The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-14


3 h. G.. g o., cut ere too la e
and hey coald not accommodate US
!. so We AIRED out to wax again
g e tried to h.r a "a i also but were
unsucc ssfu, not knowing the ropes
ty attent on was attract d by the
statue of one Etienne Marcel; then
We boarded a street car on Rue St.
Den and Poul eTard Strlsbours, and
passed the Plac Du Chatel t Tower
s. Jacques. and alighted from the
car at the Palace of Justice look d
around II, and spied the river Seine.
which is one continual seem OF beau
~. with its marvellous bridges and
dornments. statues and buildin IS. So
We crossed the river to the Hotel de
Vile (city halD and hotel. Here. they
say. the pres dent will be enterta ned
while in Paris. Then across the sire Il
from here We entered an old looking
church, and were fortunate TO meet a
man who gave US brief history of it
1t was Church St Garvis, the old and
urieina portion b ing about 700 years
old. The newer section or addition be-
ing about 300 years old They were
over a hundred years building the
original portion.
This church was hit oy the Ger
mans with their long range guns,
there being services at the time 1t
was struck, and full of people, the
stones that fell, together with the
shell, killed about 200 people. II is
now being repaired. All the old and
valued stained glass windows were re-
moved at the beg inning OF the war
to protect them, and the valued works
of art and sculpture were protected
with bags of sand and DIRT piled over
tlem. Iney were taking the protec-
tions down all over the city. 1t must
have been a tremendous job to DO
just that
Next we recrossed the river at the
Isle OF ST. Louis, and visited the fam
Gus church OF Notre Dame. The next
church that attracted me was st.
Etienne du Mont. it appeared very old
on the outside, but the wood and stone
carvings inside were marvellous. Near
ii is the Pantheon, and in this same
district we passed several buildings OF
the University of Paris. Consulting
our map again we proceeded to the
Palace of the Senate. with the garden
of Luxembourg in front OF it. This
garden is most beautiful and | stood
spellbound and amazed at its beauty
and the myriads of statues; from this
garden We could see the observatory
in the distance. Now we walked to
the Boulevard Montparnassee and
boarded a street car asking to go to
Les Inyalides, with the aid of a couple
of passengers who seemed eager to
assist us the conductoress compared
and we made it nicely. This is
hotel, museum. church. and what not,
oil ha dnr1a
is the tomb of Napoleon l. 1t is white
marbl einside. and the pale blue and
gold-stained windows made most
pleasing light effect. This light play
ing on the canopy over the entrance
to the tomb was superb
I'VE could not see the tomb, but saw
its location, as it was covered with
sandbags. dirt and scaffolding for pro-
lection from shell fire. etc, but we
bought some postcard views of it,
THE Ferris wheel was next, and
was running when We arrived, SO we
took a ride, it took about Is minutes
to go around. From this We again
got a good birdseye view of the city.
1t reminded me a great deal of the
view OF Washington from the monu-
ment, but much larger and grander.
The Eiffel Tower being not far
away we walked over near it, then
crossed another magnificent bridge to
the Palace and Garden Trocadero.
The garden here is stunning, and my
next favorite to the Garden of LuXem-
bourg. The section to the west
seemed to be a resident side, and
here were many beautiful large apart
ment houses, which seems to be their
favorite way of living, as We did not
see any small homes at all like we
have in our resident sections in the
states. From here we walked up Ave
nue. Kleber, which appeared to be the
home OF foreign consuls, and reached
the Arch of Triumph-it seemed that
all roads lead here, as they came in
on all sides, the principal one being
Avenue Des Champs Elysees. which
we travelled The Arch of Triumph
was encircled with captured guns of
every size and description, and the
Champs Elysees was lined with them,
about twenty feet apart down to the
Place de la Concorde. which is large
square for public gatherings. This
was filled also with captured guns.
I'VE now caught a glimpse of some
large statues through the trees and
followed it, arriving at the Grand Pal
ace and the Petit Palace; and between
them on the west, Pont Alexandra III,
this is my favorite bridge, and surely
is beauty From here we walked
up Rue Royale to Church Madeleine
and entered; this has very old ap-
pearance, and as 1t was getting dusk,
was very dark inside.
'As the day was most done, and we
wanted to do little shopping, we did
so, and returned to the ~ (Hotel du