The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-08
PRICES DOUBLED IN PARIS.
PARIsIANS GETTING IN WORK or
THE ADVANCE GUARD.

Many Americans Are Already There.
Permanent Residents Being Treat
ed in the Same aIanner-American
Exhibits BEING Delayed on the
Railroad Much TO the Discontinue
of Commissioners PecI<-DiscussiOn
of Frances Colonial Army.
Copyright 1900 by the Associated Press)
Paris, April THE advance gaurd of
the army of foreigners invading Paris
for the EXPOSITION has made its entry,
and very large proportion are Amer
leans
Every moment of the day one now sees
cabs flying about the boulevards loaded
with Saratoga trunks, while the familiar
American accent is heard in restaurants
and other places of popular resort. The
hotels are already filling up and the prices
of everything are rising. In fact. these
first arrivals form a sort of forlorn hope
on whom the hotel and shop keepers are
experimenting with increased charges.
Not only the visitors but permanent
residents are beginning to feel the bur-
den of the advanced rates which most of
the hotels have so raised that the regu-
lar guests are obliged either to leave or
to accept poorer accomm OdatiOns. Those
who are unfortunate enough to have only
monthly leases on their apartments have
b en- notified that their rents will be dOu-
bled for six months after the opening of
the Exposition. The cab drivers have an
eye on greater wealth and are trying to
arrange with the government for increas-
ed fares.
American Exhibits Delayed.
At the exposition itself everything is
hustle and confusion. Heavy draught
teams line the streets adjoining the ex-
position buildings, waiting to deposit their
loads of exhibits. The American eXhib-
itors are finding themselves seriously
handicapped in preparing for the install
lation, owing to the unexpected conges-
ton on the railroads between Havre and
Paris and also on the tracks within the
exposition grounds. There is a continual
struggle between representatives. or every
nation 20 get cars in the grounds, but
the French people hold the key TO the
situation and take good care that their
own cars are taken to Their exhibit space
and unloaded before those of the United
States and other nations. Russia and
Belgium are the only countries favored.
United States Commissioner General Peck
is disturbed by this situation, and in or
der 10 expedite matters, has stationed
men along the railroad from Havre to
Paris for the purpose of pushing through
the cars carrying the American exhibits.
The Colonial Army.
The Chamber OF Deputies accomplished
q serious piece of work this week in de-
Gliding the question of composition of the
colonial army, which matter has been oc-
cupying parliamentary attention for some
time past The Chamber, after an excel
lent speech by the Marquis de Gallfet, the
war minister, decided that the force in
question should be controlled by the war
Office and should be composed of native
troops with Frenchmen as commissioned
and non-commissioned officers. In the
course of the debate the war minister
dispelled the idea fostered by the Nation
alists that France could be invaded by
foreign power having n big navy. He de-
clared that all the navy ports of France
were perfectly safe from foreign landing,
while in the case of the other seaports q
big navy would only be useful in re-em-
barking it's invaders if the latter succeeded
In e.~caping the overwhelming forces the
French could bring against them.