The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-06-20
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BY the beginning OF the twentieth CEN
tury we shall be ready for another big
show. Already Chicago's unsurpassed
exhibition has become a memory.
The Frenchmen have decided upon the
chief features of the great international fair
which Paris designs 10 welcome the next
century.
The French fair, unlike the Chicago eX-
position, will lie I'm the very heart oil
Paris, with entrance of the Place de la
Concorde and the Champs Elysees. This
is as though we were to have great fair
on the Cove lands, or Boston on the Com
mon, or New York on Union or Madison
squares. Neither OF these places men
toned is large enough for big fair, OF
course, and it is trying to American I'M
agination to conceive that there Is
space enough in Paris not already COW
cred with business structures. 1T is
probably due to Napoleon's reformation
of Paris that there is space there In
republic or in England, it would not be
possible to preserve large spaces in the
centers of great populations. The people
would insist upon utilizing it for money
making businesses. But in Paris despot-
ism directed the laying out of the city.
In Berlin, too, the German war lords have
pushed the people back so that there is
great, green, tree bordered space almost
in the city's heart, used for military re-
views, on which fair might be held,
If the nervy Emperor could be induced
to consent.
The Frenchmen seem already to have
matured scheme for their great fair,
five years hence, so far as the grounds
and the buildings and monumental struc-
lures are concerned. Some of these will
be permanent, and may therefore excel
the Chicago structures in their artistic
character, being amenable to principles
dependent upon mass and strength. In
place of the stucco of Chicago there may
be stone and brick, covering the steel
frames. A great single-arch steel bridge
is to be thrown across the Seine, to con-
meet the great promenades on either side.
One great wing of the grounds is to be
devoted to art, in several buildings. One
buiSl.ng will be for retrospective French
art, while Others will be devoted to bronze
castings and decorative medals, another
for household decorations and art furni-
ture, another for jewelry, and so on.
Another wing is designed for technical
exhibitions, as machinery, mining, etc,
with something in the vien of the famous
Chicago Midway Plaisance.
The Champ de Mars is to be for COM
mercial industries and the agricultural
display, to be shown i'm great halls
built TO harmonic with the use they
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of waterfalls, tumbling into each other,
with the electricity building surmount-
ing them, so that all the brilliant effects
possible may be utilized at night.
The course of the Seine is to be
Strengthened, and there are to be multi
tude OF special buildings erected along its
banks. There will be special buildings
for social science and congresses of re-
ligions, ETC., and for army, navy marine,
merchant, forestry, sport, etc.
The expense is calculated at $40, 900, 900.
The whole scheme seems to be in an
orderly state of advancement and it 10
certain that the exhibition will be OF
very great interest. 1t appears to be
planned upon a very Frenchy scheme,
but that will tend to make II all the
more enjoyable to US Americans. When
we go to Paris we go for fun, and to fill
ourselves with the delicate and versatile
art that we do not get enough of at
home.
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