St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-07
President Carnot Opens the
Paris Exposition in
Due Form.
He Presents a Good Appear.
ance, and Is Lustily
Cheered.
The Retiring American Min
lister a Conspicuous
Figure.
Grand FeteS and Illumina-
tions, With a Good Time
Generally.

PARIS, May 6.-To-day, in brilliant
defiance of the omenS of political incer-
titude, and with a characteristic smile
of felicitation toward all the world, and
toward the enemies of democracy in
particular, France again celebrates the
progress of the world in the arts and
sciences of peace. Although the mon
archical governments have instructed
their representatives to be absent from
the Inauguration and have declined. to
make appropriations for representation
by exhibits, the exhibits classified
nationally vastly exceed in scope and in
terest those of all preceding exhibitions.
The countries represented by their skill
are, in addition to France and the
United States, Great Britain, Austria
Hungary, Italy, Switzerland, Russia,
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland,
Belgium, Spain. Portugal, Greece, ROu-
mania, Servia, Egypt. Persia, Mexico,
Brazil, the Argentine Republic, Bolivia,
Chill, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Guate-
mala, Uruguay, Paraguay, San Do
mingo, Salvador, Hayti, China. Japan,
East India, Siam, Morocco and Aus
tralia. The unrepresented countries
are Germany-an absence as inevitable
as it is deplOrable and conspicuous
Turkey and Montenegro.
THE SUBJECT MATTER
of the exposition comprises everything
that enters into the material of civiliZa-
tion. While it may be classified with
extreme comprehensiveness under the
heads of fine and industrial arts, it con-
tains in the great grounds the history OF
the universe. Whether for peace or
ic
pies, but it is pre-eminently Peace, in
vitiug all mankind to school to learn
her nobility and benefcence. So far as
the present indications go, the Ameri-
can exhibit on the industrial side will
be most impressive in gold and silver
smithing, in glassware. which has made
a marked sensation among the French
and Austrian glassmakers, and in ma
chinery. The palace, rightly so named.
devoted to machinery, is a magnificent
edifice in which a worlds congress
might sit. An episode cOmmingling the
pathetic with the droll occurred in the
conduct of the jury of American artists
residing in Paris, sitting upon works of
art offered by Americans. The versa
tile and
ERRATIC WHISTLER.
who sent letter expressing his second
class thanks to Munich jury for sec
ond-class medal, decided to re-national-
ize himself. His long voluntary exile
in Europe, and his official, if brief,
career as the head of a society OF British
artists, awakened in the breasts of
Americans some resentment. The sub
mission OF his exposition pictures to
the American jury was surprising act
of patriotism, which did not. however,
nd
a number of his pictures were rejected.
In ineligible wrath he withdrew them
all and submitted them, with acclama-
tion and acceptance. to the British jury,
where he is now classified. The Kos
suth of American art. he sought to revo-
lutioniZe and emancipate the art of his
own land. He failed, and went to
exile; and because he stayed away too
long his Decentralization is decreed
when he has sought to return. The
conduct of TIE American jury was not
devoid of petulance, for it is certain
that Whistler will be eagerly claimed
after his death as an American artist Of
unduestionable renoWn. The venerable
SCULPTOR STORY,
for some different reason, also Jared i'll
at the hands of the young Yankees who
cultivate the muse upon little suppers
in Partisan byWays. In his case kindly
intervention reversed decision which
was alike unWarranted and ungraciOuS.
One of the most interesting features Of
the exposition, which will require elu-
cidation hereafter, is the exhibit made
by profit-sharing organizations. France
will yet place statue of Leclaire, the
son Of the village shoemaker and father
of proft-sharing industry, among those
of
he laid are being erected many endur-
ing temples in which the problem of
labor and capital is being gradually and
safely solved, and under whose protect
ing roofs the workman is acquiring hab-
its of frugality, temperance, culture,
thrift and content.
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 it's ostentatiousneSs. To the eye
not infatuated with problems of the Os
cillation of iron and the power of wind
it is not an enhancing vision. In the
daytime it is like great spider reduced
to geometry, its legs pinioned at inter-
walls and its anatomy drawn by torture
machine into diverging parallels. One
might mistake it at a great distance for
the elongated scaffold of an electric
light, but on closer approach it is seen
to be daring monumental achieve
ment. From its highest balcony there
is visible beautiful panorama Of sew
enty miles of hills, rivers, lakes, towns
on canvas, no poet transcribe in verse.
The summit, at total height of nearly
1000 feet, or nearly double that of the
Washington monument and nearly 600
feet higher than st. Peters in Rome, will
be utilized for scientific purposes, the
public being permitted to ascend only
about two-thirds of the way in eleva-
tors which cap provide transportation
for $4,000 persons daily. The prices
vary according to the height chosen.
There are stairways for those who pre-
fer the older mode of ascension, and
restaurants and saloons will enable
pleasure parties to spend days in the
air. The observatory will be employed
for experiments touching SpectrOScopic
and telluric rays for vegetable chemis-
try, meteOrology, atmospheric electricity
and optical telegraphY. 1t is hoped that
the lights of the sun and stars can be
analysed, and that solar and lunar
photographing apparatus can also be
used with novelty and advantage, es-
peclally Wnen eclpSeS take place near
the horizon. The total weight of the
tower is $500 tons, land its cost 81 ,OO0. 600.
Among the objects of moral as well as
historical interest within the grounds
are series of
HUMAN DWELLINGS
from the lacustrine to the contempOra-
neOus, and reconstructed Bastile. The
American corn palace, where the uses
of this article of food are to be pict-
uresquely introduced to Europeans, is
located near the Trocadero. Its success
is uncertain. One of the chief attrac-