Salvos of cannon thundered across the Place de la Concorde and through the gardens of the Tuileries while President Doumergue, accompanied by the principal members of his ministry, marched to survey the opening of the International Exposition of Decorative and Applied Arts. All the important nations of the world, with the exception of the U. S. and Germany, were .represented. The affair, though it affected a pompousness amounting almost to dignity, greatly resembled the exposition of Architectural and Allied Arts held, last week, in Manhattan (TIME, May 4).
Of the applied arts,...
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