Show PASSED INTO HISTORY PARIS EXPOSITION ENDS IN BLAZE OF LIGHT Big Show Was a Gigantic Success from Point of Attendance Fifty Million People Passed Gates Paris NlThevbOoming of a cannon from the flrst1 story of the Eiffel Eif-fel lower announced that the exposition exposi-tion pf lOOO had ceased to exist It ended Jn a blaze of Illumination the final evening being celebrated by a night fete The attendance however was small visitors being kept away by a cold drizzling rainfall OHicial statistics show that the exposition expo-sition Aas a gigantic success from the point of attendance which was double thattof the exposition of 1SS9 whcn 25 121975 passed the gas When the gates of the exposition of 1000 closed this evening more than fifty million persons had passed1 through The British and Belgians headed the list in 1SSO in point of numbers but this year the Germans were first and the Belgians Bel-gians second wIllithoBrltlsh far behind be-hind Americans also formed a very noticeable dontlngentS Indecd they Were imtneasurablyWfnore numerous than atTlie previpug expoaitlon The recordpaying da > j jlhls year brought out more than GOOoW lsltors as compared com-pared with a maximum of 335377 In lsM M Hanolaux fornferEMInlster of Foreign For-eign Affairs In an aqtlqle entitled The Balance Sheet of ili Exposition says France expendcdti or three hundred hun-dred millions of francs to erect the exposition ex-position She has reovercd them easlly in the increased treasury receipts which for this year alone Is nearly one hundred million francs In the surplus of Paris octroi duties In the monuments monu-ments remaining to the state or the city and In the quays bridges and imProved Im-proved transportation facilities bequeathed be-queathed by the exposition Moreover there has been general tollelte of the city which has contributed to Its brilliance bril-liance and brauly |