The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-29
Immense Avenue Will Have Six
 Roads
FOR DIFFERENT TRAFFIC
Will Be In a Straight Line for 20 Miles Further-Commiss Works On Ways and Means for
 Extension.
By MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.

Paris, November 2S.-No American who has ever been in Paris but has ad- mired and traversed from one end to the other the splendid avenue of the Champs Elysees which, beginning at the very heart of the great city runs for six Kilometres out to the suburban heights known as the Heights Of Neurlly.
 Now there is q project for carrying out the original plan of NJ. Alphand The plan is to continue the great ave nue straight away to the forest of Saint Germain a distance of 20 kilo- metres Delegates have been chosen from the two departments through which this avenue will be cut-in an absolutely straight line, mark you and a commission is studying the ways and means.
 The immense avenue will have at least six roads-one for carriages, one for equestrians, one for automobiles, one for electric trans and in addition to the bicycle track, the usual side walks for pedestrians. There will be even speedway for speed-loving mo- torists; and here they may smash themselves up gratis, without fear of fine or reproach-and so be it.
 I am told that the municipality of New York has police ordinance hning heavily anyone creating a disturbance near a hospital. This is a wise and humane provision. Parisians should be the first to applaud it, since Paris is the noisiest city in the world and be- comes daily more dangerous to live in.
 Another wise measure is signalled from Germany. It has to do with the of nj iprar re ba in is, I believe, very profitable. Now the Germans wish that these profits should go to the poor. In many cafes, restau- rants and beer halls sigar cutters are inserted in the tables and the cigar end falls into a locked receptab1e un derneath the table.
 A charitable society is at work placing these machines for collecting tobacco in all public establishments and beer halls throughout the cigar-smoking land. The profits on the sales of the tobacco will go to purchase clothes for the poor at Chrstmastide. According to official re- ports 19 such societies in various towns gathered in 1907 over 469 pounds of to- bacco which sold for a trifie over $60OO a sum sufficient to cloth completely 1726 children
 The European powers have given their appreciation to the Turkish revolution. The King of England has expressed pub licly his appreciation to Khiamil Pacha; and the German Emperor who has all ways approved and protected the auto cratic government of the Sultan, even at the time of the Armenian massacres, has congratulated Abdul -Hamid upon his un- conditional surrender to the revolution. And from all this are we to conclude that the Turkish revolution has sue ceeded?
 It seems that before being sure of it we shall have to know what the little nations on the frontiers of Turkey think of it. The Turks have never needed them save when they wanted to pillage them or massacre them That aside, they let them He as they please, fight with each sther, plunder each other, keep the peace. It was Anarchy tempered with massacre" as MT. Helis Barker will defined it.
 publicist thought was the fault, not so much of Abdul-Hamid and his predeces- sors on the throne, as it was of Ma hommed and the Koran. The Koran is the source of all the institutions of the Musselman people-be those institutions e religious or political, civil of domestic, public or private. And it does not seem possible that Turkey can be reformed and made into a modernsstate unless the Turkish religion is changed and the su- preme authority of the koran is abol- ished But is such an essential reform of Mahometanism possible?