Omaha daily bee., 1892-01-31
PARIS IN HOLIDAY ATTIRE
How the Gay Parisians Celebrate on New
Years Day.
SSPlCTURES OF LA BELLE FRANCE
Men Who Have Enriched the History of the
French Nation-Monuments and
Temples Towering to
the Skies.

PARIS, Jan. 3.-[Correspondence OF THE
BEE. lit is very pleasing ride from Rouen
TO Paris In the comfortable cars of the
Chemin de fer dc pOuest. The roadbed is
easy, there is little dust and the cars are not
overheated as with US. The little engines
attached to the train seem like toys con-
trasted with the great moguls one sees on
the Northern and Union Pacific. The road
runs through rich valleys every inch
OF land being under cultivation
and through quaint Norman villages whose
dens surrounded by stone walls, not for pro-
-<tection, but on which to train grape vines
and fruit trees, tiny little frail trees like
the Chinese dwarf trees We still run along
the banks OF the Seine and occasionally see
the towers OF some chateau peeping above
the trees and the little villages, always with
a church, some modern and others that look
as If many centuries had rendered them more
Interesting.
we reached Paris about dusk and were
driven from the station up the grand avenue
de POpera to our hotel on the Rue Rivoli, op-
posite the gardens OF the Tuileries. We
came to Paris free from prejudice and we
are disappointed. Perhaps it Is the heavy,
dull, humid atmosphere, that makes
Paris less beautiful and brilliant
than we expected. In New York We left
sunshine and delicssue.y charming weather.
Here everything under lowering skies and
tits wet and muddy.
II were not afraid Of my enemies would
write book and call it 'Lies,n not white
but black lies One person told US TO be sure
and take lots OF wraps and rugs. You will
suffer 30 with cold In the cars. The cars are
more comfortable than ours. Another said
you cannot drink water In Paris; II is too
bad, The water Is very good here. The
things we expected TO find good are bad and
what we expected TO be bad are good.
Paris at present Is not cleaner than New
York and not as clean as many OF our own
cities. II they would tnrn the hose on the
streets and suppress the oeggars 1t would be
an Improvement. However, this is the Jour
de Ian, the day the Parisians celebrate as
we do Christmas, and the beggars are al
lowed to ply their trade without hindrance.
From the balcony of our room we look into
the gardens OF the Tuileries and have coup
d'@il from the Place du Carrousal to the
Place de la Conoorde to the Arc de pEtoile.
The whole OF the Champs Ulysses is spread
before us, from the colossal statue of Gam
beta 10 the Arc de pEtoiie Napoleon had
erected TO celebrate his marriage with Marie
Louise, and which even the Parisians, in
their triumphai march through the conquered
city, spared. But the commune has left
nothing standing Of the grand old palace Of
the Tuileries, only little ruin where one
can SEQ the window from which
beautiful empress, took her TO place of
safety, else she might have met worse fate
than the lovely queen, borne from this place
TO prison and 10 the guillotine. Across the
Seine we have view Of the Hotel des In
valides, where repose the remains Of the
church now, the mousoleum of the great
men of France, and this beautiful Greek
temple where Victor Hugo aud other of
Frances great writers, poets, painters and
statesmen are entombed, is a fair sample OF
what 80 many Of the churches and palaces Of