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Show KSTICTIEI1 I PARIS WILL HT1 I THOUSANDS OF SHOPS I Veritable City of 30,000 Per- I sons to be Housed in One H Vast Building H ' IH LONDON, Jan., 19 Plans for the H great Marche due Monde, or meeting place for the buyers ' of the world, which is to be established in Paris in two years, contemplate the erection of a vast building nine times the size of Trafalgar Square and containing not oniy 5000 shops but many special fea-tures, fea-tures, including the most luxurious club and tho largest banquet hall in the world. Details of the scheme were given here by Sir Charles Dundas, sec-retary sec-retary of ihe Association of Great 1 Britain and France. M "The object," he said, "is to give producers and buyers of the. world tho facility to perform all their transac-tlons transac-tlons in one place. "Jt will be the only building in the world where the rentals will decrease according to the length of the leases.. 1 and where the tennnts will be consid-ered consid-ered as valued clients, and not as ob-jests ob-jests of speculation. M "The building will be of six. stories, with a frontage of 350 feet. It will bo 1 'nine times the size of Trafalgar Square, and will cost approximately I $20,000,000. "This enormous building," continued Sir Charles, "will contain 5000 shops, the most luxurious club in tho world for buyers and producers, swimming and Turkish baths, gymnasium, rcstau-rant, rcstau-rant, grill room, roof garden, several lecture rooms, industrial cinema, and jH the world's largest banqueting room. "".Briefly, what is contemplated is the erection and operation of a vori-table vori-table city, in which it may reasonably be estimated there will be a floating population of manufacturers, produc-ers, produc-ers, merchants, buyers and the neces-sary neces-sary employes, exceeding 30,000 peo-pie peo-pie Sir Charles added that the advan-tages advan-tages of this huge project to the Brit ish buyers and sellers would be enor-mous. enor-mous. "One of the principal objects of hav-ing hav-ing this world's market in Paris," he said, "is because the French capital is the pivot of the railway centers of Europe, and tho advico of tho buy-ers buy-ers of the world has been taken on this matter." nn mmm |