Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-06-10
EXPOSITION Letter.

preston get is one OF disorder and
unpreparedness. Debris, dirt. dust
and din of carpentry obstruct ones
progress and enjoyment everywhere.
0utwardly and architecturally the Ex-
position is a thing of splendor, but II
would seem that the management has
spent Its energy on the shell and that
the real thing, the exhibits, are in en-
bryo, or are only half Matched. rhe
American Commissioners are in "A tenn
per, and not without cause. They are
not accustomed to the slow and small
French way of doing things. Many ex-
hiblts have been Wanting at Havre or
| Cherbeurg3 for weeks and notwith-
standing most urgent demands the
Americans have not been able to get
them transported to Paris. BY pay
ing grand vltess (expressage) instead
of petit vitess (frelghD they could get
them. But think of the pettiness OF
nation, for the nation controls the
| railroads, that will invite its dear sis
ter Republic, so-called, to an "At
Home" and then attempt to levy
blackmail by grand vitess over the on
| ly part of the route she controls-the
railroads to Paris. Many will remem
ber that our Chicago Exposition, Sen
ator Chauncey Depew gave the For
| eign Commissioners free transporta-
tion and l think by special car over
all the Vanderbilt system of railroads.
What did these people do when Mr..
Depew was in Europe the following
year? Why, they furnished him the
most expensive of everything in trans
portation, and charged him full price!
/ entered the Exposition grounds by
the Trocadero gate. There are thirty
five other entrances. There were many
familiar landmarks which have re-
manned from the previous exposition.
The Colossal wild animals in bronze;
the bridge across the Seine; the Eiffel
Tower, and transportation land
mark, a Ferris Wheel Wishing to go to
the United States National Building,
'took a rolling chair propelled by a
very slow Frenchman, who managed
TO get thirty-one minutes wages in
travelling one mile, thus securing two
francs or forty cents, instead of
twenty, which was all he was justly
entitled to, for. without effort, he
might have made the distance in 20
minutes. | learned by experience ten
minutes later, that l could take the
moving trottoir (sidewalk) and go five
times the distance in half the time for
ten cents. This moving elevated
sidewalk is one of the features of the
show. There are in fact three elevat-
ed parallel sidewalks. After buying
your ticket you go through the gate
and stand or walk on the station
ary sidewalk which is the first one
reached; moving beside this about as
fast as a gin horse would go, is the
second sidewalk; the third and fastest
one is Immediately to your left for
these moving sidewalks go in the op-
| posite directions to the hands of
clock. II would not be safe for many
visitors to step from the stationary
walk over the slower enc Immediately
on to the rapidly moving one, though
/ have seen. some adventurous men
and one giddy woman do it. The safer
way is to get on the slowly moving
one and then walking forward on it,
! acquire a doublespeed by which you
may easily and safely transfer your
self TO the swifter vehicle. Then by
walking forward on this you may ar
rive at any destination quickly. Wis.,
itors at the Worlds Fair at Chicago
| will remember a similar system of
| moving walks that ran out on pier
\ over the lake. think it not improb-
| able that it will in time be introduced
at the pleasure resorts CT the United
| States, like Atlantic City and Coney
Island. There is nothing patentably
adapted by anyone for any purpose.
! There is at least one United States
project in complete operation here. l
refer to the corn propaganda which is
nothing more or less than an effort by
systematic missionary work to preach
the gospel of corn bread, hominy grid
die cakes and the various other edible
things that may be made out of this
greatest of American cereals. The av-
erage corn crop of the United States
is two billion Of bushels; OF this
amount we ship only two millicn
bushels abroad, or only ten per cent,
while of our wheat we ship over thirty
per cent. If by larger demand the
value of this corn product could be
! increased cnly / per cent per bushel
it would add $4,000 900 to the reve-
nue. of the farmers of the United
States. | get these statistics from the
address of the American Commissioner
at the opening Of the corn kitchen,
| but think he failed to take into ac-
Eccunt the many millions of bushels of
corn we send abroad in pork, beef,
horses, butter cheese, fowls, etc. This
| is a much more profitable way to sell
corn than to ship it in its natural
state, The corn kitchen has colored
cooks and is serving free lunches