Show city of mushrooms flourishes underneath streets of pa paris ris parla while millions of diamonds f glitter front from the windows of file ale shops along the rue rite de la paix I 1 n U hundred feet below the surface lie of the street it million dollars of business Is conducted in dirt and darkness there exists here stretching over an eighth of a nille mile aroi of 0 neally i laid out street efti tho the greatest in mushroom tish I 1 producing center in the tha I 1 world it Is by the state and I 1 leased to mushroom growers Ri in case of an aerial bombardment the roadways and cellars of ville as the city is IB known to thomp who have heard ot of its existence are sufficient to shelter the population of an enormous section of paris the existence of this city relatively Is unknown despite the fact that it has stretched atre ched thero there in all 11 etca for years its miles of broad streets tor for two motor trucks can puss pass each other easily in all but a few of these underground thoroughfares were hewn out of stone following the extraction of the stone the great cave remained barren for sercial years until the mushroom city was planted today it la Is alive with hundreds of thousands of troglodyte miles of pipes run the length and breadth of the city and hundreds of workmen are engaged in tho the business of planting caring tor for and ana picking and packing the ephemeral acarl cus young mushrooms are threatened constantly with as many diseases and ailments as a child great care Is taken to disinfect the beds once they have yielded d their enjiro cro crop before a fresh set of beds can be made no light penetrates mushroom city save that which la Is required for the picking and pruning and consists consist of an acetylene lamp affixed to the cup cap of the worker every morning the mushrooms are picket picked and loaded in the motor trap which take them to the public market |