The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-07
s.See Parls-and die"

Such is the motto Of the rural French
man from ST. Matthew to Monaco, anc
in that cry of late all the world seems
to have joined.
For centuries now this siren of earth
" cities has been calling the world
within her enchanted walls, and year by
year her voice has ever grown more al
Turing and her charm more irresistible.
She has become the Athens of our mod
ern age and, though one cOnfesses it re-
luctantly, the center, the flower, Of all
our modern civilization.
Paris!
The very name carries mysterious
charm with it-Paris, the enchanted,
the beautiful, the young hearted! Who
that has seen the gay, the bright color
ed life and movement that reach from
the Madeleine to the Porte Saint-1lar-
tin can ever forget the scene?
Long. experience has made this Paris
the most gracious and the most indul-
gent of hostesses. She has learned, al
most too well, how to win the love of
the stranger within her gates. When
she takes his love, she also takes his
gold. In fact so long has she coquetted
with the alien that his loose stringed
purse has become a necessity for her,
and today Paris without her army of
visitors would be like a court without
its parasites or a queen without a sub
ject.
But a change has been creeping over
the gilded city on the Seine. The bus
Ting little Partisan engines are hurry
ing about with carloads of steel and
iron, and workmen are hocking in from
the departments.
Seldom before has such a sense of
gravity fallen, upon Paris the gay. It
is not often that this city of pleasure
has taken life seriously, but for once
it might be said that Paris has her
sleeves rolled up and has forgotten the
music of cafe Orchestras amid the
sterner notes of ringing anvils and
workmen's hammers.
Forty thousand meters of white stone
brought from the quarries of Lorraine
lie scattered about the Champs EIysees.
The public grounds from the Place de la
ConcOrde to the suburb of Passy are
swarming with blue bloused workrnen.
Dust and debris and noise are every
where. The PalaiS de PIndustrie. with
all it's historic and artistic associations.
has been RACED to the ground, and the
poor little, long tortured Seine is being
busily twisted and elbowed out of its
natural bed, for all Paris is at work
at work in deadly earnest-to make the
worlds fair of 1900 the ne plus ultra of
all international eXpositions.
The Partisan has decided that antio-
uity must cease to babble of the mar
wells of Athens. Alexandria, London,
Chicago, and the seven wonders of the
world must be talked of no more Here |
after it shall be the hundred new won |
ders Of Paris.
The place for the new Paris exposi- |
ton has long since been definitely de- /
cided upon. Its site will take in the |
Champ de Mars, with the addition of |
the grounds of the Palais du Trocadero. |
the Quai d'Orsay, the Esplanades des !
1nvalides. the Quai de Ia Conference. /
the Cours Ia Refine and the grounds
around the Palais de FIndustrie. to saw
nothing of the space in the vicinity that
Is comprised between the Place de Ia
Concorde, the Avenue d'Antin and the
COuTs la Refine
All this historic territory, which lies
right in the heart of Paris. is already
surrounded by one great high board
fence painted a light green, with lat
ucework tastefully arranged over each
entrance. The Partisan. even when up
10 his ears in work, insists on good
taste and tidiness. On this fence not
one advertisement is allowed to be post
cd, and inside of it no strangers arr. per-
mitted 10 pass
Unlike that beautiful white city which
hoe Do
and as quickly passed away. the new
buildings of the coming Paris evnosi-
ton viii all, or nearly all. be perma-
nent There is q very impressive meth
Cd IN the oXpositionaI madness of the
thrifty Partisan. This apparently Meas
ure loving Yet frugal and self conferred
citizen is willing enough TO glorifv his
country with great and unsurnassed
fairs and also to instruct the different
peoples Of q less enlghtened outsf5a
world IN the arts and sciences. brlt AZ
the same time he Contrjves to make
the welfare of the exposition identical
with that of his ever loved Paris. This
spirit Is now resulting in the practical
reconstruction of the city In the case
OF the present exposition it is true thar
rams mas not been ungencrous in ire
suDNentlon 10 the great fair but each
sacrifice has been of such nature thar
1t in the end must result in the a55irfCn
Of new beauties To what is already The
most beautiful part Of Paris. already
ACKNOWLEDGED the most beautiful civ
in the world
Perhaps the most striking feature r.
the different preparations for the s>-
position now under way is the ,,sa
which is being made of the river Sefna
The Seine. as is well known IS nor d,
stream of bright and sparkling water
but rather deep. Significantly 5is.,f-
ored. well banked up little river across
which the Partisan small boy can .e9sirv 1
throw biscuit. Like a well warned
ladder. where if goes curvins Thrones,
the city, II Is runsed with bridge after
bridge These bridges have ALWAYS h4aD !
remarkable for their beauty ana their
numoer, but never has the Seine been
popular with the Partisan 0le3surs
seeker The iefJ bank Of the river h.
tween The Place &c Ia Concorde and The
Place de IAlma is nothing bur r5i-
lection Of ragged and dirty Cumming ,
grounds and squGHd steamboat vhs~fs
IT is along this section of the Seine 1ano s
an eyesore 70 tie fasudious Partisan I