Bisbee daily review., 1908-05-15
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 Paris. Franee. ApriI q


 and obseryatfons Of past history and present conditions.
 NY first letter will be devoted to n the Paris of today and some of the things which make it the greatest city /. in the world, of all the great cities ! I have seen under nine flags in Eur ope, Asia and Africa, Paris Is in thS lead in many things. especially in it's wide streets. spacious bouleyards street cars, omnibuses and carriages. Nearly all the omnibuses, street cars, and suburban trains are two stories high and the upper part carries pas sengers one cent cheaper than the low CT deck. The carriage drivers charge by the hour and give you a ticket just like car conductor, and there is ney- CT any overcharge. Besides these above mentioned eonveyances 1t would require London and Berlin combined to equal Paris in the number of au- itomobiIes. I never expected to see such a number of automobiles in one place as there are here. The whirring of the machines and the believing oi the gongs have nearly unbalanced my | nerves and I am glad when night comes and can retire to the hotel for rest The speed limit in Paris is very high and this naturally encour- ages expert chauffers and they are surely the best drivers I have ever seen. We had two whole days car riage drive in Paris to all the import ant and historical places and many times I have counted twenty-five ar- tomobiles pass me on the streets in one minute and this rate at times would be continued for half an hour. Of course, there are accidents each day caused by this reckless driving; one day seven people were killed and wounded on the streets near my ho- tel. and only yesterday five were car ried to the hospital and the morsue. While on the subject of conyeyances 1 I want to mention the work done by the dogs in Europe. It is true that the rich people of Paris have ceme- tery where their dogs are buried but these dogs of the poodle variety. But every dog of any size belonging to the trades or working people Is at work i all day. All the hand carts used for hauling vegetables. laundry, and oth- CT light articles have traces attached to the axle underneath and the dogs are hitcned to these; and when the master starts to push the cart it Is surprising to see how ready the dogs are for work, pulling all the time with ambitious pride in their efforts. This rule applies likewise all over Switz erland, Belgium, Holland and Ger many; and from this many Americans Icould learn a lesson and employ their dogs which might bark less at night
 after working hard all day, T. is rare thing to see a dog loose on the streets and I never hear one barking at night Returning to the people oi Paris will say that they are busy with something all the time Their
 great city with it's palatial public buildings show that they have not been idle in the past years. Tn fact the people are energetic and are in a hurry about most everything except their esting-this is O? course. one saving quality in their rapid fife have never been able to eat either dinner or lunch at a hotel in less than one hour, 4 large dining room with two hundred people, and. strange to
 say. nc one seems to be in a hurry; all the nervousness and uneasy feel ing of the day are laid aside for the time being and plenty of rest and food
 are taken at a reasonable rate ot lspeed.
 But life does lose balances here land reason is often dethroned and men plunge down to ruin iR an hour. Every day in certain seasons some man is
 taken home killed by his owp hand Ior some unknown suicide is viewed 1T
 the morgue. Only two nights past tho richest banker ia Paris reused the ser lvants at The Grand HoteP by pis tol shot which blew out his brains that had been wrecked by a life too rapiC land too little sleep.
 In a large church one day I saw ar excited nervous man accompanied by
 {. priest and found out that the naI ihad appealed to the preist in his ap preaching crisis-which was the sen sible thing to do-and they wer' spending a time 10 this church fo meditation. - Then all the people in Paris seen
 to be on the go some where all da. long. I never saw the like any wher, else. When on the cars or boats ol the Seine, I think that everybody ha started somewhere and when I go t : the museum or art gallery ! am sur } that no one has remained at home tha day. One wet, muddy day escorte } three. other Americans to a very larg apartment store for shopping-spesB ing French made me necessary in tn
 party--and we thought that on accOun
 of the bad weather the crowd would b small. but t was worse than a eli lcus jam t was well worth an aTtici 10 purchase 1t in that crowd, muc less the price which one had to paJ which was not always the cheapest want to speak of the clocks i this country, for Paris lives by then There are two clocks on every raj lroad depot; the one on the outsid is always i've minutes faster than th one on the inside which indicates th leaving time of the train. This give the passenger five minutes of grace
 for he will hurry to the station by th time which he sees On the outside an viii thus arrive in ample time.
 imagine some railroad official go left one day by shaving the second too closely and gave the order for thi regulation of the clocks on ais depo
 which was afterwards adopted on a the other lines in the city.