The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-02-01

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/ Advertisement. Provisions were
distributed there by boats
The number of refugees arriving
was enormous, Clarendon alone send
ing in $4,000, who have come there
from Calais and other points,
| Many thrilling rescues are record
| ed The family of M. Barthou, for
mer Minister of Public Works, whose
| home in the Avenue d'Antin was sur
rounded, were taken out on the backs
of soldiers and rescued in boats.
Schools Closed.
A large number of the schools are
closed because of the lack of heat.
Practically all the flooded towns
above and below Paris were without
light and several of them without
water. Their inhabitants were hasti-
ly leaving.
The Chamber of Deputies held a
sitting in the water-beleaguered Pa
lais Bourbon, believing that an adj
journment or transfer of their ac-
tivities to Versailles, as had been sug-
gested, would only serve to arouse the
popular panic. Parliament voted a
bill extending business notes one
month
Messages of sympathy and offers of
assistance are pouring in upon the
Government from individuals and So
cieties from all over the world.
American Ambassador Bacon re-
ceived a sheaf of cables from indi-
viduals in New York City, Chicago
and elsewhere offering money to re-
lieye the suffering. Those messages
were communicated to the Foreign
Office, which replied that individual
contributions would be gratefully ac-
cepted. Mr.. Bacon announces that
contributions sent to the Embassy
will be forwarded in the proper chan
nels.
Quarter of City Inundated.
1t is difficult to present a mental
picture of the geographical limits of
the submerged area of Paris, but
roughly speaking, it is estimated that
the surface inundated from the Seine,
which must not be confounded with
the overflow in the back streets from
sewers and subterranean rivers, COW
ers about nine square miles, one one
quarter of the city.
Beginning above where the Seine
enters the fertilization, every quay
was under water, and practically the
entire Eleventh ACCOMPLISHMENT, the
largest in the city, was submerged,
the flood extending back from the
Quai de Bercy and the Quai de La
Rapee to the Place de la Nation and
the Place de la Bastille.
Just below, as far as the Place du
Chatelet, behind the Quai des Celes-
tins and the Quai Henry W, water
covered the old Marais to a depth of
twelve feet. The lower quarters of
the lie st. Louis and the lie de la
Cite, where Notre Dame is situated,
and Immediately opposite, were COW
cred; the streets in front of the Tuil-
leries Gardens, the Louvre and the
Museum were completely immersed,
and the same condition existed in
patches in the Place de la Concorde
Thence, in rectangle bounded by
the river and the Avenue Champs
Elysees, a sheet of water surrounded
the Grand and Petit Palaces four feet
deep.
The police forced the evacuation
Of entire streets in the lie de la Cite
and the lie st. Louis, where the
houses were in danger of collapsing.
Below the Trocadero the flood wild
ened until at Auteuil it reached back
half mile.
Water on Left Bank Deeper.
On the left bank of the Seine the
water was generally deeper in the
flooded districts. Beginning above
the city, it covers a major portion of
the Thirteenth ACCOMPLISHMENT back
as far as the Gobelin factory, and
thence, except for Ste. Genevieve
Hill, on which the Pantheon is stu
ated, it is bounded by st. Germain
Boulevard to a point back of the Pa
lais Bourbon. This district is called
the Old Latin Quarter, and comprises
the law courts, the Institute DIES
Beaux Arts, the Mazarin Palace and
scientific publishing houses.
Further below the water surround
ed the Foreign Office and swept back
across the Esplanade DIES Invalides,
and from that district to the Champ
de Mars, where the Eiffel Tower
stands. Transverse streets, like Bon
aparte, throughout this area, were
under from two to five feet of water
and were accessible by boats.
Below the Champ de Mars to the
fortitications the Juvel district was
submerged back to the Rue Lecourbe,
distance OF nearly mile from the
river, in many places the water reach
ing to the second stories of houses.
The water in the Bots de Boulogne
fertilization reached the Grand Cas-
cade, and below the river was one
third of a mile wide over the entire
plain opposite the palisades.
Public Services Crippled.
The public services continue badly
crippled. The mails are slow and un-
certain. The telegraph lines were
down in every direction, and commu-
nication with Holland, Denmark and
Austria, and many or the cities and
towns in France was completely cut
off. The telephone was practically
abandoned in Paris, it being impossi-
BILE to serve three-quarters of the sub
scribers
The newspapers were filled with
pages of pitiful and terrifying details.
Business was almost at a standstill,
and the hotels are crowded with per-
sons who have fled from inundated
homes. The prices of necessaries ad-
vanced by leaps and bounds as the
paralysis of transportation facilities
entering the city extends.
Within the city there was practical
ly no means of transportation except
by cabs and taxi-autos, the owners of
which charged fabulous prices. The
steam tramways, which were the only
surface lines remaining after the cleo
trio cars tilled, were unable to move,
as the water had entered the engine
boxes. Communication by omnibus
and autOhuS hetWaan tha two cidac