The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-29
THE FAIR
At PARIS
Gossip From the Great
Exposition.
A PAYING INVESTMENT
Odd Features of the Show From
Which France is Coming
Good Money.

PARIS, June 12-The golden h.rva..
OF the exposition has at last, hee,,n -r,yio.
this week the number Of visitors exceed
eu haH million, which suTpasses the
figures of the 1859 exposition at Al similar.
period. 1t is estimated that over 6 eao oso
persons have now passed the turnsti,es
The greatest difficulty now is experiene-
ed in getting from the grounds at night
the street car and omnibus facilities be-
ing utterly inadequate to cope with the
immense crowds. and the cabn1en are
having nigh times, demanding and get
1ihg fancy prices for short trips home. 1t
is nothing unusual for them to ask 81 for
trip for which the legal fare is 30 cents
Inc electrical arrangements at the
Chateau d'Eau have been repaired and
the illuminations during the evening are
now very brilliant and effective. The
American pavilion was closed four days'
THIS week for the Improvement of its in
ternai decoration. large piece of stat.
uary representing three wild brouchos
forms a very striking centerp.ece and
ABOUT IT are palms and flowers and a CIR
GUAR sofa. The walls haye been re-
painted softer color. relieving the for
nef glare of white, and number of
paintings have been hung Further inn
provements are contemplated
Inc Jurles nave begun their tasks and
the American representatives In each
group are hard at work seeking honors
Tor United States exhibits
Parisians, who so long have reveled In
the cabarets representing death, heaven
and hell. which almost every visitor con-
s:ders part of the ghts of Paris. are
now offered another morbid attraction
IN the shape of a drama written and per
formed by a couple of Parisiennes who
nave just been released after serving
terms of Imprisonment for ATTEMPTED
murder.
One is an actress who was convicted of
attempting to dispose of a val by diet
OF pins concealed in pudding. The other
was the heroine of a cause celebre of
last year. She had tried to poison her
husband with strychnine, ard, on con-
viction, attempted to commit suicide by
driving a hat pin through her heart.
The women made acquaintance with each
other while In the prison of ST. Lazare
by rappings on the wall div ding their
cells. On their release recently, they
wrote play which is very sensational
and partly autobiographical, and which
will shortly be produced at one of the
small theaters within the exposition
grounds,
Interest in the Transvaal war has SUBJ
sided very considerably since Lord Rob-
erts began his victorious march. and es-
pecially since he announced that the Jo-
hanneshurg gold mines We're uninjured
Fear of damage to the mines. in which
an immense amount of French money Ia
invested, has been the leading cause Of
anxiety for the Frenchman, who in no
wise shared the advice freely gwen the
Beers by portion of the French press
to destroy the mines a latter day EMU
lation of the burning of Moscow by the
Russians. French shareholders failed to
see the heroic side of this act through
which they would be the greatest suffer-
ers, and the news of the safety of the
mines brought sigh of relief. The SUBJ
sequent occupation of Pretoria by the
British received scant after tion and most
of the journals are of the opinion that 1t
does not mean an end Of the war, but
that, on the contrary, 1t VIII be succeed
ed by the now much talked of guerrilla
warfare, which they predict will tire the
British cut and cost them more blood
ed t~""sure than even yet have been
expended.