Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-02

ian life of pleasure still depended on the
night. The Moulin Rouge and the cafe
American were in their glory and the gay
ETY. of the French capital was of an old
style Frenchiness.
The bicycle and the new life of sport
has changed all that. And the midway OF
the coming eXposition-to be called the
street of Paris will be strikingly differ
ent from the old street of Cairo where
the plaintive music Of the danse du ventre
first burst upon the world. In the old
Jardin de Paris the ehahut or "fin de steele
dance with Rayon dor, La Melinite, La
Nome FrOmage and La GOulue. waved it's
white :ace-edged petticoats as the last
gesture Of the dying century. Alas, the
fin de steele dance itself is dead and its
divinitles have grown stout and heavy.
OF General interest
Highly expensive entertainments are to
be the special sign Of the new street of
Paris" and their special sign will be. not
tific interest. To take the sea voyage of
the Mareorama will cost II francs-S3.
The Mareorama will be, undoubtedly a
tirSt-ClaSS novelty.
Its originator-and chief painter-is the
worthy artist, Hugo d'Alesi. to whom with
sian aftiche." For years he has been the
high-priced poster designer for all the
French railway companies composing If
resistible scenes of the Riviera and tho
iOuS COlOring. He one Of the first to
take up the three-color process in lithu-
graphy, ard the Paris street owes to him
much Of It's sweetness and light.
An artist utterly unprecedented, as willing
tC do art for railway companies as for the
Salon, he long dreamed of revivifying the
discredited art of the popular panorama.
The exposition has given him his opportu-
nifty, for the expensive innovations he i'm
agined could be justified only by some great
occasion. The Mareorama will be a pano-
rama in action, with which action the spec
tator will be himself mingled. 1t will not
be a dead spectacle, but a real voyage,
where all is movement.
On n Steamers Deck.
Having chosen the shores of the Medi-
terranean-so familiar to him in his poster
work-d'Alesi easily found stock company
to build the great machine which will give
the Illusion of a steamer trip along them.
Paying So each, the spectators will mount
stairway and find themselves all suddenly
transported to pleasure steamers deck
in port at Marseilies, booked for Alexan-
dria and return. The vessel Is already
swaying gently with the rising tide, and
should one feel indisposed he may seek
the lower deck and have q cup of tea in
a real steamers dining room. rest in one
Of dozen state rooms, absolutely real
istic.
How to make the pitch and roll, which
are the terrors Of the sea, was quite a
structeur, Voirin, has solved it. An i'm
mense steel cylinder which forms the low
er half of the construction, very accurately
balances the upper half when loaded with
us passengers. So comparatively small
force is sufficient to give the whole mass
a roll or pitch upon its central pivot
Curved steel springs welded together for
strength determine, by their changes the
direction and force of each of the ships
slightest movements, from the gentle rise
and fall of the port of Marselles to the
furious contortions of a tempest. Indeed,
a storm at is to be one of the brilliant
incidents of each trip.
Out on the Mediterranean.
On deck there are steamer chairs the
smell Of new paint, deck stewards Offering
beef tea-everything. The pilot comes on.
they get up steam the horn blows and the
ship sails out into the Mediterranean. This
is exactly what it does, it sails out into the
Mediterranean, past all the beauty spots of
the cote d'azur. in and out of the Italian
ports, to Constantinople and Alexandria,
At Venice-one arrives in the evening
there is a scene by moonlight with a pro-
cesston of gondolas, lighted with Venetian
lanterns. At Naples boys and girls come
on board. selling fruits and other memen-
already painted. OF course, the ship re-
mains stationary, while the sliding scenery
--on both sides-gives the Illusion of a vow
age. The sea breeze is to be simulated by
the passage of cooled air over a bed of sea-
wrack-so that the very smell of the Med
iterrenean will be enjoyed.
The Distance Seer.
Undoubtedly the most sensational Of all
the side shows will be the distance seer
Of the young Pole. Jan szczepanik. I do no.
know Of any previous example of a per-
fected invention of absorbing interest to
the general public being held back more