Show THE exposition on the of the present month the state of utah will be formally lecog acted and as many of her people as can L s hould make the visit to the great oma JIL fin exposition As the railroads axe are mak jav special rates for the round trip it is v inore than probable that there will be 4 was fine representation fromn this splendid and equally certain igat there will be great numbers from other states to receive and commingle aw B fraternal terms with our citizens athe exposition has taken deep root jhan civilized countries and is now as a fixed institution as the railroad and telegraph it exercises not only a 7 refining and educating in ammee but an altruistic one as well abid as such it deserves the great en and vast financial support aich it receives it is not such an old HSe ea either the first one was held at 7 als steia in 1798 at which there were not v as many exhibitors as we of S esst ah have in our principal county fairs number being exactly the cost kept pace with this modest rt f s oswe being but it was held on f t champs camps de mars the buildings t ii bej of wood with some pretension to and the number of v 1 als given out reached the astonish total of twenty five the next one a in 1801 in the grand court of the r re at which the array of exhibit fw wo as an compared with the first was ex v faesy y doubled another occurred same place by which time those T an exhibiting turn of mind had in v ussa jwied seQ to the goodly number of zie first napoleon opened the tha fourth w 1 rr tei at the place des dea Inva lides at ff is there were 1422 exhibitors as 2 yas as would be looked for at one of tw larger jarger sta state te fairs but nothing ap 1 7 t hing the number booked at ja hance ance and particularly paris has nai not only the par parent ent but for s some gme was the e exclusive supporter of the business since the one last A ei mentioned there have been sev as an follows 1819 in the louvre and 1827 in the same place one it was very successful during the of louis philippe at place de la rde the exhibitors numbering 1839 at champs 1844 place also in 1849 this brings 0 1 the first of the worlds exposi which opened in 1855 in n the in trial lal palace paris on this occa ithe the government came to the sup 1 of the enterprise in grand style ing it francs about 2755 4 ly with th this aid and its other receipts vp hii as scale of magnificence on which it im fm conducted may be imagined only jass number nimber of exhibitors had risen to 7 enormous total of the num ot of visitors amounting to the vast of POO the next exposition there is somewhat jome what more familiar MS vatral general reader being as ag late as thrig ys years before the subjugation by y the german emil empire lre there 1 and it cleared alton caage the grand exhibition of 1878 the visitors to which numbered but still the managers were out of pocket francs because of the extravagant manner manal r in which the buildings were constructed some of them with the design of permanency the latest one in 1889 greatly outshone all predecessors it was visited by a number of people equal to the entire population of france the array of exhibitors being the exposition now being prepared for 1900 is expected to be the largest and grandest the world has ever seen and doubtless will be if france can manage to keep out of war in the meantime |