New-York tribune., 1899-12-18
THE PASSING THRoNG.

with the advent OF the late Colonel Warm,
said willard Smith at the Holland House yester.
day, "New-York enjoyed the novsi
PARISS experience OF clean streets and =,
CLEAN spite OF the enhanced expense Eksd
STREETS 1t. Compared with previous csr
ditions. and everything in M.
world goes by comparison. NewYork's s,ree,
under Colonel warnings regime were cIeanly, but y
vou conpared them with those OF Paris they w.,.
no, No nIace where have ever been has seemst
to me As superlatively clean as Paris. II fairly
elistens OF a morning, as though the entire city
had been fresh scrubbed with soap and water and
this is really practically what happens to Il, 70,
the streets are hand swept and hand sprinked
The White Wings OF Paris go over them with coar,s
brooms. and they are sprinkled by hand with
garden hose. The hose itself is mounted on wheel.
for a portion OF its length, so that 1t may n
easily pulled from one to another Of the innumer
able hydrants that line every thoroughfare Then
too In the new Paris that the Second Empire and
the genius Of Baron Haussmann have bequeathsd 10
u.s. the houses are all built OF peculiar yellow sand.
stone or limestone, which IKE the FAMOUS Indiana
limestone, is said 10 be so SOFT at the tlrne la
first auarryng as to De eass ns' o,ca
The houses are built with very thlck walls, an
once in SO many years--six, eight Or ten ten; have
face is scraped on and the building Is restored to
its original fresh and cesnly ,ne snppearanse. s
rows of spick and span yellow houses grow tedious
to the eye, and you long TO nave the monotony
70 nv mind one Of the prettiest scenes In "A.
vcrld is he Avenue du Bois de Boulosne on 4
know is the short street that runs from the Afa
de Triomphe to the entrance to the Bois the great
line, a continuation Of the Avenue des Champs
Elysees beyond the Arc ,h Tne no houses ,s. there
itself the space Of ground is laid out into beautiful
lawns and flower beds, The sidewalks are lined
with flower stands packed with the most beautiful
nOWers-rOSes with stems yard long,
double violes etc. and all offered for sale at prices
which to an American seem absurdy smah
Beautifully dressed children, attended by neatly
clad nurses are playing about all over tne place.
while in the street itself eonsnu2uas prqessson Zee
mnn smartv turned Out for his morning ride ri.
lowed by Frenchman, in costume more bizarre
for his Next family carriage, heavy, respectaels
ately behind on a mans wheel. clad in costume
that would throw New-York into an apoplectic nt
thing in everything is sure to be there and 50 IN.
teresting is It all that when the diminishing crowd
e2alIs you to yourself you VII nnd ne G unehson
been aware or It's passage
Wallace Cook. OF pittsburg who used 10 be
locomotive engineer. in speaking Of some expen.
ences Of his at the Hoffman House
ABAD yesterday. said Modern railroad
INVENTION ing is most scientific and the efforts
FOR TRAMPS OF inventors the country over are
being brought to bear on the prob
lens OF time saving devices for use on the limited
expresses. Take for instance, the picking up 0.
the water supply for the tender when running al
speed How ingenious Il Is. and yet how slmplsl
scoop let's down into the long narrow tank from
the bottom of the tender. the water is scoopei up
bv the speed OF the train rises above the top Of the
tender and falls in a great stream into the trap
This invention was a disastrous one to the tramN
though and cost several OF them their lives ad
made many more sadly uncomfortable before they
got on to- it. After the tank becomes full tho
water will then go over the back OF the tender ana
dash against the forward end OF the Leading car
of the train with great force. Usually this is hs
mail car into the forward end OF which there IS
no door the entrances being from the sides and tho
other end To the tramps could they evade the
watchful eye OF engineer or fireman, this used to 70
q favorite place to steal a ride There being no
door to the car, they were free from fear OF sur
prise from the rear while the train once under wsy
those on the engine we're kept too I busy n. % as, Ra;
with the picking up Of the water the forward era
OF the mail car ceased to be place OF comfort sni
a ride there unless under stress OF dire emergency
Several at first were washed off and either KILLED
or badly injured. while those who managed 70 cling
on had such woful and demorafzing experiences
that nothing short Of question OF IRE or or dessa @
particuariy true in cold weather for the cold rush
Ing air soon froze them to the marroT ana assaas
To-day an engineer or fireman hardly ever even
looks for tramps at this place, for so wen mas ths
thew shun the forward end or the leading car 0t
train as they would the plague.
"There is one effect this war seems 70 Be havms
on the English people," said r. A. Corlson, OF Buf'
falo at the Hotel Manhattan yes
ENGLAND terday "and that is. 1t is uniting
DETERMINED them. When left there week
TO WIN or two ago the only dscordans
notes seemed to come from Tree
land but each served only TO intensity Inc
dogged determination Of the other inhabitants OK
Great Britain to win this war. be the sacrincs 70
do so what it may. What the colonies will % u
the face of the repeated disasters which have y
far overtaken the British remains 10 be SEEN bus
miss my guess II the colonies turn their backs On
the mother country In the hour OF her sres's'
need. Running away In the face OF difncuiVs
not a characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon people
notice that cabled editorial leader OF The Lon
don Chronicle commenting on General bunsss
reverse. quotes with approval General Grantsw
NOUS remark. i Will fight 4 ou! on tnis n,s me
prophecy in this quotation than The Chronies
thinks. and England in the end WIZ crush ~
no boerS wys ~ rOses OF etveen as now and y
end. however battles as disastrous and olooay 10 ~
have to be fought as were those Enuss IN see And w
the end comes and the final victory ress .st WI
the British, the walls OF the mourners s N c's.s ,ss
Britain will be likely to overcome and dresh INV
From what heard while there, Englana = az
particularly apprehenslve at present or inteits.e
by any Continental Power with the posesossn "a ~
ception OF France. All you've got TO 90 nw..I
In Partisan cafe these days II you unae'sra III
French. and listen to the float & gossip tna. T
come to you to be made awar OF the intensssn. n.
deed you might term II frantic-hatred ot .s sss
French people for the English SO great ano ~. ~
controlled is It that In the end II may ioee o ,sE,
French Governments hand and compel 70 ..S uS
some action hostile to England or this Efsns
Is aware. and is preparing for such consnsSs',k
even going so far as to mine anew the ,rNS haIvrrNS
hsro auth Rf no
RISHOP POTTER on THE FILIPINOo