Show city of mushrooms rooms flourishes underneath streets of parts paris paris while millions ot of dla monds monda glitter from the windows ot of the shops along the rue de la fa paix a hundred teet feet below the surface ot of the street a million dollars ol of business Is conducted in dirt and darkness there exists here stretching over an eighth of 0 a mile area of neatly laid out streets the greatest mushroom producing center in the world it is by the state and leased to mushroom growers in case ot of an aerial bombardment the roadways and cellars of 0 M mushroom broom ville as the city Is known to those who have heard of its existence are sufficient to shelter the population of an enormous section of paris the existence ot of this city relatively Is unknown despite the tact fact that it has stretched ched there in silence for years its miles of broad streets for two motor trucks can pass each other easily in all but a tw few vt of these underground thorough f liias ats hewn out ot of stoned stone following the extraction of the stone the great cave remained b barren arren for several years until the mushroom city was planted today it Is alive with hundreds of thousands of troglodyte miles or of pipes tun run the length and breadth of the city and hundreds of workmen are engaged in the business of planting caring for and picking and packing the ephem ephemeral Cral acarl cus young mushrooms are threatened c constantly with as many dla diseases eases and ailments as a child great care Is taken to disinfect the beds once they have yielded their entire crop before a fresh set of beds can be made no light penetrates mushroom Alus broom city save that which Is required tor for the tha picking and pruning and which consists of an acetylene lamp affixed to the cap of the worker every morning the mushrooms are picked and loaded in the motor trucks which take them to the public market |