Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-07
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.

France Celebrates the Progress of the
 World fA the Arts and Seienees-The
 Countries RepreseAted-The Eifrel
 Tower-The American Colony in
 Paris.
 PARIS, May 6.-To-day in brilliant de6- ance of the omens of political incertituds and with 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. The inaugura- ton of the exposition of 1889, the centenary of the real birth of modern government is superb testimony to the advance of human skill in every quarter of the globe. Before and above that must be acknowledged to be a substantial proof of the stability of the resolution of the people of France in the maintenance of popular institutions. The skepticism of other people conc erning the depth of the sincerity and sreadfastness Of the French in the perpetuating liberty which could have been acquired only in revolution and which the close of century of convul- sions in every portion of organized society find confirmed in its cradle land, is largely due to a confounding of French department with Democratic principles. This confusion of form and substance has been established in English literature by Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle. The one beheld the orgies of mob insulting beautiful queen and tear ing off in frenzy the bandages which despot- ism which had bound upon the eyes of great nation. The eloquence with which an elevat- ed and chilvarous nature expressed its per sonal horror.
 All that Carlyle wrote of Paris in it's gala dress of 1790 is true today, but the truth is increased thousand-fold. The success of the undertaking in the face of international coldness or antagonism Is, therefore, Q vlndi- cation of Democracy and labor. Although the monarchial governments have instructed their representatives to be absent from the inauguration and have declined to make ap- preparations for representation by exhibits, the exhibition classified nationally vastly ex- ceed in scope and interest those of all pre- ceding expeditions.
 The countries represented by their skill are, in addition to France and the United States: Great Britain, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Switzerland. Russia, Sweden, Den- mark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Portugal, Greece, Servia, Egypt, Persia, Mexico, Bra- gil, Argentine Republic, Bolivia, Chilli, Nica- ragua, Venezuela, Guatemala, Uruguay, Paraguay, San Domingo. Salvador. Hayti, and Australasia. The unrepresented coun tries are: Germany, an absence as inevitable as it is deplorable and conspicuous, Turkey and Montenegro.
 The Eiffel tower has been smiled at as the great folly of the exposition, but the giant manikin of iron threads possesses value apart from it's ostentatiousnes.. From it's highest balcony there is visible beautiful panorama of seventy miles of hills, rivers, lakes, towns and hamlets which no painter can place on canvas, no poet transcrlbe In verse The summit, at total height of nearly 1000 feet or nearly double that of the Washington monument and nearly 500 feet higher than St. Peters in Rome, will be utilized for scientific purpose, the public be- ing permitted to ascend only about two- thirds of the way in elevators which can pro- vide transportation for 25.000 persons daily. The prices vary according to the height chosen. There are stairways tor those who prefer the older mode of ascension, and restaurants and salons will enable pleasure parties to spend days in the air. The observatory will be employed for experiments touching spectroscopic and telluric rays for vegetable chemistry, meteor ology, atmospheric electricity and optical telegraphy. It is hoped that the lights of the sun and stars can be analyzsd and that solar and lunar photographing apparatus | can also be used with novelty and advan- tage, especially when eclipses take place near the horizon. |
 The total weight of the tower is (, 800 tons 1 and it's cost S1,000,00 The admission to the exposition is only twenty cents for all I the departments, and once in it is unneces- | sary to leave them until the hour for closing | at night. There are ample resources for | feeding the multitudes within the grounds at | moderate prices, the restaurants being under I official control. Most of the railroads give | excursion rates.
 The American, colony in Paris is no longer 8 coterie; it is town. In spite of the extra ordinary increase in population Paris does not present the aspect of being crowded.
 (Signed)
 MARGARET F. SULLIVAN.