The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-09-28
EXPOSITION LETTER.
Written for the Citizen.)
PARIS, September 10, 1900.

Now that the Exposition is in
full blast, all the advertising
completed and a steady current
OF visitors flowing in from all
parts of the world. the managers
have chance to balance their ac-
counts. The money for the great
fair was raised as follows: The
management obtained 100000. 600
francs ($4. 900 000) from the GOV
ernment; 10000, 600 francs more
from the city of Paris, and from
the public. in the form of bonds,
90. 600, 600 francs (S13, 900, 000), or
d total of S2l 000, 900. Numerous
contracts were made with eXhibi-
tors and the owners of reStaur
ants, klOSkS. cts, at rates that
were very high for the latter.
The figures for these are not vet
published. but the total must be
enormous. The public is row he
ginning to ask what it has obtain
ed in return for the $l3, 900, 600
invested and the management ac-
cnsed Ofn0t having kept its prom
lses. Ii was stated that the EX-
position would be opened on the
18th Of April, or three weeks
earlier than that Of 1889. 1t is
true that it was opened about
that date, but in chaos Of scat
folding, dust and incomplete con
struction. Further it was prom
Used that the Exposition should
be opened regularly of evenings,
when the restaurant keepers
would have an excellent opportun-
ity for profit. The Exposition
was at first closed at six o'clock,
then at seven, and it was not I'M
til the middle of June that it pre-
scented, after nightfall, aught but
a dark stretch OF lonely buildings.
This was partly due to the lack of
electricity, the plant for which
did not act properly throughout
the grounds until toward the. end
of June, thus postponing for ten
weeks the illumination of foun-
tains, evening tetes, ETC., not to
mention the loss caused to the eX.
hibiUors whose apparatus was de-
pendent upon electrical force for
working,
In the prospectus of the Expo
sition, issued some years ago, it
was estimated that, since there
were 1000, 600 people at the fair
of 1861, $4,000, 600 at that Of 1878
and $4,000, 600 at that OF 1889, it
would not be too much to count
on 80, 600, 900 i'll 1900. AS a mat
ter Of fact, up to the end of July,
or during rather more than the
first half of the Exposition, the
number of tickets taken was 16,-
/ 100000. If this percentage be
maintained or even increased, it
is nevertheless impossible to pre-
dict that on the 9TH of Novemb Der,
the day of closing, there will be a
total of more than 10000, 900.
The stockholders will lose heavily,
as well as those who have paid
high fees for the privilege OF open
ing places of amusement or eating
establishments in the grounds.
Paris newspapers point 0ut that
French law Furnishes the failure
to keep promises made in pr0Spec-
fuses, and add that although the
general manager, NJ. Picard, may
be absolved of fraudulent inten-
ton, he had no right to deceive
Others, since he was in a way rep
reSenting the government.
Ii will be remembered that the
heirs Of Anthony Pollock, who
persisted in the wreck of the ill.,
fated Bourgogne, offered a Ger
cain sum OF money to be given as
prizes for the best life saving de
wise iii ship wrecks, the award to
be granted during the Exposition.
1t was decided TO exhibit the APP
paratus submitted i'll competition
for the prize in the class of arti-
cles devoted to commercial navi-
cation, and to let the decision
rest with the Exposition Jury.
Tie latter selected special com.
mission, composed OF experts of
different nationalities. The com.
mission has made an examination
and submitted report, stating
| that four hnddred and thirty five