The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-10

the gathering of notables. Royalty viii
be in Paris during 1900 as il has rarely
been anywhere except IN London az
the time of the queens jubilee. The
government long ago set aside the
Pavilion de Flore as an abiding place
for the chosen ones during the show,
and IS now well along in It's prepara-
TORS for. their reception there. It is
not a particularly beautiful building,
although the great architect Lefeul.
designed it for the prince imperial. 1t
was occupied by the state department
for the colonies. and its alterations for
royal Use have been in charge Of N.
Redon, the architect of the Louvre.
No one seems to know what will take
the place OF Chjcago's Midway Plais-
ance at the Paris exposition. Many
mysterious concessions have been given
out for the neighborhood of the Eiffel
tower, and an annex" has been ar
ranged for in the Wood of Vincennes.
lnasmuch as this is to be largely de-
voted 10 athletic games, 1t seems likely
that It will draw the crowds who would
be amused by the sort Of thing which
went on at Chicago's Midway. Moth
ing, however, is being said, and little
can be found out 'on this most fasci-
mating subject. 1t is fair to suppose
that Paris, the gayest of cities, will
quite oUtstrip any previous efforts made
by more staid municipalities. 1t is also
and pleasantly certain that the innate
art of the French nature viii prevent
such garish exhibitions of bestiai vul-
garity as marked our own Worlds fair.
/ have only heard of one American
Midway enterprise. and that one is. to
say the least, inoffensive. Captain VIII
liam =. Oldrine of Boston, it has been
announced here, will attempt to walk
across the ocean on enormous five-foot
cedar shoes, and afterwards place him
self on exhibition.
The biggest room in the world will
also be a feature of the Paris show.
There are larger buildings than Ma
chinery hall will be, but according to
the claims made by the Partisan pro-
motors, none has ever had so great a
single floor space-12, 544 meters. The
amphitheatre has been planned to seat
$1,000 spectators, daylight being admit
ted through an immense cupola of
glass.
An American Railway Train.
Two interesting railway features are
under way. One is an American rail-
way train, consisting of ordinary
coaches, palace car AID express car,
which Will run frequently between the
main grounds of the exposition and
the annex at Nincennes. One might
almost hope that this train might be
an object lesson to the benighted Calls
and induce them to give UP their an
tiquated system of compartment cars
in favor of our more convenient and
healthful designs, were il not for the
experience of an English railway some
years ago. The American line of
steamship docks at Southampton.
From there to London trains are run
at high speed in two and one-half
hours. The American line endeaNored
to please its patrons by inducing the
road tc put on the most improved and
high-class American palace cars. Eng
lishmen would not ride in the beautiful
vehicles. and the service had to be
abandoned. Those superb cars are now
Yisible-neglected and rotting-side-
tracked in the railway yard at South
ampton. 1t will probably be the same
in Paris. The other railway novelty Will
be an immense panorama of the bar
barrie scenery along the ears Famous
projected trans-Siberian railway.
An interesting item appeared the 9TH
er day in lie Temps. 1t said that tl,-
1S4. 600, or SS,S20,000, had already been
invested in the show, which, OF course,
is very far from what will have peen
mt into it when it opens, on April 10.
How much of this will prove TO have
been pure loss when the gates are hnal-
" closed on Nov. 5, of course no one
knows but experts believe that the
P.tris exposition of 1900 will be much
more successful financially than the
Worlds fair was at Chicago.
At any rate, the management is pre-
parine-1to- handle enormous crowds.
The main gateways will be known as
"L,Entree Monumentale, or Monu-
mental Entrance. The show Will De
omen sixteen hours day, and this en-
trance is arranged to give passage to
60 600 persons an hour. SO if this one
rate were worked to its fullest capa-
city. it would admit 100000 persons
day. And there are many gateways;
rI'bis GREAT gate will be a triumphal
arch decorated over its front with the
arms of the city of Paris. This will be
surmounted by a statue of Liberty,
heroic in size Including the two great
friezes on the sides, representing WORK
mon carrying their products to the ex-
position. the gate will cost $1,000 francs
or S12, 400.