Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-11
AT THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
What Our Correspondent Sees
in Gay Paris.

Share--tierman Comes Next The
Swiss Village the Most Interesting
Place-The American Corn Kitchen
Very Popular Because IL Is Free
One Frenchman Who Had Heard
Much about II Wired for LOT of Corn
Cakes Sent c, 0. D.-Didn't Know
they were Good only when Hot.
PARIS, France, July 4, la00-Life
day by day in the Paris Exposition is
not exciting or sensational, but it Is
full of incidents. will give you a
history Of one day at the Exposition.
| entered the grounds about half past
nine O'Clock, and crossing the Alma
bridge, went into the first open build
/ ing on the right. 1t was the build
| ing devoted TO medical science, hy-
giene and sanitation. 1t was opened
for the first time to-day. The dis
plays of France are, of course, most
conspicuous and in the vestibule there
is bust OF NJ. Pasteur and statue
of the Goddess Of Fame placing a
wreath of laurel on his head. The
room is filled with glass reeeptacles
containing cultivated germs of many
diseases; it is indeed a grnesome spec
tacle, this Pandora's Hall of isolated
deadly microbes, and one feels glad
that they are in Theoretically sealed
bottles and that the bottles are In
carefully locked cases, and that these
are surrounded with all the sterilizing
paraphernalia and all the curative
agencies known TO science.
After France, the German section
may be seen, with a bust in bronze OF
DR.. Koch and models OF sanitary In.
situations and hospitals. | had but
half an hour for this building, in
which one might well spend week
Taking the electric car, | quickly
reached the American Printers Build
ing and engaged a stenographer by
whose assistance | hope to increase
and improve my output. Then 20 the
car again which landed me about half
mile from the American section OF
! agriculture and Authorization. 1t is
not easy to find anything here; guides
are few and ill-informed. There are
wildernesses of exhibits and no land
marks, and unless you are careful not
to turn around you are as likely to be
walking away from your objective as
toward it. | had been to this exhibit
often before, but never from this d.
rection and | must have walked mile
and gotten direction and misdirection
! from people of half dozen nationai-
| ties before / found it. Then | dis
covered that the gentlemen in charge
who had promised me certain data,
were off on the jury OF Awards. BY
this time it was one o'clock and left
Paris and France for half an hour and
crossed into Switzerland for luncheon.
The Swiss village separated from the
worlds fair by the width Of a street,
is decidedly the most genuine show in
Paris. 1t is section of Switzerland
most cunningly transplanted in the
roaring hub-bub and fatiguing SPLEEN
dor of the Exposition. High preci-
pieces shut out on all sides the dazzling
noisy world you have left, and it Is
easy to imagine you are many miles
away from Paris. A beautiful cas-
cade falls from the mountain side.
1t is real water. 1t turns the wheel
of an old mill and flows over stones
and amid weeds and wild flowers
through the village. Chatlets are on
green patches above you and the per-
spectiye is so sklllfully managed that
they appear to be full size Work
men are making actual hay in the
little valley TO the left; here are real
cows and goats, little church, and
dozen restaurants, all clean and pic
turesque. The logs Of which the
houses are built have been taken from
some old houses in Switzerland, for
not the slightest detail is lacking in
this most charming, homelike and
restful ensemble. OF course, the
! juxtaposition with the roaring city and
| the Exposition without, and the psy-
Geological contrast greatly enhances
the effect, but seriously this Swiss vii
! lage is about the only thing | want
to take home No photographs or
even paintings can do it justice, for
every step through its winding streets
! brings to your view a new and charm
! ing perspective. So old, SO rural and
restful is the scenel lit down under
the portico Of little VIVA matched
in where fresh butter, bread and cof-
4 fee, meat, vegetables, cheese and
strawberries are served by girl in
! the costume of her canton, and all for
so cents. But | must leave this
charming idyl and go TO the American
corn kitchen, which is up three flights
of stairs in frame annex, the two
| lower floors OF which are covered with
Mccormick s harvesters Buckeye reap
ers and mowers, and other farming
machinery of American make. The
corn kitchen amuses me. 1t Is such a
serious fake. 1t is expensive, too, to
our country; but 'swho cares for ex-
penses?n 1t is the only free lunch in
France for they do not do things that