Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-11-01
SUCCESSES OF
THE PARIS FAIR.
Our Correspondent Reviews the Ex-
position and Names the Fea-
lures That Viii live In history.
By Annette Rierdon Reed.

Now that the Paris Exposition is so
nearly at a close. it is time to look
back upon it and review it for the ben
eft of future Exhibits. At first there
was, as in the case of the Chicago Fair,
the same hue and cry about the un-
finished state Of the Exposition. Visi-
tors rebelled at being asked to a adj
mission to so incomplete a show; and
on every hand there were walls from
exhibitors and sight-seers because
packing boxes were not opened and no
wares displayed. But order came out
of chaos and from disorder came~fOrth
beauty.
Looking back upon the Exposition
the features are divided into two
sharply distinct portions, those that
were interesting and those that were
not. The latter soon died a natural
death and were removed. or, if too
large for hat, they remained as gigan-
tic examples of failures. The success
full ones speedily turned into money
making machines and have. by this
time, made their inventors and their
owners rich. 1t is a singular thing
that Expositions mould 50 make or
mar. We know to-day of so many
things that owe their lie to The Paris
Exposition; and could count back
many a one that sprang into notice at
the Chicago Fair.
The dreams Of an opium smoker,
who had beer reading the
Nights would doubtless be of. mar
vellous palaces ard mysterious edi1ces,
built of translucid gems, boating in
mid-air and gIittering in a blaze of
light. This "baseiess fabric Of a Wis
ion" has been realized by M. Ponsin in
the precincts Of the Paris Exhibition,
not many PAGES from the Eiffei Tower;
and his Luminous Fairy Palace is no
model Of toy: it is 100 feet III height
and 27O feet in circumference
M. Pensin Is an artist who has car
ried the study OF glass to heights I'M
c dreamed of by the most imaginative OF
mortals; in his hands glass becomes
possessed of brilIiapcy and hardness; is
more transparent than air, and~ more
Opaque than metal; it a be inpreg-
mated with every tint, and made to as
sumo colors which have at once soft
ness, mutability, solidity and depth; it
can be carved, woven and spun; it is
silky, flexible, opai;ae, irridescent, or OF
the appearance OF metal; it is mould
ed, cast and blown. NJ. Ponsin is, in
fact, the Glass Kir@, and has created a
perfectly unique edi1ice, formed entire
1y of glass of every conceivable form
and aspect.
This luminous palace is built upon a
group of granite rocks, from which a
magnificent cascade flows into a lake,
situated on the left of the Eiffel Tower
and facing the Military School. Mag
nihcent crystal stairways, gracefully
cafvec% lead to q vast hail, s~urmounted
by a cupola, and having large bay
windows draped with heavy portieres.
A circular divan, covered in a gor-
geoUs tapestry of spun glass, the centre
of which is surnnOuIlted by a statue,
occupies the middle of this hall; whilst
a Smyrna carpet in Oriental coloring
covers the floor. Five pictures, repre-
senting the five parts of the world,
hang round@the hail. The dome, which
rises in the centre, is supported on six
teen ruby columns with glide capt.
tails. The roof is ~surmounted by an
open turret, carrying a statue of F1lec-
tryone, the daughfer Of the Sun, rest
ing Upon a globe apparently turning in
space and, thanks to an ingenious
piece of mechanism, without any Wis
ible means of support. A gallery shell
tered by a gracefully cBTving roof, up
held by twisted Columns, runs round
the exterior OF the palace.
All the statues, columns, pictures
carpets, portieres, divan, galleries, and
in fac the entire palace are in glass OF
every possible shade and color, mod
elled and blown into every imag inablt
form; and, most astonishing of ali
put together without any visible fit
tings.
~ Is easy 70 OIiAGA Slci1tNA Why AHA L OI'
sin determined to erect his palace OF
the borders of a lake; the water act'
like a mirror, doubling the effect of tn,
illumination.
We must not dwell longer on all tn,
wonderful Inventions exhibited b,
the glass king but mention must b
made of the opalized glass birds am
flowers which at night time are il
Illuminated in the trees surrounding tn
palace; they are fitted Internally witt
in~candescent lamps, attached to tn
electric current by an invisible wire.
AROUND TEE WORLD.
M. Dumoulin's huge, ornamental edi
flee, CONTAINING the panorama Of a Tou
Round the World, is another marvel o
the Exhibition. We enter and find our
selves at Chang Hal; We haste
through thai dirty Chinese city, comm
to a delightful vista, as picturesque a
it is singular; the wonderful "Garde.
of Stones" the ground of which i
5strewn with stones and rocks heape
up in all directions, from amongs
which spring real trees. The entir
length of the boundary wall is sur
mounts by the undulating tail of a.
enormous dragon.
Our presence has already been oh
served, and now little Chinese ladie
come dancing in, treating us to
beautiful and quite novel Spectacle
their rich dresses, graceful appearance
and coy, smiling little faces evoke as
constituent and delight.
Scarcely have we become accus
toned to his unexpected picture, whe
we find ourselves in Japan. Again W
see a garden; one Of those pretty, tin
gardens, in which the marvels of a ill
putian world are accumulated, inclut
ing trees which. though centuries oil
are not higher than a few inche
Amongst the foliage of larger trees a
to be seen the red 1acquered doors of
light and elegant h~abitation; this is