The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1878-04-20
PARIS EXHIBITION.
PROGRAMME OF THE OPENING
DAY.
Reception of Foreign Princes, Am
baSsadOrs and Commissioners
The Exhibition TO BE
Formally Opened
by President
McMahOn.

PARIS, April 19.-The arrangements
for opening the Exhibition on the lst OF
May were settled at the Cabinet Council
on Wednesday afternoon. Shortly be-
fore 2 o'clock, NJ. Lei3senence DE Bart,
Minister OF Commerce, will receive in
the grand vestIbule Of TrOcadero, the
foreign princes present on the occasion,
namely, the Prince of Wales, Don
Francois D'Assiz, the Due Aosts, Prince
Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark,
the Prince OF Orange and Duke De
Lenchtsnberg. After conducting them
10 the Princes saloon, he will receive
am basssdOrs, foreign commissioners,
presidents aud vice.preSdents of cham
bers, ministers, deputstIons, senators and
deputies. at 2 O'clock Marshal
Mac Mahon will arrive, escorted by his
military household, troops beng drawn
up all along the route from the Elysee.
He will first repair 10 the Princes Sa-
loon, aad the procession will then be
formed, which will march from the grand
arcade TO the platform overlooking the
fountain, and commanding view OF
uthl ~ III kLb bullN4hso huNA BAONA4No.
Here 81. Leissenenee De Bart will well
come the Marshal in a speech, and the
Marshal will then declare the Exhibition
opened. One hundred and one rounds
from the guns at Invalides, Mont Va
lerien and on an island in the Seine will
follow the announcement At the same
time the military bands will strike up
AL the fountains will play and soldiers,
stationed by the Aagstatis will hoist the
flags of all nations on the roots OF the
two palaces and anneXes, The marshal
will then resscend to the TrOcadero
Palace, the procession reforming, and
after completing the round of the build
ing, will cross over the river 10 Champ
dc Mars. The troops will be drawn
up on or near the bridge. The terrace of
the Champ de Mars Palace will be oCcu
pied by Senators, Deputies or the Council
of State, magistrates, 8cademlcisns,
the military staff and French Commits
onors. Entering by the central door,
the procession will go through the grand
vestibule, decorated with the crown Jew
els, porcelain, gObellns, tapestries and
the Prince OF Wales Indian collection.
1t will then pass through all the sections,
the Commissioners OF each country
greeting it at the door, and will next in
spect the military school, where all eXhi-
b!ucns OF workmen will be stationed,
and will lastly traverse the machinery
annexes. Arriving at the gates, the
Marshal will take leave OF the Princes
and other distinguished personages snd
return TO Elysee. Madame MacMahon
and the wives of the Ambassadors and
Ministers will be assigned to
stations behind the Trocadero
platform. The exhibition will be open
to the public Immediately on the close
of the ceremony. Marshal McMahon
will hold grand reception at Elysee
on the opening day and also give din
ner in honor OF the Prince of Wales and
the Duke of Costa. The Journal DeS
DsbotS states that in view of the decision
Of the German Emperor to exclude from
the German fine arts section OF the exhi-
bi.ron any picture recalling the war OF
1870, the French government has re-
solved to exclude French pictures COM
memorstlng that war.