The sun., 1900-07-21
How 1t Compares With the
Worlds Fair as Seen by
The Sun Correspondent
PILGRIMAGE OF CHRISTIANS
Paris is Not Crowded, But the Elk
position is. The Invasion of
Americans is Taking the
Place of All Other
Nationalities.
From The suns Regular Correspondent.

GdrlS, france, July 9.-Inefe is no
unit or rule for accurately measuring or
comparing International Expositions,
but, after six weeks study, | think the
Chicapo Exposition was in many re-
spects not inferior to this of Paris. There
is more and better class art about this
show; the ensemble is more artistic, and
it would be hard to excel the beautiful
scene that stands before you when the
sunlight or electric light illumines the
domes and minarets that adorn the space
between the Champs Elysees and the IN
valides. There are more traces of the
artistic spirit among the exhibits than at
Chicago, and in truth, for an exhibition
of European art | do not say the very
best, but al least the second best-the
exhibition OF Paris in 1900 would be hard
to beat. But that is ALL wonderful to say,
sc eing that some years have elapsed
since the Chicago Worlds Fair, and that
great progress in many directions might
have been expected.
One thing very noticeable now is the
increase in the number OF visitors. Paris
is not, or seems not to be, more crowded,
but the Exposition is. Last Sunday,
just forty people under half million
passed the gates. The price of tickets
had come down to 10 cents, which may
have, must have, had some effect, ana
there was a Christian Endeavor pill
grimage, or an English trades excursion,
5000 or 1000 strong, which helped to
fill. A few weeks ago the universal re-
mark was:-"What a crowd of Ger
mansw and, in truth, Paris was, as
someone put it, for the time more Ger
man than Berlin. Wherever you went,
on the boulevards, in the Exposition, in
the cafes, on the tops of omnibusses,
| (''in the air." as the French say there
they were thousands of them, in spec
tacles, bearly all in straw hats and
dressed as if they all had the same tailor,
or none. 1t was a fresh German in
vasion, and not a wholly popular one.
For popularity in that way, the invasion
must be American, for the latter visit
the shops first and then sees the Ex-
position from the Eiffel tower One cafe
owner bitterly complained to me that
the Germans had completely driven
away his regular customers, land they
drink no wine," he concluded sadly,
"only beer"
Not that the anti.Teutonic feeling is
just now very strong in France. 1t srems
rather to be slowly but surely dying out,
not so much because the French hate the
nation that took Alsace- Lorraine from
| bA1NAli ia 1OfO iSGEJ eio OSNe0oS piAO1 hopO
the nation that beat them a5Waterloo, and
stood them off at Fashoda more. Besides,
though OF different religions, there is
much in CT nm between tie Ger nai
and Fr9nch. Both are Continental ma
tions, they have what the French q Q
pleased to call a. 'largeness" of ideas
that is unknown and highly antipathetic
to the Anglo. Saxon, whether he be
American or English, German Profess
tantsm Of the land OF Luther, is not in
reality So autipathetic to French Catho-
licism as is American or English Protes-
tantism. And why? Simply because IL Q
ptotestantism Of the latter is too decent,
too moral, for French tastes and French
tolerance. The German is not nearly so
shocked by French latitude OF opinion
and speech and conduct as is the Anglo-
Saxon, and Paris sights and sounds, TO
which German wauld habituate him.
self in week, remain for years. perhaps
forever, odious to the Anglo-Saxon. 1t
is, in this morality, this ingrained, in-1
stinctive morality, lies the secret OF the
Anglo Saxon power and dominion. No
nation that is not strong morally will
ever be permanently strong physically.
OF late, however, the German invasion
has been notably diminishing and the
American-not the English-is taking its
place. At any rate, Americans are more
numerous, more ABOUT the center, Ger
tainly more thick in the richer and more
expensive quarters of the town. You
rarely see German in fashionable res
, taurauts or very expensive hotels. Ihe
! American YOU do see and hear also, for
their cordial unreserve, their affiabilty
and easlness of approach make them al
: ways live and agreeable companions.
1t will, perhaps. be news to you that
American missionaries are responsible
for the war in China, so the French say.
!. You have only to ask half dozen, and
n three or four will make the statement.
n Ii carnot be the Catholic missionaries,
: they maintain, and it is not likely to be
( the consuls or foreign merchants, ergo,
Z it is the Protestant missionaries, and
< above all, those dreadfully pushing
n Americans
: Why is it that q creed that boasts OF
n being, and calls itself, 'Catholic," is in
Z practice SO exclusive and SO narrow
Z minded? Only the other day, the exhi
n btion afforded an instance. The first
n Woman's Congress was a failure; the
: right people were not present, the really
able people did not speak, and Mrs. May
q Wright Sewall was, perhaps, the only
represe ntative OF American womanhood
whom American women would have
been satisfied with. The reason, so it il
y said, was simply that as the organizer
were protestant, the Catholics held
aloof.
a The jury on ceramics yesterday mad,
q an excursion to the Sevres factory anc
L witnessed the taking from the kiln
{; superb vase fully FIVE feet high decorated
IS profusely and surmounted by an Ameri
2, can eagle. The workmen of the factor
!, were addressed by the president of th
5, jury and each one received a souvenir ii
!, money, while each luryman was given
g, porcelain medallion as memento of th
l. occasion. The president of the Frencl
l. Republic is hard working man, b
N faithfully puts in all available time at tn
a. Exposition and visits the official pavil
r ions first of one country and then OF an
other, avoiding with incest care an
show OF partiality.
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