The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-13
CURTAIN FALLS
ON PARIS SHOW
Bailiffs Selling Property for
Debt Are Conspicuous.
TICKETS GIVEN AWAY
BY SPECTATORS
Admissions Fail to Bring a
Fifth of a Sou Each.

Paris, Nov. 12.-The exposition closed
tonight with the evening illumination
Five tickets We're charged for one ad-
mission. There were few visitors in the
day time, tickets lacking purchasers at
a sou each.
The work of removing the exhibits
began after midnight, No vestige viii
be left of the great exposition except
the immense hOthOuses on the north
bank of the Seine and the art palaces.
The project of the Seine submitted to
the municipal council today d scheme
to demolish all the buildings on the
Champs de VARS and TrOcadero. The
center of grounds will be main
tanned in the ,oTm of gardens for the
establishment of the city while the
wide border viii be sold for building
lots for the erection Of mansions and
hotels. The state is asked to abandon
it's right to use the site for future ex-
positions.
The closing days of the exposition
have been marked by wholesale bailif
seizures of the properties Of a number
of concession holders, chiefly restau-
rant keepers md proprietors of side
shows. who have failed TO meet their
financial obligations.
Cannon Boom the KneII
The booming of a cannon from the
first story of the Eiffel tower announced
that the exposition of 1900 had ceased
to exist. It ended in blaze of illUm-
inatiOn. the final evening being cele-
brated bV night fete The attendance.
however. was small. visitors being kept
away by a cold. drizzling rainfall.
The wisdom of the authorities in re-
fuSing 10 pTOiOng the exposition fur
Their, as was warmly urged in many
quarters a little time ago. was vindi-
Gated BY an examination today of the
buildings. Many were found to be in
a lamentable condition, even the of
fetal structures lacking much of the
original stuccO and paint. while sew
eral foreign paviliOns, chiefly of plaster
construction. demonstrate the f1imsy
character of the work that is unequal
to battling with autuTn winds and hu-
midity. to say nothing of the winter
storms. The idea of their permanent
retention is absurd
Attended by 100000.
Official statistics show that the ex-
position was a gigantic success from
the point of attendance which was
double that of 1889. when 25.121 .975
passed the gates. When the gates of
the exposition of 1900 closed this even
ing more than 80 000. 600 persons had
passed through. The British and Bel
giauS headed the list in 1883 in point of
numbers. but this year the Germans
were first and the BelgianS second, with
the British far behind. Americans also
formed very noticeable contingent
Indeed. they were UNNECESSARILY more
numerous than ar the previous expo
sition. The record paving day this
year brought out more than 100000 Wis
itors. as compared with a maximum of
335377 in 1889
Tickets Given Away.
This evening tickets which had
brought a sou in the afternoon were
sold at the rate of five for sou. A Gu
rious scene was witnessed at the expo
sitiOn gates shortly before O'Clock.
when the authorized ticket bureaus
which earlier in the day had been sell
ing tickets for 2 sous, reduced the price
TO enc The street haWkers, indignant
at this, attached cards to their coats in
scribed Give you a ticket for nothing"
For a time collisions between the street
hawkers allc the employees of the ex-
position seemed likely to result. but
the police interviewed and averted
trouble.
II. Hanotaux, former minister of for