The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-10-22


Tribune.)
Another result Of the Paris exposition
has been to compel European public
opinion for the first time to recognize
that the United States has become a
dominating factor in the Industrial,
financial and political affairs OF the
world, and this in spite Of the fact that
Germany has secured the highest honoIs
at the exposition, the revised decisions
of the juries giving Germany 261 grand
prizes and 545 gold medals, as against 239
grand prizes and 1863 gold medals to the
United States.
But what has made the deepest impress
sion on the Partisan mind is the strong
Individuality OF the transatlantic visitors,
who have practically Amerioanized Ger.
tain quarters Of the city between the
Arc de Triomphe and the Trocadero
palace. The daring exploits of Ameri-
can girls in the realms of art and bohe-
mianism. surprising anything the same
girls would ever dream of attempting at
home, continue to supply apparently in
eXhaustible material to psychological
writer's like Abel Hermant, Marcel Pre-
vost, Maurice Donnay and Luoien Muhl-
feldt, TOR clever and analytical skits in
he Figaro, the Journal, the Vie Paris.
ienne, the Cri de Paris and on the Paris
ian stage.
But what just now draws the attention
of Partisan observers is the new phase
Of American society revealed to them by
the exposition and the unexpected promi-
hence taken by Chicago and by what
EASTERN bred folk call the great West.
Since the exposition opened New Workers,
Bostonians and Philadelphians, compare
lively few and far between, have re-
mained in the background. Almost every
third American one meets halls from
Chicago. There has been a social apotheo-
sis here of the Windy city, Chicago So
ciety, with It's cliques, its likes and dis
likes, bas been on the dissectlng table.
The result is set forth by a Partisan
grande dame, who divides Chicago society
into three categories. The first is what
she calls the Chicago Faubourg st. Ger
main, including charming, uninf1ated
people, among whom she mentions Mar
sh all Field, Mrs. Augustus Eddy, her
son, Stephen Eddy, her sister, Mrs Ar
thur Cation, Mrs Cyrus Mccormick, Mr..
and Mrs. Edward Blair, Mr.. and Mrs.
Fran kiln MacVeagh and James Deering /;
then comes always, according to this
authority, an ambitious set, insisting
upon having It's presence felt and some
times forgetting that what the innermOst
circles Of French society are least OF all
tolerant Of is Obtrusive personality. This
set has been represented here by Mr.. and
Mrs. Potter Palmer, whose entertain
ments have been invariably ordered with
irreprOachable correctness AMI we'll at
tended. Mrs. Palmer's tact and her ex-
quisiteIy lifting gowns have been keenly
appreciated and even initiated. Then
comes the third class, for which my Par
isian informant shows DO mercy what
ever, and describes as the Chicago bur-
eaucracy. which processes good inten-
lions, but, from its nervous hurry. lack
Of social experience and want Of tact. has
trOd on French and cosmopolitan toes.
and made enc mics right and left MIR,
and Mrs, Ferdinand Peck are ex-otficio
at the head OF the set, and serve as the
Turks head for voIley after vOlIey Of
caustio criticism for the alleged admins
trative and social failures with which
they are charged by their own townsfoIk,
who declare that from social point of
view, 1.-THE Pecks are simply not it. -
As these various Chicago cOntingents,
as may be seen from the passenger lists
OF the transatlantic Steamers, are now
returning westward, this psychological
analysis, made by one of the recognized
leaders of Partisan society, has a real
application at homer Never before has
Partisan society been so permeated and
marked by wealthy pleasure-seeking
Americans, both men and women, who
have been carefully studied as anextraor-
binary outcome OF the exposition--Es sort
OF exposition s'clou, y as 1t were, because
people here are convinced that it presents
a forecast of the new social American
ism. the society of che fyture