The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-10-23

the I'm ted States.
Correspondence Cincinnati Tribune)
Paris, France, Oct. SIN an interview
the other day with one Of the leading au-
thorities of tho International Exposition
of 1900, to be held in this city, he made
prominent two essential of the exposl-
ton. They might be called the two key
notes. or, if the figure is not accurate, the
individual keynotes of two compositions.
One of them is color and the other is
novelty.
On these two notes will be built up the
exposition of 1900-on them it is being
built up today, 1t would perhaps be
disputed vigorously by Partisan should
one say that the fair in America in 1888,
with its prevailing scheme of white, its
noble buildings built on a scale of mag
nificence never before attempted and
probably never to be again equaled-it
would perhaps be denied that the deter
minatjon to make the fair of 1900 an end
lessness of gayety is due in any degree to
the soberer and perhaps more classic sim
pIicity of the Columbian Exposition.
And vet, when a representative of the
exposition management told me that color
and brilliancy and display were at all
points to mark the buildings of this fair,
[ could not but wonder if this decision
were not the outcome of another, and
that other the decision OF the managers
of the Columbian fair, splendidly per
formed, to make that fair the summing
I'D of all human effort in nobility of de-
sign and magnifcenoes of realization. We
may look for the most brilliant display of
color on the buildings of the worlds fair
of 1900 ever seen in such an exhibition,
and we may leave it to the French that
these colors be brought. into harmony.
UNIQUE FEATURES OF INTEREST.
Of the second feature of the fair. it's
novelty, the statement was made that it
must contain no special features ever pro-
duced before-it must be unique novelty,
it must stand alone. There is to be no
Midway Plaisance, no Ferris wheel, al
though there will still be the tall tower
Of Efffel standing in its accustomed place
at the end of the Champs de Mars. Yet
there will be no dearth of unique feat
ures. and those who love artistic novelty
will find it in Paris in 1900.
One of the novel features OF the exhibit
ton will be a street of theaters called
Rue Paris. In these theaters, which will
be small, and yet deliberately lifted up
with scenery and accessories of all kinds,
will be presented plays by living French
dramatists under the direction of the
playwright himself. This will give an
admirable opportunity for the study, con-
tenporaneously, of the present day writ
ors Of the French play.
In one building, which will be quite
large, perhaps 200 feet square, will be
Tiken a trip to Constantinople. By aid
Il the principle involved in the oinemato-
.raph or the kaleidoscope elaborated, the
vj9i.or. sitting in his chair in this build
~, will see passing before him all the
2lain features of trip from Paris to
0onstantinople. This certainly will
answer for novelty, and 1t promises to be
Il feature OF peculiar interest. 1t will
require no small amout of ingenuity to
collect the views and arrange them IN
connected form, so that one may have
something like continuity in this strange
journey in chair. The building will be
called the 'Marconana.'
In electrical matters the exposition
management proposes to go to the limit.
The electrical decorations of the buildings
wiiI5besvery elaborate and beautiful, and
here the same note of color will be pre-
dominant. The revolving restaurant,
from which panoramic views Of Paris
may be had while you eat, has been al
ready noted in America.
Perhaps one of the most practical feat
ures of the exposition will be itgirepresen-
tation Of the development of Industries.
Not alone in the French exhibit will this
be shown, but all nations win be asked
to so shape their exhibits that the same
scheme may be preserved. Take for in
stance. piece of wooden cloth. The COM
plete processes by which this cloth be-
came Wearable will be illustrated. The
sheep will be there, cared TOR and tended
by their shepherds. The sheep will be
shorn for the visitor; the wool will be
washed, added and spun, the garment
not only woven in the piece, but made up
into garments after the most approved
modern methods. From the sleeps back
to mans back will be the course. So in
all departments of life every conceivable
product Of the skill and invention as well
as the art of man will be in this way
illustrated.
EVERY NATION EXCEPT EGYPT
HAS APPLIED.
Every civilized nation on the globe. save
Egypt has made application for space
for national exhibits, which include of
course, under the ruling of the admins
tration, the Industrial exhibits from those
countries. Why Egypt did not ask for
representation I am at loss to know. l
have endeavored to locate the exact place
where the building of the United States
will be placed, but at this writing this
can not be told However, it can be
stated that it will be on the south bank
of the Seine, between the Eiffel Tower
and the new Palace Of Arts, which is to
be erected on the grounds OF the old Pal
ace of Industry of the fair OF 1883. There
is long stretch of the Seine between
these two points which will be given up