The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-01-25
THE NEXT PARIS ExHIBzrIox.
beginning 20 Get Ready for lth,
Great Show of 1900.

Great show of 1900.
Already the air is filled with rumors re-
speeding the exhibition of 1900; already are
the ParisiaHs rending the air beforehand
for it is a Partisan popularity to detest
worlds fairs in general, and those held in
their own city in particular. Quoth a
miserable native in heartrending accents:
Whenever there is a great exhibition all
our taxes go up-temporarily we are told,
but never by any accident do they go
down. / paid $50 trans in 1877 and for the
same premises my taxes are now 5 900 and
Dad. We are overrun by tourists: we are
crowded. out OF all the theatres; the cab
men all go on strike; the cafes all put UP
their prices. For several years before all
the streets one wants TO so through are
closed TO the public, because the exhibi-
ton IS being prepared; and for at least
z year after the same streets are closed
because the exhibition is being demolished.
All your country cousins come to town
and expect TO stay with You in an apart-
ment you have always found too cramped
Tor the requirements Of YOUR own family
and If I am not lucky enough TO be dead
I shall certainly move away before this
large misfortune falls upon this unhappy
place"
Happily all Paris is not so pessimistic
as my friend, and the architects are busy
with their plans. All the ground compris-
ed in the exhibition of 1879 is to be in
Guided, as well as the portions of Cour Ia
RENE that will inclose the Palais de L
lndustrie and its surrCundn g gardens
the Seine which will open vista from the
Place de la Concorde, straight through to
the Palace of Electricity, which is to be
the central feature. Our rulers are great
~ bored about the Liffel Tower, but as
the concession was granted for twenty
years, it has to stand, but the architects
say conSolingly that they Will try and
hide II as much as possible.
The sight Of Il Vexes poetic souls, and
Francois Coppee, the author, wrote a
formal protest to the government at the
time OF its erection to request that the
plan should not be carried out on the
ground that the Eiffel Tower. being ugly
and ungainly. and Furthermore being
visible from his windows. interfered with
his flow of inspiration. Furthermore, we
are TO have a branch exhibition at Yer
sailles, which VIII rouse that sleepy little
town from its chief occupation of listening
10 the grass grow in the streets. In the
Splendlc park OF Versailles, on either side
of the Grand Canal, is to be the retro
Epective history OF gardens throughout the
ages.
were counted among the wonders of the
world are to be reproduced in miniature:
japanese gardens, Persian gardens, the
Italian garden of Renaissance, and French
and English gardens of different epochs
The Grand Canal itself is TO be used for
the exhibition OF one of the floating gar
before the Spanish conquest of the coun-
try. The center Of the canal is to be
ocJrpied by a large island built of piles
with bridges connecting it with the two
shores which is TO have auuaril.ilas grot-
toes and cascades. with cages for aquatic
birds. and the great sheet Of water is to
be additionally ornamented by an exact
reproduction Of the little fleet of elegant
boats that Louis XIV launched on its
surface when Versailles was first built
All this sounds most imposing. but we
are oevoutly thankful that the time for 1t
has not yet come. 1t is like the story
81 the philosopher who was to teach the
kings donkey to speak in a years time
On the pain of death, and never bothered
about The penalty on the ground that the
king might die, or the donkey might die
or he himself might die. and whatever
might happen he had a year to the good
So, as we have seven years before us, we
do not yet as a rule wall about future
contingencies Paris Correspondence of
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