The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-11-01
"a Avenue Dapples, Lausanne, Switzer,
land,

land,
October 5, 1908.
Editor Advertiser: Having complied
with all the usual legal formalities for
securing permission to live in this beau
tiful city, we are fairly settled in our
dress, and for the coming six months or
more may be considered as residents
of Lausanne. As some of your readers
may also wish to settle for time in
Switzerland for their benefit I will
state that to do so it is imperative to
obtain a "Permis de Domicile' On
applying for it at the police station [
had to state the date and place of birth
of myself and of each member of my
family, the street number and the par
ticular fat of the house in which L
proposed to live, to deposit my pass
port with the police authorities AMI TO
pay the sum of three francs Any
change of address must be Immediately
reported to them. On finally leaving
this city my passport viii be returned
to me.
OF the 10000 inhabitants of Lau-
same, including it's port of Ouchy on
the lake, 1874 were reported as living
in first and seconded hotels between
the 9th and 18th of September of this
year. OF this number there were 900
Americans and 9Sl English as well as
French, Swiss, Germans, Italians, Rus
slams and other nationalities. Besides
the hotels there are many large build
ings subdivided into flats, each occu-
pied by separate family with IT'S own
domestic arrangements. In this build |
ing, for example, there are nine other
flats besides our own, all but one of
which are at the present moment fully
occupied. In general the hotels are
crowded and it is difficult to find fur i
nished fat unoccuped. Many new
hotels and other large buildings are in |;
process of construction. The streets are
being extended and new ones laid out, |
while the population increases by about |
$500 per annum. Lausanne is a city !
of large buildings. The people usually
live in flats, comparatively few having
houses to themselves.
Everything is done by paternal city
government to attract tourists and !
make their stay pleasant and satisfac.
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careful record of every hotel and board
ing house in the city and from time
to time visit them with trained special |
lists to inspect every detail of their |
working to insure that nothing is wrong |
with the house, the cooking utensils, |
the food and the drink. The chimneys |
must be free from SCOT, the metal pots |
and pans must be clean, the food must |
be wholesome and the wine must come |
up to the prescribed standard of ex |
cellence. The milk and meat is in |
spected at the store where it is sold |
Often, ] am told, the inspector will hap
pen around at midnight, to take the |
dealer off his guard. The coal merchant /
is careful to see that his sacks of coal |
are full weight, for well he knows that /
at any time the police may. stop his |
delivery cart on the street and weigh |
the sacks. Should an inspector be found /
to fail in his duty he is liable t. be |
called to severe account An example !
may be given of case that. l am told, |
happened in this city about three years
ago. An expert, sent to inspect the |
stoves and heating arrangements in a |
certain house, reported everything t be |
in satisfactory condition. Later a
Russian student was found in one of
the rooms of the same house asphyxiat-
ed by gas escaping from the stove. The
inspector was reprimanded and heavily
fined for neglect of duty
In general the city is a model of
neatness. Fine hedges and pretty beds
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