Show SEE VALUE OF CLEAN CITY parisian authorities recognize that money la Is well spent on an the streets of the capital paris has accepted unflinchingly the doctrine that smooth and clean high ways are a wise investment and that so BO long as the work is done lit in a thorough and scientific manner with an honest and skillful skill ful application of means to ends tho the result Is worth having regardless of p cost the expense of maintaining cleaning and sprinkling the streets Is greater than in any other european city but the sort of pro pre eminence that such a street service helps to secure Is profitable in a hundred indirect ways paris has by far the richest park equipment ot 0 any city in the world the area ot of parks within an afternoons excursion Is acres while farther away are more extensive public grounds such as versailles and fontainebleau lt it la Is impossible to estimate the profits which parts paris derives annually from its parks boulevards and public buildings bankers have estimated that americans spend upward of annually in foreign countries and it Is safe to say that paris receives receive at least ono one fifth of this vast sum out th the profits from which are as great as are the profits from pork to chicago shoes to st louis and heer beer to milwaukee the experience of paris ought to convince the most skeptical that there is no modern community of civilized rne men which cannot afford to provide the most perfect public appointments that technical and scientific knowledge have discovered well made and clean streets good water proper drainage convenient transit facilities complete schools and thorough sanitary organizations no city should think itself rich enough to prosper without them and no city Is so BO poor that it cannot afford them the outlook |