The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-11
THE GAY METROPOLIS.
How the Striking Coachmsn Gave
Quiet to Paris.
WHAT THEY DEMAND.
Signs of Reactionary Activity
A Crisis Feared.
SOCIALISM MAKES QUEER FRIENDS.
HOnorS to General Grant in the Land
of the MuScOvite.
AT AUDIENCE WITH THE CAR.
Among the Colony-Ariyals and Jot-
tngs-General Torbert.
THE REMAINS OF DAVID.
Pope Leo Reported To Be
Seriously Ill.
HonorS to General Grant in the Land
Of the MuScOvite.
AT AUDIENCE WITH THE GEAR.
Among the Colony-Arrivals and Jot-
tings-General Torbert
THE REMAINS OF DAVID.
Pope Leo Reported To Be
Seriously Ill.

[BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.
| PARIS, August 10, 1873.
The event Of the week has been the strike
of the coachmen. 1t has always seemed to
me that these surly philosophers Of the
driving box only needed a strike to place
them before the world in their natural
light. They always seemed to harbor
spite against the world which they were
scarcely attempting to conceal, SO that in
active belligerency against unbearable
wrongs they find it unnecessary to deepen
single scowling lineament. But what
would you? Where will you find him, cab
who always has reason to smile?
| A QUIET c11Y.
| At first only about one-fourth of the
drivers refused to drive. but the spirit Of
resistance spread among them. and it soon
became as impossible to hire o facre as to
find hotel at once good and cheap. The
lively city became as quiet as the lower end
of New York on Sunday, and if the omni-
buses could not help you, you might walk
WHAT THEY WANT.
And this is what it is all about. The
coachmen we have called philosophers.
They philosophical as follows:-Everybody
is making money out of the visitors except
the cab drivers. Why should the garcols
OF the cafes and restaurants make fortunes
while we see the, year driving by at the rate
of thirty days to the month without being a
sou the better for the English milords and
the American millionnaires. Even the
waiter girls strike. So the coachmen
struck, and these are their demands =
/. Extra feed for the horses chat they
may get more work out Of the animals. and
as bait to the humane and the philo-
hippic).
g. One franc extra wages per diem (needs
no explanatory.
g. The right to make their own bargains
with the passengers Chat the only barrier
between them and the rapacity of their ma
lures may be broken DOWN.
THEY WILL HOLD OUT
suppose they want good deal more,
but that is not bad for beginning. They
are closely watched by the police. and out
side OF their pardonable weakness for over
charging the ignorant they are honest as
class. Their persistency in seeking the
great Gallo pourJoire is one of their most
amiable traits. Four thousand Of them
met at the Cirque Fernando on Thursday
and resolved to hold out Their speeches
were temperate.
'DoosIp INcoSvENIxcv
With all their faults we miss them. Wis.,
itors to the Exposition experience annoy
ing delays. 1t is spectacle for the gods
to see the typical British tourist looking
into space and occasionally muttering,
saw doosid inconvenience, by Jove,
doosid T. He stands, he waits, and then,
folding himself up like his umbrella, he
re.ires probably into the ecstatic gloom Of
his British inner consciousness. At any
rate he disappears.
MILITARY SUBSTITUTES.
The government has the knack Of worry-
ing about such things, and, odd as it may
seem, the official world thinks of employ
ing soldiers to drive the coaches about.
Here is the germ of great idea. They
have enough and to spare to perform this
or any other service that needs less than
half million of men.
HOT WEATHER AND SENSATIONS.
1 suppose it is the hot weather, which is
still driving people to the seashore that
must be held accountable for some of the
wild stories that find wings. Paris has been
greatly excited over a rumor of an at-
tempted assassination of Prince Bismarck.
You can imagine how it would grieve the
French.
SOCIAL AoirATIoNs
Still the uneasiness about the social