Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-10-19

povernnent II you sprout plant in
vo,,r garden you must notify the authori-
ties. and they will send man to num-
Der thu leaves and when the plant IL
r,ne YOU viii have TO account for every
leaf. II you wish to import a few boxes
of cigars or few pounds OF tobacco. you
must write request to the of1cials to that
effect on government stamped paper. An
agent Will call upon you to see that You
arc thu person Who wrote the letter and
rive YOU permission. When the tobacco
CONES he VIII call again to see that it.
goes to the right party. and that the duty
IL promptly paid. France buys a great
deal Of Its tobacco from the United States.
Il cornes in hossheads to Havre. Bor-
deaux and Marseillcs, and Is shipped
thence In most cases to Paris. The gov
eminent has an immense factory here on
the banks OF the Seine, which employs
over 1000 hands, and consumes more than
Is. oco, 900 pounds Of tobacco a year. The
chief officials are graduates Of the poly
technic schools, and they have spent two
year. in studying tobacco and the pro-
cess of its manufacture. The government
gets over coo a year out OF this mon
opoly and the expenses OF the army are
largely borne by 1t. There is also a tax
upon salt and on matches, both OF which
are government monopolies.
A WELLMANAGEDC CITY.
In my English letters I wrote Of the
municipal improvements which the chief
cities of that country are making. I found
that many of them are now tearing down
old buildings and widening their business
streets. Paris began to do this more than
fifty years ago, and as result. she now
has the best streets Of the world. It was
in 1852 that the work began. The first i'm
provement cost s1oooo.0Oo and one-half Of
the expense was borne by the State. Two
years later an expenditure of 100000
was authorized and later on there was
an appropria ton of ssS.ooO,ooo at one time.
This year the government has voted to
spend s4o.Coo,oOO in extending the public
works and identifying the city. Two and
one-half million dollars is to so for enlarg-
ing the markets. which are already the
largest Of the world. One million six hun
dred thousand dollars is to be spent on the
completion of sthe Palace Of Justice, and
large sums on the extension Of the boule
ward system. The Champs Elysees is to
be heightened, new bridges arc to be built
over the Seine and new technical schools
are to be established. Paris steadily moves
onward Like her people. she delights in
new clothes. and appreciates that it pays
to primp and powder She is making many
sanitary improvements, and with her wide
boulevards and her many parks and open
places she has to-day as good a set Of
lungs or breathing places as any city Of
Europe
HOW PARIS KEEPS CLEAN.
The city authorities see that the town is
we'll kept The streets are swept every day
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. It costs Paris almost 100000
year to flush the sewers and for the re-
moval OF rubbish. It costs moro than that
to light and clean the public promenades.
and about s5.ooo.oOo to keep the streets in
repair. Altogether the streets are better
Kept than those Of any other Euro pean
city, with the possible exception of Ber-
lin They are well paved with wood and
asphalt and you can drive upon them for
miles without jolt.
PARIS FROM THE EIFFEL TOWER.
I doubt. in fact, whether there is more
beautiful city in the world. l took the ele-
vator yesterday and mounted to the top
Of the Eiffel tower for bird's-e view of
the French metropolis l wa. a thousand
feet above it, SO high up that the mon
walking along the streets below looked
like crawling bugs, and those carrying
umbrellas like gisa ntic beetles. The street
cars were no larger than baby express
wagons and the automobiles made me
think of toy engines flying around.
At that height the city looked more like
a map or model town cut out for the coca
sion. Acres assumed the size OF town lots.
and mighty buildings looked no bigger
than the Noah's arks which you buy in
the toy stores.
Everything was wonderfully clean. as
1,.I {,,er$ no. 40
Of the polishe-s. It was vast collection
of cream walls and lead-colored roofs,
cut by gray streets, with the sivery Seine
winding its way through from one end to
the other. Just under me was the Hotel
des lnvalides, It's golden don1e covering
the tomb Of the great Napoleon. and on
the other side Of the Seine the beautiful
Place de Ia Concorde. where Marie An
tonette and thousands of tho French no.
bility lost their lives by the guil1otinc. I
could see the Tuilleries. and wit hn1y
glasses distinguished the statue OF La
fayettc, put up by our Daughters OF the
American Revolution. Further up the
Seine was the Isle de la Cite, with the
Notre Dame Cathedral, and back OF the.
TuilleTies the Madelaine, with its green
roof. The Pantheon, the Luxembourg, and
the Chamber of Deputies. where the
French Congress meets, stood boldly out,
and also the long line Of the Champs Ely
see, with the Arc de Triomphe at it's end,
and beyond It the expanse Of green known
as the Bots do Boulogne.
took the telescope and picked out the
Place des Etats Unis. or place Of the
United States, with its statue of George
Washington which was put up in 1900
the street OF the American embassy. and
even the American churches, of which
there are several in this great capital Of
the French.
The view Of all Paris was as clear cut
as q cameo, and with the telescope every
building was distinct in the living map
below. To the naked eye it seemed min
iature city, and as l looked down upon it
could not realize that it covered an area
of 10000 acres, and more than twenty
seven hundred thousand human beings
were actually living and working in the
doll houses below It was indeed worth
coming to Paris to see.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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