The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-07
RESULTS OF THE EXHIBITION
A Retrospect of How the Great Fair
Has Benefited All Glasses in France.
From the London Telegraph.

A Retrospect of How the Great Fair
| Has Benefited All Glasses in France.
From the London Telegraph.
1t is now calculated that the exhibition
has had beneficent financial effect all
round, and that even the meanest of Paris
ian laborers will be able, provided he has
been duly economical, to revel in compare
tive prosperity during the wi ter Never
before has work been so abundant and so
we'll remunerated in the CITY, and while
London toilers have been on strike for addi-
tional tanners" their fellow workingme
in Paris are enjoying "harve t." But it is
not alone in the great manufacturing places,
on the rail 'ay companies or in foundries
that tie French labOrer is now making
profits which will enable him to lie up in
com aratiye Lavender" for the winter, a ID
to face frost, STOW, and the inevitable
standstin Of trade with philosophical
equanlmity. The exhibition Itself has
proved vsritable FL Dorado to the crowds
Of Itinerant artisans, nondescript lab Jrers
and navvies no, at this perio of ttfe year,
are either loaf z about 10 city looking for
odd jobs, or down the country assisting in
various agrcultur | operations, for which
many pc. sons are required. These men
have ali hocked out In the direction of the
big show, where they reap large profits as
hawkers Of ii kets, bread, wine and
sausages. or as cab touts, guides to p own
cials, and generally useful beings who are
even sometimes called in to lend hand on
the Champ de Mars. All the regular aud
steady work nea Of Paris are still at their
old posts, but they, to have benefited, be-
cause owing to the rush for the exhibition
they ha @ to do extra work with additional
pay. One railway company, for instance,
mas had draw on the WINS around Paris.
so recruited soon found their way to the
exhibition, in or around which they OBJ
tanned bguter labor and more chances of
cool pay.
Turning to the public departments which
have most prospered during the exhibition,
the railway companies of course, take the
lead The post Telegraph bureau;r
have also had a notable increase of work,
and tram. ON ibus and steamboat directors
have had every reason to be grateful. The
cab companies have become SO PROSPEROUS
that hardly Jehu but still asks mis- fare
boldly for big tariff before he takes him,
or drives quickly away if the sun offered
| does not suit. the theaters have not, per-
haps, done SO well, but then the managers
did not expect to share in exhibition profits
| in the hight of summer. Nevertheless,
many Of the greater theaters, notably
| tue opera, which has suffered financ al
reverses so long, have nad their share of the
shower of gold, and they we're frequently
crowded daring the broken d sometimes
| + igid weather which prevailed in July and
| August.
Tue railway companies, however, are the
| chief gamers. At the Care ca Nord the
| average arrivals are 1000 pa sengers daily.
Most of these are Beglans, who are clio v
followed by the Engl sh. The eastern
station is daily filled with Germans, bat
most Of the visitors from the ,therland
sv,tN ~
| to avoid tue vexatious passport restrictions,
and they rus swell numo If persons who
arrive diurnaly by the Care de Lyon. By
| this station, 2O0, 10 more tn ~ those sho sn
| on las years returns have ONE in since the
| opening Of the exnibitio and it is loticea-
BILE that the traffic toward Vichy and
| SWitzerla ID, vhicl is al ways consider ,ble
at this period of the year, has been almost
completely stopped, the chief Current of
Passenger aud luggage traffic being toward
| Paris. At the Care Saint Lazare, the num-
| Der of paSse gers compared with that for a
corresponding period of 1888 has been in
| creas d BY so per cent, while the Orleans
station, which receives passengers from
| ceuJral France, Is nearly as crowded every
| day as the Care de Lyoa Fe institu ions
| or establishments, either public or private
which mad t. do directly with the exhibi-
| ton, have been without some benefit. Even
the restdurdteurs aud cafe proprietors in
the center OF the city, who croaKed 50 much
at the beginning of the show, linking t.lat
every visitor was going to remain on the
| Champ de Mars all daY and to sleep nea it
| at night, have ow small eau e to c Implain.
Tn &c worthy tradesnen forgot hat Paris
it-elf is every bit as attractive as the exhi-
biti N, and that the houlevards, both night
and morning, offe almost as nuch unend-
ing and infinite variety and attra ton as
any worlds fair. The political result OF all
| fhtar E,.u
safely be said that Parisians at least will
MOI be in a hurry to overthrow a govern
ment which has done so much god to their
pockets.
Palestine Comm andery at Florence.