Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-09-28


ward III. of England and David |. Of
Scot land, with view to its restoration
| but it still remains among TIE English,
transccnding all other objects Of inter-
est in the old abbey where it is stored.
OUT-oE-TIsE-WAY PARIS.
= ono Rare SIght.-Pigcon Killing and
snail u ting-NIght CAFES slicycs
and Hag-Pickcrs- Dangerous streets.
Even in such well known place as the
market of the Halles there is much that
has escaped the compiler OF the gui lc-
book. What about the "Pavilion of Trip
cry, for instance, where they bring to-
gether in one immense shed the heads Of
half the sheep killed in Paris, and thirty
or forty fellows. red to the very shoulder
long Az La Vallee, in the Pavilion de
Ia Volatile at the corner OF the Rue l'rr-
GER, pigeons are killed from morn TO eve
by mild-manneredy young girls, themselves
| hut doves in another shape. Others, who
are not killing the birds, are fnttening
them at express speed for the market hy
blowing seed stepped in warm water down
their throats. Near the corner OF the
Rue de Rambuteau and the Rue Pierre
Lescot are places where they work up
secondhand provisions into IL semblanct
OF new. 1t is quite II trade III the Qulr-
ter and the cellar in which the nicer
mysteries of the craft are carried on Is
appropriately called the Chamber Of II n
rrrs. In another cellar they make deli
cious country butter from rancid refuse,
pounding and washing and pntiiug ana
rolling it into perfectly seductive shapes,
and wrapping it in the whitcst of white
linen. At n" old-fashioned house in the
Rue Mondelour hot snails are served daily
to hundreds OF Gourmets. Two million
shells Il year are cmptiei in this shop
alone. In the Rue dc In Neircyie, at No.
Is, is to be seen a acuriosity in atGuranls,
the pension Alimentairc," founded Ivy Il
philanthropic merchant to supply the
working people Of this busy quarter, oI the
1"City" of Paris. with something fl tu
eat at price within their means. llore
you may have soup, meat. vegetables,
bread, wine, and dessert, all Of perfectly
wholesome quality, for seventy ccni:in"s,
or little less than sevenp'n"' of our
mol ey. The Pension makes it, own bread,
kills its own OK every day, ana -.:vcs
about 900 meals in the same time at m
: average price of forty crntmcs II meal.
The dining hall is quite fine one, ad,i is
decorated with huge maps, where patriots
may learn the whereabouts Of Madagas-
car and Tonkin. Customers wait On
themselves, getting their food at out
counter, and going to another for then
knives, forks, and spoons.
The SIums OF Paris.
The slums OF Paris, too, are worth Sec
ing. if only to enable the visitorto under
stand how much he and everybody else
owes to Baron Iaussmann. In the RuC
lu Puirier, in the Fourth ACCOMPLISHMENT,
you may touch both sides OF the street n:
You stand in the middle. This was the
way they lived in the fourteenth century
and the horrible remains Of humNn food
in the shop windows show one how some
of us still live in the nineteenth. ThC
Rue lie Nenise, with its unspeakablG rag
shops, is Monmouth Street beyond sea
There are other places, MS NJ. Barron viii
tell You, where you must have police
man for guard, il not for guide Some
of the worst are in the Quarter MIubcrt
under the very eye, and it may be added
under the nose, Of the Prefecture OF Po
lice. In the Rue de Gallaud you will tine
the cafe of the Chateau Rongc, II 5 sIrt o
y,,eudunym derived from the name Of {
ucc popular dancing hall. There ar,
bae, as i'll most cafes of this kind room
IN front for passing customers from the
sstrset, and another at the back for tn,
regular clientes Of the house Iou hav,
even to so down long passage 10 reacl
the FIRST room. Most OF the company il
the inner sanctum are thieves and the lik
iii fact, about the lowest wretchcs il
Paris. The types Of rascals are quite diff
.'crent from ours-they look like uncom
qonly wicked monkeys, ours like uncom
IN only wicked dogs. They have annthe
ca &c i'll the same quarter, the Pcre iun
EFT c, u small dirty hall frequented only b.
the fine flower of the cdnaido This is
kin,l of sing-song and for such songs
inh aHsigc0m in politics, and in moral
deci lcdly Of the same cast. The wall
are trcscoed with horrible designs b.
some Villon Of art i'll the quarter. Til
Cave an, near the Halles is virtually ope
all Il light, on a fiction that it is II place 1
refro shmcnt for the market peoplc-as
is, N il for every night bird Of Paris j
we'll. THIS place has an ndvantag" owe
the r ast--it looks its character. There !
nm IL oper shop and lower one the iir'
is no ding , ~ can reach the lower by
spiral stone sta ircase that leads into whI
was once an old vault filled with bones
: the cafe is. in (. ,ct, converted charnt
house. Here and there you will lin
quaint inscriptions on the walls, all moi
or less referring to crime in crimes ow
, language, with ms , Tetty II company of II
kind ms any in Par 4. 1t il II happy mi!
= tire Of outcasts, thi ewes, and bohemian
, with flavor of most nationallties, inc!u'
, ing our own. There is that well know
i tigure of the Lonno n slnms-ihe ma
drought up to be II Hronet, or pa
| son, or doctor, who NIL tell you stol
, rs long as you like if only you VIII len
/ him shilling at the end Of 1t. lie wan
q II little lrore in Paris to take him hon
, for one more chance of II prosperous c
reer. The only dancing place worth Sc
o ing in this quarter is tie Bal ChNhot
q the Rue dc Fouarrc it is worthy OF Il
t cafes-one need say no ra"se ol H.
c the Faubourg st. Antoine you will st
= the squalid misery of 'arls. The III
+ ST. Marguerite is n hive of yag-pickcr
n where fathers, mothers, md children
t both sexes often sleep in the storcroom
| their pestferpus merchan disc. oobre
Q and economy are extremely rare amoi
= them. They have to drink TO drown
= pulsion for the trade which in spite
) habit, they hardly over overcome, B
: even these. wretches dance, and there is
/ Bal de la Rosicre and n Bal dAusterit
@ where tn ey meet the thieves uf the qua
,, ter in Sc ,ciety. II is rather low type
= thief, for the thief does not like the sm'
= of the rags any more than the rest Of Il
Y The Bal de Ia Roster is in the Rue Ira
g ersier the Bal dAusterlitz is almost
y the pd Of the. Faubourg. The Rosie