The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-08-30
rLEAsURE anoUNDs OF PARIS.
Sacrifices Of Beauty 90 be offered at
the Shrine Of War. -

Sacrifices. Of Beauty 20 be Onerco ~
- a.. a. the shrine OF War. ~
No mrer Indication could be given OF
The alarm that is felt by the existing
government of Paris for the safety Of
that capital than the order which has
gone forth for leveling the Bots de Bou-
logne and the Bots de Vincennes.
Nothing less than lively apprehension
that the siege guns Of the Crown Prince
OF Prussia would soon be heard from
the outer Notifications would have
brought the commander charged with
the security of the city to SO extreme a
measure.
The Bots de Boulogne and the Bots
de Vincent are situated at exactly op-
posite points of the environs of Paris.
The former Park is the pride and glory
OF Ia belle vile, where the giddy Partisan
population conjugates the verm Samuser
all round the year. There they walk,
ride, drive, skate, picnic, and dine.
There the lorette parsdes her attrac-
tons, and there the irascible editorial
fraternity fight their duels. The Bots
de Boulogne has an area OF two thou
sand acres, with promensdes and road.
ways Of more than forty miles circuit,
and has been beutified at the most law
ish expense.
Artificial cascades, mimicking the
wildness of nature, fall over rocks trans
ported from Fontainebleau, the water
flowing out Of lakes constructed with
the strictest regard to the picturesque.
Upon the margin OF these lakes rise
Swiss chalets and Chinese pavilions, so
disposed in relation to the wood shores
and the newly.built hills behind them
as to produce the most striking effect.
At one end of the Bots there is the
loveliest little windmill in the world,
and at the other is the race-course o
Longchamps, with its snowy booths
and ample stands for the Court and the
people, while in the very center is the
BEAUTIFUL Pre- Catelan, offering its res
taurant and open air theater for the
qualification OF the public. What the |
Bots has lacked since 1915 is forest |
The primitive trees that covered the
sandy soil in the days of the first revo-
LUTON were all cut down when the al
lied armies bivouacked on the spot after
Waterloo.
For many years the sterile, uninter-
esting plain, thus denuded of It's timber, |
ran TO waste, and was covered at last |
with a stunted growth of weak and I'M
thrifty saplings. In 1852 the work of
adjoining the Bots de Boulogne was be-
gun with energy by the present En-
peror, who has spent enormous sums
in transporting thither magnificent
forest trees, and now, sad to relate, just
as it had begun to show fine clumps Of
wood and here and there depths of
shade, the advance Of the ruthless
Prussan renders the total destruction
Of the Bots military necessity. Great
will be the distress in the Faubourg st.
Honore, the Jockey Club will lament,
Fifine will shed tears, and the Emperor
will see with the biggest regret the fair
est flower with which he had dccked .
his capital torn from its brow.
The Bots he Vincennes, upon the
eastern boundary of Paris, differs in all
from the Bots de Boulogne. 1t
is park of considerable extent, COW
cred in great part with noble woods,
which it is almost a crime to cut down.
Some years ago the Emperor began to
lay It out in walks and drives, and to
tdorn it, for the benefit chiefly of the
and their wives, who dwell
in the region OF st. Antonio and Pere
Ia Chaise. But the work was discon-
tinued, and the open spaces Of the
ground have since been exclusively |
devoted to the heavy gun and shell
practice and artillery maneuvers of that
yrand armee which has proved so I'M
trustworthy a reliance in the hour of
hanger.