Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-31
PARIS NOW WORKS
TO SAVE BUILDINGS
AS WATERS DROP
Engineers Concentrate Efforts
Toward Saving Structures
Which Threaten to Collapse.
ONLY FEAR NOW Is FROM
POLLUTION OF WATER MAINS
Health Officials Start Plan to
Disinfect and Purify the
Whole City.

PARIS. Jan. 31.-From midnight un-
til noon today the subsistence OF the
river Seine averaged only about third
of an inor an hour. The weather how
ever. continued favorable. with a ris-
ing barometer. The temperature was
slightly lower. The recession of the
waters in some of the streets was no
ticeable during the forenoon.
The situation at critical points was
ameliorated to a considerable extent
today, notably in the neighborhood Oh
the st. Lazare station. The engineers
now hope to be able within few days
to shore up the underground Workings
and SO prevent the collapse OF streets
and buildings which has appeared I'M
minent for several days.
Beginning this morning, the authori-
| ties concentrated their efforts on the
restoration of the crippled pubic serV :
] ices--the repair of telegraph, cable ana
| telephone lines and the reestaplishment
of the now demoralized railroad com
munication There Is no prospect OF
restoring the electric light, and power
systems this week.
! Preparations have been perfected tor
cleansing and disinfectng the city
J President Houx, of the Pasteur instr
| tute. in conference with other experts
| has decided upon a series of measures
which will nc carried out by the sanl-
tary officials The principal danger !;
considered to be from the polluted
water supply. The health authorities
have caused a house-to- house canvass
to be made warning the occupants
against reoccupying rooms which have
been flooded until the apartments have
been disinfected and giving instruc-
tions that water must be boiled before
used. AS the deposits of mud left by
the waters are removed from tbs
houses qucl1,.ine will be plentifulls
applied and walls cleaned and white
washed or painted.
The feciting of public prayers con-
tinues in the churches. Yesterday the
image of St. Geneyieve, patron saint ol
Paris, was carried in solemn procession
through the afflicted districts on tbs
left bank of the Seine.
Messages of sympathy and tinancia
contributions from abroad are still
pouring in. Among the numerous sum.
eabled direct from the United States
were $4,000 from the Standard Oh
Company, $4,000 from Speyer & Co,
and $1,000 from Frank J. Gould.
Armed detachments of the military
will be held in the inundated district:
within and outside the city until nor
NAL conditions are restored, to preven
pillaging.
DR.. Debovo. dean of the medica
faculty of the Academy of Medicine
was comparatively optimistic today, III
says that the pest of malaral disease
which enter the blood through the res
piratory organs can he avoided. Tn
principal danger Is from typhoid, tn
germs of \ which may be receive'
through the digestive channels If i'm
pure water is drunk.
1t was officially announced that tn
total fall of the river up to noon wa
two feet
+ The sidewalk at the corner of tn
Rue Caumartin and the Rue st. Lazar
, fell into the subway today. No on
was injured.
The small loss of life throughout tn
: period of disaster Is a surprising tea
y ture.
! The finvial department estimates tina
IL will be two weeks before the sem
g has returned to its normal estate ES
, citing row-boat chases after criminal
: on the outskirts OF the city occurre
during the night. III several instance
a the Apaches We're fired upon by the
q pursuers and three We're shot dea'
a Two others were hanged from lamr
q posts as examples Of the fate IN stoi
. for those detected in acts of pillage an
violence.
4 The women of the French nobilit
E are playing an important part In II
h work of relief.
O 1t is predicted that there will be
further fall of sixteen inches of II
o Seine by noon tomorrow The Mari
q has dropped three feet from its cre
= at Chalifert, and the Seine has r.
I ceded equally at Montereau. The Yonr
. remains stationary today.