The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1878-07-27
Our Letter from Europe.
The Paris Exposition.

Ho GApuSitloH PfOWS more inter
esting every day, from the gradual
perfection of the display and the con-
tinnal additions being made. Much
invidious comparison has been insti.
tnted between the English and Amer
lean exhibits, comparisons which are
unfair and unjust. In the first place
England was awarded about five
times the space of any other nation,
and her pletiforic treasury was opened
at once to sustain the efforts of ilei
high commission. The United States
space, on the other hand, was circnm-
seribed within the narrowest limits
YET, small as it was, the beggarly ap-
preparation was not sufficient for its
absolute necessities. Besides this,
there was not a single person, except
the Commissioner General, who had
ever had any prominent official con-
nection with any International Expo
sition before. England, on the con-
trary, comes up to the work with a
corps of trained diplomats and work
ers who, for this particular business,
could scarcely be- matched in the
world. At the head of the British
commission stands the Prince of
Wales, who aside from the adyan-
tages of his exalted position, has had
the benefit of repeated experience in
every great fair given since the
first International Exhibition opened
by his honored father in 1851. Next
comes Mr.. Cunliff-0wen, q man
of exceptional administrative ability
and of vast and varied experience in
all the minutest details of Interna-
tional Exhibitions but it is not only
on the members of the commission
alone that Great Britain relies for
her success, but on a large and infiu-
entail body of British merchants
who, if not officially connected with
the Exposition, were fully as power
ful as the commission itself. Nota-
ble among them / might mention
Joseph Leete, the eminent London
merchant, man whose untiring en-
efgy ana aoiilty nave oalis mp anu
sustained more kinds of business than
almost any other man in Europe. OF
square, solid, well bl lit frame, with
handsome iace anu winning manners,
speakihg na,i ao1e'a u'nefent !ah-
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