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Show GREAT HUE SAFE Trade's Talons Not to Grip Famous Champs Elysees. Not Even a Philharmonic Palaco Will Be Tolerated on Proud Paris Thoroughfare Thor-oughfare and Children's Para dlse Along Its Course. Paris. The probability that tho Champa Elysees, tho noblest rive nu o In thu world, will always bo preserved as an artistic promonadu and a children's chil-dren's paradlso has been strengthened by action Just taken by tho municipal council of Paris. Tho council not only refused to grant n permit for tho construction of a Philharmonic palaco on tho site of tho now defunct summer sum-mer circus, but voted to investigate concessions previously granted, looking look-ing to tho removal of Bomo of tho music halls and restaurants now nourishing nour-ishing there. This offlcial action .Is in keeping with tho truo Parlslau spirit. The one occasion on which the Fronchman looses hlB pursestrliigs without a murmur mur-mur is when an expenditure for municipal mu-nicipal embellishment is proposed. No other city watches ovor tho beauty of its boulevards and parkB with such Jealous care. Succeeding municipal administrations differ widely on nil other points, but, whether tho government govern-ment is nationalist or socinlist, Its first aim is invariably to maintain intact in-tact tho nrtlstlc inheritance) of Europe's Eu-rope's most beautiful capital. There was almost a revolt, 12 years ago, when a tramway company asked a concession for a track across tho avenuo in a Bide street This right was finally bestowed but had tho - council granted a subsequent appli cation for a trnck along tho Champa Elysees itself tho lives of tho city legislators would havo been threatened threat-ened by an aroused populace. Tho single track ncross tho driveway drive-way has always been regarded as n scar. It is not Improbable that In n few years tho tramway company will bo required to construct a tun nel beneath tho surface of tho Btreot It Is by underground passages that tho city already Is proposing to handle tho foot trafllc without Interfering with the perpetual stream of vehicles or marring tho beauty of tho thoroughfare thor-oughfare through the construction ol viaducts. Tho first of theso subtcr mmwEv&s! rri SMtffimWSfmaaaw K wiiiuihwiiiici ,mii uifiW i in " I W.r5Wi 1 WjJidJ'JSSi! 1 Garden of the Tullterles, Paris. I tnnean passages, leading from sldo to i nldo of tho Avenuo des Champs ffi Elysees, hns only recently been i opened. If this proves as popular as la 1 expected other such tunnels will bo 1 constructed under other busy tsroots, N notnbly tho grand boulevards. m Tho parkway known ns tho Champs I Klysees, or Elyslnn Fields, wns laid B out uenr tho end of tho seventeenth S century. It was called tho Grand 9 Cours nt first and was given its pros- W ent name in tho timo or Louis XVI. 9 The avenuo itself Is moro than a mllo I long and Is lined from tho Place de In i Concorde to tho Arc do Trlompho, gj with pine, lime and chestnut trecB. w Tho promenade is tho favorite after- W noon drive of tho fashionable world 1 ofx Paris and it is thero that the i badaud, or French cockney, is seen I to perfection. On one sldo Is a park, 1 750 yards long and 40 wide, which is s filled with cafes chantants and such j amusements and amusement-providers I for children as Jugglers, marionettes. I merry-go-roundB and chocolate ven- I ders. I Tho Avenues deB Champs Elysees Is 1 one of tho "lungB" of Paris. At each I end and all about It are places of lm- 1 portance In tho life and history of the 1 city and tho state. It almost skirts I tho River Seine, tho Grand Palais and I the Petit Palais, where there are great 1 art exhibitions, separating the part n - from the quayB at one point. An 1 avenue Btarting at tho Champs a Elysees, between tho two buildings, I crosses tho river on the beautiful Ponf a Alexandre III. and leads to Napoleon's i tomb. I On the opposite sldo of tho Champs i Elysees is the Palais do TElyseea, the 1 official residence of the president ol 1 France. It waB onco the home of I Mme. de Pompadour and was occupied 1 In later years, successively, by I Murat, Napoleon I., Louis Bonaparte and Queen Hortense, Emperor Alexan- 1 der I. and Due de Berri. I |