Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-03-21
A BEAUTIFUL CITY.
so BRUSSELS IS CHARACTERIZED BY
 AN AMERICAN TOURIST.

Handsome Boulevard In Place of the
 old City Wall-The Immense Town Hall.
 How the Tram Cars Are Operated.
 Brussels is beautiful city and owes its beauty in q large measure to the good sense and public spirit of it's oiti- zens or q ruling king who rules in the interest of the people.
 One good thing comes of a fortified city, or at least has come to Paris and Brussels, and that is when by expansion it has become necessary to tear down the fertilization it has left the beule- yard. Brussels isnow about three times as large as the original walled city, and this boulevard forms broad street around between the center and the out side from 200 to 800 feet wide. It is more than street or avenue; it is street and park. It goes by different names at different parts, and Boulevard Waterloo-the widest-is first side walk, then q paved street perhaps 15 feet wide for business purposes, then ground with two rows of trees, 30 feet wide, for horseback riding, then 40 feet or so of asphalt or macadam for car riages, then so feet Cat a guessl with four rows of trees for pedestrians, with seats for resting; then another paved street for business and street cars, and, lastly, the other sidewalk At different places are booths for selling papers, etc., waiting rooms for the street car service and public conyenienees. Through the town there are two broad avenues and many outside, like the Avenue Louise, which leads out to the Bois and, like the boulevard, has the same oombina- tion-part street and part park of itself. The other streets are neither wide nor straight, but cool in hot day and like ly 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 arc all in . locality or block about of the same height and degree of fnish-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 is 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 inhu- ence, sees to 1t that the companies give the worth of the money The fares arc very low-only cent for short rides, varying according to the distance-and the companies are no doubt managed on economical lines. As au example, the tickets or receipts are printed on paper and are cancelled by the conductor tear l ing off the corner. How simple com l pared with the thick ticket and punch The street cars, or tram cars, have maps of the rou Q over which they travel l posted so one who can follow Q map can 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 300 years that did not include the Hotel de Vile, or town ] hall, with j ts openwork spire. Inside it is museum, with many curiosities and noted paintings. Surrounding it and throughout the old part of tho town there are many ancient Flemish build l it1crc ie-f flo J,1I Q 1 Justice ono of the largest buildings ill the world, # not the very largest, It 1 is larger 1an St. Peter's, and though i Philadelphia claims to have the largest i this is 800 by GOO and 400 feet high, as ] against the Philadelphia structures AGO feet square by the same height, and the 1 Philadelphia building has a large open court, which the 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 to l be well managed, and one would think. from the talk of the people, that the king has good deal to do with it. He Is greatly liked, is around the streets and in the exhibition every day and stops to talk to the exhibitors and work men. We had the honor of meeting him two or three times He was going one way in the aisles of the exhibition and in the street, anl we were going the other. Long live the king gr,-John k. Sweet in American Maehinist
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