Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-06-09
BARON AAUSSMANN.
Tho Career OF tho Energetic Project Who
Reconstructed Paris.

Tho Career OF tho Energetic Project Who
Reconstructed Paris.
Baron Haussmann, the creator of mod
crn Paris, through the vast systems Of
public improvements instituted and
carried out by him as. project of the
Seine Under Louis Napoleon, was strick-
en- by apoplexy while at dinner on n re-
cent evening, and died in the course Of
the night, being nearly eighty-two
years old. Haussmann was a native
Partisan, says the Springfield (Mass,)
Republican, and grandson of a man
who was banishcd by mistake in 1916
as one of those who in convention voted
the death of Louis XVI. He was born
March %, 1909, was educated ut the Con-
scrvatory of Music, but became an al.
vocatc, and after the revolution of 1880
was sub-prcfcct successfully of several
departments, and project of the Var,
the Yonnc, and the Girondc under the
presidency OF Louis Napoleon.
Shortly after the second empire was
established Iiaussmann was made pre-
feet Of the Seine. and entered at once in
1858 upon the changes which have made
"HauSsmanniZing" n term to signify
the complete transformation of city
from age, dirt, crool5cdncss and squalor
to freshness, cleanliness, convenience
and splcndor. Some have said that the
idea of these uneXamplcd improvements
in its main outlines belonged to Napo-
leon Ill, but the energy and ability
with which they were achieved were
such as to almost cntitlc Haussmann TO
DC called great. New boulcvards, cut
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cicnt and picturesque but narrow and
noisome quarters of Paris; great pub
lie gardens and open squares replacing
nests IF wrctchcdness, splendid rows of
buildings, theaters, hospitals, asylums,
public offices; strong and artistic
bridges, fountains and many other ac-
cessOrics Of beauty; the making into
grand parks the BOis du BoloTne, the
buttcs de Chaumont, Vinccnnes and
MontsOuris; these indicate the chnrac-
ter Of the work. The grand boulevard
of S'cvastopol, on both banks of the
Seine, the boulevard Malcsherbes, and
over twenty others were laid out
through tho old parts of Paris, and one
of them preserves his name.
This required an immense expense,
and presently fIaussmann was charged,
Notwithstanding the great sums raised
by the municipality, with raising more
money still by means of unauthorized
bonds. At his request tho budget of
the city was given to the control of the
corps lcgislatif, which spent most of
the session of 1869 in examining his ac-
counts. The result was the authorizing
of Il new loan of fifty-two million dol
lars, but Ilaussmann was asked to re-
sign his prefecture, and, refusing to do
SO, was relieved by imperial decree in
January, 1870.
After the fall of the empire he left
France for n time, but the public re-
sentiment of his extravaganza was not
lasting. lie returned in 1871 and was
appointed director Of the Credit Mobil-
icr and brought it into pretty good con-
dition again. IIaussmann was made
senator under the empire, elected
member of the academy of fine arts,
and got the grand cross of the Legion
of Honor in 1862 In 1877 nc was re-
turned TO the cnanocr or deputies from
Ajaccio, beating Prince Napoleon, and
WIS frequently called upon to defend
there his administration Of the public
works. The municipal council of Paris
even voted IL 1870 to change the name
of tic boulevard Itnu3Snann, but final
ly relcntcd.