Omaha daily bee., 1899-07-23

newest Of the countries. will come over here
and do something in the very art center Of
the old world which will be striking and
meritorious. The man in charge Of the
work OF collection and arrangement-John
b. caldwell Of New York-will, | am sure,
please everybody.
Some OF the state exhibits will he very
fine. California is particularly proud of its
horticultural interests; New York Is anxious
to show its great strides in the path lead
ing toward popular education, Iowa and
Illinois have both appropriated large sums
toward making their agricultural display
perfect and developing the idea Of es-
tablishlng experiments in kitchen and cook
ing work. These two states will especially
emphasize the advantages of corn as a food
product. Corn is little known over here, and
the Frcnchman-who always likes good
things to eat-will open his eyes and smack
his lips when he tastes our American corn
mullins.
Nearly all the states are planning for
special exhibits. We are also trying to
secure some annexes to our national exhibit,
one in which to show the workings of our
Agricultural department, and another one
with a typical western log cabin, especially
imported for a forest and fisheries exhibit
ton. We feel that we have something to
show concerning our merchant marine, and
are also trying to annex a building in which
to give an idea of our chemical industries.
| Still another plan which we have in mind is
the erection Of a great American printing
| press. Europeans understand little about
| American journalism and almost nothing of
its mechanical marvels. There is not a
paper in Paris, for instance, which can print
more than $1,000 four-page copies in an
hour on any one of its printing presses. In
America there are presses in existence which
will deliver. cut, folded, pasted and counted,
5000 sixteen-page newspapers, printed in
five colors, every sixty minutes. This would
be equal to 1852, 900 of the French four-page
papers every hour
The American government and the various
state governments will officially spend more
than SO, 900, 900 on the exposition. The fed
eral appropriation amounts to 81, 200, 900, and
in addition to that almost every one of the
states has appropriated a sun. These state
appropriations range between $4,000 and
$3.50, 900.
Building the Big Show.
The man who said that every street in
Paris seemed to be called the "Rue Barree''
CLOSED street, spoke wisely. The French
capital is literally torn asunder and turned
upside down by the approaching exposition.
1T is pleasant Tor an American VINO KNOWS
aught of our Worlds fair of 1894 to content
plate the exposition grounds in Paris. They
will not compare with the great Worlds fair
grounds in Chicago. This may be wholly
because of the circunscribed space and it
may be because the French do not under
stand as well as we do how to fay out the
site for such a great show. There will be no
such grand whole at Paris in 1900 as there
was in Chicago six years ago. Some Of the
buildings will be fine, two particularly-the
great and little palaces which will glare
superbly and almost virgin white on the
Champs Elysee after they are finished viii
be finer than anything that Chicago had.
This is not because of their impressive de-
sign, nor because of their tremendous size,
but because OF the fact that they have