THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1900.

Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 2

THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1900.

According to an American journal it i estimated that the number of visitors to the Paris Exhibition of 1900 will be 60,000,000. Besides ihe improvement in the great trunk lines lending to Paris and the new stations, there will be new lines of electric tramways established in the city limits. There will be an electric railway encircling the Exhibition so as to enable visitors to pass whh the greatest rapidity from one point to another. This electric service is required by contract to be ready for operations by the 11th of January next. There will be seven stations, and transportation must be provided for a minimum of 3600 persons an bonr in both directions. The »sthetio side of the exhibition will exceed anything before attempted, all the restaurants and cafes will be in close proximity to the Rne de Paris, which will be the centre of Parisian gaiety and amusement. It is here that the vast panorama of Gervex will be seen, and it is in the Rne de Paris that myriads of young ballet girls will give representations of the different phases of the history of the dance—from the days of the Egyptians to tho latest antics and gyrations of Montmarte. There are now about 3000 men at work on tho Exhibition, bat everything goes on so quietly behind gracefully-designed wooden fences that the casual observer would never Imagine the vast scale of the transformation that Paris is now undergoing.