facades
of the building, of which, architecturally speaking, they are the
principal entrances; but in fact, as happens with buildings of such
acreage, the actual inlets depend upon the predominance in numbers
of the people on one or another side of the building, the means of
approach by land and water, and the contiguous streets of favorite and
convenient travel. In the present case the bulk of the people reach
the grounds either by water at the south-east corner or by land at the
intersection of Avenue Rapp with the Avenue Bourdonnaye, which latter
bounds the Champ de Mars on its southern side.

The end-vestibules are connected by five longitudinal galleries on
each side of the open area in the middle of the building. The five
galleries on the southern side belong to France, and the five on the
northern side are divided by transverse partitions among the foreign
nations present, in very greatly differing quantities. England, for
instance, occupies nearly two-sevenths of the whole space devoted to
foreign exhibitors, being more than the sum of the amounts allotted to
Spain, China, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Norway and the United States. The
end-vestibules have curved roofs with highly ornamented ceilings of a
succession of flat domes along the centres, with three rows of deep
soffits on each side, gayly painted. The walls are nearly all glass
in iron frames, and the panes of white glass alternate in checkerwork
with those having blue tracery upon them. The whole building is
principally of iron and glass, the roof of wood, with zinc plates
and numerous skylights over the interior galleries. The machinery
galleries of each side are much the largest of the longitudinal ones,
and have high roofs with side windows above the levels of the roofs on
each side of them; but the four other galleries on each side of the
building have quite low ceilings, which make one fear for the quality
of the ventilation when the heat is at its greatest.

In the interior of the quadrangular building is an open space about
two hundred feet broad and nearly two thousand feet long, reaching
from one vestibule to the other; and in this space are two rows of
fine-art pavilions and a building for the exhibition of the municipal
works of the city. This isolated building is in the central portion
of the whole structure, the fine-art pavilions being arranged in line
with it, four in a group, the salons of a group connected by lobbies
and also with the large