Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-07-01
Paris Letter.

paper that Paris is expecting visit
from the Rough Riders of the late war.
The paper explains that the Colonel
Roosevelt (sic) commandant of the
Rough Riders, promised the soldiers of
that famous battalion that IL they
would fight well he would take them to
the Paris Exposition, and thus slim
ulated by that promise, they charged
and captured Santiago, and now Col
onel Roosevelt will keep his word and
bring his Rough Riders to the Expo
sition. This know will be news to
your readers and to Gov. Roosevelt's
Rough Riders q
When the Partisan visitor passed
through the United States Post Office
Department building at the Exposition
and sees the old stuffed bay horse
mounted by dummy rider with a
mail bag, slouched hat and leather
breeches, the same that so long has
done duty in the Post Office Museum
at Washington as mail-carrier of the
early days, he says: There is a
Boer." and remarking in an approving
tone-"les Americanes love much the
Boers," passes on TO the next mis-
take. The old mail stage coach of fif-
ty years ago, is in his opinion the car
riage Of General Washington. A bran
new red express wagon with metal
cage for Transporting money bullion
and other precious articles, he thinks
is for the conveyance Of wild animals
or prisoners. After all what in
fantalage, to use French word, was
it to send these things here. Even II
fully understood, they teach nothing,
and as misunderstood, but confirm the
popular European impression of our
only NATURALIZATION.
1t is not pleasant to have to write
so mitch in criticism of our country's
appearance in this international COM
petition 1t is important that the truth
shall be told. / might easily gloss the
facts and praise or advertise this or
that American exhibit, which as an
isolated exhibit is not without merit
but competitively- is distanced by
the exhibits in the same class of some
very small countries. For some rea-
son we are not doing ourselves
proud" here This morning / asked
an American exhibitor in the Hall oi
Varied Industries how he thought eul
country would compare with sur.
rounding countries. IL regret to say
we make very poor show. Look, here
we are between Germany and Eng
land. See what fine exhibit Germany
has. She had no more ground space
than we have, but she has utilized 1t tC
build a second story while we have
but one. Then look at the taste and
richness and value of her exhibits
They are worth at least three times as
much as ours. Moreover, they have
been set up to produce their most i'm
pressive effect. The English section
which bounds us on the other side, |:
also very fine one. Now look at ours
There on one of the best corners is g
display of about ten bushels of corr
cob smoking pipes. See here on thu
and stationary SThere another firm
has paper bags. In my opinion, Tiff
any's gold and silverware, Rookwood'
of Cincinnati, pottery and my display
are about the only creditable ones il
the American section. I'm an Ameri
can and I'd like to make the Eagl,
scream, but I'm keeping very quiet.
1t had not occurred to me to class hi
exhibit among the redeeming thing
of the Amsrican section. But mos
Americans who will talk express tn,
same opinion about the inferiority O
what America has to show here il
Paris. Our appropriation was abund
ant; more than any other country
with the exception OF Germany,
think, but ii was little slow in com
ing and for that reason we were no
able to get choice of location for ou
machinery in the Champe de Bars
When we got the appropriation, ther
was no untaken space available excep
at Vincennes. People have been say
ing: "Oh, go to VinCennes If you wan
to see the American machinery" S,
today went to Vincennes, and II
never go there any more 1t is on
hour and thirty minutes from the mail
Exposition, which in terms of dlstanc
ought to be thirty or forty miles. 1t Il