New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-05-30
A GREAT SHOW IN PARIS.
TO CELEBRATE THE CENTENARY OF HE
prNOI IrIlON

| NJ Iockrov has carried his point faIls Is 10
have Universal Exposition in 1881 no matter
the rest of the ~orld participates III vi no
NJ Aphand is the general director OF the en'elpiSo
He is the Director of Public Wor ks OF tins city anu
il a shrewd politician well. NJ. Lockroy has great
faith in him 1t will BE-" said the Minister OF
Commerce the most colossal exposition of art and
| industry the world has ever seen. 1t Will occupy
all OF the Champ de Hars the Trocadero the
| Esplanade des lnvades, the Quar- dOrsay, the
| Point Jena and the Palace de rlndustre, with
considerable portion of the Champs Elysees. This
will comprise of fully fifty hectares. In
English measurement you may call It 10 acres.
The Champs Elysees, he continued. would be
given to the City of Paris and all other
municipal corporations present, both French
and foreign the colonies of France would be made
as conspicuous possible on the Esplanade des
invalides horticultural displays would be IN the
Trocadero gardens, and the bulk OF the
exhibition proper would be IN the
hinge palace to be erected on the Champ de Mars.
This palace he said, would be story high. with
a gallery and would be built almost exclusively OF
metal and glass. Its floor would be nearly
seventy acres. The great Crystal Palace IN
London covered only twenty-three acres,
aud Louis Napoleon's big show IN 1867
only rooted in thirty-one acres. At Vienna they
had DIS much iifty-six acres oil nOor space ana
there about the same AT tnc Ialls LAposltOh VI
1878 "How." asked does it compare with
the American Centennial of 1s76T at dwarfs
it completely" he replied. "as you Will See The
main building at Philadelphia had only twenty
one and a half acres of floor room. all told Ours.
therefore will be considerably more than three
times large that was, or twice as large as the
main building end the Machinery Hall put
together. Indeed, believe that the t0tal area OF
all the hundred or more buildings of the Cen
tennial aggregated less than seventv-ive acres, or
only "A trihe more than we will put all under a
single roof"
The Director of Public Works estimated that the
palace of the Champ de Mars would cost S3,65OOOO
and the other buildings and miscellaneous expendi-
lures about AS much more. "Glving liberal
margin for unexpected expenses" said VI. Lockroy,
we cannot bring the total cost above -, 100000
If IL is proportionately as well patronized the
former exhibitions here were the receipts should
amount to at least $5.O00,0O0. The remaining
SO. 100000 will be paid out of the national
treasury. But it must not be supposed that that IS
deficit BY 10 The Exposition of 1873
brought into France more than SJ.OOO.OOO the
profits derived from the visitors who came hther
Probably the visitors III 1883 Will IN like manner
enrich us by $o,000OOO. Now if we take
3d. 300 600 of this to pay expenses, does there not
remain net profit of S5,00O0o0 to France as the
result of the exhibition - Doubtless this reason !
lug was correct The manner in which visitors to a
Paris exposition are ieeced is proverbiaL In 1873 |
the propIietors of eating houses more tha1Spujled |
their prices and other tradesemn did the same.
Thirty cents Tor cup of coffee, ten cents for a /
roll e ghy cents for plate of soup dollar and !
half for bit OF rump stcak-such were the current
extUrtons. No wonder all the tradespeople OF /
Paris are eager for the exposition and prom SO to
make NJ. Lockroy the successor of Grevy for grant
ing them such a bonanza.
In one respect the Exposition of $50 will lave |
enormous advantage its predecessors here. |
refer to means Of transit in the city. 1t is curious
commentary npou French enterprise that Paris has !
never yet had any system OF local travel to CORE
spond with the underground railroads OF London or
the elevated roads Of New-YOrk IL does not even |
enjoy good tramway syotem, bot depends upon |
the Anticipated ami elsewhere obsolete stage coach
or omnibus. But now there thousands OF un-
employed men Paris, who starving for lack |
of WORK. If they are not pacihed they will /
presently form bread riots What is to be done
The Government cogtates They must be set TO |
work OH some great public enterprise. But what |
metropolitan railroad ysiem. Thus two birds |
are brought down at single shot The Minister OF |
Public " orks and the Governor OF the Credit |
Foncier, NJ. Albert ChristOphle, have put their |
heads together and arranged everything. and the |
work will be begun at once IN order that 1t may be
tnished by 1853. e road will be IN two treat
systems One Will run in a huge circle all around
the city, near the ancient walls. The other will
traver.4 the civ from the centre TO the clrcumfer
ence in several directions Ike the sDOAcs OF
wheel. The latter system OF lines Will all be
elev waited above the street, but the circular roads
will be partly elevated, partly depressed III
cuttings. and partly UNDERGROUND IN tunnels, but
nowhere Oh the street level. asked VI. Chris
tophle about the cost of It, lie sad he could not
estimate 1t at much less than H1OO,OOO,IOO And
do you suppose, asked, that You can raise such
sum by public loans Z" | think" he said. there
will be little difficulty iii doing so, since the
National Government viii guarantee the payment
OF 1 pei cent interest II. And If get 1t
WORKING order by the time the exposition opens
il will have paying patronage from the very out
set. For the first season. during the exposition.
the rush OF trave on 1t will be very great "in
what manner | further inquired. will the road
be controlledf here are he said to be twelve
directors. Two OF these VIII be appointed by tue
National Government Two more VIII represent
the City OF Paris. The remaining eight Will be
elected IN the usual manner by the stockholders.
There will also be a governor. named by the
National Government, and lie Will have "A veto
power over the acts of the board. In this manner,
you perceive, the work Is not merely local but
national. We will have subscriptions TO 1t from
the milonaircs of Paris and from the peasants of
the renOtest departments also saw NJ. ferrer,
Who will probably be the principal engineer OF the
enterprise and asked him If there would probably
be used any new sl stem of lOcomOGon " 1t l. mI-
possible now To say" he replied what improved
systems may come up by l,o@. But at present |
know CT none lpeTlor To the common locomotive
steam engine and the roads Will be built III adapta-
ton to their Electricity Is probably the
coming force but as yet II has not been satIsiac-
tOrily applied TO railroads They have been trying
il at Berlin, but without success" | mentioned to
him the cable system used several American
cities but he expressed disapprova of 1t. 1t Is
too SLOW" he said They do not run their cable
at than ten miles an hour, NJ best
Perhaps that is tie best that can be done on "A
surface road "A crowded street but on such roads
We will have here we must run at least twice as
fast that. No, Will begin with steam
engines, aud then soon the inventors have
something better to offer We will give IL trial.
But doubt If you or live to see the old engine
superseded"
II the present Jaw against suspected spies remains
In force, Paris will not be pleasant place to
visit 1883 as at the former cXpOsitOrs. Indeed,
for Germans II will lie particularly unpleasant.
Paris is "a fortified city, The law declares that any
fore gner asking questions or taking notes
ing anY fOrLcd pace shall be subject 10 aIIest and