Arizona republican., 1899-11-30
WORK MIRACLES IN PARIS

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 end to finish it. And certainly the
 Paris exposition of 1900 will be no eX- ception to this sweeping rule. For. all | though week after week shows won-
 bility to have even the buildings done
 in time for the opening or the fair, to say nothing of the exhibits. At the last visit, however, to the "chantiers "a comprehensive word, by the by,
 which we have not got. and which
 means ''workyards," approximately
 there was distinct progress and few of
 the structures were in the kindling
 state.
 In the old Galerie des Machines
 where the salons have been held each
 year-every partition has been taken
 down, and the grand window, repre-
 senting the signs of the Zodiac and
 Chariot of the Sun, done in 1889, may
 be carefully studied. Every city in
 France is given place up in the caves with its coat-of-arms and it's products, in fresco. The hall is enormous, as it stands, empty, and men look like pyg- mics in it. Especially some men on the roof. cleaning the glass of which it is entirely composed, and swinging in baskets. from dizzy height to dizzy height, looked like monkeys, and dwarfs, at that.
 If we had an abundance of sculp- tured exteriors to our buildings in our worlds fair here, in Paris there will be a plethora, riot of them. In the Esplanade in front of the invalides, the ht,i1 cid v-iI ,r-;t I, carving in stucco. Never were such florid decorations. There is an enor- nous main building through the in- terstices of which may now, and one hopes always, be seen, glimpses of gardens and courtyards beyond, with the trees quite green, showing beauti fully through. On this building are garlands of huge size, with heads of Floras and Bacchi looking through. Every available inch is ornamented. The effect is dazzlingly white snow; but on the first building colored paint ing had been begun yesterday. A kind of Panathenaic procession in high re- lief had been painted in terra-cottta color, while under it a trellis band, with rosettes catching up the corners, was done in a lovely shade of green. The sculptured garlands stood out white on this green ground. It is a matter of taste, this color: somehow, after our whiteness in 1893, one can not have too much of it, and rather de- plores the gayness of the bright green.
 As above is another row of the terra cotta, one imagines that only two col ors were to be used. It will be inter- esting to run over again and see. The excitement of watching the buildings grow has become one of the joys of life here.
 Over in the Trocadero quarter things are going on fast. The Chinese pago- das two of them, in their gayety of red and green, carved oddly and interwo- ven like Chinese puzzles-which they are-are nearly done. They stand on an incline of ground and are in plain view a long distance. On the outside of the little working Temporarily hut was hung a bit of real Chinese tiling from the old country as a pattern for the workmen. It looked rather pa thetic. Such artists as these French men arei They have their faults, but 1t is worth a journey across the ocean, before next spring. to see the quality of their work, the humblest of them all.
 
 And as one industry leads to others, the activity of the restaurants all around the working spots is well worth too. Neighborhoods that had fallen into decay have picked up and become prosperous. with the millions of sales of red wine and bread and thick soup; hardly more. One can see, at certain times of the day-at noon, and again at 4 o'clock; heaven knows why this last!-men by the doz- an. in long white blouse and little cap. taking their honest reflection. No sinking into bars and swizzling be- hind screens for them! They take their drinks in open view and in the open air. And no one ever sees these workmen drunk. And, speaking nt open air. are you. too, at home enjoy ing summer weather in November! Not Indian summer either; that lasts only a few days and the evenings are cold. Here for two weeks one has been able to sit out of doors without wrap and drive and walk late in the evening. Last year. they say. they were having fogs and fires and the shortest of day lights in Paris at this season. It is a splendid thing for the work of the fair, all this warmth.
 The South African republic fiaunts it's gay flag defiantly, almost finished IS its little edifice is. But the noblest pure white, with bonneted cupolas, like it's Saracenic prototype, the Pearl Mosque at Agra, and the cele- orated palaces of Akbar, is almost re- produced from the Mosque above named. It's traceries. which are taken from the Moors, and are like those of the Alhambra-are seen from a long distance. Across the bridge, which connects the Trocadero with the Eiffel grounds, this exquisite monument gleam chastelv in the sun. distinctly visible from the tower inclosure. and indeed everywhere. It is curious that never is there an attempt to reproduce at any of these fairs, a Hindoo build ing. It is always the Saracenic-M Moor sh, which does not belong to India at all, except in it's adaptation to the marble of the country. It is the ireamiest architecture in the whole