Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-09-27


are well paved and clean, much bet
ter than Chicago, but not noticcabIy
better than London, Amsterdam, or
most Old World cities.
/ visited the Exposition, of course,
several days, paying six cents i'd
mission. 1t was very fine, and we'll
worth going across the ocean to see.
The exhibits of automobiles, paint
ings, statuary, old relics, and few
more things, excelled the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. On the whole it
was much inferior to our master eff
fort of 1893. Our fair covered TAO
acres, theirs 240; and then we got up
our fair for glory, and threw money,
time and labor into it without stint.
They try to make money out of theirs
and are going to lose instead
Among other places of note the
writer visited the following: The
famous old Notre Dame church, the
Morgue, where for three days are
exposed the bodies of those who
hove been overcome in the struggle
for life and have died unknown; the
Arc de Triomphe, erected by order
of Napoleon /, at an expense of two
million dollars, from which radiate
twelve streets called The Star; Arc
duCarrousel, Bank of France, Bourse,
the site of the old Bastile Prison,
which was torn down by the angry
Paris mob; Eiffel Tower, Grand
Opera, Hotel de Vile, Jardin DIES
Plantes, where may be found both
plants and animals, living and dead,
(tne live animals have all been col
the famished people ate all. even to
the last zebra or Kangaroo; the Lou
vre Palace, Galleries and Gardens,
the former being the finest exhibit
of art in France; the Luxembourg
Gardens, Tuilleries Gardens, the Pam
theon, the walls Of which are covered
with magnificent historical paint
ings by the most famous artists; the
Trocadero, several famous churches
and cemeteries, a large crematory
where bodies are reduced to ashes,
and where, in spite of the gruesome-
laughter by my guide who could not
speak IA word of English, but who
minced the actions of persons hav-
ing relatives to be burned. AS AN
actor he was success, and made me
comprehend the use of the different
departments.
Travel is easier in Paris than in
London because of a better system
of tramcarS, and the much more
common use of the automobile, the
latter being used nearly as much as
the bicycle. The city is entirely sur
rounded by huge wall of earth,
faced with stone on the outside, and
next to that a ditch, just as ancient
castles used to be. This wall has
been rebuilt and strengthened at
great expense of recent years. Life
in this city seems to be a never end
ing round of gaiety for some and of
hard work for others. There is no
Sabbath. All places of amusement
and pleasure are open and gangs of
. IA at iap hnp la hot
on the streets or elsewhere seven
days in the week. The rich are
dressed in the height of fashion,
and go dashing by in 10000 frame
automobile, while the working man
and his wife TRUCE along, he in cheap
jeans and she bare headed. The
food of the one is prepared by IA chef
who gets "A salary like congress-
man; the other eats dry bread, thin
soup, and perhaps some cheap vege-
tables, washed down by cheap in
sipid wine, the year round. After
careful inquiry regarding prices of
provisions, such as meats, butter,
sugar, eggs, bread, milk, etc, ana
also of wages, | figured out that an
average days wage in the United
States will purchase from two to four
times as much food as in France.
One thing that displeased me in
Paris was the never ending crack of
the long whip with which the weary
horses were urged along. 1t was
more noticeable TO me, just coming
from London where whips are little
used, the police not even allowing a
fractions horse to be whipped.
From Paris | went through Mons,
Brussels, Antwerp, Dortrecht, Rot
terdom, The Hague, Leiden, Haar-
lem, Amsterdam, and thence by way
Of Harwich back to London, Liver
pool and home. Brussels is much
like Paris on a small scale, a city of