The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-18
IN FRANCES CAPITAL.
Flower of European Horsefesh As
sembled in the Palace Of Industry.

E1OW6T Oh european t1OTbBueBn AS
sembled in the Palace Of Industry.
(Copyright)
Paris, June S.-The difference between
the annual exhibition of the National
Horse Show Association of America at
Madison Square garden, New York, and
the Concours Hippique of the Palais de
PIndustrie at Paris is so great that only
searching inquiry into the peculiar
methods of both these splendid cOmpeti-
tions would render possible fair tudg-
ment as to the superiority of one over the
other. In America each winter there is
an International exposition OF all that is
fine in the way of highly bred hOrsefesh,
which has become one of the first of
social functions. 1t is thoroughly Ameri-
can when compared with its French pro-
totype in all but one particular-size To
aErenchman nothing could be more Ameri-
can than a horse show, which might be
likened to a six day -you-please
race In that it lasts night and day during
six days, while the meeting of the Societe
Hippique Franchise stretches itself over
three weeks, gives it's best performances
on Sundays, and is not open evenings.
But on the other hand, America Is to all
Europeans the country of big things-of
huge waterfalls, enormous fortunes, the
:
and Frenchmen have found ii hard to be-
lieve that their Concours Hippique
eClipses the American exhibition in point
of size They find it paradoxical that
show as important and in some ways more
interesting even than their own should
be held in building not too large to be
contained more than twice in the ring of
the Palais de lIndustrie. There were 522
horses, of all classes, exhibited at this
fact this is only one OF number OF like
competitions held in France, that only
horses of actual use for the saddle or
driving are shown, and that exhibitions
from other countries are not solicited.
IT Is A DIFFERENT SORT OF THING.
Frenchmen can understand the social
function character of the New York eX-
hibitions at Madison Square garden, for
in this way the Societe Hippique is the
counterpart of the National Horse Show
Association of America but when l tell
them of the swell gatherings of the six
great evenings in Madison Square garden,
of the high jumping competitions in which
the horses clear 'plus de deuX metres"
lover six feet and of the sale of loges at
q premium of $500 each they-well they
shrug their shoulders. Moreover,
French lover of horses cannot understand
why American and English people like to
"
mails; to visit the stables and see in one
stall an elephantine Percheron, in an
other pony scarcely too large to be
thrust into the visitors pocket, and in
neighboring box glorious trotting stall
lion on whose blanket is neatly sewn in
black silk letters, Beat 'em all, record
2:064." They, although they say Ameri-
cans are nothing if not practical, display
a woful lack of sentimental worship of
horses in that they rarely visit the stable
departments and only care to see the
horses when they are ridden or driven in
the immense ring.
The Palais de l1ndustrie is in the
Avenue des Champs Elysees and occupies
the space of not one but between thaee
and four New York uptown blocks. To
reach it, going from the Grand opera, you
come out from the Rue Royale into that
magnificent Place de Ia Concorde with
its dark obelisk, its splendid statues and
fountains-that place from which you
can see, looking before you, across the
Seine, the Chambre des Deputies, looking
to the north, the Jerdin des Champs
Elysees and the Louvre, ond TO the south
the Arc de Triomphe The eye is so en-
chanted with the wonderous panoram-
bursting so suddenly upon IL that for a
moment the Eiffel tower in the distance,
way down at a bend in the river, looms
up disproportionately almost at its true
size and one turns into the broad avenue
Of the Champs Elysees with its thousands
Of glittering equipages before realizing