Show UNCLE SAMSPAVILION It is Formally Handed Over to Paris Exposition Paris May 12Thc United Slates pavilion pa-vilion on tile Rue dos Nations was formally for-mally handed over to the exposition authorities au-thorities this afternoon The ceremony was favored by beautiful weather and attracted a very large assemblage In eluding the chief officials of the exposition exposi-tion both French and foreign Every particle of space within tho building was occupied while a big crowd gath I I ered around the pavilion In the Rue des I Nations and on the terrace In front of I tile edifice looking on the Seine The I exterior and particularly the Interior of the pavilion were gayly decorated with I the Stars and Stripes and the tricolor I Tho ceremony of transferring the pavilion pa-vilion was quite simple consisting of an I address by Ferdinand W Peck commissioner com-missioner of the United States handing I over tho pavilion to M Alfred Picard as tile commissionergeneral of the exposition ex-position and the latlers response In accepting ac-cepting tho transfer Sousas band provided music and the selections played wero composed solely of American Ameri-can airs except for the Marseillaise In concluding his address M Plcard I said It constitutes a new pledge of tile prestige of your excellent intercourse Inter-course and particularly the Indissoluble bond connecting the United States and France Gentlemen I ask you to salute the starry banner the folds of which aro so closely blended with those of the tricolor Long live tho United States of America Long live their illustrious President McKinley Long live their I commission and its head Mr Peck |