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Show PARIS FEARS WAR CLOUD Trade and Commerce Are Greatly Depressed By War Complications Paris, Feb. 8. There is no center where the disappearance of the war cloud would be received with gieator pleasure than in Paris Ev?r since September Hie shadow of the Balkan compile ai ions, and then the actual operations op-erations of war. have inlluemed trade and commerce adversely The reason is the sensitiveness of the market, in Separable from furs and furbelows, feathers, silks satins and jewelry, which constitute the basis of French Industry Prosperity is great, but .t is -i prosperitv dependent on fashion and its changes, and hence is subject to constant fluctuations A sign of better times, however. Is the immense amount of rebuilding now going on in the cit3 Old houses are coming down to give place to Showy, new business premises, over laid with ornamentation This activit in bricks and mortar in the center of the town Is proof of the Parisians reluctance to inhabit the suburbs There is praf tically no building going on in the districts outside out-side the city walls Until the great new avenues are pierced, uniting central cen-tral with external Paris, the Parisian refuses to leave the light aud warmth of the clt) Versailles. St Germain Si Cloud and Other suburban centers make little progress in population whilst I'aris grows denser every day by reason of the tendency to build upward iu the American style If It were not for the building laws Paris would grow skyscrapers of its own as high as the Eiffel tower. The desire de-sire is there, as well as the tempera ment to tear down the old; but for in- moment authority still restrains the extreme efforts of the inuovators But if skyscrapers have not come 111 the American sense of the word. ni erican bu i id i n k methods have been im planted, and will assuredly flourish no |