Evening journal., 1889-08-08
HISTORIC AND MoDeRn BRUSSELS.
Every Day Scenes at Her Fair-The Sur
rounding Country. The Houses The
Fields and the People

Immediately set about at sight seeing.
We did not spend but one day there, how
ever. But since two Of our party were
leaving for Cologne and fearing we would |
not be able to visit the historic fields of |
Waterloo owing to the inclemency Of the |
weather. we decided TO come direct to |
Paris. On our arrival in Brussels the |
first place visited was the Worlds Exhi- |
bition grounds. There were some very |
ancient relics to be seen, and some fine
paintings Sewing machines were all
that were TO be seen from the United
States Englands display seemed TO be
about the largest and the most interest
ing machinery there we're the type set
ting machines. Our time being somewhat
limited we were obliged to hurry through,
and, OF course, did not have time for
very minute inspection.
After leaving the exhibition grounds
we went to the Hotel De Vile (Town
Hall) The hall is very old and contains
some very fine paintings by Reubens and
VanDyke We took occasion to dance in
the very room in which the Duchess Of
Richmond gave the famous ball in honor
Of the English officers on the eve of
Waterloo The wood work in the interior
of this building is very handsome, and IL
all carved IN hard oak. The wnlls and
ceilings are completely covered with
paintings by the ancient masters, After
visiting all the rooms we ascended the
tower (40U feet high) and took birds
eye view of the city. But the day was
too cloudy for us TO have very clear
view. The Exchange Building or (Bourse)
was the only other structure
we had time to visit during the day
Tuesday morning we all arose at 30
o'clock, and after seeing some of our
party off we took a stroll through the
town. We visited the Palais de Justice,
which is very famous building, about
on par with the Capitol at Washington.
! The Capitol building of course has not
such elaborate work as the Palais de
Justice We had not time TO examine
the interior closely, but shall probable
stop at Brussels ON our way back and
then inspect IL more thoroughly. We
passed through two enormous markets
| this morning. One Of them was the tea
market, which extended along a large
square, by the side of the principal
Boulevards. There, the women with
their great baskets, sold nothing but tea
The other market was the vegetable
market in the large open square
in front OF the Hotel de Vile. This
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vegetables Of almost every variety. One
corner was devoted entirely TO flowers.
The throng was so dense here that it
was with very great difficulty that one
could make his way through And, al
though this market is at the intersection
Of ave streets, the way for wagons was
impossible The market women kept
yelling continually at the top of their
voice, so that the uproar was deafening
in the extreme. In Brussels dogs are
employed to draw the carts, as in Ant
werp. The streets of Brussels are some.
what better than those of Antwerp, and
pedestrians can very often keep TO the
sidewalks The boulevards are espec
tally we'll paved, and are very broad and
shady. There seemed to be no large
horses in Brussels, such as there were In
J Antwerp, nor have we seen any since.
We left Brussels at 0 10 in the morn.
ing and arrived in Paris at SO in the
, the afternoon. We are now very nicely
located in the northern part of the city
less than mile from the Seine. We had
good opportunity to see the country
Z Tuesday morning as we passed along
All through Belgium we did not see a
single fence of any kind save along the
railroads. The country is all marked out
In patches Of truck and all kinds of
cereals The wheat and rye were still
} very green, and the yield looked exceed
! ingly poor, But the vegetables seemed
to grow very luxuriantly. Wedid not
notice a stalk of Indian corn during the
whole of our journey. The country was
perfectly fat During most of the way
J one could look toward all points of the
' compass, and the crops Of differ
! ent colors gave the country
very picturesque appearance. Al
far as we could judge there seemed K
be not more than an acre or so in eacl
q plot. The iaborers seemed Co do every
y thing by hand. About half Of the peopl,
4 working in the fields were women. Be
tween Brussels and Paris we saw only
one implement, and that had the resem
3 blance Of a mower. and from the agri
J. cultural display at Brussels one woul,
I say that the United States was far ahea,
Y of European nations in the manufacture
q and use of agricultural implements. Thl
houses along the railroads are as usua
covered With tile or straw. Il was onl,
Z on arriving at Paris that we noticed an
{ slate or sheet-iron used for roofing.
a When the train stopped on the Frenc
e frontier, the Custom House officers be
h NaA AAN WIN va oNAANAAAE tAh hAAEdHt
Here all the luggage was taken from TIA
:, train and carefully examined This i
called passing la douane' (Custor
G House) on arriving at Paris we wer
a interrogated again as to our baggage, bu
a were not obliged to have IL examined
= The officers look closely for tobacco a
the revenue on this article is very high
= Perhaps this is the reason there is les
n smoking done in Paris than in America
Is cities.
\ On reaching the French border we nc
ticed few wicker fences, placed at in
= tervsls, but the country did not diffe
much from that of Belgium, exceptin
that it was much more hilly. We di
not notice any pasture fields in goin
l. through Belgium In passing by som
2 dairies in France we noticed the peasant
s were milking, although it was betwee
y l2 and l o'clock So we judged fr0I
3 that the milking was done three times
day. Milk is very dear, and butter
e seldom used. Before leaving Brussels W
ie secured Boedecker's guide to Paris. an
o have no trouble in finding our wa
e over the city. But we loos
l. no opportunity in asking people the wa
to places we are going in order to col
! verse in the French language. We hav
q spent the greater part of our time alon
le the banks of the Seine, in the market
and public gardens so far but intend {
le begin a systematic study of the principl
% places of interest The weather hs
$. been mostly fair so we thought it best I
IN do Our ont .door siubt gapinu xvhila III