
way. A piano has already been put in
with this end in view.