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Exhibitions (INDUSTRIAL these exhibitions)

INDUSTRIAL these exhibitions were again surpassed by that held in the Champs de Mars, Paris, in 1867. The site in this case occupied 171 acres, in the center of which lar with circular ends, 1,608 feet in length and 1,247 feet in width, with a great central dome, and provided with leries housed the industries of the vari- ous countries, with avenues radiating from the central garden. Grouped round the central palace were nearly a hundred structures devoted to industries The exhibitors numbered and arts. 50,226; the expenditure totaled $5,883,- 400; the receipts approached $3,000,000 exclusive of subsidies made by the city and the nation. Nearly 10,000,000 people visited the Exposition, and these included visitors from on every country During the early part There were eight large central palaces, while avenues and courts divided build- There were eight large central palaces, acres, and the construction took nearly four years, beginning in October, 1911. while avenues and courts divided buildpart and some of them erected pavilions. ings of lesser dimensions from each other. Thirty-six foreign nations took The international industrial exhibition has thus come to play a great part in the life and business of the modern ful as these exhibitions have been in the world, and is showing itself capable of continual development, so that wonderassume still more striking forms in the past, it is evident that they are going to future.