The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-19

permission. All importations of tobacco
| are rigidly watched and none is allowed
| to be grown witho 1T authority from tho
| Government II you sprout plant In
| your garden you must notify the author
| tiles, and they will send man to number,
the leaves, and when the plant 10 ripe
you will have to account for every leaf.
If you wish to import few boxes of CT
CARS or q few pounds of tobacco you
must write a request to the officials to
that effect on Government stamped pa
per. An agent will call upon you to see
that you are the person who wrote the
letter and to give you permission. When
the tobacco comes he will call again to
see that it goes to the right party. and
that the duty is promptly paid. France
buys a great deal Of its tobacco from
the United States. 1t comes in hogs
heads to Havre, Bordeaux and Marseil-
les, and Is shipped thence in most cases
to Paris. The Government has an i'm
mense factory here on the banks of the
Seine which employs over 1900 hands and
consumes more than 10000 pounds of
tobacco a year. The chief officials are
graduates OF the polytechnic school. ana
they must have spent two years in study
log tobacco ard the process Of its man
ufacture. The Government gets over
0,OO0 900 a year out of this monopoly,
and the expenses of the army are largely
borne by it. There Is also a tax upon
salt and on mscches, both of which are
Government monopolies.
A well-Managed City.
In my English letters / wrote Of the
municipal irnprovem snts which the chief
cities of that country are making.
found that many of them are now tear
Ing down old buildings and widening
their business streets. PaEis began 10 do
this more than fifty years ago, and as
a result she now has 1.-THE best streets OF
the world. II WAS in 1852 that the work
began. The frst improvement cost $l0,-
00l 900, and ons-half Of the expense was
hoine 10y the State. Two years later An
expenditure Of $S0,0OO,OOo was authorized,
and later on there was an appropriation
of SOS. OO0 at one time
This year the Government has voted to
spend $4o.000,00O in extending the public
works and beautIfying the city. Two
and ou2-ha'f million dollars is to go for
charging the markets. which RFel aiHeaay /
the largest in the world. One miiIioh six
hundred thousand dollars is to be spent
on the con pletion of the Palace of Jus
tice, and large sums on the extension of
the boulevard syste N. The Champs Ely
sees is to be heightened, new bridges are
to be built over thu Seine, and new tech
meal schools are to be established. Paris
steadily moves onward. Like her people. |
she delights in new clothes and appre-
ciates that it paws to primo and powder.
She is making many sanitary improve
ments. and with her wide bculevards and
her many parks and open places she has
today as good a set of lungs or breathing
places as any city IF Europe.
How Paris Keeps Clean.
The city authorities see that the town
Is we'll kept. The streets are swept every
dav by an army of 5000 men and boys,
and at night there are street-sweeping
machines which push all the dust and
dirt into the cutters. from where it is
washed in the early morning into the
sewers with the hose. 1t costs Paris al
most s., 900 a year to flush the sewe.s
and for the removal of rubbish. 1t costs
more than that to hight and clean the
public p:omenades and about 5000, 600 TO
keep the streets in repair. Altogether
the streets are better kept than those
of any othsr European city, with the pos
sihle exception of Berlin. They are we'll
paved with wood and asphalt. and you
can drive upon them for niles without
a jolt.
Paris From the Eiffel Tower.
l doubt. in fact, whether there is a
more beautiful city In the world. 1 took
the elevator yesterday and mounted to
the top of the Eiffel tower for a birds
eye view of the French metropolis.
was a thousand feet above 1t, so high