. Bohemian Paris of to-day . into the Champs-Elysees,where, not far away, loomed the Palais des Beaux-Arts, in which the Salon is annually held in Avenue des Champs-Elysees, crowded as itusually is in the afternoons, was now jammedwith cabs, omnibuses, hand-carts, and all sorts ofmoving; vans, mingfline with the fashionable car-riages on their way to the Bois. The proletarianvehicles contained art,—art by the ton. The upperdecks of the omnibuses were crowded with artistscarrying their pictures because they could not affordmore than the three-sous fare. And such an assort-ment of arti
. Bohemian Paris of to-day . into the Champs-Elysees,where, not far away, loomed the Palais des Beaux-Arts, in which the Salon is annually held in Avenue des Champs-Elysees, crowded as itusually is in the afternoons, was now jammedwith cabs, omnibuses, hand-carts, and all sorts ofmoving; vans, mingfline with the fashionable car-riages on their way to the Bois. The proletarianvehicles contained art,—art by the ton. The upperdecks of the omnibuses were crowded with artistscarrying their pictures because they could not affordmore than the three-sous fare. And such an assort-ment of artists ! There were some in affluent circumstances, whorolled along voluptuously in cabs on an expenditureof thirty-five francs, holding their precious tableauxand luxuriantly smoking cigarettes. 74 TAKING PICTURES TO THE SALON The commissionnaires had a great day of it. Theyare the ones usually seen asleep on the street cor-ners, where, when awake, they varnish boots or bearloads by means of a contrivance on their backs. On. THE UPPER DECKS OF THE OMNIBUSES WERE CROWDED this day every one of them in Paris was loaded downwith pictures. Many were the hard-up students, like Bishop,tugging hand-carts, or pairing to carry by hand pic-tures too large to be borne by a single person. Andgreat fun they got out of it all. Opposite the Palais de Glace was a perfect sea ofvehicles, artists, porters, and policemen, all inextri-cably tangled up, all shouting or groaning, and wetpictures suffering. One artist nearly had a fit whenhe saw a full moon wiped off his beautiful landscape,and he would have killed the guilty porter had notthe students interfered. Portraits of handsome ladies 75 BOHEMIAN PARIS with smudged noses and smeared eyes were gold frames lost large sections of theircorners. But still they were pouring in. With infinite patience and skill Bishop graduallyworked his voiture-a-bras through the maze, andsoon his masterpiece was in the crushing mass atthe wide entr
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