The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-09-28

4 pers OF the American Dental Club, IN ad-
dition to others who are not. II has Amer
lean lawyers. American electrical engineers
! and hundreds of American business men.
including importers and exporters. principals
and agents. There are perhaps a dozen
newspaper correspondents. several Ameri-
can architects and not a few American bar
tenders.
!. Within the last few weeks an American
I commercial directory has been published.
giving an alphabetical list of American
firms and all matter of interest to Amer
leans IN Paris. Ii Is a book of about 80
pages. which shows something Of the extent
of the colony. In running over its pages 1
notice the following companies with Amer
lean names: There is an American bicycle
company. an American cotton company. an
American saddle company. an American
coal and shipping agency and an American
trading union which deals in clocks. Then
there Is an American autograph company.
an American estate agency. which may fur
fish titles and estates to our Goldfish mil
lionaiEss. as we'll as an American tar paper
company and an American dancing acad-
envy.
TYPEWRITER AND PHONOGRAPH
MANUFACTURERS REPRESENTED.
AS to the American typewriters, they are
all represented. as are our bicycles and
monographs. The American line has a
steamship Office here, and I have already
spoken Of ou- express companies and life
insurance establishments
There are several American book stores
In Paris. the chief OF which Is Brentano's.
There is a Boston baker. an American
grocer and several large American jewelry
stores Among the Quesrest Of the latter
are those which sell paste diamonds and
gold-flled American watches. They adver-
tise the fact that their clocks all speak
English and call their Jewels real American
diamonds. The so-called diamonds are to-
day the most brilliant things shown on the
bouievarts. There Is one company which
has four or five shops filled with briliiants
and paste set in every possible way. 1t has
ths same price for every article In its shop
windows. whether the stone be as big as
the head of a pin or the size of a walnut.
III price is s francs. or sLg. The goods
are displayed under electric lights, and a
crown OF French men and women gathers
about the shops every evening. AS far as I
can see. the stones look as brilliant as the
real diamonds costing thousands and tsns
Of thousands OF francs. which are shown
in the other jewelry stores near by. and the
jewelers. tell me that only experts can tell
the difference.
I have received a lumber of letters from
Americans skiing questions about the cost
of the different methods Of living in Paris.
II is just about the same here as In other
parts of the world You can live for little
or you can pay as much as you like. The
hotels are rather expensive. but there are
a great number OF pensions or boarding
houses where for a dollar a day and up
ward you can have a furnished room and
all your meals You can also rent a room
without board for from % to 50 francs a
month. service included. and there are res
taurants everywhere that will furnish you
meals.
CITY OF STORES AND
APARTMENT HOUSES.
-
fiat 1t Is uncommon for a man to have a
house to himself. and when SO the house IL
called an hotel Rents are so high that
only the very rich can AFFORD 50 much style.
Paris Is a city of stores and apartment
houses The stores are on the ground floor
and the apartments above. The latter vary
in price from a few francs up to thousands
of francs per month. All apartments are
usually taken for a year. the payments be-
ing made quarterly. either on the eighth
or fifteenth of each month II you leave
you must give notice for some time before
hand
Flats are rented both furnished and un-
furnished. Those who wish to rent unfur-
nfshed fats can hire their furniture for so
much a month. The furnished flats are of
course the higher. and one must be careful
in making his contract for them 1t Is very
important to have a carefully attested list
of the furniture and its condition. or at
the close you will be charged for more than
you had and old breaks will have to be rem
edied by cash or new furniture
In many places the landlord win demand
that you pay your rent before going In.
and you will be asked for six months rent
In advance. At the end of the first three
months they will come down p you for
an additional three monts' rent. 50 that
your rent will be kept six months In adj
vance all the time
Shortly after taking a house or nat In
Paris the American b called upon by the
tax collector. The authorities here assess