Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-08-17
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
SIGHTS AND SCENES VIvIDLY
DESCRIBED.
It's Wonders, Beauties and Greatness
Minutely Told and Graphi-
cally Portrayed.

who consider that the great EXposi-
tion of 1900 at Paris is too expensive
or that they are imposed upon by
the price of living and the fees de-
manded for admission to the won
derful entertainments that have
been prepared within the enclosure
The great provision of instructive
amusements is surely we'll worth be-
ing literally paid for.
sometimes think we all pay too
little for the information given
weekly to us in the interesting PIKE
COUNTY Press.
Visitors have very little idea of
the great work which had to be
done to present to them what is now
to be seen in the Paris Exposition.
Take the construction alone of the
Grand Palais in the Champs Ely
sees,-four lines of railways were
laid TO carry the material for this
building and to carry away the d G.
bris. An electric rolling bridge con-
veyed the enormous blocks of build =
ing stone to the great circular dia-
mohd saw, furnished with 173 dia-
monds, which cut the granite into
the desired size and shape. Forty
thousand tons of stone were used i'm
the construction of the Grand Pdlais
which covers an area of 80, 600 square
yards. Much of the ground was
found TO be sandy clay and not suit
able for foundations. 1t was there
fore necessary TO drive in, over 2000
trunks of tree or piling, thirty feet
long, each tree requiring at least
300 strokes of a huge and powerful
steam hammer to drive it home. 1t
requires brain as we'll as capital TO
organize a great enterprise like the
Paris Exposition, and the superficial
visitor and observer can never con-
ceive of the vastness of the 1900 Ex-
position in Paris, nor of its marvel
our productions,
BY far one of the most striking
features of the International Exposi-
ton is the gigantic telescope with
which the astronomers of the future
will fathom the heavens.
As will be seen by the figures Civ
en- in the following description, the
telescope of 1900 far transcends in
size anything that had been before
achieved in this line Thus the OBJ
ject glass measures 1872 inches in
diameter, 90 inches more than the
celebrated Yerkes glass at Will
liams's Bay, Wisconsin, and 1872 in
ches more than the Lick tele-
scope, while the focal length
of the new refractor, which measur-
es 1S7 feet, is three times greater
than that of the most powerful tele-
scopes extant.
To properly house this immense
telescope the protecting dome ought
to have diameter of at least 200
feet, thus surprising by 62 feet the
cupola of st. Peters in Rome, or 10y
90 feet the dome of Saint Sophia
Constantinople.
After visiting number of depart
ments in this great Optical building,
the audience assemblies in large
lecture-room where upon a white
screen 35 feet IN diameter by means
of glass Photographic pictures made
by the powerful lense of this tele-
scope views of the moon are shown.
The slightest hills and valleys are
shown with the greatest sharpness.
One can see the mountains, the
volcanoes, eaverns and crevices as
distinctly as can be seen stereopti,
can pictures of the Colosseum OF
Rome or the Banyan tree of Calcut-
ia.
Thus the moon does not appear tC
be more than half a mile away
indeed one almost seems to be only
at distance of few yards from
the lunar surface.
The spectator omtemplates these
marvels with reverence and awe
He stops at the moon, and casts &
glance over those chaotic ruins
which cover its surface to-day, and
which furnish so eloquent proof o.
the absence of atmosphere, water
vegetation, or life of anykind from
the face of our satellite. He ponder'
over those vast cataclysms which
brought about the present desolatior
AMI, taking analogy as bis guide
foresees that our earth. too, with al
its pride and glories, will also di'
some day, when its history will van
ish like a streak of morning cloud il
the infinite azure of the past.
In what is known Us the "Smal
Palace, among other possessions o
old curiosities is a white marble
clock with figures OF the "rhre'