The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-10-21
THE PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
Improvements i'm Paris.

Improvements III faTlSs
The Paris correspondent Of the Ohio State
Journal says:
In spite of the enormous expense into
which the eastern war has plunged the coun
try, the re-modeling Of the CITY of Paris con
tlnues with the usual activity The Crysta
Palace, more beautiful, and more costly thar
any OF It's predecessors, is rapidly approach
ing completion. The Louvre also, The mos
extensive and most elaborate construction
of the present age, is within year of its
complete termination, so that this grand
conception of the seventeenth century, SC
long the dream of successive kings. and sc
long deferred by wars, iamines, political
strife, and the weakness of the government
has been left to the renegade Louis Napo.
leon, with costly foreign war on his back
to bring to Il speedy completion. If this
fact speaks nothing for the administrative
ability OF the present government, it al
least shows the weakness of those which
preceded it. During the reign Of the first
Emperor even, not more than six hundred
feet was accomplished, while three times
that extent has been put up within the last
two gears.
Since the reparations in Paris commenced
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sand houses, mostly of hewn stone, from
four to nine stories high, and many of them
new, have been bought and torn down by
the government, to make new streets and
squares, to widen and straighten others, and
to build Others again in certain localities
after particular model so as to produce
architectural effect. The expense is enor-
nous and can only be counted by hundreds
of millions. In order TO uncover the Lou.
vre, and relieve its two sides which were
heretofore crowded upon by masses of build,
lngs OF every variety of construction, and
possessing little pretensions to architectural
effect, and at the same time to give harmony
to the surrounding architecture, between
three and four hundred buildings were re-
moved. covering space quarter of mile
long and one block wide This will soon
be built up again, but the buildings will be
placed one hundred feet further back from
the sides Of the Louvre, and their fronts
will present uniformity of architecture,
exactly in conformity to the balance of the
Rue de Rivoli, built by the frs: Emperor
The price which the government placed
upon these grounds after the old houses had
been removed, was twelve millions of francs;
but they We're sold for nine millions two
months ago on condition that they should
be covered with the new buildings by the
first of January next. Considering that
these houses have seven floors above ground,
and are built of hewn blocks of stone with
pillared arcades and carved fronts, the time
allowed is exceedingly short for people
who ordinarily take So much time in CON
structng their houses The work therefore
is continued night and day Two large cleo
trict lights, elevated upon trussels forty feet
high, render the foundations sufficiently
light during the night to enable several hun
dred workmen to carry on their labor with
out difficulty.
Ground is about one-fourth cheaper in
Paris than New York, similarly situated. -
For instance building lots on the Boulevard
lately sold for 437 dollars the foot front,
where on Broadway, lots similarly situated
would have brought 1000 dollars the foot.
Yet the rent in Paris is one fourth to one
third dearer than in New York, on account
of the heavy taxation.
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