The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-07

opening speech At its close the audience
cheered enthusiastically, and Tirard was
warmly congratulated President Carnot
then arose to read his speech. His voice is
shrill, but audible. His speech is
is delivered with considerable earn
estness; every word is safe, pru-
dent, plausible and generous. He has
not seized upon a national occasion to glo-
rify party, to fiatter a faction, or to irri-
tate the unthinking. He has made no allu-
sions to hostile governments, but has
spoken magnanimously and justly of for
| eign people He has not glOrifed France
unduly, but humanity still more
At the conclusion of his speech and the
finish of the musical programme, as Presi-
dent Carnot descended from the dias, and
walked down the main isle of the gallery
of fine arts toward the center, where
he touched several electric buttons,
in moment the fountains of the expOsi-
sition were all pouring forth their streams
to universal sunshine, and the great engine
of the machinery palace was in motion.
Three or four hundred thousand people
outside and inside cheeered, and every por-
ton of the grounds of the universal expOsi-
tion of 1889 is open. The exhibitors num-
Der twenty thousand tonight
PARIS Is ABLAZE
with Examinations. No vehicles are per-
mitted in the streets. The city is the
peoples.
The countries represented by their skill
are, in addition to France and the United
States: Great Britain, Austria, Hungary,
Italy, Switzerland, Russia. Sweden, Den
mark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Spain,
Portugal. Greece, Roumania' Servia,
Egypt, Persia, Mexico Brazil, the Argen-
five lDnnUh Mic RDliy-in Chill Nip11.1 10
Venezuela, Guatemala, Uruaguay, Para
quay, San Domingo, San Salvador, Hayti,
China, Japan, East India, Siam,
Morocco and Australia. The unrepre-
scented countries are Germany, an absence
as inevitable as it is deplorable, and con-
spicuously Turkey and Montenegro.
The subject matter of the exposition
comprises everything that enters into the
material of civilization, while it may be
classified with extreme cOmprenensivenes
under the heads of fine and industrial arts.
1t contains in the great grounds history
of the universe.
Application for space so far exceeds the
expectations founded on the previous eXhi-
bition, that despite the catalogue ready for
the printer. the American representation
is farthest behind. There is not,
vestige of the great national educa-
tional exhibit to be seen, nor are
the consignments sent from the individual
states, nearly all of which are to be repre-
scented, out of the packing boxes. So far as
present indications go, the American ex-
hibit on Industrial affairs will be the most
impressive in gold and silver smithing; in
glassware, which has made marked sensa-
ton among the French aud Austrian
glass0makers Machinery palace, rightly
named, is devoted to machinery, and is
magnificent editice in which a worlds
congress might sit Its architectural
beauty and the splendor of its decora-
tons also render it one Of the great
centres of interest. The chief attraction
in it is the Edison display of
motors, machinery and apparatus. An
idea of the vastness of the exposition may
be gained from the idea of the area it COW
ers. Although the buildings are closely
grouped, the total area exceeds 5000, 900
square feet. The buildings blend strength
and stability with lightness and grace in
their composition. The interior decorations
surpass in elegance and design and rich
ness of tone those of any structure ever
put up for similar use. The total number
in the fine arts department is $500. This
department will not be formally opened for
several weeks more.
An episode commingling thS pathetic
with the the droll occurred in the conduct
of the jury of American artists residing in
Paris sitting upon the works OF art
offered by Americans. The versatile and
erratic Whistler decided to REL ationalize
himself ;uthe submission of his exposition
pictures to the American jury was sur
priSing act of patriotism which did not,
however, encounter reciprocal Apprecia-
ton, and number of his pictures were re
jected. In his wrath he Withdrew them all,
and submitted them with reclamation and
acceptance to the British jury, where he is
now classified.
THE VENERABLE SCULPTOR STORY
for different reason also Jared i'll at the
hands of the young Yankees. In this case
a kindly intervention reversed a deci-
sion which was alike unwarranted
and ungracious. The Eiffel tower
has been smiled at as the great folly
of the exposition, but the giant manikin of
iron threads possesses a value apart from
its ostentiousness. One might mistake it |
at a distance for an elongated scatfold of
an electric light, but on closer approach
tits seen to be daring monumental achieve
ment. From its highest balcony there
is visible a beautiful panorama of seventy
miles of hills, rivers, lakes, towns and ham
lets which no painter can place on canvass,
no poet transcribe in verse The
summit, at total height of
nearly one thousand feet, or nearly dou-
BILE that of the Washington monument and
nearly six hundred feet higher than st.
Petrs in Rome, will be utilized for scien-
tifc purposes, the public being permitted
to ascend only about two-thirds # the way
in elevators, which can provide tranporta
ton for 25 900 persons daily.
The accommodations for strangers in this
city are ample, but as happens in every
other city under corresponding circum-
stances, prices of necessaries and in
dulgencies have risen. Admission to
the exposition grounds is only
20 cents for all departments,
and once in it is unnecessary to leave
them until the hour of closing at night
There are ample resources for feeding the
multitudes within the grounds at moderate
prices, the restaurants being under official
control
Miners Go to Work.
Brazil, Ind, May 6.-Four thousand
miners began work to day, their differences
with their employers having been adjusted.
The black miners are still ont