New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31

And Lyons has a past. as well as wealth
and numbers.
Has any American city ever meant, ~
Tic last analysis. one man? Has 1t e.
pressed him in a hundred innovations or
establishments, while kceping intact as
original stamp Of character? New towns
1ften express some one man or group
DAYTON. Ohio. has expressed John II. Pat
terson. and Gary, Indiana, has expressed
the Steel Trust. and certain powder
town has expressed the du Points Of Della
vere.
But Lyons is now new and easily I'M
pressible. After all. it was not Herriot
who created the place. as the Pullman
Company or the Steel Corporation or the
Powder Works have created their towns.
Lyons has great deal Of traditional ira
dition Of wonderful cookery, for example.
If YOU have not tasted RIVERS UoiGlUe gros
eel at his second story establishment at
Place des Terreaux, No. /. or Nine. FIJI
lioux's qpenelles az grdtin (Rue Duquesne,
near the Park you know, after all, very
little about good eating. But not every
one Of Lyons's traditions is so pleasing
as a meal chez FiHiour, or 90 Jolly as
supper at the Brasserie George when the
University is in session. Thanks to the
silk industry. where work is done, not in
factory which it is 20 the employers IN
terest TO maintain At certain Level OF
cleanliness and wellbeing, but at the la
borers' homes. and with this piecework
awarded according to the state Of the mar
ket. which has meant irregularity Of en-
poyment and cruel competition between
the workers, the town has formerly been
celebrated for its disorders and rebellious-
ness. "A mandatory for Socialism, was,
in effect. Taine's summing up in 1868.
And the hilosopher-historian found Lyons
a doleful town. second London.
Munitions and Pulehritude
Not so |. For one thing there are the
women Of the city; uncommonly good TO
look at, and, if blessed with less chic than
your Parisienne. even when she is wearing
black. at least blessed with more Of figure
and good health. Few cities twice the size
Of Lyons can show 50 many good looking
women of all classes. and even in The Tu-
nitions works, where labor is no Joke and
chiffon is taboo, the average remains high.
Taine. visiting Lyons fifty-three years
ago. was denied the domestic scene which
struck me in one great factory turning out
shells for 75's. Three redhot shells stood
in a corner; on top of them pretty young
woman in a black apron had placed the
containing her luncheon-an
honest mutton stew. In half minute that
stew was merrily steaming. ] caught her
eve and she broke out laughing; the incou-
oruitv of it all answered 10 all the dcrnl'
lions Of humor by Bergson and George
Meredith. Those three shells may or may
not destroy trenchful Of Prussian Guards
but in warming the stew Of this good
cheyenne they had already performed !
submit fully adequate function.
Tame did not appreciate Lyons Nor
had NJ. Herriot. in Taine's day, inaugu-
rated the system of municipal kitchens
which so lightens the load Of the laboring
classes Nowadays. anyway, one has no
need of going 70 Germany in quest of civic
eesciency That IS sorle comfort 10 those
u.bo hate TO use a *" in spelling culture
Yes. the modern Lyons, with its greater
of industry, is at once more
cheerful and more prosperous than in EN-
pire DAYS; seemingly it is, IN wartime
more cheerful, and decidedly
more prosperous, than Paris. This TAR