New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-05-05
THE FRENCH EXPOSITION.
PREPARING TO OPEN THE GREATEST
WORLDS FAIR IN PARIS

NoSIES-EUROPEAN MONARcHIES De-
CLIN1NG TO RECOGNIZE THE EVENT
-AMERIOAs IMPORTANT SHARE
IN THE EXHIBITION.
iBr CABLE TO TIE IRBUHE1
Copyright: 1889 q: By The Ee,o- York Tribune
Paris, May Amy persons in search OF useful
information about the Paris Exhibition may he
warned of this column. have little to give them
All the time / might have devoted yesterday to
acquiring it occupied in elaborate interviews
with various French authorities who either have
or have not the right Of granting admissions to the
ceremonies Of Sunday and Monday The tone Of
them seemed to be quite certain on this funda-
mental point, so / can offer you little but i'm
pressions. You know already that the Exhibition
will be opened In the official sense on Monday.
IL will be the finest exhibition ever seen Of packing
cases, empty showcases and machinery not in
motion. No exhibition ever WAS ready at
the appointed date This will be the
unreadest of all and il justice is to be done.
Frenchmen will award themselves a gold medal OF
the highest class for unpunctuality. There are
many nntions which might come in good second
The English themselves have good claim to sec
ond place.
Down to this moment the official world has left
some urgent matters in connection with the open
publican simplicity is to be carried very far per-
haps almost to the point OF dulness so far as
officialdom is responsible for what shall happen
But nothing can really be dull in Paris The
Parisians will take care Of that Paris itself is
in fever Of festiyity already. The town had
begun on Thursday night TO put on it's holiday
robes. 1t has been repanted and regded, and
the CRIME Of ten years has been scrapcd OF many
vast buildings OF Caen stone which are blazing in
this May sun as il just whitewashed Bouquets
Of tricolor dags are hung along many street.
masts are getting into position, and there arc signs
Of coming illuminations. The faces OF the people
are illuminated already.
The Exhibition buildings and grounds, which
are, in fact, mapped of with military precision,
look, as you first approach them, confused, hap
hazard and crowded. The one thing which
prises all beholders is the EifTel tower. The upper
part, light and graceful as II it had grown there
with only Nature for it's architect looks severely
down on this wilderness OF edfces below.
some Of them busness-likc some fantastic, all
Of them, like the tower itself, intensely modern.
The tower is the only thing which fairly rises
above the eddying whirwinds Of Paris DUST
winter and moro binding than the dust OF other
cities. 1t is not the Exhibition alone which
creates it all. A new city has sprung up along
to the Bridge of the Invalides. and above that,
also, with long buildings, probably useful, GER
tainy ugly. Scores Of other buildings cover
oil the space that vacant about the Champ
de Mars most Of them the work OF enterprising
tradesmen intent turning a penny, sometimes
honest. Here, in the exhibition, French taste
has often got out OF hand. The decorations
are occasionally gaudy, thu styles are mixed, and
art has been sacrificed the necessity of attract
ing attention.
If there be want OF simplicity. it will be SUP
piled by the opening ceremonies which promises
to be simple almost to badness Pres dent Carnot
rides or drives over. with military escort. from
the Trocadero. Ministers and suEdry public per-
sOnagcs and bodies accompanying hn. Tncy
advance on foot in procession 10 space
beneath the great dome. There the rrcsi-
dent declares the Exhibition open. Then
he pursues his walk and passes through tho
principal sections. America is to be honored y,
some brief ceremony in it's own section The
President hlltS there. receives the Commissioners
of the adjacent countries. and saws a few words
in French to General Franklin. who answers in
English The invitations. including those to the
Legislature, the Paris Municipulitv and Council
Of State, hardly exceed a Thousand
The French now say that they are resolved TO
sallcs, entirely domestic 1t is not they who
took this resolution They asked all Europe to
take part in their show aud all the Great Powers
of Europe refused to have anything 10 do with it
officially. But it was not TIL lately when the Am
hassadors began to post their trunks, that this
domestic view dawned fully on tho French mind.
Lord Lytton found that he had family engage
mcnts in England. Count IIoyoS was wanted in
Austria The Russian Ambassadors health
quired him TO take the waters at AK, which is
thought more annoying than If he had gone to St
Petersburg. General Menabrea is improving
his knowledge of French scenery. Count
Munster is visiting his estates in Hanover. Such
is the final response OF monarchical Europe to
the invitation Of the French Republic to join in
celebrating the overthrow Of monarchy. The
French arr veXed, which is natural. if not reason
able They show their vcAatlon. which Is MT
wise. The Radicals are the most vcXed Of ALL and
the most violent French ROyasts, who put
royalty sometimes before patriotism. join with
the other Royalists in abStaining The Royalist
Deputies take part in the opening pageant
America, being the only great Power which has
cordially accepted the proposals OF her
sister Republic, deserved, perhaps, somc
recognition, but gets little. Dpomatists
out Of favor for the moment, and
American dlplomatlSts come IN Tor some OF me uh-
popularity OF their colleagues. The United
States Commission fares no bctter-iaCc~ in
some rcsprctG worse. General Franklin is not in
yited TO Versailles tomorrow; the domestic view
excludes him too. The diplomatic tribune being
abolished, where should any foreigner find room?
Even journalists are not positively dolized The
number OF foreign journalists who have asked for
places to witness the opening on Monday is 6Oa
The number OF places which the French have found
themselves able TO conccde is twenty.
IL has long been understood that America
would put, II not her best very good foot for,-
most She has treated her citizens better than
any other country. She takes their goods at
Neu:- Nnrk hrlnCS them free ncrnss the Atlantic