How A Great Canvas Was Moved

The rooving of a paiutiug from a pavilion of the city of Paris in the Champa Elysees to the Anteuil gallery offered a very difficnlt probJem to the Paris city authorities. The painting, by M. Roll, representing the oelebration ofJulyH, is 32 f eet long by 23 f eet high and witb the massive frame weighs over 2,200 ponnds. It was impossible to move the paiDting in the ordiuary way, by taking the canvas off the frame and rolling it, for the painting, being varnisbed, it would probably have cracked in several places. It was therefore decided to move the canvas and frame as a whole. After much deliberation a special chariot was constructed over two of the floats which were used in the Mardi Gras procession. The city engineer, with eight laborers, proceeded to the pavilion and the painting was carried by eight men, eight othera bracing the upper part of the picture to keep it in an npright position until it was deposited in the chariot. It was finally got out without accident and slid upon greased planks upon the chariot. Arrived at the Gallerie d'Auteuil, the picture was similarly carried to iti new quarters. The painting is one oí the largest in existence and was painted by order of the French government in 1880 to perpetúate the memory of the flrst national holiday of the third republic