Amador ledger. (Jackson, Amador County, Calif.) 1875-19??, 1907-11-08
TRAVELS ABROAD.
LETTER FROM PARIS

the boulevards radiate in every
direction like spokes of wheel.
This is about the best job Napoleon
did forParis, Strengthened some of her
crooked streets. This Arc on
slight elevation is 16O feet high and
264 steps lead to the top. 1t takes
some hard breathing and leg work to
get there, but it's worthSthe trouble
to get the view. By the way some of
the chestnut trees on the boulevards
are getting second crop of blossoms
and leaves. The Louvre Palace with
its art galleries and museum is
wonder of long richly decorated halls
and rooms, you can walk till weary
and not see half. We imagined We
had seen some of the finest before we
saw this, but so far nothing can COM
pare with the Louvre for greatness
and spendor.
One could spend week or two see
ing this one place alone. Most of
the finest paintings in France are
here, as we'll as statuary, ancient
Egyptians, Greek, Romans aud other
works of art and curios gathered by
Napoleon during his wars. The
bedrooms are open to the public,
but we only went into that of the
Empress. There are also two crowns,
diamond hilted sword, the famous
Koohinoor diamond, some fine
rubies, ancient gold and silver
jewelry on exhibition, guarded of
course.
The Luxumburg Palace Art Gallery
is also fine, but small. There are
several more museums here, but we
were satisfied with seeing the best,
and one becomes weary OF seeing
antiquities unless making it study.
The next sight Is the Eiffel Tower
aud the Ferris wheel, not far from
the Trocadero, with fine parks around
each. The Grand Opera House is
truly grand, and the Opera Comique
also. the latter had MADAME Butter
fly" staged, but it was not comic and
only four singers with small chorus
that appeared only once.
A visit to the Bourse or stock ex-
change will show a large crowd of
excited spectators and a massive
building. The ,Palais Royal is an
immense arcade of shops or stores
covering several blocks.
As we did not get into the country
we don't know anything of how
people live and die, except what we
saw from the car windows. Here
women work in the fields, and in the
city even the cabs are being driven
by women. cit san innovation and the
old cabbies and boys guy and josh
them as they drive along. The
women have to help support the
family of the working classes, for it
takes great many men to wear the
uniform of the grand army. Officers
and men go around with their side
arms or sabers dangling at their heels,
what for we don't know. There is no
money in sight and they were not on
duty. Probably they must always be
ready for any emergency.
Hotel and restaurant prices are
about the same as in America. you
pay for everything you get, including
bread and napkins also charged. In
England napkins are seldom seen in
restaurants. Considering our lack of
knowledge of the language we got
along first rate, everyone being will
ing to give all Information possible.
Sometimes we did more walking than
would have been necessary could we
have understood better. Crossing the
streets one must keep sharp lookout
for there is no regard for foot
passengers, and at only few very
difficult CROSSINGS do the police stop
traffic occasionally. This is managed
better in New York and London.
The streets are we'll kept and we'll
cleaned by washing water being IN
good supply, but baths IN hotels are
a rarity and specially advertised if to
be had and charged if used about 75c
with use of soap and towel. There is
a strange custom in England and on
the continent in regard to baths. The
swimming or pool baths are of two
classes, first and second class. The
first class the most, of course, for the
water is only used one day or so, and
then it is used for second class for
day or two. What becomes of it
then we do not know, probably, used
for fertilizing. Tub baths in Eng