Show V I ATTRACTIONS YET Notwithstanding Great Crowds Visited Vis-ited Exposition Grounds Purls April lo Glorious l weather I favored fa-vored the opening of the exposition to the general I public today and enormous crowds Hocked into I the grounds The I area of the exhibition however Is Si o great that nowhere Ans there any great rush The visitors 1 were mainly composed com-posed of piovincluls and foreigners Comparatively few Parisians were seen Aware of the great backwardness of the l preparations they remained away for the most part Tin management demanded twit entrance en-trance tickets for morning admission one for afternoon admission and two during the evening when the lllffil towei a lid the palaces on the I Champs de Mars wore Illuminated I I I I tin there were absolutely no attractions I provided pro-vided l not een a bund of music and the people promenaded in front of the empty und in I i many races unfinished buildings I I and nlong muds when only I in I the case of lie I iniiin I uvenucs had the t work of pu ing been completed Nisltois who left the remit ta I a jrterles I found iheir pathway filled I with I pitfalls pit-falls und heaped with t debris some I thoroughfares resembling mere bridle pulhfi The crowd however WitS pel feclly goodnuturid und look the mutter mut-ter philosophically Hardly J a murmur I was heard anywhere in tho way of criticism The moving sidewalk access lo which cost f > 0 centimes proved a great success suc-cess and wus In mmrd nil dayTime day-Time American national pavilion I remained re-mained closed So also did must of the other pavilions for the excellent reason rea-son Unit their interiors are Mill unfinished un-finished Two hundred und fifty thousand 1 persons per-sons visited the exposition today |