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Show PARIS AND THE EXPOSITION. (Editorial Correspondence.) A very short sojourn in Paris convinces con-vinces one that Parisians are of a mind that all the world is coming to visit the great fair. Trices range accordingly. according-ly. There is no fixed price. "Get all you can," seems to be the motto of the average Parisian do everybody, but do Americans the. most, is not a theory, but a rule of conduct carried out to perfection. In the matter of overcharging, robbery rob-bery and plundering visitors, American cities are unenlightened, unsophisticated unsophisti-cated and green. It is a conservative estimate that there are not yet over 4n.(i)0 strangers in Paris to see the fair, and yet prices are in many cases multiplied mul-tiplied by more than twenty, in none less than four. Denver people will appreciate ap-preciate this when they recall that frequently fre-quently there have been 50.000 strangers within the city, all o J ft em were taken tare of at regular rates. I repeat that such great convention cities as Denver, Chicago and New York have much to learn in the way of robbing guests. From all that I learn of the intentions inten-tions of Kansas City people regarding the coming national Democratic convention, con-vention, many of the bonifaces of that city must have served an apprenticeship apprentice-ship in Paris, for even Tammany Hall, whose members squander money recklesslyon reck-lesslyon the principle, I suppose, of "come easy, go easy" is kicking on the high prices which are to prevail at that city by the Kan. But at the Missouri city there is some chance to cope here there is none until Sandy Hook is reached on the return trip. So my advice ad-vice to American lambs is to submit to the slaughter as meekly as possible. But after all the question which American readers, who are not coming com-ing to Paris, will ask themselves is u bother the Paris exposition of P.'OO excels ex-cels the great "White City of 1SH3. In some respects it does but in many more it does not. and there are by ar ths greater number. In the local situation the "World's Fair at Chicago most assuredly surpassed sur-passed anything that had gone before, and it is a good guess that nothing will qual it during the century to come. Hence 1 need not say that topographically topographi-cally considered, the Paris exposition is a long ways Inferior to the "White City which will long live in American his-toiy'. his-toiy'. In matters of detail and smoothness of execution, the officers of the "World's Fair surpassed the management here, who hardly yet know where they "are at.' to use one of our colloquol expressions, expres-sions, exceut to make the most of every opportunity to gather in gold. To be sure some of the departments of the exposition greatly excel the same departments at the "World's Fair. This is very probable in the department of rt,- which was to be expected. Aside from this, it is an open question if the Chicago fair does not fairly compare i with anything in Paris. Such, at least, ' is the impression gleaned after a hasty ' view of the exposition, which may or I may not be modified after a more care- ' ful examination the result of which I j shall give to the readers of the Intermountain Inter-mountain Catholic in future letters. THOMAS II. MA LONE, Paris, May 25, 1900. I . V ' j ! - . .. . |