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SOME OF THE WONDERS
AT PARIS EXPOSITION
Preparation For World’s Fair of
1900 Well Under Way.
WANT TO MAKE IT “EXQUIB."
Many Novel Features Adopted, but Mo
Master Stroke Decided On—Exposition
Will Add to the Permanent Glories of
‘ Paris—United States Well Represented.
The great exposition which the
French are to open in Paris in the
spring of 1900 will be wholly unlike
anything of the kind ever held any
where. “Magnificent, impressive, in
spiring,’’ are the things we said about
our World’s fair. The French do not
want to say that about theirs. They
take their pleasure less seriously. “Ex
quis”—pronounced “exkeeze,” with a
lift of the eyebrows and a two handed
gesture—is what the French want to be
able to say about their fair.
And “exkeeze” it undoubtedly will
be. •
In size of buildings, in extent of
ground and in general grandeur it will
not compare with the ephemeral White
City on Chicago’s lake front. But in
beauty of detail, in novelty of idea and
in careful finish it will excel it. There
will be an artistic harmony of the
whole. You will see no crudities. There
will be no unsightly board fences, no
bare patches of ground, no disfiguring
features of any kind, either within the
grounds or in their immediate vicinity.
Neither will it be temporary. Most of
its beauties will be substantial glories
which Parisians will enjoy for years to
come. These will be its distinguishing
eharacteristics.
In the very location of the site the
French have shown that they are capa
ble of planning and executing a bold
enterprise. It is not to be hidden away
in some inaccessible corner of the sub
urbs, not shoved out on the edge of the
city’s bedraggled outskirts, but plump
ed down right in the heart of Paris—
trees, lawns, big buildings and all.
True, a large part of the site was occu
pied by the exposition of 1889, but a
big slice on the other side of the Seine
has been added to this, an addition
which has required the tearing down
and remodeling of a big chunk of
ground that has been occupied for other
purposes.
According to the general plan, the
grounds are to be divided into four
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will coustiMte the domain given to
sculpture, painting and art in its higher
branches. One of the banks of the Seine
has been reserved for the exhibit of the
city of Paris, while the other will be
occupied by the buildings of the various
foreign nations The Trocadero, with its
subordinate buildings, will house the
exhibits of the French colonies. The en
tire Field of Mars will be occupied by
the industrial exhibits, which are ex
pected to rival anything ever shown in
this line. The principal entrance will
open directly on a great boulevard which
will be carried over the Seine by a mag
nificent new bridge 197 feet wide. This
will be the widest bridge in existence
and will be one of the features of the
exposition grounds.
The way in which the exhibits will
be classified is to be another distinctive
feature. In most expositions the arrange
ment has been made a sort of competi
tive show in which each country vied
with the others in presenting a jumble
of products. But the French do things
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differently. This time, as Delore, tney
will classify the exhibits according to
their nature, purpose and usefulness
without regard to their origin.
M. Alfred Picard, who as commis
sioner general of the exposition is busily
directing the carrying out of these
plans and who organized the executive
forces of the enterprise, is an experi
enced engineer and a prominent public
official. He has held important positions
in the state council and is an officer of
the Legion of Honor.
The manner in which the question of
expense has been met' is particularly
French. Os course money and lots of it
was required to begin with. The city
contributed $4,000,000 and the state a
like amount. How do you suppose the
rest was raised? By begging people to
buy stock? Not at all. The exposition
managers just went to work and got up
a big lottery. The tickets, which sell
for about $4 each, entitle the holders to
20 admissions during the fair, including
admission to several exhibits not cover
ed by the single admission ticket and
participation in all the lottery drawings
from the date of issuance. The prizes
are numerous, running all the way from
SIOO,OOO in a few capital prizes down
to small sums. Os the 3,500,000 tickets
issued over 2,500,000 have already
been sold, and the rest will be gone
long before the two years are up. Ev
ery Parisian who can scrape together
30 francs has invested in the hope of
being one of the fortunate few. In this
way the $21,000,000 necessary is being
raised without difficulty, although the
method is one which many Americans
will censure. For the running expenses
of the fair the gate money collected
from tourists will more than suffice.
For a time it looked as though the
United States would cut no figure at all
in this great exposition of the century’s
end. We were about the last of the civ
ilized nations to respond to the invita
tion to participate. So when Major
Moses P. Handy went over as our rep-
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resenta 71 ve to accept and secure space
he was sadly handicapped. The poor
.exhibit which we made in Paris in 1889
had prejudiced the French against us.
But Major Handy had not been a news
paper man, a politician and chairman
of the bureau of promotion and publici
ty of the World’s fair for nothing. He
introduced the ruffled Parisians to that
great American institution known as a
“jolly,” and he hypnotized the exposi
tion directors into granting for the
American exhibit more than 200,000
g<ivnr“ feet of —oe of s he
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where space is almost as valuable as on
Broadway.
More than this, he obtained for
American artists the assurance that this
time their pictures wqpld be hun? on
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away In a back room up stain, aa at the
last exposition. He also secured for
American railroads the privilege of run
ning their can on some of the regular
lines, which will be a fine object lesson
to the Europeans and a good advertise
ment for us.
As yet I have not been able to de
termine what is to be “le grand clou,”
or master stroke, of the exposition.
Many features have been suggested and
spoken of in this connection; but none
really seems to fill the bill. 1 don’t be
lieve Messieurs les Directeurs them
selves know what it is to be as yet. In
1889 it was the Eiffel tower That
crowning feature if the former fair is to
remain, but it can hardly be featured
again. The Parisians want something
entirely novel, aud visiters will expect
it
Hundreds of ideas have been submit
ted, but most of them have been im
practical, bizarre or wholly ridiculous.
A few have bet n adopted, but it is not
clear yefthat any of them will take the
place of The tower cr Chicago’s Ferris
wheel. Perhaps the huge globe which
is now being built will do this, but I
doubt it. It is to be a monster represen
tation of the earth 84 feet in diameter,
with a surface area of 22,000 square
feet. It is to be inclosed in a circular
building, around the walls of which
will run a series of galleries for specta
tors. The globe itself will revolve slow
ly. It will be a novelty certainly, but
not a great one.
From a glance at the scores of reject
ed designs you would almost think that
every lunatic in France had been set to
work. One man proposed to build a
cable oar air line which would run from
the top of the Eiffel tower to the Ver
sailles. Another man wanted to erect
along the banks of the Seine "life size”
scenery representing mountains and
cities of foreign countries so that guests
might take a trip around the world in
80 minutes while seated on the deck of
a river boat. Dozens of schemes calling
for the digging of shafts into the ground
for unheard of distances and utilizing
them in various ingenious ways were
also sent in. Another man proposed to
destroy the city fortifications, which
cost millions of dollars, and substitute
f.n immense sea fed moat which would
be cross, d by a drawbridge a mile or so
long.
The Eiffel tower figured in many of
the schemes. One genius proposed that
it be remodeled into a female figure of
France. Another suggested that a
mountain of rocks 830 feet higher than
the tower should be built alongside'of
it, with a lake and other pleasant fea
tures on its top. He proposed to take
visitors from the top of the tower to the
artificial peak by means of a balloon.
An electrically illuminated Niagara
falling from the top of the tower was
one of the milder suggestions.
But the exposition directors are level
headed even if every crank in France
has turned inventor, and the work of
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