GREAT PARIS EXHIBITION.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 296, 9 May 1889, Page 2

GREAT PARIS EXHIBITION.

AN IMPOSING CEREMONY. Paris, March 6. A most imposing ceremony was performed by President Carnot yesterday, when he inaugurated the Fountain of Neptune, and delivered an oration su table to the occa sion The first part of the proceedings was slightly interfered with by a soldier firing off a blank cartridge, his object being to attract attention to personal grievances, stating that he had been unjustly treated, and his wife and children were starving. He wonld have been badly Used by the crowd had he not bean promptly taken off to prison. Tbs Paris Exhibition opened in a fairly advanced state, the British aeotiou surpassing in completeness all other nations.

The Paris Universal Exhibition is intended to commemorate the centenary of the French Revolution. The site of the Exhibition is on the Champs de Mars, andii is destined in point of size alone to eclipse any other Exhibition the world has yet seen. It stretches right away from the I’rocaddro Gardens to the Square des Invalid.!, and covers an enormous extent of ground, every inch almo.t of which is to be occupied. Besides the Eiffel Tower, the completion of which was announced by cable the other day, there ere other buildings In eounectiou with the Exhibition which, from an architectural or engineering point of view, are expected to become the talk of the World. Tha authorities intend to make e great feature of tha Exhibition grounds, as it is proposed to keep th. Exhibition open in tha evening, and to have al fi'ttco concerts, after tha style of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition at South Kensington. Under the centra of the Eiffel Tower there is a large monumental fountain, and all round this the grounds will radiate, so to speak. Special attention is being paid to the elaotrio lighting arrangements of the buildings and gardens, and it la understood that some startling effects will ba the result. The Eiffel Tower is to have an enormous aro light on its extreme summit, and this, it is expected, will not only light up the entire exhibition, but tha surroundings also for a considerable distance. There will a'so be other lamps at intervals all the way up to the top, which will add to the general effect The t mntains more especially will be particularly fine, as they are to be illuminated by some novel system which is to eclipse anything yet undertaken that way. The main Exhibition buildings form a sort of quadrangle round the Eiffel Tower.