Show = PARtS EXPOSITION Will llUSTRA BY CONTRASTS i A CENTURYS PROGRESS II I Comforts of the Present Day Civilization will be Accentuated Accen-tuated to the Eye by the Presence of Exhibits of a Hundred Years Ago Paris Dec 1G There Is no more talk or newspaper comment concerning the threatened boycott of the Paris exposition expo-sition If such a thing has been suggested sug-gested In earrost It was Certainly thought better of for the agents of all nations are busy as bees getting the homes of the various exhibits into shape Britannia may be pausing from her regular occupation of rullrrg the waves long enough to worry herself III over the condition of affairs In her South African colony but her representatives repre-sentatives here arc apparently not sharing this dependency If anything the efforts of the British seem to have redoubled of late and a trio of large and Imposing structures arc rapidly approaching completion the Royal Pavilion Pa-vilion on the street of nations the Indian In-dian and colonial group at the Troca dero and the miniature arsenal of Maxim Vickers Co the ordnance manufacturers on the Quai dOrsay I The RoyalPavilion Is less advanced the machinery of the world will be on exhibition is at present gigantic birdcage bird-cage with the Parisian sky visible through a hundred bars and holes The hall of mines and metallurgy Is another an-other Incongruouslooking mass of building material that to the eye of the layman Is hideous In Its Incomplete Incom-plete ruggedness As you walk around palace after palace In the halfcom plated stage gives but a faint idea of the glories of the show Whim a picture In your hand of the appearance of the building as It will look when completed to the last brick It Is very Interesting to wander through the exposition grounds just now Without such a key to the designs of the mass of workmen the sights are likely l to weary the eye and give one a very erroneous Idea of the grandeur of Parisian plans for astonishing as-tonishing the world It IB Intcrseting to note that the fundamental idea in these plans Is to provide an exposition that will convey clearly to the minds of the visitors the gigantic progress made by the world during the century that is drawing to an end In fulfillment of this idea there will be Innumerable contrasting exhlb |