The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-31
PARIS HAS GREAT
 CIVIC SCHEME Will Spend Millions In Beauti-
 lying the City AND IMPROVING HEALTH Dramatic Scene of Apache savasery Is Enacted In French capItal-As- sassin Swears to Kill Two
 Officers.
BY GEORGE DUFREsNE.

aPris, January 0.-<Special. .)-One of the grandest schemes ever devised by A municipality has been sanctioned in Paris It involves a sum of 0,000, the sx- penditure of which Is to be spread over IS years at the rate of $10 900 a year. Practically 1t means that Paris is to be brought up to date
 In some respects it remains a mediaavaI city. Congeries of narrow, El-paved and worse lighted streets exist on the left bank of the Seine, remnant of the days of Henry ". It is not proposed, Of course. to sweep away all these old and picturesque ehoroughfares, which hide SO much history and present 90 much artis- tic interest in their actual shape; but 1t is intended to widen and straighten and continue the great main avenues of tho city that are necessary for the develop ment of its traffic and are, indeed, im- possibly congested at the present mo- ment.
 This grandiose project, which implies the spending of a vast sum of money, is really the completion of the Ideas of Baron Haussmann, the great prefect of Paris under the second empire, who per- formed tremendous exploits in the laying out of Paris. The great avenues that radiate from the Nstoile Gas the quarter is called where stands the Arc de Triom- phe) is his work; the splendid Boulevard Haussmann that runs parallel to the Grand Bou1evards, but unfortunately stops short at the Rue Taibout, is . fur ther monument to his genius. Being @ man of energy and capacity the Baron gave himself ten years to accomplish all his scheme; but, alas. it has taken his successors six times that period to give a practical interpretation to his dreams of brick and stone.
 m f1ara rrovfQion for some of the most alluring features of the Paris of tomorrow, as imagined by enthusiasts. One of these schemes had to do with the demolition of the fortin- cations and the planting in their place of a wide. green belt of public gardens and tree-lined boulevards. That is aban- doned for the moment Another project was to link Paris moro closely to the sea by deepening the Seine, so as to enable ships of a considerable tonnage to como to Paris and, further, to construct splsn- did docks on the site of the quays. This ambitious scheme has had to give way to moro practical and pressing reforms.
 The sum of ss7,3AO,ooo is to be spent on street widening and new thoroughfares. Something less than third Of that sum is to be devoted to the improvement of the water supply of the city Complaints
  ic; 1t Is proposed to remove their just cause. By the sinking of new wells, by the tapping of new sources and by su- perior methods of filtration, Paris hopes to live down It's evil reputation for mi- crobe-infested drinking water. And it will succeed.
 A large part of the new loan-s17. .25o GOO is to be devoted to the construction of new schools and the improvement of tho old. bringing them up to modern re- Quiremsnts as regards sanitation and air space. This expenditure Is rendered nec- essary by the suppression of a number of church schools. Over $1O,oo 900 is to go in bricks and mortar at the Central markets, where the food supply of Paris is concentrated of morning. Again. 5000 900 are to be expended on rebuild ing the slaughter houses of the city another very important reform.
 Ten millions go to new hospitals. The care of the sick has not been scientific in the past the buildings are abomina- bly old and dirty and most inadequate to the purposes for which they are in- tended, if one compares them with Ger man and American institutions. They are to be reconstructed on modern hy- genie lines. Model workmen's dwellings will absorb @6,ooo,0O0. New street paving will take $s.sOOoOo. This expenditure may