The New York herald., 1921-10-02
PARIS Will Spend
MILLIONS AT ONCE
ON CITY BEAUTIFUL
Sites of Old Fortifications
to Become Fairgrounds
and Parks.
WORK FOR THE JoBLEss
Eventual Extension of City
Limits Included in Pro-
pOsals.

Special Cable to THE New YoxK HE1ALp.
Copyright. 1891. by THE New Yoax HunALp
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris. Oct. l..
Paris intends to spend 1875. coo. 600
francs to beautify and modernize its
parks and streets before the first Of
next January. But this is only the be-
ginning, as plans already approved
call for the expenditure of more than
10 1000, 100000 francs Of the last loan OF
S.000.0 100000 for various improve
ments. Naturally each reimbursement
is fighting for the lions share of the
improvement funds, as once the work
is started it will provide an easy solu-
ton for the city's unemployment prob
lem and it is even likely that the work
will attract thousands from the smaller
towns where the Industrial crisis is
menacing ordinary prosperity.
THE NEW York HERALD Bureau is
informed that work is to be re-
sumed on large scale to demolish the
old Notifications, the sites Of which
are to be transformed into Fairgrounds
for youngsters and parks for the older
citizens. The area behind Sorbonne
University is to be devoted entirely to
the construction Of a university city"
with modern hotel for students and
numerous clubs, swimming baths and
gymnasiums This will require several
million francs and depends on Govern
ment assistance, but the city fathers
do not intend to delay other projects
which were held up by the war.
Hospital improvements.
One of thc biggest Of these is the re-
modelling of the majority of the public |
hospitals, many of which are housed in
buildings two centuries old, with the !
floors rotting away and often verminous. |
while little space IL devoted to labora-
tories and operating rooms such as are
found in any American city.
Experts already are drawing up plans
for hospital changes as we'll rs PLAN
ming extensive anti-consumption and
anti-venereal campaigns covering every |
quarter Of the capital. Schools, mar
kets and streets also will not be over
looked. In the schools the Council In |
tends to install Immediately an Ameri- |
can system of inspection Of the health |
OF the pupils. while every school Is to |
be supplied with shower baths and mod |
ern watered sewer systems.
Prefect Leullier personally is visiting |
sections of the city which have been al |
lowed to become disgraceful as far as
sanitary measures are concerned, and |
has commenced his campaign for reviv- |
ing the century old ordinance against |
throwing papers, fruit peelings and other |
Objectionable refuse into the streets, |
with the probability that hundreds Of |
offenders will face punishment for toss
ing useless autobus receipts on the |
boulevards.
Extension of City Limits.
In the public markets the Council in
tends to increase Immediately the use
of refrigeration to prevent the waste
OF hundreds of tons of meats and vege-
tables weekly owing to the impossibiiity
OF keeping them fresh under existing
conditions.
Proposals which were read at a recent !
session of the Councils Progress Com
mittee include the eventual extension
OF Paris far beyond the present .boun-
daries. as the impossibility of obtaining
houses and apartments Is driving thou
sands to neighboring suburbs such as
Montrouge. Fontenay. Sceaux. Nogent
and st. Mande.
In order to develop this tendency It
is likely that part Of the 10.0oo. 900 900
francs will be set aside to subsidize
the construction OF homes. influential
Senators and Deputies having expressed
their willingness to obtain cooperation
from the Government to the extent Of
any sum the Paris Council Is willing to
The construction OF homes
in neighboring suburbs 10 considered n
profitable investment. as once the ter
ritory now separating the suburbs from
Paris is built up the limits Of the city
vii, be advanced In all directions 80 as
tc produce a metropolis estimated to
have a population OF 100000 which will
result in an increase In tax receipts