The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-02-16
PARIS SEWERS WITH THE COLD Queer Customers on the
 Streets. WOLVES DRIVEN TO TOWN
 e. rspch People Organizing to Hun
 Them. Ll,y laassry Lives i. Regal style at Monte Carlo ana Has Cleaned
 Up s,x Sum at
 Tables.
BY HENRI DUBOIS.

Paris. Feb. 15.-Paris is shivering with cold, A Siberian winter holds the city in its grip and with it's an tiquated houses. the majority of which are heated by braziers only, Paris IS about one of the most uncomfortable places in the world during cold snap.
 The costumes you see in the streets during these days are ridiculous to the extreme. You see people trotting along wearing four coats, one on top of the other, their heads bundled up in wooden kerchiefs from which the noses only protrude. And the shawls' Formerly there was only one shawl If, Paris. but that one was famous: u was the white ,cache-nez which old Vtc- torien Sardou wears when he goes to rehearsals of his plays. He wears It wound three times around the neck, one end thrown across the shoulder, and he hides his old woman's face In fs entirely wheneveE anything annoys him.
 Today sardou's shawl is eclipsed. for everyone wears a shawl, gigantic wool en monsters in all the colors of the rainbow.
 On Alexander III bridge I saw a man who on top of his overcoat wore quilted womanss coat held together around the waist by a heavy scarlet silken cord such as is used for cur tains, and droll though he looked, no one laughed at him. The cold is too serious to allow even the gamins of the street to laugh. S
 The number of deathH from cold is alarming, the poor have died by the score. for. there are always thousands of homeless here and all the shelters and public lodging houses of Paris can hold only i.2o0 people.
 The merchants are in despair, the trains are hours and even days late, telegraph aud telephone lines are down all over the country, everywhere you hear sneezing and cough ing and when anyone is late at tfwork or neglects his duties he planes 1t on the cold.
 This naorning I tried to>make first my concierge and then the letter car- red understand that journalist can. not exist without his newspapers. The reply in both cases was the same: "Mais, monsieur, que voulez vous, douze degres an dessonsr' What can you expect. sir, at twelve degrees belowf" As if the newspapers had been stopped by the cold like the milk delivery. or course half an hour later I found my papers in the concierge's lodge down. stairs hidden under a monster shawl. vintage of 1894, when Paris saw simi- lar cold snap
 The w.ntry weather has proven that wolves are yet to be found in France in great numbers. Tn packs they have left the forests and descended from the mountain driven by hunger. In many places the peasants are afraid to leave their houses after. dusk.
 The people of the little villages around Dijon. situated on the outskirts of the forest lands. have arranged grest wolf hunts.
 Every night at sunset the inhabitants turn out with torches. lanterns, and picks for a battue. During the last few days the sterving wolves have been leaving the forest and attacking the villages. Three days ago a man was attacked at night on the high road by what at first he took to be a dogs< He had no light, but shouted at the beast and kicked him with his heavy hob nailed boots. driving him off. The same night the farm yards were raided.
 Yesterday little girl very nearly fell a victim. She was attacked by a great wolf within a hundred yards of her fathers house. The father heard her call for help. and dashed a lantern which he carried full in the face of the brute. which bolteds
 The authorities have sent criers round the villages warning the inhabi- tants not to go out without light af- ter dark. So bold have the animals become that even in Dijon itself-a town of 6S 900 inhabitants. and some distance from the forest land-there is considerable anxiety