Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — PARIS FAIR OPENED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PARIS FAIR OPENED.

INTERNATIONAL SHOW IS FOR. MALLY INAUGURATED. Exhibition Building* Still Unfinished and Exhibits Not Yet Inatalled-The United States Makes a Moat Creditable Showing—Chicago Strike Growing. The world’s exposition at Paris was formally opened Saturday, although mfiny buildings have not been finished and many exhibits are not in place. The exposition will be the largest and most attractive ever held in Europe. For a fortnight or more work on the exposition has been pushed night and day by armies of masons, plasterers, painters, glaciers, carpenters and other workmen, and while in some respects the exhibition which opened its doors officially Saturday is far from being completely in order, it probably approaches that condition at least as nearly as the Columbian exposition did at its official opening of ’93. Correspondents say that if the end

of next tnonth sees all the exhibits in place and the fair fully inaugurated in all its splendor, the authorities may be congratulated on their success. The exposition is planned on a vaster scale than any previous orje, with the sin«Je exception of the Columbian exposition. American visitors will not, as at some previous fairs, have any occasion to blush for the exhibit this country makes at Paris. With the exception of France itself we have the greatest number of exhibits, numbering nearly 7,000 in all, while Germany, the next in number, has only about 3,000, and England only about a third as many as Germany. The United States pavilion also will probably carry off {he honors as one of the gems of the fair. Its interior decorations alone cost $30,000. Altogether, the United

States section is likely to be the most creditable dmplay this country has ever made across the ocean in that picturesque bazaar of nations called a world’s fair. As far as recorded there are 30,000 exhibitors from France, 6,564 from the United States, 2,500 from Belgium, 2,(AM) from Germany, 2.000 from Italy, 1,500 from Russia, 1,400 from Norway and Sweden, 1,000 from Austria, 600 from Great Britain and 600 from British colonies. Up to this time the United States has shown more interest in the exposition than any other country except France. The exposition opens with about 50,000 exhibitors on the books, against at the World's Fair in Loudon in 1851, 4,100 at the World’s Fair in New York in 1853, 23,054 at the World’s Exposition in Paris in 1855, 28.653 at the World's Fair in London in 1862, 50,226 at the World’s Exposition in Paris in 1867, 70,000 at the World's Fair iu Vienna in 1873, 30,864 at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in lq7B, 40,866 at the World’s Exposition in Paris in 1878, 55,000 at the exposition in Faris in 1889, and 65,422 exhibitors at the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893. The World’s Fair in I-ondon in 1851 occupied twenty-one acres; that in New York in 1853, thirteen acres; that in Paris in 1855, twenty-four acres; that in London in 1862, twenty-three acres; that in Paris in 1867, thirty-seven acres; that in Philadelphia in 1876, sixty acres; that in Paris in 1878, 100 acres; that in Paris in 1889, 160 acres; that in Chicago in 1893, 633 acres. The grounds of the present exposition in Paris are greater in extent than the grounds of 1889, but do not compare in extent with the grounds of the Columbian exposition in 1893.

I.’MJTEO STATUS PAVILION.

GRAND PALACE OF FINE ART AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.