Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
AMERICAN THRONGS AT
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
Our Girl Art Students Have Organized
a Bureau of Guides-Alimenta-
ton Kiosks Where Swell
Americans Drink Book
and Eat Penny Cakes.

Paris, May 10.-Somebody once said:
"Good Americans, when they die. go to
Paris Well, perhaps they do, but lots
of good Americans have taken time by
the forelock and are here now in the
flesh. One meets them at every turn.
There is no mistaking them, an Amer
lean man is an American man wherever
You find him, and our girls have a dis
tinction thoat marks them even in the
mids of exposition grandeur.
American visitors to the big exposition
are agreeably surprised to find that a
number of American girl art students
have ~oragnized a bureau of guides to the
grounds of the great exhibit. This is a
distinct advance over the plan followed
during the worlds fair in Chicago, or
having a male guide, who was not al
ways the most angelic tempered creature
Imaginable, and who treated his charges
frequently with as lofty an air as does
a restaurant waiter who has not receiv-
ed an expected tlp.
But now you may be guided about the
grounds by a dainty bit of femininity.
tastefully gowned, who knows that she
is being paid for being amiable as well
as for being wise; and in many instances
visitors have been surprised at the UNI
usual intelligence of their guides. until
il was explained to them that these
Young women expect to be among the
famous artists of the future. The bureau
is in charge of Miss Nina Estabrook, a
clever American girl, in whose dainty
head the plan originated. Needless 10
say, it is a success.
The incompleteness which marred the
appearance Of most of the buildings at
the opening Of the exhibition, IS rapid.
ly being done away With, and many or
The handsomest examples of architecture
now stand revealed as the architects
planned them, without the unsightly
mask of scaffolding. OF the inside or
some of the buildings, however, another
story must be told-notably, the gallery
of machinery. Here is a picture Of
chaos. But unremitting efforts are be-
ing made to have everything "shlpshape
and Bristol fashion at the earliest pos
sible moment.
The project of police has issued an or
der that no smokin" shall be permitted
within the covered precincts of the ex-
hibition. AS a consequence those I'M
happy individuals who are addicted to
cigars, cigarettes or pipes. endeaVor to
steal a few whiffs surreptitiously, and.
in a few cases they have been summoned
before the authorities and fined a small
amount.
Citizens Of the United States now in
Paris, of course, are intensely interest
ed in the presentation of the Washing
ton equestrian statue. which is to be un
yelled on July 3 in the Place dIena. II
is the gift of the women of America to
France.
one of the problems faced by visitors
to the exposition is how and where anG
what to eat. Not that there is any lacl
of either restaurants or victuals: the ar
ray is so vast as to be bawildering. Wha
do you desire to eat? 1t is here, what
ever you may crave. You may have
dinner in the style of Germany, Italy
France or America, and the sturdy Brit
on may have his rare roast beef.
The eating places most patronized ar
the small pavilion which the French
after their habit of giving the mos
commonplace things the most grandel
oquent names. have called "Alimenta
tion kiosks.' they look like the ltttl