Night at Paris Exposition Brightens With Electric Splendor
Special Correspondence describes Paris at night during the Great Exposition. Electric lighting transforms the Champ de Mars and Eiffel tower into a dreamlike panorama. The author tours Spiers & Pond restaurants on the tower, notes ascent views, illuminated fountains, and the Rue du Caire reenactment, then details night exits and security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Eiffel Tower
Bois de Boulogne
Champ de Mars
Avenue de Suffren
Bastiles
Pilsen
Spiers & Pond
Windsor Castle
Eiffel
Notre Dame
Mount Valerien
Belvedere
Esplanade Des Invalides
Trocadero
Hiffel Tower
Jena
Bengal
Seine
England
France
Neptune
Children’s Palace
Jack the Giant Killer
Blue Beard
M. Chennevieres
Victor Hugo
Place de la Bastille
Folies Parisiennes
Challier
Rue du Caire
Gerard de Nerval
Egypt
Orient
The
Nile
Yokohama
Jena Bridge
Treodore Stanton
New York Widows Draw Public Compassion and Praise
Special correspondence reviews prominent New York widows including Mrs. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Custer, and Mrs. Paran Stevens. It highlights Vanderbilt’s quiet charity, Grant’s somber routine by the Riverside coffin, Custer’s scholarly work and art interest, and Stevens’s social prominence, noting Catherine Remsen as a concluding observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vanderbilt
America
Grant
Leslie
Custer
Gen. Grant
Riverside Park
Paran Stevens
Frank Leslie
Jacob Sharp
Catherine Remsen
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