Show oi t h is fi flOOD VERY SLOW PARIS Feb 4 The The fall of the river riven Seine was more rapid today The rhe appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap of the city Is approaching the normal but the the- subways system Is still inoperative t Water remains ln in the tubes el d which after r they ha have e been n emptied must be cleansed and disinfected The progress toward the restoration of the lighting telephone and telegraph lines jnes Is 15 slow The work O of ls e and other precautions pre precautions pre pre- n II ca cautions n against an epidemic of typhoid d dhas has been so thorough that some seine of ot the newspapers predict Paris will not only escape contagion but will emerge from the flood cleaner than ever before The superintendent of sewers reports that from the examinations which he has been able to make snake few of the sewer mains burst the ruptures occurring In the branch pipes leading into buildings Despite the attempts t of C some of the rJ op opposition papers e to make k It it appear t ta that dissensions prevail l among the various re relief ye- ye a lief te organizations i l fn Investigation lf ro af indicates that all are operating co-operating with zeal Foreign contributions to the relief fund have reached a total of about At noon the Seine had fallen ten feet from its crest Among today's American contributions to the relief fund was 1000 from former form r Senator William A. A Clark of Montana The amount of the English contributions now forged or ahead h of the total from th the thi United te States te by o J Bacon in reply to an inquiry in inquiry in- in n from Boston has cabled that the distress of ot the victims who include thousands thou thousands sands of ot workmen in enforced Idleness Is likely to be prolonged and that additional addition addition- al aS contributions would be splendid forts form of charity charily |