The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
Old Fortlfications Of Paris, Built In
is4o Arc Choking the City iike
Band Around
Tree.
CHANGE CONTEMPLATED
Laborlng Glass Cannot Live Outside
tho Walls, So They Ars 70
Be Torn
Down.
rBy William Philip samms Paris cor

respondent of the United Press.]
PARIS, Nov. 29.-Gigantic plans
for the extension OF Paris have been
fornlulatd by Protect OF the Seine NJ.
Delaney, and If carried through as
they certainly will be In some form
or other, what Is now one of the
most congested cities IN the world
will be transformed into one OF the
most open.
For given space London has 161
inhabitants, Berlin 265 and Paris
$40. The, Notifications, built in 1910.
surrounding Paris. have been ltkened
to an iron band placed about a tree
while small but which Is slowly
choking the tree to death now that
1T has grown big. 1t being practically
impossible for the laIboring classes to
| i've outside the walls of the city on
account Of the peculiarly restricted
means of transportation, the poorer
/ quarters literally swarm with people,
rents are excessive, breathing spaces
rare, tuberculosis alarmingly frequent
and general sanitation bad
M. Delaney has drawn up plans
to remedy all that. First, the forti.
ficatdons are to go. This has ALREADY
been determined In this space, ex-
tending in a broad circle twenty-one
miles around the city, will be a tree
planted boulevard, public prnmenades,
Fairgrounds and the like, about 1920
acres being available for recreation
purposes.
Il But this is just started. With
the walls gone and a greater Paris"
encompassed. parks and Fairgrounds
, will absolutely surround the city.
From Nogent several miles to st.
Denis, on the northeastern side Of
, Paris, there will be continuous
playground with plenty OF grass and
trees, while on every side, all round
the town, the forts protecting Paris,
with their big guns sticking their
nozzles out, win be alive to the pat
ter of chndrens feet, the cooling OF
babes, the laughter of men and wom-
en- drinking in pure and health@iving
air.
Not since the second empire, when
Napoleon Eli appointed Baron George
Eugene Haussrnann prefect OF the
Seine has such a mighty change In
, the geography of Paris been contem-
a plated. What Haussmann did In cut
. ting through blocks of houses with
G great boulevards and avenues, open
i ing up public squares and shady
/ parks, NJ Delaney has planned to
do even on a still bigger scale When
8, he shall have finished unless the I'M
expected happens, Paris will have
z more than 1900 acres of recreation
ground inside her limits, or IA per-
n cent OF her territory
q Room having been provided for ex-
! pansion, and model tenements having
y been constructed by the city to house
! the working people in clean. open
: districts hitherto inaccessible to
them. M Delaney will turn his at
. tention to inner Paris Ramshackle
!. tenements, buried in torturous alleys
q and smelly lanes. will be torn out BY
l. the roots, the so-called streets made
Il into real thoroughfares, and model
. buildings. with cheap rentals put
3 back instead The sunshine is to be
turned in and musty smells ousted
a cleaner more breathable air is tc
sweep every quarter.
M. Delanney's doctrine is that pre-
j vention beats cure that mode
1t tenements are better than model hos
c pitals; that wide streets, playground
Is and sunshine and sanitation In hons.
le are a better philanthropy than free
q dispensaries whore conservatives arr
81 treated without charge.
IN The Pont Ges Arts. one OF the frs
&C. iron bridges ever constructed, span
ming the Seine from the Louvre mu
an scum to the institute is doomed
IL Commenced in 1902 and finished il
BE- 1904, the bridge de.ig9ed for foot pas
ne sengers only, must give way to an