Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-01
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CHAMPAGNE AT 20 CENTS A BOT
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CHAMPAGNE AT 20 CENTS A BOT
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And stu ] don't see why the French
should care FOR American liquors, when
they have the best and the cheapest
wines Of the world. You can get good
claret here by the barrel for four cents
quart and champagne which Is not
ut all bad for 20 cents pint or 10 cents
a glass, A fair claret Is served IN the
restaurants at l6 cents a bottle, and all
sorts Of wines are remarkably cheap.
This is not far from some Of the chief
wine-raislng sections. | passed train
loads of Burgundy and claret on my
way from Parts 10 Lyons, The wine
was carried in tank cars, Just as We
carry coal OIL and some trains We're
composed OF great hbgsheads on trucks.
each hogshead marked wine / rode
for miles through vineyards, every vine
having its individual stake, the whole
country apparently growing poles about
which green vines were climbing.
SEND ELEVATORS TO FRANCE.
| would advise our elevator factories
TO systematically work the European
trade Everyone here lives IN a fiat.
Lyons is a city Of fats. and this is so
throughout tho continent. Paris is a
gigantic beehive Of living apartments,
Marseillcs Is all fats. and so are Or
leans and Bordeaux
The chief cities OF Switzerland have
fats. In Berlin and the other places in
Germany the government prescrbes the
tutg &c n
Is limit a. the height Of the houses
and small houses cannot be built. The
result IL the people live IN apartments
ana not one family in thousand has
house to itself The most OF the fats
are of five stories and only the feWest
OF them have elevators. This Is also
true Of the hotels 4 vast amount Of
building IL going on In all Of the cities
and hundreds ~ new apartment houses
without elevators are being construct
Cd. such elevators as are made in
Europe are twenty Years behind the
times They are slow and stuffy. The
doors open the wrong way and they
look more Ike seaside bath houses than
modern elevators. An enormous bust
ness could be built up for our modern
elevators and many OF our fiat improve
ments could be introduced at profit.
QUEER FEATURES OF FRENCH
FLATS.
There are many curious features In
Frenche tenement houses. The renters
put In their own gas fixtures and the
landlords insist that the pipes be put
outside the walls, saying that II they
are inside they may leak. At the close
Of his lease the tenant takes the fix
lures away with him or sells them TO
the incoming tenant.
The heating Arrangements are very
bad. As a rule every man heats his
own apartment and stoves are used.
Steam heating plants are not known by
the majority OF French householders,
and ony the fewest Of the apartments
have electric lights.
il is wonderful how the people crowd
themkeNesA into small fats. TO save
room, cupbcards are often built In the
walls OF the larger apartments. Each
cupboard when closN looks as though
II might be a door leading into another
room but when opened you can see 1t
has bed inside II and you learn that
It Is there the children sleep. The rooms
OF such apartments are all connected.
The floors are very good and they are
kept shiny by means of iron shavings
which look much like excelsior These
are sold at so much pound, and they
scour the floor untiliit shines.
JUDAS Sits.
One OF the queer features OF every
front door is what the people here call