St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-07

the balconies and terraces, accurately
costumed and dramatically arranged.
In the distance is Paris, with the most
memorable scenes depicted with that
technical perfection which is to be ex-
pecte6. The work, which is nearly
finished, far surpasses in beauty any
thing hitherto attempted. The regis
tered population of 2,250,O00 IS already
augmented by large contingents from.the
various departments of France and
from all quarters of Europe and the
continents of America and Australia.
PRESIDENT CARNOT.
AS he stands under the dome of the
exposition building President Carnot is
seen to advantage. He is small in
physique, straight, wiry and resolute,
while amiability Of character is ex-
pressed in the relaxation of the thin
lips that may be depended on for rigor
when required. His beard and mus
from the front OF his forehead, are as
black as ink. Gray is quietly creeping
in under his chin. The cast of his
countenance is slightly Hebraic. He
impresses an observer as being a keen
man, rather reticent than voluble, de-
cisiye than eager, clear and tenacious
man to plan secretively as well as to
perform relentlessly. These qualities
of his individuality are not diScerniDle
at a first glance. His appearance i S
refined and gentleman-like rather than
imposing or even distinguished. 1t is
impossible to study him for any length
of time without discovering reserved
strength and habitual diplomacy of
manner, whose force, sheathed under an
aspect of mildness and courtesy, is GER
tain to prove conservative and effective
in emergencies. He is descended from
sound intellectual and moral stock, and
was educated in the Ecole Polytech-
nique. His mental history has COM
blned the studiousness and exact train
tician, with the experience of a mill
tary business man. While not soldier,
he organized the defense of three de-
partments during the Franco-Ger-
man war. His political experience
is extensive in legislation and
in administration. While there
are more renowned statesmen than he
in France, it is manifest that he has
combined in an exceptional degree
those traits and attainments that adapt
him to the epoch through which France
is passing-a constructive and defensive
periOd-in which it IS essential to main
tain order without infringing upon lib
erty, and to encourage and strengthen
the morals of the people in support of
self-government. With education,
manufactures, commences and taxation
are brought into national equilibrium.
The conviction created by the presi-
dents course since his election, is that
he is totally free from audacity, fafe,
sagacious and profoundly anxious to
In \,
the growth and welfare of the
republic. 1t was believed to be
impossible for M. Guyot, who was
the most persuasive and accomplished
of the senators of France, to hold a. port
folio successfully under President Car
not, whose political ideas are more ira
ditional than his. But while theorists
in economics are rarely practical eXecn-
tiveS or tacticians in party management,
the scholarship Of Minister Guynot gave
him a prestige apart from his we'll
known social radicaliSm, while his ca
pacity for affairs, his close acquaintance
with the industries OF France, with her
mines and railroads, all of which are
under government control, and the spe-
cial adaptations of the soil and the ac-
feasibility of material, supplied him
with an extraordinary equipment for
Cuc OuIltS VI UIlc pOSU.
THE PRESIDENTS CoRTEGE
arrived at the exposition grounds, es-
cOrted by the brilliant corps of cuiras-
sires, whose breastplates and helmets
flashed back the pleasant May day sun.
The crystal tones of the great clock
struck 2, trumpets poured forth their
strains and the entire assembly under
the dome arose to its feet. 1t was a
spectacle worth remembering. The
French nation has supplied dur
ing the centuries of it's monarchy and
empire many gorgeous SpectacleS for
artists to preserve, for poets to chant
and philosophers to discuss, but at no
time since the days of the great Louis
were liberty, moral power and beauty
sud democracy so plctureSquely
harmOniZed as >at this moment,
Extending in the lines of a parallelo-
gram, with an endless vista, through
the palace of fine arts, are.places, all i'll
red velvet, for the senators and depu-
ties, judges, heads of departments.
chiefs of bureauX. mayors, members of
the great councils, the French academy,
the Institute of France. the clergy and
civil functionaries. All except the Jap
anese, who have adopted European
garb, plus an unlimited amount of gold
lace, all knots and tasSelS, are IN the
dress of their respective courts. Only
one foreign representative is in auStere
black. unrelieved by any decoration.
This is
ROBERT M'LANE,
the retiring, urbane minister of the
United States, who is greeted with cor
dial warmth on every side. There
pass near his place, on the benches
provided for the ambassadors, Orientals
with white teeth flashing from under
their curled brown mustaches, Hindoos
in white .clOaks and capuchinS, Afri-
cans with feathered circlets in their
headgear; the Chinese minister with a
long suite of yellow attendants. looking
like elegant grotesque figures, among
whom there is not young man; and
full-blooded Moors, the contrast be-
tween whose swarthy skins and silky
white draperieS of nuns yelling is Oc-
casionally relieved by the raising Of
delicate, jeweled hand to direct an
opera glass upon the gallery overhead.
The gallery extends around the dome.
Beneath the great frieze of garden of
tribune for the wife of the president is
in the center looking directly over the
presidents chair. A subdued ripple
flies over the assemblage already in the
gale and in the floor as
NINE. CARNOT,
ten minutes in advance of her husband,
enters her tribune, and she is at once
greeted with ceremonious courtesy by
the ladies who surround her. Paris
was not wholly disposed to take it's
homage to the palace of the Elysee mn
der the presiding regime. But Nine.
Carnot is a woman who is universally
esteemed and who possesses literary
reputation and an intellectual character,
and the presidents home is again
the social center Of the city. Nine.
Carnot is fine-looking woman, little
Younger than the president. Her trib-