The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1884-05-16
THE SIGHTS OF PARIS.

principal boulevards at night is grand; the
stores all open, the pavement filled with peo-
pie and the streets lined with vehicles of all
kinds Take a chair, and as soon as you are
seated a waiter rushes and puts velvet cush-
ion under your feet, and you have coffee and
cake and just gaze in silent admiration at the
gay crowd as they pass and repass. Well,
never saw such place in my life. The car
riages and conveyances don't get out of the
way if they run over you they are not pun
ished you must get out of their way. There
are immense medallions in the streets and
boulevards, ornamented with magnificent
lamps and clocks, and also with colossal stat
ues in bronze and marble. These medallions
are raised little above the street, and you
can get on these, and thus be protected from
the rush. In daytime, and night, too, it
seems to me that all Paris is rushing to the
races.
If you only could see the Champs Elysees
(Elysian felds) at night, all lighted up
three concert gardens, the fences of festoons
and pyramids of pink and white globes-all
lighted-and the gateway, all lighted with
gas, and the fountains playing, magnificent
statuary towering above the trees and the
stages ablaze with chrystal and gold and gas,
and pagodas, high up above the trees, filled
with beautiful flowers, ablaze with light
Here ladies and gentlemen sit, drink wine
and eat ices, grapes, peaches, etc. was up
in one of these places several times and Twas
charmed The Elysian fields at night are
scene of enchantment The Jardin Mabille
is not in existence any more. The Elyslan
avenue is broad, beautifully paved with as
phaltum, brilliantly lighted on each side with
gas. The vehicles going up and down on
either side at night reminds me of torch
light procession, and as far as the eye can
reach. The lamps on this avenue look like a
string of stars. This magnificent avenue is
fanked with handsome palaces. Here live
the Rothchilds, Munro, the banker, and many
others This avenue is a fashionable prone
made From to o'clock you see numerous
carriages, riders and pedestrians on their way
to the Bots de Boulogne. At the Champs
Elysees one can witness the characteristic
logne is beautiful park, covering an area of
$3.50 acres, bounded by the Notifications of
Paris. There are beautiful drives, rivers,
lakes which are used for skating in winter
and boating in summer. 1t is romantic and
charming, and we drive through the Bots fire.
quently The garden of the Tuileries is beau
tiful filled with colossal statuary, magnificent
fountains, lakes filled with black and white
Iva square in this city that is not ornamented
with immense fountains and statuary in
bronze and marble.
I spent three days in the palace of the
and all kinds of arts. The Palais Royal is
grand palace and it open into a court filled
with flowers and fountains At ~ o'clock a
cannon is fired by the heat of the sum-
This palace is used for handsome stores. A
fine band of music is in the garden 1 also
visited the palace of Luxembourg and its
lovely fountain. have been to see the opera
house, the grandest in the world. 1t cost
$4,000, 000 l can't describe it; it is poem
in gold, bronze, marble of every kind and
color floors of mosaic, bronze and marble
figures ceilings frescoed, etc. I saw OLAF
ricaine." l never saw anything mounted SO
gorgeously on the stage before, and the sing
ing was divine. There were 800 persons on
the stage at once. Went to the Eden theatre
the finest in the world 600 in the ballet
Went to the churches, which are all superb
| visited the tomb of Napoleon |, and did not
think there was anything SO handsome in the
world as the tomb and chapel. 1t is in the
church of the Hotel of Invaids, the home of
the veteran soldiers, a magnificent place with
museum of artillery containing armors worn
by different monarchs of France.
Went into two courts All dignity and
grandeur; carpeted beautifully. Behind the
judge on the wall is large picture of the
cruciix. This is in all the courts Went
into the gallery of Louis TX of France Wis
tied the grave of Adah Menken at Mount
Parnassee, plain shaft of granite, with
"Adah Isaac Menken, born in Louisiana,
died in Paris" and ON the other side "Thou