Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-05-10
THE EXPOSITION OPENED
President CarnOt Officially Opens the
Paris Exposition.
Germany Not Being Represented
Causes Much Comment.
Not Sufficient Room to Allow Ameri-
cans a Full Display.

Not Sufficient Room to Allow Ameri,
cans Full Display.
copyrighted 1889, by the New York Associated
Press
PARIs, May 6-At : O'Clock this after
noon, surrounded by his ministers and
many distinguished guests, Presidelt t
| Carnot stood under the dome of the ex-
position building, formally to declare 1T
open. The preliminsries have been
suspicious. The ceremonial at Versail-
les yesterday, while not of the first i'm
portauce, was dignitied and discreet.
The military display, which was inferior
| 70 many which have beer seen in Paris,
was wisely curtailed so ss To give VI 81
tors an opportunity to see the charms of
the most beautiful spot in Europe; whose
| natural loneliness Is not over matched by
its historical association, in which ro-
nance and tragedy are so strangely co
mingled. Speeches by the president and
Others were characterized alike, by tact
and taste, and q solitary marring incident
blank cartridges discharged by a
maudlin Seusationalist, who today, was
deserving only pity has already bsen for
gotten. Everywhere the demonstrations
were unqualified. If the disoontent
prevailed it remained away from Yer
sailles and has up to this time, at least,
| uttered no sound and given TO sign.
J Tatismanic spell OF thrift soothes what.
| ever of political rancor may seek vent
under other circumstances. The trivial
| episode of Geu. Bouianger's election to
| the municipal council of st.
| Queen, yesterday, arous little in
| terest. As he stands under the
| dome of the exposition building,
| President C2rnot is seen to advantage.
He Is small in physique, straigh, wiry
and re5olute with amicability of character
| expressed iu the relaxation of his thin
| lips, that may be depended ON for rigor
when required. He impresses the OBJ
| server as being keen and retlceDt rather
than voluable, decisive and eager, a clear
and tenacious man.
As the crystal tones of the great clocks
! struck two, the trumpets poured forth
their strains and the entire assembly
under the dome arose to its feet. 1t was
spectacle worth remembering. The
scenic nation has supplied during its
monarchy and empire many gorgeous
spectacles for artists to preserve, for
poets to chant and for philosophers to
discuss, but at no time since the days of
the great Louis were liberty, moral
power and beauty and democracy
so pioJuresquely harmOnized rs 1t is this
moment.
After the Marseillais had been played
by picked orchestra and sung by a
chorus of mems voices, Premier TIrard
arose and delivered the opening speech.
At it's close the audience cheered enthu
siastically and Tirard was warmly CON
graduated, President Carnot then arose
t" deliver his speech. His voice is shrill,
but audible. His speech is
well though out. His peroration
is delivered with considerable
earnestness. Every word is safe, ptu-
dent, PLAUSIBLE and generous. He has
not seized upon national occasion to
glorify party, to fatter faction, or to
irritate the undertaking. He has made
no allusion to the hostile governments.
but has spoken magnanimously,
and Justly of the foreign people
He has not glorified France unduly, bus
humanity still more. At the conclusion
of his speech and at the end of the mu-
81 ,al programme, President Carnot de-
secluded from the dais and ed through
the main aisle of the galIary of fine arts
toward the center, where he touched sew
eral electric buttons. In a moment the
fountains of the exposition were all pour
ing forth their streams to the universal
sunshine, and the great en-
gine running the machinery of the
palace was in motion. Three or four
hundred thousand people outside and in
side cheered, and every portion of the
grounds OF the universal exposition of
1889 is open. The exhibitors number
10000. Tonight Paris Is abisze with
lIiuminations. No vehicles are permitted
in the streets. The city is the peoples.
The countries represented by their
skill in addition to France and the United
States, are Great Britain, Austria, Hun
garia, Italy, Switzerland, Russia,
Sweden, Danmark, Norway, Hol-
Hand, Belgium, Spain, Por-
tugal, Greece. Roumanie, Servia,
Egypt, Persia, Mexico, Brazil, the Argen-
tine Republic, Bolivia, Chill, Nicaraugua,
Venzuela, Guatemala, Uruguay, San
Domingo, San Salvador, Hayti, China,
Japan, Siam, Morocco and Australasia
Unrepresented countries are Germany
an absence as inevitable as it is deplora
BILE and spicuous-Turkey and Monte
negro. The subject matter of exposition
comprises everything that enters into the
material of ci silizatlon, while it may be
classified with extreme mprehensive-
ness under the heads Of fine and indus
trial arts, it contains in the great grounds
history of the universe. The appIica-
tion for space so far exceeds the expects-
tions founded on previous sxhi-
bitIons, that despite the catalogue of
any group ready for the printer, the
An erIcan representation is further be-
hind. There is not, for instance, at this
writing, a vestige of our great national
educational exhibit to be seen, nor are
consignmerts sent from individual states
nearly all of which are to be represented
out of packing boxes. So far as present
indications go, the American exhibition
on the industrial eide is impressive,
of gold and silver smithing in glassware,
which has made a marked sensation
among Austian and French glassmskers.
Machinery palace, rightly 80 named, de-
voted to machinery, is a magnificent edi-
fee, in which worlds congress might
sit. Its architectural beauty and the
sPlendor of its decorations, also
render 1t one of the great
centers of interest. The chief attraction
in it is the Edison display of motore,
machines and apparatus. An idea of the
vastness of the exposition may be gained
from the area it occupies. Although the
exposition buildings are closely grouped
on the groands, the surface exceeds
100000 square feet The buildings blend
strength, suitability. iightness and
grace in their composition. The interior
decorations surpasss in elegance of de
sign and richness of tone, those of any
structure ever put MP for similar -se
The total number of entries in the fine
arts department ia $500. This depart
nent will not be fIrmally opened for
several weeks.
The Eiffel tower has been smiled at as
the great folly of the exposition, tut the
giant manikIn of iron threads pos
sesses value apart from its ostentatious
ness. One might mistake it at dis
sance for an elongated scaffoId of an
electric light, but on closer approach it
is seen TO be daring monumental
achievement. From its highee. balcony
there is visible a panorams of seventy
miles of mills, rivers, lakes, towns and
hamlets which no painter can place on
canvass, no poet trapscrlbe in verse. The
summit at a total height of nearly 900
feet, or nearly double that of the Wash.
ing ton monument, and nearly 600 feet