The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-06
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Special Correspondence Of ne 1u,eNigsnctr.
BRUSSELS, belgium, Sept. 23-As you
see, We arc. again OH tho wing; this
timc ut Brussels, in Belgium, about 100
miles from Paris, en- route to Holland.
In my last We were on our way TO Paris
from Dieppc via Roncn, where wc had
our first taste Of French prices for some
OF the ncCessarics OF travelin. life. We
finally got to Paris and put up" to use
n homcly American phrase, nj the Hotel
Chatham, q French hotel with nm
English name, situated in tho Rue
Donau, lust off the boulevard dcs'
ltaliens, in the very heart OF the great
city athaditsorigin back OF the Roman
invasion, and that rs Il place OF then
nasrcnt. importance is contemporancous
With the Christian era.
We spent eighteen days in tlat great
city and came away with II better idea
OF its general topography and OF Its
places OF great age and great note than
We did OF London, its only rival IN
antiquity and historic importance. Two
great. cities moro unlike could hardly
be imagined. They arc as unlfkc as
their respective populations, and this Is
saying great deal. Perhaps II they
had had an Eiifel tower in London 90'i
feet high, such as tho modern tower OF
Babel that stands OH the banks OF the
Seine, and is the wonder OF all the M.
tons OF the earth, and had had one
really clear day for observation, we
should have come away better informed
and better satisfied in the matter OF
general topography and detail than VIC
did. 1t was great help to us to com
mcncc our rambles in Paris with IN
ascent Of nearly one-iifth OF Il mile right
up pcrpendicularly into the upper air
T and there take in Il radius OF nearly
ninety miles. with all its panoramic
views natural and artiticial) and thus
with the help OF guide and glass,
locate points d appui and lay out our
work for succeeding days. TO -"do'' any
great city with population running
into the millions and an area OF thous.
ands OF acres paris has an area OF
thirty square miles, or about 10000
acres) with intelligence, facility and
satisfaction. some such view as this is
necessity, for it saves world OF mis-.
takes, retracement OF steps and general
worry.
A GREAT ADVANTAGE
Well, We had this great advantage in
Paris, OF good start, and hence. as
said, we came away with better idea
OF it as an immense city than We did OF
London. With q very powerful tclc-
scope, a thoroughly intelligent guide (ii
there is such person. and copy OF
Baedekcr's Paris "a book OF 400 pages
and excellent maps one might almost
see Pass at close range and study it
day by day from the top OF that tower.
Looking down from that immense
height how very small and lilliputian-
like indeed did everything human ap.
pear. Men and women looked like
small children and horses looked like
dogs. | thought | had been up pretty
high in the world when looking down
525 feet from the top OF the Washing.
ton monument, but here we were look
ing down from almost twice that height.
You know how very diminutivc horses
and people in Washington look when
thus viewed, and you can therefore
imagine with some accuracy how much
smaller everything Partisan must have
looked TO us. From this height we To-
Gated the principal places OF note, such
rs the Arc dc Triomphe, the Champs
Elvsccs, the Bois dc BouloSne, the pri.l-
cipal boulevards, the Place Bustille, .the
II otel DIES Invalidcs, the dome over the
tomb OF Napoleon, the great church OF
the Notre Dame, the church Madeleine
OF the Place de Ia Concord, the Egyp-
tian Obclisll, the Column Ncndone, tile
Louvre, the Hotel de Villo, the PAN
Itheon, the Bourse, the Notifications, the
historic churches OF st. Gormain and
st. Sulpice, the great cemeteries OF
Alontmartrc. and Pcrc La CIaisc, the
palaces atSt. Cloud and Versailles, the
remains OF the Iuillerics, tho Sor.
bonnG, the Russian Church, the
great Central Market lthat has 1900 eel.
lars under it,, the l.onschamp race
course lwhcre they have races every
Sunday, the Bots de Nincennes, the
windinss Of the river Seine throug hout
the great city and its .innumerablc
bridges, the Palais Trocadcro, the Palais
Lcgislatii, and (spacc would iail mel
knew not how many other notable
points. But these will give you some
idea OF what rare point OF observation
the Eitlel tower is. AS eaid YOU conld,
with good guido anda good gnide book
and good glass, really locate every
notable and historic spot in Paris from
Z this tower We spent most OF an alter
noon up on the top OF it and iclt that
we had just begun to get'a conception
OF Paris when We came down. As IN
artillerist would say, We simply got the
range OF special points Of interest to us,
which was Ill we aimed ut, and thus
equipped We visited this, that and the
other point day by day during our stay
in the city.
HOW TO SEE PARIS,
At first VIC cssayed the task OH our
own hook, that is, witt, Il cab and n
guide, but really We found that, except
us to location and short cuts to them,
we knew as much as the guide, and so
thereafter we attached ourselves to what
are known as the Cook itineraries In and
around Paris, and took II scat in one ot
their coaches day after day, and in this
way we did St. Cloud, Versailles, Fon-
tainblcau and several other points ont OF
the city. Speaking OF this manner OF
doing Paris to our American minister,
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid with whom we
( brcakiastcd one morning during our
stay in the city,, he said that there is
really only one way to do" Paris satis-
iactorily, and that is, first 10 have his.