Show Clocks Costly to Taxpayers The municipality of Paris Is about to ask for estimates for the winding up and biipei vision of Its clocks The task of looking after the municipal clocks of Paris Is a somewhat formidable for-midable one and costs the city on an average ol 12000 4000 for the clocks In tho utBccs of the Hotel de Vllle Its annexes and the communal schools of Paris und 8000 for those which decorate the facades of the public ee pub-lic buildings The contractor for the first lot has to marshal every fortnight I a veritable army who divide Into sections sec-tions the 550 schools representing S 000 clocks and the municipal clocks which number J 000 |