Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-18

buys a great deal OF It's tobacco from
the United States. lt comes IN nob9
heads TO Huyre. Bordeaux and Maiseh-
los. ana In shipped thence IN most cases
to Paris, The government mas an Il'-
mense factory here on the banks OF lne
Seine which employs over 2,OoO hatus
and consumes more than lOOOOOW DE-
of tobacco "A year. The chief ohiclals
are graduates of the polytechnic school
and they must have spent two years III
studying tobacco and the process Oh l.a
manufacture. The government gets
over $40. 100000 a year out OF TINS IIou-
opoly, and the expenses OF the UIIhg
are largely borne by IT, There Is a'so
"A tax upon salt ana on matches, Dolh
OF which are government monopol'es'
A wELL-MANAGED CITY
In my English letters l wrote Of the
municipal improvements when tle
chief cities OF that country are naNlub'
| found thut many OF them are no"
tearing down old buildings ana Wldeh-
ing their business streets. fatiS peba''
TO do this more than 5O years ago anu
as "A result she now has the best stretla
of the world 1t was Ina lSJ2 that ine
work began The first Improvement
cost sl0.O0UO0O, and One-h ali or the en-
pense was borne by the state TWO
wears later an expenditure OF Nj9VVV'VVo
was authorized. and later ON there was
an appropriation Of S3bVVo,OOO at one
time.
This year the government has voted
10 spend SiO.OOOOuO In extending the
public works and beautfying the city
Two and oue-half million dollars is To
20 for charging the markets, Wlllch
are already the largest OF the word
one million six hundred thousand dol
lars is to he spent on the completion OF
the Palace Of Justice. and large sums
on the extension of the boulevard sys-
TEN The Champs Elysees is to be
heightened, new bridges are TO be- bullt
over ;he Seine and new technical
schools are to be established Paris
steadily moves onward Like her people
she delights in new clothes and appfe-
ciates that 1t pays TO primp ana pow
der She IS making many sanitary im-
provements and with her wide boule-
Yards and her many parks and open
places she has today 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 well kept. The streets are swept
every day by an army Of 5000 men ana
boys and at night there are street.
sweeping machines which push all the
dust and dirt into the cutters, from
where il IL washed In the early morning
into the sewers with the hose, 1t costs
Paris almost s. 600 a year to flush
rubbish. It costs more than that 70
light and clean the public promenades,
and about $1,000 600 to keep the streets
in repair. Altogether the streets are
better kept than those of any other
European city. with the possible eS.
ception Of Berlin. They are well paved
with wood and asphalt. and you can
drive upon them for miles without a
jolt
PARIS FROM THE EIFFEL TOWER,
| doubt, In fact, whether there is a
more beautiful city IN the world. / took
the elevator yesterday and mounted to
the top of the Eiffel tower for bird s.
eye view Of the French metropolis,
was a thousand feet above 1t, so high
w luHl the men NdlhlHE HlpIE Alt
streets below looked like crawling bugs
and those carrying umbrellas like gil
gantc beetles. The street cars were no
larger than baby express wagons, and
the automobiles made me think Of toy
engines flying along.
At that height the city looked more
like map or model town cut out for
the occasion. Acres assumed the size
OF town lots, and mighty buildings
looked no bigger than the Noahs arks
which you buy in the toy stores,
Everything was wonderfully clean, as
though II had just come from the hands
Of the polishers. II was vast coIlec-
tion of cream walls and lead.coOred
roofs, cut by gray streets. with the sill
very Seine winding It's way through
from one end 10 the other. Just under
me was the Hotel DIES lnvalides. It's gol-
den dome covering the tomb Of the
great Napoleon, and on the other side
Of the Seine the beautiful Place de Ia
Concorde. where Marie Antoinette and
thousands of the French nobility lost
their lives by the guillotlne l could
see the TuIllerles, and with my glasses
distinguished the statue Of Lafayette
put up by our Daughters OF the Amer-