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Show THE NEW GARDENS OF PARIS. The Invariable retort to those who deplore the steady obliteration of old I'arls by systematic clforta to beautify beauti-fy the new city according to modern ideas and to Incrense its salubrity Is that these changes "have been made In the Interests of the public. Since 1K55 the Paris municipality has opened open-ed up wide spaces throughout the capital cap-ital for public gardens. Before Hauss-mami, Hauss-mami, M. Alphand, the chief engineer of the Paris promenades and plunta-t'ons, plunta-t'ons, whose stature now adorns the Avenue du Bols de Bologue, undertook under-took to continue tho work which he had accomplished lu tho Hols by the creation of gardens within tho town lisolf. The eflrst two gardens which he created wore those of tho Tour St. Jacques and of the Temple. Later nn the gardens of tho Place Richelieu, Riche-lieu, of the Arts et Metiers anil of tho Church of St. Clotilde were laid out. The Champs Klysees, which are described de-scribed in the old books s a "report e.f vagabonds." were originally laid I rut round the famous Palais de I'ln-dustrle, I'ln-dustrle, which disappeared just before lire exhibition ot II10O In order to make way for spacious palaces and for the magnificent avenue which now otens up a noble perspective from the dome that surmounts Napoleon's tomb to the nnlacc occupied by the president presi-dent of the republic. In the quarters l uown as the Faubourg Uu Roule, which was well ouuldu the walls of the Paris of Louis XIV., a vast uncultivated uncul-tivated area full of big trees recalled the old Pare Monccaux wM:h Phil-lippe Phil-lippe d'Orleans hd conceived and In which Jean Jacques used to botanize. It was a favorite haunt of Louis Philippe, Phil-ippe, bin by the decree of January, 1852, the property passed half Into the bands of the municipality and half Into the bauds o M.Perelre. In 1S62 the part belonging to the city of Purls was trunstormed Into a public park, and It remains today one of the most delightful of the gardens of Paris. It Is perhaps the most elegant of all, and forms In a quarter of luxurious private homes tho retlned and distinguished distin-guished counterpart of the more artificial arti-ficial but extremely curious park quarters quar-ters of the Buttes Chauu'Ont, where brigands and Interlopers ence rendered render-ed tho road between Belleville and VMlette. These arc only a few conspicuous Instances of the way In which Paris has been changed during the last fifty ears. With the exceptions of the Gardens of the Luxuiubourg and of the Palais Royal, and the famous Piace Royal (now known yet so little lit-tle known as the Place des Yosjjta). the Paris of 1830 haM few breuthlng Fpaces. Thero may come a time when the entire rim of tne capital now occupied oc-cupied by tho Fortifs, with th'.ir deep gullies, where sheep are pastured, will be converted into a continuous garden encircling Paris A scheme of this kind Is now before the Municipal Council. London Times. |