The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-08-03
HARTZELL TALKS
ABOUT PARIS.
Canton Citizen Sees Some Queer
Things at the Fair.
SHOWS ARE GREAT, OF COURSE

And America IL the Greatest Thing In It
Some striking Exhibits From
This Country some In
cidents.
Josiah Hartzell, of Canton, has
written an Akron friend concerning his
trip to Paris. The Akron Beacon-Jour-
nal reprints the story as follows:
My promise to write to you often
confronts me. The spirit is willing, but
the flesh is balky or wearied, or wor-
ried. did think Of treating you to my
ocean experiences, but that Is thing
that one won't-in fact, can't-do on
board the ship. One doesn't feel good.
If it is pleasant, one must enjoy the
pleasantness, which is all outside. If
1t is unpleasant, sleeping is about the
best thing he can get at. So between
this and that we reach Boulogne and
Paris, where between personal duties
and getting our exhibit in order, and
carrying out official orders, there has
been no time for pen-and-ink confab
with you.
And now, when I do seat myself to
write you, the things to write about
come tripping through my mind in such
swift succession that can see no good
handle to take a first hold on. There
is the exposition, the city, the people,
all new and strange and interesting.
Whoever has seen one center of Amer
lean life has, in thousand aspects, seen
all. Here all, or nearly all, is changed.
People, dress, house habits, methods,
vehicles, streets, ideas, politics, stores,
ha nh al
guage, everything, is either modified or
changed entirely. Just now the exposi-
tion is the great point of attraction,
and the central point Of interest with
me Is the Buckeye exhibit. The Ameri-
can harvesters and plows took up so
much room that no place could be found
for them in the main machinery hall.
The French officials conceded a we'll
located spot of ground, and our Uncle
Sam came down with 1000 to provide
a staff temple in which we are very well
housed. Ten of the greatest harvester
houses in the world are here in full
dress; some of them literally regardless
of expense. When 1t comes to a ra-
tional and satisfactory presentation of
the instruments placed on the market,
the show made by the Buckeye takes
its place in the front rank. Mr.. Fletcher
had the machines all ready mounted
when reached Paris, but he had had a
world of trouble. The nations of the
world had spilled on these 12O acres,
called the Champ de Mars, mountains
of boxes. The scramble over the pile of
each to get his own, lasted weeks.
Some are still hunting, but not 10 Flet-
oil A.,
Belgium, Germany, Denmark, wher-
ever the front cutting edge Of the Buck
eye invasion may need him most, for
all peoples, and languages, and machine
kinks and tricks are alike to him.
III France can keep down it's always
fermenting population, and keep out the
plague, the attendance at this fair Is
bound to distance that Of all its prede-
There are two reasons for this.
First, it is the greatest aggregation of
natural, industrial and artistic prod
ucts the world has ever seen, and Sec
ond, the entrance fee is only IL cents
often reduces 1t to ten.
Seeing that the price of ticket is
70 cents, this statement requires lottery
prizes, but now all want to sell their
petitors are bound to keep the price
down. Their emissaries infest every
entrance to the fair with their
bothersome clamor and opportunities.
Before 10 and after 6 and on festival
days, visitors must give up two tickets.
1t is said that later on five tickets will
be exacted on Sundays and holidays.
Even then the visitor will pay no more
than every one had to pay at Chicago.
IT'S A GREAT SHOW.
OF course I won't tackle the show it.
self in a little letter like this. It's too
big. Sometimes Americans want to see
the American exhibit, and they have
trouble enough, for the grouping is not
by countries, but by character. Thus
the 1000 American exhibits are only TO
be found in their proper groups, along
with those of the same nature from
other lands. There are II Of these
groups under the general headings of
fine arts, machinery, cleo
tricity, agriculture, etc. Agriculture is
one of the largest, and to that Aultman,
Miller & Co. are naturally assigned.
The American pavilion, on the Street
Of Nations, fronting the Seine river,
has been made the subject of much
comment. One often sees 1t referred to
in terms Of the utmost contempt by the
class of Americans who put on the air of
superior beings. They do surpass 9TH
ers in lick-spittle snobbery, and in that
only. Italy's palace is undoubtedly the
finefH, with Belgium, Germany and the
United States next in order; then Tur-
key, Spain, England and many others,
making in all very wonderful spec
tacle. do not know whether the ques-
tion of having a bar, with cocktails
and other American refreshments in
the American building has yet been
decided. The discussion on that head
in the Paris (New York; Herald and
other journals has been quite enter
tanning. AS the tenants of all the
other buildings have been raised to feel
that they would perish with thirst IL
denied their favorite liquors, they, of
course. furnish them abundantly. A
bar in our building would be stencil
in the nostrils of the most decent Amer