Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-07-08
TO SEE THE FAIR.
The Best Times to Visit the Paris
Exposition.
Rooms Should Be Secured ia Advancs-Ad.
vantagss Of French Hotel.

avoid Paris during that season. The best
time Is to visit the exposition early or
late. Those who propose to make con-
| tinental tour had better come to Paris
! Immediately on reaching Europe leave
Paris by July and not return till Septem-
Der or October May and October win be.
| i should say, the cheapest months" says
a writer in the Philadelphia Evening
Telegraph. 1T is also absolutely nee
essary to secure rooms, before starting
and not trust to the chance OF finding
| rooms on arrival. If 1t be large party
| then | should advise them to remain in
| England for few days, or. II they land
Normandy or Brittany, detailing one
| member of the party to go in advance to
Paris and secure rooms. Those who can
not afford to pay exorbitant rents had
better seek for these rooms in the OUT
skirts and not in the centre of the towr
BY taking these precautions consider
able amount of money will be saved and
great Inconvenience, worry and dscom.
| fort avoided. OF course, the dearest ho-
tells and lodging houses are those tina;
| are frequented by the Americans and the
English. Here you meet with the leas-
civility and the worst cooking. On the
other hand, the sanitary arrangements
are likely to be better. and sometimes.
but not always, there is greater general
IAN those who have someone with
them who can speak French had better
go TO thoroughly French hotel or
clearinghouse. where English or Amer
leans are rarely or never seen. BY far
the cheapest way to live in Paris Is to go
to n hotel where there is no common
ORA w!ng-room or dining room, and where
they provide no meals save the cup OF
chocolate or coffee served in the early
| morning and In the bedroom. All the
meals are then taken at the restaurant.
and the restaurants are cheaper ard be-
ter than the hotels. The visitor Is then
free to dine or lunch in whatever part Of
Paris he may be, and can suit both his
purse and his appetite.
with regard 10 the official congresses,
they will not be 50 numerous as on for
mer occasions. for several congresses
have decided to amalgamate. This is es-
pecially the case with regard to medi-
cine. Formerly there was n congress on
legal medicine, another on dermatology,
another on urinary diseases. and anothe.
on therapeutics. Now these form sec
tons OF the one general medical congress.
But, on the other hand, this congress has
assumed such gigantic proportions to
be well-nigh unmanageable. There will
be no less than twenty-three sections,
which will be located In different places.
some at considerable distance from the
others. Thus the archaeological section
will meet at the ST. Louis hospital for
skin diseases, etc, while the section on
part OF the town. at the Necker hospital.
where this particular class of disease is
treated. But the bulk OF the sections
will assemble at the\Sorbonne, the Col
Iege de France, and the Ecole de Mede-
cine: that is TO say, in the heart OF the
Latin quarter.
This is another reason for avoiding the
district west of the grand opera. where
most of the Americans and English con-
sregate and which IL some miles away
from the Paris University. or Latin quar-
ter. Also life has characteristic attrac
lions in the Latin quarter. The police
have special instructions to allow more
license in the streets than would be per-
mitted in other parts Of Paris. Mrs.
Latin quarter. Not that the streets pre-
sent a more dsreputable appearance
than in any other part OF Paris; but it
is the district where the youths of
France live and study. The police act on
the principle that every dog will have its
day. and young men must be allowed to |
can sing. can dance. can make more noise |
in the streets than would be allowed in |
other districts. In word. there is more
frolic more noise and gayety; but for |
downright sordid vice the cosmopolitan |
part of Paris where the wealthy foreign |
ers and visitors congregate is by far the |
which the true Frenchmnn cordially de-
tests and he does not fail TO attribute |
the degradation that there prevails TO the |
extensive patronage ii receives from for |
eigners 1t is the foreign gold which has |
created 4 speciality of French vices. For |
eign visitors would have a far better |
opinion Of the French If they could only |
live as the French live.
THE visitors who came not merely for |
the exhibition, but also to attend one or |
more of the official congresses, will GER
more permanent and favorable impress |
sion. After brief existence of six |
months the objects that We have ad |
mired at the exhibition are scattered in |
all directions and We may never see them |
again. We ourselves, as simple visitors. |
are lost In the crowd, Nobody takes any |
special notice of us; we come. We GO; our |
persons figure anonymously as one or two |
of the many million entries TO the eXhi- |
btion. We are as grains of sand on the |
seashore which humble position need |
not = ron hnr IIht y-
enjoying the experience,
But, members of an official con-
sress, our position is quite different. We
carry away with us permanent souve-
mir of the exhibition: or rather to speak |
more accurately, this souvenir is sent |
after us and follows us to our homes
more ponderous volumes, well printed.
containing interesting matter. issued at
the expense Of the French government.
type type and standing forth as the rep y, n
tativeS of the nation to which we belong:
here we read the speeches which we have
official languages, French, English and
German, and we realize that We have
done something to acquire an information
al rePutation' sh me volumes b e are placed on
children as an heirloom, and the great
exhibition is not forsotten-our homes
umes tell us what specialists from all
nations have said on every subject that
interests us most, and 1t reminds us OF
one of the pleasantest experiences of our
lives. Among treasured mementos we
carefully keep the congress badge We
proudly wore. during those red-letter
days. Then there are the cards of for
midable dimensions, inviting us to sun
dry ministerial receptions, banquetS and
state functions, and menus of dinners
with twenty courses. These are perma
nent souvenirs of week that passed but
too quickly.
But, more precious still. during the
congress week we had the opportunity of
making valued acquaintances of fellow
members, persons distinguished in our
own walk of life. persons who often be-
come fast and firm friends for the rest OF
our lives. We establish relations with
nations where, previous to the congress |
we did not know a soul. If we should
chance to travel in those countries. We
can look up old congress acquaintances
and the sense of solitude will be dispelled
by their hospitality.
I'm a word congress has longer life
than an exhibition, so far as the visitors
are concerned. Nor is i, in anywise dir
ficult to become member of sucu a con-
gress. 1t is not given 10 everybody to be
elected us delegate of a university, a
school. an association, a municipality or
a government department to sucn a con
greSS. But private members are also al
mitted who are not delegated. 1t suffices
to be an engineer to attend the engi-
neers'; a doctor, the medical; a sanitary
the hygienic, or a person inter-
ested in the poor to attend me poor re.