New-York tribune., 1878-05-02

DltlOn must DE 1naue NJ nOHic anu nos aoi"a"t '"'
,he work to he done in Paris could be done by mem
bers of his staff, but that he himself should remain
in America till the very goods had actually been
shipped off to Europe. Aud he did. should say
he was something of a Frenchman in his talent ior
organizing things. He has system, Just as General
Trochu had plan but with this difference, that
his system succeeds, while Trochu's too famous
plan never came to anything. From the day
Governor Mccormick issued advertisements Tor
applications down to the present, the system mas
not been departed from. Each application was
numbered in its ORDER and that is its number to-day
The floor of the section was mapped out III cor
responding numbers. Every letter respecting the
same application bore the same number; every
parcel and package bore it, and when the parcel
or package arrived at Paris, it found its own way
easily 10 the bit of plankng which was waiting for
il with the same number. The selection OF stan
and the framing of instructions were not less essen
tial conditions of success OF Mr. Pettit, the head
of the staff in Paris before Mr. McCormlcks arrival
have spoken above an engineer ana architect OF
great experience and ability, with capable secre-
tary, Mr. George Pate There are five Directors OF
Sections as follows Installation, Rufns NJ. smith;
Machines, Thomas r. Pickering Fine Arts, d. Matt
land Armstrong; Education. John ID. Phllbnck
Agriculture. William McMurtre all men well
known III IIpW OWL utpdl anu "' '"''''>'
charged with important duties at former Exhibitions
Mir. Smith was the man who had control of the
distribution of sections and space at Philadelphia,
and stood between the contractors and the Commls-
son-the upper and neither mllstOneSryeJ was not
ground to powder. Mr.. Pickering was managing
machinery both at Vienna and Philadelphia. Mr.
Philbrick's name is familiar to everybody III the
United States who has any practical acquaintance
with great educational problems and enterprises.
Mr. McCOrmicks two secretaries are Mr.. f. w.
Clancy and Mr.. A. II Grard. both chosen by him
from his personal acquaintance with thelr capacity
There are two attach6S-One military, Lieutenant
Alexander Rodgers, of the regular army. son OF
Admiral Raymond Rodgers, now head OF the Naval
School at Annapolis, whom | used to know In
the early days of the rebellion as flag cap
tam and chief OF staff to the lamented Admiral
Dupont. aud who was then and is now one of the
most accomplished and brilliant officers IN the ser
vice. The naval attach6 is Leutenant B. III. Buck
ingham; aud they both appeared on saturday III fuil
uniform TO do honor to their chief on his presenta
tion by the American Minister to the Minister of
Agriculture and Commerce. NJ Tcssorenc do Bort.
under whose general jurisdiction the Exposition as
a whole is placed. Governor Mccormick. in fact,
arrived in Paris only few days AGO; whence 1t hap
pened that this ceremony did not till Saturday.
Needless to add that the French Minister and the
American Minister did their parts with every cir
cumstance of gracious polteness. Governor McCor-
mick, who found himself received in this friendly
manner, is now, believe, in proper relations with
every official whom he has occasion to know. The
Minister of the United States, Governor Noyes, and
his secretaries Mr. Hit and Mr.. Nignaud, cooperate
heartily with the American Commissioner.
The TRANSFORMATION Of goods from America TO Paris
has been accomplished with sufficient celcrity, and
without other mishap than the accident which
forced the Wyoming to put back the other day for
repairs She was the only steamer given by the
Government and the only vessel that has had any
mishap Three shp-loads Of goods have already
been landed, besides some 400 tons which came by
French steamer and two other vessels the Constitu-
ton and Wyoming are daily expected. Between
Hayre and Paris there has been no difficulty or
DELAY. Cases have come through, as n rule, in six
hours after they have been landed on the wharf
at Uavre. and they are brought without breaking
bulk by continuous lire Of rails from the seaside
TO the very door of the American section.
RELATIVE MERIT OF THE AMERICAN DISPLAY.
So much being said by way of explaining what
seems TO have been really well done, II romans to
ask what sort OF an exhibition the United States
will make. as a whole. What kind Of figure are
we going to cut The question can be answered
better A month hence than now but one or two
things are "a clear now as they will ever be. Our
section is next TO the British how do the two com
paref The British section is about six times as
big as the American; filing quite oue-fourth Of
the whole building assigned to the non-French part
If the world. We are about half as large as Belgium,
two-rhirls as large as Austria, a little less than
China and Japan together, abont on a level with
Russia. with Italy, and with Switzland We are
slightly larger than the Netherlands. We oc-
cupy nearly twice the space that South
America fills. but South America, reinforced by
Denmark and Greece, which are alongside, covers
as much ground as the United States of North
America. This is a rough, aud, if You Ike vulgar
method Of comparison, but il is one good many
people will make. We have, moreover, reputation
IN Europe for valung mere bigncss more than other
nations and if that be standard, aud we are to
Judged by It, we certainly don't stand WELL Our
only chance is to surpass other nations IN the
general excellence of our modest contributions; to
surpass them in variety, in sound workmanship, in
finish in novelty Of invention, in the practical USE
fulness OF the things we show. Perhaps we shall
bnt what said about the hurry in which our things
have been got together and the utter refusal of
many great houses to contribute hardly looks like
it, We shall fill all the space we have and most of
it well don't doubt. But the American who expects
his country to stand anything like well here as
we did in Philadelphia will be disappointed. To
take one or two examples in a single department
that of machinery, we shall have not single large
printng-press, but two sewing machines, and but
one collection of machine tools, that Of the Brown
& Sharp Manufacturing Company. of Providence, r.
l. One is almost tempted TO say we had better not
have come here at all than come with such meagre
display 1t should be understood that We could
have had as much space as Great Britain if we had
applied for il. But we were too busy making 90
cent dollars to pay much attention to an Exhibition
where we had TO maintain abandon the high rep
utatiOn we conquered at Philadelphia, and whore
more money was TO be gained honestly by putting