Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1912-09-18
H0MEWARD BOUND FROM
TRAVELS THROUGH EUROPE
Interesting Letters Ended by Our
Foreign Correspondent
Concluded from last week.

of movement in Paris is at the Place
de Opera whence it extends
throu Oh the large boulevards from
la Madeleine 10 Rue Montmartre.
The Boulevsrds are the long aven-
ues that run from Place de la Made
leine to Pace de la Bastille; each
has it's individual rume but they are
called by the Parisans les Boule-
wards"
In Boulevards des Capucines are
the Credit Foncier. Olympia, Cercle
du Jockey Club. the Opera, Grand
Hotel, Theatre du Vaudeville and
Theatre des Capuciner. could write
you OF many more OF these kinds Of
places but the words have to copy,
being unable to spell them by sound
and it's quite troublesome.
The real life of Paris does not be
gin until the bed time OF the Ameri-
cans, and il you want to see the
sights you must remain up until
am. then when the working class
is beginning to move out for work
the life is moving in for sleep.
Alta given point on Broad way,
New York City, the statistics show
that 800, 900 persons pass daily;
State street, Chicago, 400, 600; Grand
Opera Paris, 100000 Friedrich
Strasse, Berlin, 300, 600; Royal Ex-
change Bank, London, 500, 000
From these figures you can wonder
how il is possible for such a mass OF
humanity to move every day and
have so few accidents. 1t is due
entirely to the police regulations.
Now. my dear readers, l have not
written you OF all saw, nor do
intend TO. for if l did l am sure
some of you would be Mortified or
mortified or ossified; so l will close
my little story by relating a few
every day happenings from the time
l leave Paris until l arrive on my
home land.
But before doing so will say,
would like for some of our county
farmers to see the farms in Ger
many, perfect gardens, no fences, no
weeds. no rocks, no sink holes, no
washed gulleys, lovely crops, every
spot of earth growing something OF
value. The trouble with many of
our farmers. they are land poor, be-
ing unable to till it properly them
selves and impossible to employ
satisfactory labor, the uncared for
land and taxes on same keep them
in cramped condition most OF the
time.
] leave Paris on special train
composed OF eight cars loaded down
with Americans and baggage, bound
for Boulogne, a French sea coast
harbor. After three and half hours
we arrive and transfer to finder,
q side wheel steamer which convey.
ed us out to sea where our steamer,
the Nieuw Amsterdam of the Hol
land American Line was in waiting.
IL udNluR l0lJ NObOSIudul bu0 tlOTu
ing Of the same day; so Saturday
night at 10. 80 we start for America |
once again. We have a crowd of nice
people on the ship, and | dare say
the voyage will be an agreeable as
we'll as a pleasant one. This steamer
is very fine ship as we'll as large
one; she is 1880 tons register and |
81, 600 tons displacement, 602 feet
long. has five decks. the promenade
deck is $50 feet long and 20 feet
wide. We have nearly 900 first
class, go second class, 500 steerage
and a crew of 400. The fires burn
240 tons of coal every day and we
make 16 knots per hour. We have
a large cargo composed OF almost
everything that is made in Europe. |
She is quiet Snip and rides the |
waves beautifully. Eight days of |
all kinds of weather, good and bad,
none real bad. no storm. three days |
of dark, cloudy, gloomy ones, rain
now and then and for the first time |
in my life | saw snow falling in
August. We had "a snow storm for
half an hour Tho ba lance were days |
OF sunshine and beauty. We arrive
10 New York harbor Monday. Aug
ust 10Th. All passengers go ashore
into the clutches OF the custom
house officers and after all kinds OF