Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — Cost of Paris Exhibitions. [ARTICLE]

Cost of Paris Exhibitions.

The exhibition of 1807, with a total area of 176,000 square yards, cost $4,500,000; in 1878 the expenditure amounted to $10,000,000, of which fB,360,000 went for the exhibition properly so-called, and its 290,000 square yards of covered space; $1,700,000 wae expended on the 17,300 square yards of tihe Trocade.ro Palace, and the rest was absorbed by Ihe gardens, the aquariums, tlhe cascades, etc. In 1880 the estimate showed a total anticipated expenditure of $8,500,000, and, what Is very Interesting and curious, the actual outlay fell short of rhe estimate,* since only $8,000,000 were spent on tile exhibition, leaving a balance available for t*o maintenance of the palaces on the Champ de Mars, which will now, in part, at least, have to be demolished. In 1000 it is intended to spend $18,000,000, but of this oneflftti will be devoted to the construction of the new palaces that will remain in the Champs Elysees as permanent . monuments. There is an enormous increase in the scale of Wie 1900 exhibition, as compared to that of 1889, since ft is intended to spend twice as much money upon it as was devoted to its predecessor.