The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
PARIS is GETTING READY.
PARTS OF THE SHOW ARE BEING
ARRANGED ALMOST A YEAR

ED OrmOus Crowds Expected at the
| Exposition and the Main Gateway
Planned to Admit Sixty Thousand
Persons nm Hour or 10000 Persons
DaiIy-Wild Freak Schemes SuE-
gested by Queer Drained Inventors
! From All Parts of the WorId-Hov
You May Go Around the World
without Leaving the French Cap
ital-A Telescope Which VIII
Bring the Moon Nearer to You
Than Is Has Ever Been Before.
Paris Sept. 2.-The exposition of 1900 is
assuming form. Exhibitors are beginning
to get their marvels under roofs For the
first time in history, an International show
viii open on time. The growth of the
great white buildings brings to mind tie
mushroom rising of boyhood's circus tents.
The great and little art palaces are al
most completed, and the ugly buildings
which hid them from the ever passing
throngs of the Champs Elysee have been
torn down. The beautiful bridge across
the Seine, which was, in moment OF hys-
terra, named after the Car of Russia,
and which will of course have to be re-
named in case the Russian bear snar!s at
France, is nearly finished. The builders
are changing their attention from the
framework to the decorations of buildings,
and the railway lines are already begin
ming to feel the great rush of freight bus
mess which will clog their lines from now
until after the exposition opens. Almost
every hotel in Paris has rented many. If
not most of its best rooms for the first
weeks of the exposition. The greatest
rush will, of course, be during the first
weeks, because intending visitors realize
that after those first weeks are over the
fuzz will be off the peach to some extent
1t would scarcely be fair 10 say that the
exposition will wear OUT so quickly, but
the French show is not being prepared on
the scale of broad and brilliant beauty
that was the magnificent Characteristic of
our own Worlds Fair in Chicago. The
buildings, with two exceptions only. are
of even a more temporary type of construc-
ton than were our fimsiest structures, and
their plans include much work which ar
chitects characterize as ''ginger bread"
This will be affected by the lapse Of time,
and the brilliant paints which are every
where to be used are likely to grow dingy
Paris in "A Dust storm.
That only two buildings-the great and
little art palaces-are being built of tho
famous French sandstone, is a temporary
blessing to all Paris. The dust from this
! sandstone is so white and so penetrating
that ID becomes a public nuisance. 1t has
| actually changed the color of the roadway
| In the Champs Elysee. From the ordinary
! brown of the average macadam road, the
! pavement has become dirty gray from
| the white dust blown and trSeked into it
! from the neighborhood of the Srt palaces.
| This has also had it's effect on the health
| of the trees which have helped to make
! this famous avenue one of the most beau
| tiful in the world. The stone of which
these superb buildings are being con-
| structed is taken from the very bowels of
| Paris from the same stratum of under
| ground France i'm which the catacombs
were dug It's soft and very easily work
ed when first taken out, but it hardens
after exposure to the air. one of the early
| wonders of the show Is the famous dia-
mond saw, which is now continually at