Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-29

by almost the last train which escaped
before the Prussians threw their black
ring OF blood and iron about the city OF
art and pleasure.
When ! next saw Paris, three years
later, the wounds the Commune
had made with Ore and sword were still
gaping wide, and the black aud broken
walls OF the Tuileries, with its sightless
windows, bore witness to the fact that
! somebody had Numbered with one OF the
| blunders which are worse than crimes.
! But In the main Paris was again what
Paris had been before. Five years later,
In 1878, there was another exhibition, and
the republic invited the world 70 visit
Paris as the empire had done twice
before, TO show that II was firmly estab-
lishet. Yet the royallst conspiracy of the
10th Of May, just before the exhibition
opened, was on the verge Of success. It
was the firm hand Of Gambetta which
kept the peace and persuaded the friends
OF the republic TO bear in silence insults
and outrages intended to provoke riots,
which the military were ready TO repress
with a heavy hand For the first time
almost the Latin acted In politics like
Teuton aud preferred the ballot TO
the bullet. Gambetta held his friends
Ia leash and bede them bide
their time and rely on the next election,
and not on barrlcades in the boulevards
His success sank the foundations OF the re-
public far deeper than they bad ever been
before, for IL proved TO the middle class
shat, while royalIsts conspired on one side
and the anarchists were ready TO take TO
the streets on the other, the repub
lican center was solid and could keep
It's temper and its own counsel.
The lesson has never been forgotten.
have not come to Paris for years without
hearing awful rumors OF impending reyo-
luton, but the revolution seems further
of now than ever, and the third republic |
Is nearly sixteen years old and Is making |
ready to celebrate, with another exhibit |
tion, the centenary of the establishment
Of the first republic In 1883. This substl- |
tuition in politics OF cold common sense
Tor crude emotion is due mainly to the |
influence Of Gambetta, himself a fiery
whom NJ. Theirs called either
| fou furleux or faux furieux--probably
he latter. The influence abider, although |
he man has gone and although his place
s empty STILL No later French statesman
las shown one-half his force or skill. As
VI. Coquelin, the great comedian of the
closest personal friend, once said to me,
'icturesquely, "the French politicians OF
o-day are not the small change for Gam
,ettal"
Carlyle saw in Napoleon the Great the
nan who ended the French revolution
With "whiff OF grapeshot." Perhaps 1t
vas TO prepare for the administration OF
hesc whitfs Of grapeshot that Napoleon
~ "A Ia q d., /
ucle had remade the map of Europe.
me broad, straight streets which replaced
ne crooked alleys of old Paris are not
My more attractive aud hospitable Co
trangers, they are lar better fitted for the ,
narge OF regiment of dragons or the
weep OF battery OF artillery. Even the
dining of the Louvre with the Tuilerles,
ompleted by Napoleon ILL.,, may be ex-
lained as the military device Of an un-
ertain isurper, although none OF these
retty schemes delayed for a day the 8
ownfall OF dynasty. From different mo.
Ives the republic has continued the work S
1 the empire. The half-msde Avenue ,
e POpers was soon completed, and II
ias Indeed, in 1873, the first street in the y
World to be lighted by electricity. The
pera Itself, typical monument Of the I
econd empire, was finished hastily when
nc old opera-house In the Rue de relle. l
Ter went the way OF all theaters In an '
uto-da-fe. Other great public works are y
n contemplation, notably metropolitan t
abroad, either elevated or underground.
'robably the latter, aud expected to be
eady Tor the exhibition OF 1889. All
nose things cost money, and taxes bear {
eaVlly on Paris. The empire and the in c
emnity TO Prussia left weary burden.
~ the pun said in 1866, "L'Empire
est Ia pale" Living in Paris Is much ,
lore expensive than 1t was twenty years
go. There are In consequence fewer .
trangers-relatvely fewer. There is
ow an Immense number of vacant apart
lents' There are more beggars to be
cen In the streets. Possibly this is not l
cry Insignificant, for under the empire j
overly was not permitted, and begging j
1as crime punished by instant arrest. =
ms Increase OF beggars Is perhaps the |
lost marked change In the streets of Z
ars in twenty years Only less marked,
oweVer, has been the gradual disappear
nee of the distinctive costumes of the =
iborlng classes, the blouse OF the man, :
nd the cap OF the woman. The blouse
not frequent now, and the cap is rare.
lost OF the women wear bonuets or 90 h
areheaded, particular Partisan custom, ~
'hich seems to be growing. Despite the =
OF the climate, the streets are
ept as clean as ever--perhaps n little
leaner now wooden pavements have been
itroduced. Another American invention n
My recently adopted here Is the street. !,
Ar, introduced into Paris after IL had =
cen acclimated in London, and here u
llled by the English name OF tramway. ;
n invention Ingenious enough to be !,
meriean Is the pneumatic clock, lighted
night by gas, and standing at prominent II II
lrners. These clocks In the streets, !
ith many In hotels and private houses, =
re connected by pneumatic tubes and y
e driven by an air blast sent from cen. p
al station once a minute, Thus all the y
rect clocks of the city and most of those IL
hotels keep the same time--a sweet
Don, as Artemus Ward would say--of
hioh no traveller will deny the saccha. 81
ne quality. This is a sample of the fir
'eat strides which Paris has taken OF 81
To yoSrs In making life easier. The
geheh are no longer backward in apply.
Z the modern improvements. la ali the
iwer houses and hotels there are gas IL
ID water, even on the upper floors; and NJ
most OF them there are bath rooms Ia
lth baths, Now, II Is not a score OF CT
airs ago that a visitor TO even a tlrst-rate OF
'tel IN Paris had To send out for bath pa
hen he wanted one. ia
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