The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-11-13
CLOSE OF PARIS EXPOSITION
GREAT SHOW ENDED At MIDNlGH1
LAST NIGHT.
Attendance Small Owing to Rain H.
Hawkers Gave Them way Buildings
I'm a Lam en- TIA BILE CondittOn-The Fair
aGignntic Success as Regards Attend
nnce.

Paris, Nov 12.-The great exposition
of 1900 closes to-day with the evening
illumination. There We're few visitors
in the daytime to-day, tickets lacking
purchasers at sou each. The work of
removing the exhibits commenced at
midnight.
The booming of a cannon from the
first story of the Eiffel tower announc-
ed that the exposition of 1900 had
ceased to exist. 1t ended in blaze of
illumination, the final evening being
celebrated by night fete. The attend
ance, however, was small visitors being
kept away by cold, drizzling rain
fall
This evening tickets which had
brought sou in the afternoon were
sold at the rate of five for a sou. A
curious scene was witnessed at the ex-
position gates, shortly before 6 o'clock,
when the authorized ticket bureau
which earlier in the day had been SELL
ing tickets for two sous, reduced the
price to one. The street hawkers in
dignant at this attached cards to their
coats inscribed "give you a ticket for
nothing" For a time collisions be-
tween the street hawkers and employees
of the exposition seemed likely to re-
suit; but the police interviewed and
averted trouble.
M, Manataux, formerly minister Of
foreign affairs, in an article entitled
1.-THE balance sheet of the exposition"
says: France expended two or three
hundred millions of francs to erect the
exposition. She has recovered them
easily in the increase of the treasury
receipts, which for this year alone is
nearly 100, 100000 francs in the surplus
of Partisan duties, in the monuments
remaining to the state or the city, and
in the quays, bridges and improved
transportation facilities bequeathed by
the exposition"
The wisdom of the authorities in re-
fusing to prolong the exposition fur
ther, as was warmly urged in many
quarters a little time ago, was vindi-
Gated by an examination to-day of the
Many were found to be in
a lamentable condition. even the Off
cial structures lacking much of the Or
1S1nal StuccO ana paint, Wnlle several
foreign pavilions, chiefly of plaster
construction, demonstrate the flimsy
character of work that is unequal to
battling with autumn winds and hui
midity, to say nothing of winter storms.
The idea of their permanent retention
is absurd.
Official statistics show that the ex-
position was a gigantic success from
the point of view of attendance, which
was double that OF the exposition Of
1889, when 25,121,975 passed the gates.
When the gates of the exposition of 1900
closed this evening more than fifty mil
lion persons had passed through The
British and Belgians headed the list in
1889, in point of number, but this year
the Germans were first and the Bel (
gians second with the British far be-
hind. Americans also formed a very
noticeable contingent Indeed they
were immeasurably more numerous
han at the previous exposition. The
record paying day this year brought
1ut more than 100000 visitors, as COM
pared with maximum of 335,37 in
1889.