Gardnerville record. (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1898-1902, 1900-07-05
THE PARIS LETTER
Paris, june IL. 1890.

plains lnst the Seiphti Unc'e". lo'o.
commandant of The Rough Riders
promised the soldiers of the famous bat
talon tim! il they wonll fight well he
would take them To the Paris Exposition
md thus stimslate,l by that promise,
they charged and captured Santiago,
and now Colonel Roosevelt will keep his
word and bring his Rough Riders to the
Exposition. This know will be news
to vour readers and 10 Rosevet's Ronph
Riders.
When the Psrisians visitor passes
through the United States Post Office
Department building at the Exposition,
and sees the old stuffed bay horse mount
ed by dummy rider with a mail bag,
slonehed hat aud leather breeches. the
same that has so long done duty in the
p. o. Musuem at Washington as a mail
carrier Of the early days. he says: "There
| ia a Boer." aud remarking IN an approx
| ing tone lies Americans love much The
Boer" passes N to the next mistake.
The old mail stage coach OF fifty years
ago. is in his opinion the carriage OF
General Washington. A bran new ex
press wagon with a metal cage for the
Transporting money, bullion ahd other
precious articles, he thinks is for the
conveyance Of wild animals or prisoners.
After all what infantalsge, to use n
French word, was il to send these things
here. Even IL fully understood. they
teach nothing. ani, "a mlsundersto ID.
but confirm the popular European i'm
preston of our NATURALIZATION.
1t is not pleasant to have to write so
much in criticism OF our country's mp
pearanre in this international competi
tion. but il is important that the truth
shall he told. | might easily gloss the
the facts aud praise or advertise this or
that American exhibit. which as an iso-
lated exhibit is not without merit, but
sompetitively is distaneed by the ex-
hibits in the same GLASS of some yer,
small countries. For some reason We
are not doing ourselves proud" here
This morning asked an American ex-
hibitor in the Hall OF Varied Industries
how he Thought our country would com
pare with surrounding countries. II
regret to SAY we make a very poor show.
Look, here We are between Germany
aud England. See what fine exhibit
Germany has. Sine had no more ground
spacesthan we have, but she has utilized
it to bald second story while We have
but one. Then look at the taste and
richness and value Ut her exhibits
The, are worth at least three times as
much as ours Moreover, they hav.
been set up to produce their most i'm
pressiys effect The English section,
which bounds us On the other side, Ii
also a very fine one. Now look at ours.
There on Que of the best corners Is dis
play of about ten bushels Of corn cob
smoking pipes. See here on The
main aisle. opposite me, playing cards
and stationary There another firm has
paper bags. In my opinion, Iiffany's
gold and silver ware, Rockwoods OF
Cincinnati, pottery and my display are
about the the only creditabls ones IN the
American section. I'm an American and
I'd like to make the Eagle scream but
I'm keeping very quiet. 1T had not oc-
cured to me TO class his exhibit among
the redeeming things OF the American
seeiion Bnt most Americans who will
talk express the same opinion about the
inferiority of what America has to show
here in Paris. Our appropriation was
abundant. more than any other country,
with the exception OF Germany, | think,
but il was little slow coming and for
that reason we were not able to get
choice location for our machinery in the
the Champs lie Mars. When we got the
appropriation, there WAS no untaken
space available exoect at Winoonncs.
People have been saying: "Oh, go to
Vincannes il You wish to see the Ameri-
can machinery" So, today | went to
Vincennes. and I'll never go there any
more, 1t is one hour and thirty min
utes from the main exposition. which in
terms of distance ought to be thirty OF
.orty miles. 1t is most uncomfortable
getting there; consequently, no one goes
unless attracted by a fete, an automobile
race. or athletic sports After alighting
from the nearest station, walk OF a
half a mile is necessary to find the
American machinery building, which is
neither large nor very interesting rs to
its contents Those who are particular
larly interested in the special classes OF
American machinery exhibited there, will
doubtless go out to Vincenne but ! do
not believe there were half dozen witt
ors there besides myself, and the place is
practically inaccessible to hundreds of
skilled French workmen who, while they
might not buy American machinery
woul like to see and study it, There is
Vncenne- large transportation exhibit
consisting Of sections of trains Of cars
within dining and sleeping cars. None
from America. Europe has made great
progress in the last twenty years aad
while the style and arrangements are
totally different from ours, they are not
inferior in elegance and comfort. l was