The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-01-13

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side, they seem 70 corFoborate the old
notion that Paris . superior 70 france.
Paris is entered BY tan railways, and
ita extremities are connected With each
other by what's known q the railway
OF the circle. Ghemin de M dc E'slillliie
is the French name, and this road
makes circuit OF the city Just within
the tOTtifeaiions. The distance cover.
ed is tWenty-three miles, There are
thirty stations. Most OF thetrack is be-
low the level Of the streets, There are
only, however, FIVE tunnels, and the
longest 10 not more than three quarters
OF q mile. Elsewhere the road Is higher
than the streets, The Partisan cksRin
do ter Is far more pleasant 70 travel on
than the gloomy underground railways
OF London, and spite OF the fact that
there 10 no third class, travelling upon
1t 10 reasonably cheap. The lowest fare
is six cents, but you can go two or three
miles for that sum, and for eleven
cents you can cover the full length Of
the railway. This is the CllsNaIit DO ter
de GFaRds Clnilre. The nearest 1t
comes 70 the Notifications is at Bobigny,
where 1t 10 within two miles, and 1t is
at its greatest distance at st. German,
where II is seven miles away.
For getting about in the city itself
the arrangements are, varied enough,
but they are very slow as rule, and
some Of them are distTessingly old
fashioned, This Isl hardly the age Of
electricity in Paris. There are few
streets lighted by this means, and you
have to search with great diligence to
fad an electric car. Tho only vehicles
offering yop any approach to rapid
transit are the steam trans. But these
also are few and thus, II you are too
economical to "cabit you are entirely
at the mercy ofvAlicles5 which travel
only little faster than a healthy man
could easily walk. But the ticket sys-
TEN which obtains here is highly COM
mendabIe. You get your number Ia
the order In which you arrive at the
station where the bus or tram is 10 stop,
Perhaps you are -weak-little woman,
Before the vehicle comes along q dozen
or two Of men may have taken tickets.
But II you were the first, you have the
first right to seat, and this is all at
tended TO so carefully and quietly that
there is no chance for cheating and no
occasion for croydngS Nv ESrs
Ii the notice complete" Il put up
before your number ia reached, you
will, OF course, be q little disappointed.
But how 1t will delight you, upon re-
Election, to find trans and buses which
sometimes do get to be absolutely full
In American cities there is always room
for one more, even when the lust man
to Jump on is still hanging by the bell
rope. But here it is so many-the
number which can be comfortably ac-
commodatedzand not one more. APP.
ropos OF the sign Complete" and Of
what 1t means, there is d good story OF
an 1rishman-probably an American
1rishman-who IN recounting his Par
isian peregrinations, said he had been
to every place about the city but Com
plete, aud bejabers, though he'd
tried a hundred times to get a bus that
was going there, he had never succeed
ed. He'had often jumped uEon the
platform Of such buses but had always
been ordered Oft.
In Paris you will waste yepr time II
you look for a blonde haired girl every
time you see q gray horse, for French
girls are mostly of the brunette type,
whereas gray horses are in the greatest
profusion here, especially in public con.
veyances. There are forty lines of
trans IN this city, and nearly as many
buslines, and from long and close OBJ
servation we are driven to the conclu-
sion that, taking the service through
and.through, the animals OF that color
which are engaged in it are about three
fourths OF tile whole number. Paris is
great on style, and this is its style in
horse hair. ,,55 z. 80. ~
Speaking OF style in Partisan bus
horses reminds Us, however, that the
horses engaged in the enormous cab
service Of this city are utterly without
style. There are exceptions, OF course,
but taken as a class these animals are
sorry set, the least pleasing to the eye
OF anything you SEQ in all this busy
city. They are so numerous, too, that
they form leading feature in every
thoroughfare. Paris has ten thousand
more cabs than London can boast,
though London is twice the size Of
Paris. But the rate at which you can
hire these Paris cabs, forty cents an
hour and less than that fora single
journey, Isl eminently satisfactory, as
also, barring the one feature Of runty
looking horse, Is the general appear
aace OF tho vehicle itself.
And here we note, as another striking
instance Of the Partisan love of style,
that generally there will be a match be.
tween the cab and the driver. III the
cab Is finished in "a dark shade, cabby's
hat will be black. II the body OF the
cab Is finished hallway up in a lighter
shade-say old gold, as many Of them
are-then cabby'a hat will be white,
with an old gold band around it; and
often you will notiEe las the last straw
which tho exacting fancy could desire.
that this captivating French Jehu will
be so mindful Of artistic effects as to
have a bordero the same shade on the
carriage robe he wraps about him. This
is decidedly Partisan, aud Is o fair SAM
pie Of Paris life in att itglYaried aspects.
af'Dl' H.T.