The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-07-15
PARIS BECOMES
REALLY FRENCH
Absence of Tourist and Decline in Traffic
Have Brought Great Change Since
the War Started.

Paris, July l5-(Correspondence Of
the Associated Press Paris has be
come quite French declared lately
arrived American, Il never heard SC
much French spoken in Paris before
In fact, as a result of the continuance
of the war, Paris to the foreigner seems,
if it is not so in reality, for the first
time since 1870 to be truly and obvious
| ly Gallo, to have put off its harlequinadc
costume of cosmopolitanism, its glitter
ing tinsel and garish nightlight; and to
have put on the more simple and sober
dress OF an earlier and less luxury-loy.
ing age
Paris has become, in word, provincial
chiefly owing to two cause.-the absence
OF the tourist and the decline i'll traitc
The city is far less crowded and busting
than usual. The dapason OF all the
notes in the hum of a great city's popu-
lation busy about its daily occupations
is lowered to what is almost murmur;
the boot of the taxi horn is heard less
frequently, and, the "barkers" at the
shows along the boulevard have ceased
to bark Want a guide, sir" is now
never, or hardly ever heard. The news
boys yell is sterny repressed by the
police.
The tourist element OF Paris is all
but entirely wanting Before the war,
especially at this season, tourists were
to be met with in all quarters OF the
city very considerable portion of them
Germans; now the comparatively small
number of strangers here are chiefly !
htose on business in connection with war |
contracts, and, of course, mostly men.
The almost total disappearance of the
private automobile is another thing |
that cannot fail to strike the visitor OF
to-day. Dublin was described by Lady |
Mary Montague as the "car drivingest
city in the world" Paris, for some few
years before the war, could with pro-
priety be described as the automobl-
irivingest city in Europe. Besides the
vast variety of cars owned by Paris res
Idents there was always stream Of
more less high powered and luxurious
tourist automobiles passing through on
their way to Brittany with its well
known seaside summer resorts, to Nor
mandy and to Houraine with their his
.Oric castles, or still further afield, right
through the middle of France, down to
3iarritz and the Riviera. This traffce
las completely ceased In its stead one J
ees hardly anything but slate colored /
II the ordinary taxicab. ETAOINNUNU :
motor wagons, Red Cross automobiles, !
II the ordinary taXicab. Taxicabs are
low hardly numerous enough to meet
he Inhabitants ordinary wants. This
earth of taXicabs is intensified by the
toppage, ever since the war began, of I
he convenient and rapid system of mo
or buses plying to and from all parts
t Paris.
They were requisitioned Immediately b
fter the war began and are reported TO Il
ave done yoeman's service in transfer ,
ing men and stores at and just behind :,
he front. -
One means of transport, however,
Gems to be as popular as ever-the
bateau- mouches" (boats as big asa -flyj
hich ply along the Seine from Chsren-
IN, by the Louvre, the Place de la Con- CO
ride, Passy and Auteuil, as far as Bel ei
yue. st. Cloud and Suresnes With the I
INNER weather they are more crowded 1t
ian in time of peace nor is it strpris- dc
g to find it 50 as the voyage OF some cf
ven or eight miles. much of it through az
city scenery, costs little more than JC
fe cents. of