The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-23
treat artificial rock is provided, having

A great artificial rock is provided, having
within its interior a Temple of Concord,
while on the summit above rises statue
Of Liberty of such colossal height that she
With her pike and Phrygian cap may be
seen at distance of many miles.
All the great rock is covered with BAN
ners and notices. Round about space
of more than 100000 square feet Is left for
the ceremonies proper, while all around
terraces are to be raised of earth of such
vast extent in circuit and elevation that
one might well believe that not only Paris
| and France, but all Europe was to be In
! vited to the sitting.
At first it appeared that the work Jagged,
! though the municipality had sent out 49,
| 900 workmen with shovels and barrows to
/ make the excavations and heap up the en-
! bankments. BY the lst of July the rumor
! spread that the work was behind and could
not be finished in time. Patriotism said
! that the aristocrats had hired the labOrers
! not to work The glorious fete was about
/ to fail through treacheryi But behold,
with the spread of the rumor great crowds
begin to pour out of the @ty aud into the
! Champs de Mars. At first in relays they
! take hold of the unused shovels and bar
rows and begin to sing CG-IrG as they toll.
/ But other thousands come, and bring their
own barrows and shovels. Then the girls
and women come with thesr tri-colored
ribbons, smile approval, aud shovel dirt
with their lovers. \ hundred and fifty
thousand come, and then $4,000. and the
shorus of Cd-Ir1 swells and Invertebrates
until old Seine is shaken to his bottom.
Never was such scene of enthusiastic
labor witnessed before in the world. All
classes of society made contributions to the
! force. The universities discharged their
/ professors and students to work at the bar
| rows. Men were there from Brittany and
| tr,m the Jura mountains, from the Medl-
.seranean coast and from Normandy.
,sages, statesmen, poets were there, shovel
ing and wheeling The king himself came
aut, and the wOrkmen rushed around his
majesty with their shovels at a present and
.houlder arns-strangest body guard that
.ver poor Louis had or any other king.
Marie Antoinette, with the dauphin, looks
On and smiles: she. the daughter OF Their
asa, to die under the guillotine. and he to
ros in old Simons shoeshop and a cell OF
The prisonl
Thus were the preparations completed.
The evening of the 18th of July saw every
shing ready for the morrow, and the NOR
thirty in number, one above the other,
zach more than athousand yards in length,
al freshly sodded and clean and beautiful
ander the Partisan sky, About the altar
81 Fatherland were swung on high 10 iron
ssanes great pans OF incense, 10 be lighted
Tor the nostrils of Liberty and Of all pa
,riotism. With the early morning the
crowds began 10 pour into the Enclosure, il
that might De called al Enclosure which
s.emed OF linitleSs extent The citizenship
81 Paris and OF other cities came in shoals
and by thousands All were dressed ii
gay apparel, and the tri-co.or ribbons
Coated and fiuttered everywhere. The dis
ssnt housetops and steeples Of the city
sere black with people The soldiers came
snder Generalissimo de Lafayette, who
g-om the young enthusiast ST the side O
Washington, has grown &c such stature a: