. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. ARCHITECTURE 2? The general organization, administrative and financial, of the Exposi-tion was constituted, in all its details, by the decrees of September 9, 1893,August 4, 1894, and June 13, 1896,—the last providing for the that of 1893, there was created in the Ministry of Commerce a sort of. THE MOVING PLATFORM. grand council, the Commission Supericiirc, presided over by the Ministerof Commerce, and having for vice-presidents the Ministers of PublicInstruction and of Agriculture and the Commissaire General. Thissupreme commissi


. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. ARCHITECTURE 2? The general organization, administrative and financial, of the Exposi-tion was constituted, in all its details, by the decrees of September 9, 1893,August 4, 1894, and June 13, 1896,—the last providing for the that of 1893, there was created in the Ministry of Commerce a sort of. THE MOVING PLATFORM. grand council, the Commission Supericiirc, presided over by the Ministerof Commerce, and having for vice-presidents the Ministers of PublicInstruction and of Agriculture and the Commissaire General. Thissupreme commission is composed of a hundred and twenty-three mem-bers, not counting the secretaries and minor officials, and includes eightSenators and sixteen Deputies, from the Chambers, members of theConseil dEtat, the Conseil General de la Seine, the Conseil Municipalof Paris, the Academies, the higher branches of the administration, the 26 ARCHITECTURE Chambers of Commerce, the great financial institutions, tlie learned pro-fessions and the higher educational, the great transportation companies,the most important iron and steel industries, and the press. The cadre desservices, or working organization, is divided into seven departments:—(i) a secretaricit general, which occupies itself with general affairs,questions of the personnel of the Exposition, of the


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