The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
PARIS EAGER TO WELCOME Us
GRIEvES THAT TINE FLOOD
mas KEPT VISITORS AWAY.

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ness-The 1uburbs suffered Most.
ParisiAns. according 20 Charles simonet.
q French business man who 10 az the VOL
colt. have already forgotten about the
recent food. but the hotels and shop
keepers are suffering because OF the
opinion that the French capital 10 in the
same state that II was late In January.
An impression has gone out that there
10 no drinking water to bs had in Paris.
or what there IL IL contaminated. that
typhus fever abouDds and that the city -
without electric lights said VI. SimOnet.
As result many American tourists who
ordinarily would have been making their
way to Paris in th last few weeks have
been giving the city a wide berth. going
To other parts of the country. The hotels
are not doing half a. much business just
now a. they ought to be doing at his time
Of the year and the fashionable shops are
feeling the absence Of the usual thron g
OF visitors.
Why ! know a lot OF Americans who
usually come TO Paris IN February and !
had letters from them before | left Paris
which said they had gone To Italy direct.
as they were afraid to 90 To Paris a. yet.
That IL absurd
sh il true that the Metropolitan. the
underground railway. - still out OF husi'
ness. because the tunnels were filled With
water. They arc pumping away on that.
but there IN q lot of IL and u may he quite
a while before trains are running.
But in Paris itself there were only six
or seven days when conditions we're ~
had In "A dAy or two afteTward the
Psrislans were a. bright and gay and a.
hopeful ever. IL did not take long for
communications TAI he restored. II the
water had come just eighteen inches
higher Ira Paris II would have taken many
years to get over the disaster that would
have resulted. hut when the river sub
sided u was found that the damage WAS
not - serious IN PARIS itself - had h''*'n
thought For instance. Of all the bridges
along the Seine. aoIne Of which date more
than SD years hack. not one was seriously
damaged. The region about the Care
NJ. lsa&sre ~ the only part NJ Paris that
suffered hea y,ly, and this WAS on account
Of a new tunnel that the metropolitan was
building !, H. interesting 10 note that
white the Metropolitan - out 81 business.
has been for weeks and may 10 for weeks
To come. il stock has not taken u tumble
because there ~ confidence that u has not
deprecated much IN value and that "
will soon he earning again.
why the Paristan- De- not speak of the
flood any mor~. II would TAX" more
Nnan n UfNht ta lnNfFNs~f fhF1N NffF NNfN
days. In Germany under such CirCum-
stances you would find psople weeping
and vringing their hands IN despair The
Partisan. after the tirpt shock. smiles and
laughs and then goes bra Vely On.
Bat the suburbs II Paris aud the ''0'Ip-
try bordering upon the Ss.ln. hav" suffered
tremendously and are -till -'IherIng The
loes ~ figured AZ s2OD.Uots~l when !
left Paris for HaVre last Saturday the
country all along the way bordering upon
the Sein@ was -tsll under water. The
factories are sail CLOSED down and thous-
ands II people are out of work. still
ev-rybOdy - facing the situation "h"er-
fully The W.a~k afrar tho dood. ! went
up the river and T'..ppls ssrN plying their
daily occupations a. hs-at they could and
were laughing and enjoying thems..l yes.
The r~nch neNsF DESPAIR
4 have business IN Philadelphia. ard
from the news that was printed IA the
French papeT- I Vac alntO-, afraid ~
undertake the ting. a. the tiny dsspat ch.s
they printed gave the impression tha
Philadelphia wss almost "a the thTos>- Of
revolution. II vac relief Ia got here
and find that tralhs arc -I'll running there
from Now Work