Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-07-01
SOME PAVILI0NS AT THE
PARIS EXPOSITION.

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and attractive as in Paris, and par
ticularly just at the presen time, it is
extremely difficult to select the most
interesting object for description. Some
thing of this sort / remarked my
landlady the other day, to the effect
that If / had not seen so many lovely
ladies in her city | should be inclined
to say she was the most beautiful in the
world This judicious remark brought
me an extra egg at breakfast every
morning and may account for the fact
that she expressed herself as very des-
olated" when it was reported that the
United States pavilion was about to fall
to the ground.
1t isn't going to collapse, of course.
but stories have been started that it is
very unsafe, and, in order to convince
myself, / wandered over to the EXPOSE
ton grounds. / need not say, perhaps.
kildI JlC OlAltCO SCt<tlcS puflllOl 10 oIlil
intact and such thing of beauty, with
the promise of being a joy forever if
allowed to stand, that the foreigners
are envious regarding it. 1t reminds
me very much of the Administration
building at our Worlds Fair of 1893
but is altogether more magnificent,
with its glorious dome brooded over
by the great American eagle, perched
$50 feet above the pavement You will
find all sorts of things inside, ''too nu-
merous to mention" in fact, and from
the number of exhibits one is inclined
to think that there can't be much left
in the States. 1t is an acknowledged
fact that even in this city of balances.
as the Parisians call their town, there
are few than can ''hold candle" to it.
1t faces on the Seine, of course, and
Its immense triumphal arch, with CO.
rinthian columns, fanking great
group Of statuary, typifying liberty,
progress and civilization causes Ia
thrill of pride to run up and down the
spine of every true American.
Speaking of the national pavilions:
after wrestling with the problem of
how to give the representatives of ev-
cry nation the very best sites for heir
buildings, Johnny Crapaud has solved
1t fairly well, and the result is seen in
fhn 1{nn nf ao+i CD, 1oA
tower above he somnolent, odoriferous
Seine. This apology for river, you
know, is more to Paris than the Thames
is to London or the Hudson to New
York.
AS matter Of national pride we
Americans congratulate ourselves that
the United States building will compare
most favorably with that of any other
nation, whatever may be said in dis
arrangement of its structural failings
After that, but always assuming that
the Americans lead the procession, l.
like the Spanish pavilion. This may be
a mere matter of taste. 1t is bad
way; still, Senior Pomporoso doesn't
seem to feel that way at all, but car
. lies his crest away up in the air and
makes pretense that he Just allowed
be Yankees to lick him in order to
now hiw it would feel.
Another reminder of a humiliating
nicrsI n-fh;c
Pdied in the vast pile that represents
Kremlin and the Asiatic Russian
Dtion, away off by itself, which, l
list admit, covers more space and
Fers little higher than the United
Gtes pavilion. French recollection.
Tever does not seem to go so far
as Moscow and the disastrous
sian campaign of Napoleon-only
the Franco-Prussian war and the
Incing somebody got about that
pile | cannot even attempt to de-
e all the beautiful buildings here
p have been raised like fairy nal
o' III d uiSnI, may pause
mark that this Street of the Ma
on the banks of the Seine. with
mposite architecture of every ma
lty, is one of the greatest sighst
city of unsurpassed attractions
at the corner of the new bridge
the river stands the richly color
ais d'Italie, next it the Turkish
with its suggestion of the Bos-
harems and that sort of thing.
mes the stately American pavil-
striking contrast to the Austrian
with Portugal, Denmark. Swe-
'u, Norway, Germany and Hun
in row, their rocco stamp of
Eure frowned upon by Eng
Puntry house of the Elizabethan
which, if homely, is comfor-
pany with Spain, Greece, Ser
md, Roumania, etc., down to-
end of the street, stands that