The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-10
| PARIS WANTS
 GOOD PHONES Worse Than in Amer
 ican Cities. THE GREEN GROcERs WAR New Mechanical Toys Are h.
 vented. Bleriet Writes of the Air Currents, Which. are ss Mysterious and
 which form. such . menace to Aviators
TIE GREEN GRocERs WAR
(By Al, w, L,Ameureux.l

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 (By A. w. L,Ameureux.)
 Paris. Oct. 9.--M Milierand, the new Minister of Public Works. is celebrat- ing scheme for the complete organi- xation of the telephone service in Paris l
 His plan. which will be presented to Parliament at the autumn session. Win require an outlay of $20,o0O, 900 but public opinion in Paris will undoubt- ly support the Minister In his effort to render the telephone service here worthier of great capital than it is to-day.
 The chamber of Commerce. the Muni- cipal Council, and the Council General will. in M. Millerand's scheme. be call ed upon to assist the State in providing for the improvement of the service.
 One of the anomalies of the present situation Is that successive Ministers have found 1t impossible to diminisn the telephone charges simply because they feared a serious increase in the number of subscribers, and the State given the existing organization, is incapable of satisfying even the pre- sent subscribers.
 M. Millerand means to put an end to this scanda1ous state of things. The present annual charges are $S0.
 He proposes to lower them to $60.
 Beets, cabbages, and turnips have flown and the air has been thick with vegetables these last few nights out side the Central Markets.
 Late young men who go home with the milk often sup at the Halles on the way to watch the fray.
 The great market gardening civil procession of carts, white and green with califlowers or pink carrots, built up into neat stacks. has gone on in- creasing as Paris grew and hungered for more vegetables.
 Of late a certain street next to the Hailes, where by ancient tradition market gardeners gather to do business with the wholesale trade In the early hours, has been completely blocked.
 The police accordingly issued a con- siderate regulation extending the al- lotted standing room for carts into another street. But dealers kept con- servatively to the old street, and mar ket gardeners found that when they put up in the new reserved space they did no business.
 Cabbage Carts Come.
 As it was first come first served, the result was a race from the suburbs to the Hailes. and at last the process sion of vegetable carts began to appear in the Rue de Rivoli and the Avenue de LOpera by seven in the evening.
  in the busiest part of the day The police. to stop this, arranged a system of lots and the lucky drawers took up their places in the old traditional street Then the trouble began.
 The unlucky gardeners refused to submit to chance. and instead of ai- lowing themselves to be regulated to the new street, where for some Sfnyster- ious reason less business is said to be done, stormed their colleague posi- tions. The Halles population has no patience with half-measures, and the ladies of the market gardening world are hardly less war-like than the men.
 Battles royal have been the eonse- uuences, and volleys of vegetables have laid many a combatant low.
 The police, between the two armies. have been knocked about also, and one inspector. who in a daring moment stepped in as a peacemaker, had very bad time of 1t in the clutches of the market ladies.
 By means of a dozen or so arrests nightly of the most excited sons and daughters of the soil. who are released the next morning when their heads are cooler. 1t is hoped that peace will be eventually restored.
 M Paul Douner. Reporter to the Budget Commission for 1si0. has been in the South for the pas days inquir. ing into the greivancss of the wine growers. R
 It is said to find that crisis still exists among the vineyards of this sunny southern shore. In some senses more acute than ever. The fact re- mains that wine-drinklng Is largely going out of fashion in France.
 The good red and white wine. which accompanied every repast is no longer the absolute rule Numbers of the rising generation of Frenchmen do not drink wine at all; others have substi- tuted beer for the juice of the grape
 Time was when every man who be- took himself to a cafe for the transac- tions of business or simply ts pass au hour drank ha1f-a-bottie of some light Bordeaux vintage. But that was the perioi before the breweries of the North of France began to pour out the light palatable beers which have ad- ministrated such a blow to wine-drink- ing.
 The Wine Bushes
 It is also to be said that the viti- culteurs themselves are partly to blame for the indifference of the public to .-,or~a yn he H,tIl uhap