1900/05/12 -- PARIS EXPOSITION NUMBER

  • Outer cover featuring the Grand Entrance to the Exposition is illustrated by G. Alden Peirson

    • PICTURES:

  • Front Page: President Loubet Inaugerating the Alexander III Bridge
  • Double Page: "In the Cafe des Ambassadeurs" illustrated by A.B. Wenzell

    • Full-page illustrations:

  • Opening Week at the Esposition (photos)
  • The Exhibits of the Nations, Portraits, etc. (photos)
  • Panorama of the Exposition Grounds by Charles Graham
  • "For Paris and the Exposition" by T. de Thulstrup

    • FICTION:

  • "The Blind Piano Tuner -- A Romance by Marcel Prevost
  • "The Adventures of a Modest Man" -- The First of a Series of Six Stories by Robert W. Chambers

    • SPECIAL ARTICLES:

  • The Paris Exposition of 1900 by M. Gabriel Hanotaux
  • The American Exhibit by Thomas W. Cridler, Assistant Secretary of State
  • Student Life in Paris by Frank Norris
  • How to get to the Exposition--a Traveller's Guide by Walter Littlefield
  • How to visit the Exposition (with a map) by Lionel Strachey
  • The Political Campaign of 1900 -- Part 4: The Vice-Presidency -- by Henry Loomis Nelson with small photos of Theodore Roosevelt, John Davis Long, James E. Campbell, Robert Treat Paine, George Fred Williams, Francis Vinton Greene, Cushman Kellogg Davis
  • Round the Hearth -- Edited by Margaret E. Sangster
  • Sport Travel Adventure -- Edited by Walter Camp featuring Athletics in France with track and field photos
  • Photographs of the Great Fire in Ottawa
  • Full page ad: "Put a Kodak in Your Pocket"
  • Full page ad: Sapolio featuring various people of "Spotless Town"
  • Full page ad: Pears' Soap -- "Within the reach of everybody"
  • Full-page ad: Hyomei Antiseptic Soap
  • Loaded with small advertisements of the day, notably a small ad from the Woods Motor Vehicle Company declaring "Prompt Delivery of any style Electric Automobiles"