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Show PEOPLE PUSHED OUT OF PARIS Industrial Growth Forces Residents to Move to Suburbs PARIS, July S. (By Tho Associated Press) i Banks movies nnd minlstor-' minlstor-' tal mnexes have encroached upon the I llvlriK quarters of Paris until the overflowing over-flowing population has begun to crowd Into the suburbs, raising again the oft-mooted oft-mooted question "i enlarging tho clt . Transportation facilities must bo extended ex-tended to accommodate the people thus elbowed out of town, and It is argued that f"i various reasons liie city limits must he extended it-'-pondlngly Bolougnc, which will be the first suburb to be connected with the center cen-ter of the city by subway, is expected to be the first to be taken into the I fold, although Holougne Is showing no eagerness to become a part of the must expensive capital in the world. tvi:nty-milj: BOULEVARD. Tho demolition of the wall nround the French capital, now well underway, under-way, to permit these extensions, Is also al-so v. orklng other Important transformations. transfor-mations. When finished, i: twenty-mil" twenty-mil" circulai boulevard will mark a new y'agc In the evolution of i'uiid, as did tho other boulevard systems, whicfli illustrated the growth of the city in the same way as rings mark the age of an oak. The first wide streets In the center of he eitj were built on the site of the wall of Philippe August I The ring of boulevards not called the Grand Boulevards," took place of the wall of Louis XIV. and the system of exterior boulevards, which are now far in the interior of the city limits, starting at the fool "i Montmarte, superseded tne wall of Louis XI V. ni,o TO LATIN QUARTERS. The old Latin quarter also gets another, an-other, and probably fatal, blow in tho Improvement. The lTrmisn- .it; to be built along the new boulevards, la expected to take students away from the St. Aiichlel and Mont Parnasse !ieiphli(.rl'.,,i-1s. merie;ui I ' inc to Paris to study will find there up-to-date liomea such as the Latin quarter never afforded As for th-old th-old Latin quarter life the little of it that still survived v..ii; buried the other da with ' Last of the liohem- j lans' Iliait Dcghcrardine. |