New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-16

few particulars explanatory Of these general state
ments may have an interest for New York readers.
or the forty. egb. millions allotted to benevolent pur
poses, nearly nine millions took the shape of bread
tickets (bons de pdiR) distributed the poor in the
famine year ls7. In 1913 and 40, million and half
expended In succoring neccsstous families. Dur
ing the Eve years the city has given for the support Of
insane poor between three and four million frfacs.
The expenses for streets and included, the in
Identification to property holders where new streets
have been laid out old ones enlarged. Thus the
clearing the approaches to the Louvre Palace ani
the prolongaon of the Rue Rivol have cost the city
alone nearly million francs although the National
Government bears part in the work 1t is the rage
at present to open widen old streets The CITY
outlay for this end has increased than eghold
since 1877 old narrow, crooked gloomy airless, ua-
healthy Paris is rapidly disappearing before
this zeal for improvement. The twelve millions set
down for the expenses Of collecting the octro duty
viii not seem eStrsyagent when compared vita the
l6e million francs the sum received by the city tres.
sury from that source in the last Eve years Nearly
half of the sum allotted to churches religious
ship has been spent In the sonsructon-noi yet ter
mins,ed-of the Church of Sante Clotlde-a ma ynii-
cent Gothic edihce in the fauhourg ~ Germsin,
Among the items of expenditure given in the above
list are certain ones Of ls4s entitled urgent expenses
(dspxssss dwsesos) about four millions for the
clothing &c, Of the sedentary National Gasrd nearly
three and half millions for the distribution Of pro
visions and contingent expenses at the Hotel de Vile
ard the various Marics million for repairing the
streets and damages done the public monuments and
buildings Of the city in the days of February and June
lsis 10000 francs for the national workshops esab
lshed just sfler the Revolutions and other sums to
pay the armed citizens charged with the defense Of the
Hotel de Vile and the Prefecture of Police.
spoke few lines above of the zeal for improve
mcnt Of its ways at present manifested by the unicip-
al authorities Of Paris Tearing down and building up
BY private enterprise by city aud national Government
srethe order of the day In Paris The unusually pro-
longed mild weather Is peculiarly favorable to the ope
rs'ons Of the workmcn, Of whom, it Is ronjecturea
that $1,000 are now daily employed in labors OF
structon or demolition. The works for the completion
of the Louvre alone occupy eight hundred workmen Of
whom two hundred are stone cutters Aso,her Of the
great public works s the construction of the Central
Market Of Paris, which, when completed, will be the
best adapted TO is purpose Of any establishment Of
the Kind in the world The owners of thirty houses in
the ncghboihoOd which are to be torn down to make
room for ts site have been paid at the Of hun
dred and 6ffy dollars the square meter, tribe
than square yard fer the ground Others have been
dsmsifed a, higher rates for the businesscarried
In some Of these iseraby looking buildings curious
" lucrative and productive Of wealth to the
QEnera Thus certain establishments where es iss
cold 1t one sou the cup and Others whose sole
ucrcc is In soup at sou per ladc full were proved to
hare real business worth 10000 francs The eating
md drinking Of the poor at the Hass deserve asp-csl
eer BY locomotives with which some day hope to in
crest your readers. \, 1891.
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