New-York tribune., 1900-10-14
PARIS.
THE EXPOSITION THRONGED DURING
ITS LAST DAYS.
a PARTISAN ESTIMATE OF CHICAGO SOCIETY
l. n. T.


president LoUBET's POPULARITY.
Copyright; 1900: BY The New-York TribuneI
IBY CABLE TO THE TRIBUNEI
Paris Oct 13-The Worlds Fair is within
measurable distance of it's end. It has been
open for 1S2 days and in twenty-three days
more its doors will be closed. Yesterday Com
missioner General Picard intrusted NJ. Jules
Clarette, the Administrator-Genera of the
Conedie Francaise; NJ. Gsilhard, director Of the
Opera, and NJ. Carre, manager of the Opera
Comique, with the task of organizing for Satur-
day. November g. in the Sale des Fetes great
festival, surprising anything of the sort yet at
tempted. The attendance meanwhile continues
to be double what it in June and July,
and with this crisp, bracing, sunny, ideal Oc-
tober weather, the Exposition has entered upon
fits Indian summer of success The daily aver
age of paying entrances this week was 100000,
and last Sunday record was established by
60. .0S2 persons passing the gates, of whom
595, ,43S We're paying entrances, this being the
greatest number so far registered on any single
day
This mornings newspapers filed with
interviews with prominent Frenchmen to
what has been the 'clou," or the dominating
feature of the Exposition and Henri Rochefort
in his reply makes a pun on the word "clou."
which in French besides mail" and meta
phorically. great attraction" also means "act
OF pawning valuables" Rochefort says there
are two clous to the Exposition, by of which
the unfortunate exhibitor will pawn his last
shirt; the other one on which disappointed spec
ulators will hang themselves. While no doubt
the Exposition Of 1900 will leave in its wake a
number Of financial failures. which, however.
will be mostly confined to purveyors of mere
amusement for the public. from theatrical en-
for fo
sensus Of opinion now is that 1t will have shown
the world on the vastest scale ever conceived
what the nations have accomplished in indus
Try, science and mechanical arts, and this is
the view of those whose technical experience
enables them to compare the present Worlds
Fair with that Of Chicago. From a political
point Of view the result Of the immense ban
quet to the Mayors of France was virtually a
plebiscit Of approval Of The Republic as repre-
sented by NJ Loubet. The man who was greeted
with boots and insults in February, 1899. after
he had been proclaimed President by the Ma
tional Assembly at Versailles. is now incon-
testably the popular President France
has known for thirty years
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 indus
trial, financial and political affairs of the world.
and this in spite of the fact that Germany has
secured the highest honors at the Exposition
the revised decisions Of the juries giving Ger
many 26l grand prizes and 545 gold medals, as
against 239 grand prizes and 369 gold medals
to the United States
But what has made the deepest impression
on the Parisian mind is the strong individuality
Of the transatlantic visitors who have prac-
ucally Americanized certain quarters Of the
city between the Arc de Triomphe and the
Trocadero Palace. The daring exploits Of Amer
lean girls IN the realms of art and bohemianisnn
surprising anything the same girls would ever
dream OF attempting al home, continue to sup
ply apparently inexhaustible material to psy-
Geological writer's like Abel Hermant Marcel
Provost, Maurice Donnay and Lucien Muhl-
feldt. for clever analytical skts in the Figaro
the Journal" the Vie Parisienne," the ''Cri
de Paris" and on the Partisan stage But what
just now draws the attention of Partisan observ-
ers is the new phase Of American society re-
vealed to them by the Exposition and the unex-
pected prominence taken by Chicago and by
what Eastern bred folk call the Great West
Since the Exposition opened New-Yorkers. Bos-
tonians and Philadelphians comparatively few
ard far between, have remained in the back
ground. Almost every third American one
meets halls from Chicago. There has been a
social apotheoss here Of the Windy City. Chi
cago society, with it's cliques its likes and dis
likes has been on the dissecting table. The
result is set forth by Partisan grande dame
who divides Chicago society into three cate
gories. The first is what she calls the Chica-
go Faubourg ST Germain including charming
uninfated people, among whom she mentions
Mr.. Marshal Field. Mrs. Augustus Eddy. her
son. Spencer Eddy: her sister, Mrs Arthur
Cation; Mrs. Cyrus Mccormick Mr. and Mrs
Edward Blair Mr. and Mrs Franklin Mac