Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1898-04-01

places are booths for selling papers, ETC.,
wai6ing rooms for the street car service
and public co~nveniences. Through the
town there are two broad avenues and
many outside, like the Avenue Louise,
which leads out to the Bots, and, like
the boulevard, has the same combina-
tion-part street and part park Of itself.
The other streets are neither wide nor
straight. but cool in o hot day and like.
~ warm in winter.
The buildings are not whole blocks
from street to street as in Paris, each
separate house or store varying some
what one from the other, but they are
all in a locality or block about of the
same height and degree OF Anish-all
kept clean and bright-the telegraph
and telephone wires all over the tops
strung from roof to roof and the whole
city supplied with street car service.
One Of the lines is supplied with cars
that run on the track where there is a
track and turn out on the pavement
where there ia none. This is done by
using common omnibus wheels for the
carriage and two leading wheels which
drop into the grooves in the rails
when in line-which keeps the car on
all right By custom, law or common
sense none Of the carriages has tires
less than about two inches wide, SO
that the ground rail does not interfere
at all with the common street traffic.
The king, either by his power or influ-
ence, sees to it that the companies give
the worth Of the money. The fares are
very low-only o cent for short rides,
varying according to the d~istance-and
the companies r no doubt managed on
economical lines. As an example, the
tickets or receipts are printed on paper
and are Cancelled by the conductor tear
ing of the corner. How simple COM
pared with the thick ticket and punch!
The street cars, or tram cars, have maps
OF the route over which they travel
posted so n who can follow O map
AN see where the special line he is on
goes, what main streets it crosses and
where it connects with other lines.
Probably nothing has been said about
Brussels for the last 800 years that did
not include the Hotel de Willie. or town
hall, with its openwork spire. Inside it
is q museum, with many curiosities and
noted paintings. Surrounding it and
throughout the old part Of the town
there are many ancient Flemish build.
ings, and in the new part is the Hall Of
Justice, one Of the largest buildings in
the world. il not the very largest, It
ia larger than st. Peters, and though
Philadelphia claims to have the largest
this is 500 by 600 and 400 feet high, as
against the Philadelphia structures 400
feet square by the same height, and the
Philadelphia building has a large open
court, whichthe Brussels Hall Of Justice
has not. Anyway there is an awful LOT
Of stone and architecture about it.
do not know whether they deal out
Justice on the same scale as the build.
ing, but the affairs Of the city seem te
be we'll managed, and one would think,
from the talk Of the people, that the
king has q good deal to do with it. HI
Ia greatly liked. is around the streets
and in the exhibition every day ant
stops to talk to the exhibitors and work
men. We had the honor Of meeting hin
two or three times. He was going ON,
way in the aisles Of the exhibition ant
in the street, aud We were going tn,
other. ''Long live the kingP'-John E
Sweet in American Machinist.