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THESEWERSOFPARIS

WHAT THE VISITOR MAY SEE ON A TRIP THEM.

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Great Tunnels, With Waterways and

Boats, tailways and Cars—-A Perfect

Snbway Systetn—Thrilling Blasts on

Signal Horus and What They Mean.

One of the most uniaue bits of sieht peeing . v! in the we be eg joyed in Paris during the spring and sum mer m0! It consists of nothing less than a trip by rail and boat Across the city. not rough the streets and along the Seine, not even by balloon or flying ma chine overhead, but underground, through the great sewers.

In order to visit these subterranean won- ders, you Must write a note to the prefect de la ville, asking for passes. The sewers |

are open for inspection twice a week from }

May 1 until eps. ot), always Pp viding that the days fixed are perfectly clear. I the permits sent you say ‘‘good for next Friday,’’ and on that day there should be clouds, no amount of American money could bribe s. way down.

The parties descend at the same hour, one entering by means of a stone flight of steep stairs, at the Place de la Madeleine and the other at the Place du Chatelet. The steps run. down between gray stone walls and are just wide enough to admit of one person's descending at a time.

If you make your descent at the Place de la Madeleine, on reaching the bottom of the steps you find yourself standing on a long platform, with a wide canal in which water is ronning slowly past you to the richt, down into darkness and dis- tance. Looking to the left, you see a brilliantly lighted, arched stone tunnel, through which the canal runs, with a nar- row stone ‘‘tow path’’ on cach side.

Overhead you see a huge pipe, held to the center and top of the arched roof by iron hoops. I* is through this pipe that Paris ia supplied with all her ‘‘common’’ water, for in this city they have two grades of water. That in this large pipe is taken from the Seine and is used for flushing the to water the gardens, to extin- for everything except cooking and drinkiug.

Next to the big prpe is another of about one-half its capacity, and through this is carried the pure spring water which the people drink.

Next you will see a heavy cable made of many ropes, all covered, so as not to come in contact with each other or be damaged by dampness. By these cables are trans- mitted all the different forces used in the city. There are the pneumatic tubes, through which you may send a letter across the city, as ‘‘change’’ is sent in our retail shops. Then there are the electric wires, for messages or light, and the pipes transmitting condensed air, which the city sells to those wishing to use it.

Glancing along the walls of the arch, you see numbers at regular intervals which correspond with those of the houses in the street above and make it easy to locate any trouble and rectify it. You ean, if you happen to live in any of tho streets under which you pass, see your own address at a little underground open- ing that corresponds to the big doorway above, where yourun in and out every day.

Having gazed around and scen these main features of the sewer, you will be asked to take a seat in a wide, flat bottom.- ed boat, large enough to hold 20 persons, and with your ‘‘captain’’ aboard, dressed in white duck, you begin your trip, drawn by four men, two on each side of the canal, who, like the captain, are dressed in white and are so clean that the nickel buttons on their clothing twinkle in the bright electric light.

Ateach strect crossing you can look to Tight and left down unending vistas of arched sewers, lighted always by huge electric reflectors.

Sometimes there are seven or cight of these boats in line going down the Rue Royal, which is the widest sewer in Paris, and when you get out to‘‘change cars’’ at the Rue de Rivoli there are sometimes as many as 200 persons on the platform.

Here you leave seat on a sort of hand car, which runs on tai]; and spans a narrow canal, as an en-

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gine does its roadbed. The cars are clesn an’ bright, and are fitted up with nickel. Th» are pushed by a crew of four men, aly: ys in spotless white, by sneans of a

long handle bar, which projects over the foot: ath of stone on each side of the canal At intervals along the route you pass openings in the wall, through which comes roaring and dashing the waste wa- ter from some huge fountain in the street above, and at regular intervals, also, there are raysof daylight to be seen through the manholes that lead up from the sewers to the streets by means of iron bars driven into the stone walls.

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“‘\7reT? 18 a System OF signalng to the

men in the sewers that is thrilling to the visitor. Every little while the long blas» of a horn rings out and echoes through tle sewer, s0 that you think noisy Paris above must hear, but it does not. There are only four signals given; one blast or two tells the workmen spme private order, but three calls warn them that a storm is ap- proaching the city and when there are four long, ringing notes given it means that everybody must leave the sewers by the nearest manhole, that rain is falling as it can fall only in Paris, and that he that stays in the underground waterways will find in them his grave.

When you know the significance of thes signals, itis thrilling to hear the three blasts ring out and it must be a thou- sandfold moreso when the warning to leave comes. It is because the sewers fill so rapidly, in case of rain, that visitors are allowed to descend only on clear days.

Throughout the whole trip through the sewers there is not a single sight or odor that is unpleasant—in fact, it is just the reverse; from the stone arches and the dazzling lights, to the nickel buttons and the ornaments on the men’s hats, every- thing is clean, bright and in order, for you must know that it is only the surface drainage that passes through the sewers of Paris; all house drainage is removed in quite a different way.—M. W. Lewis in Philadelphia Times.

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Valuable Land for Sale

To be sold by Public Auction, on Tuesday, the 9th November next, imme= diately after the thejeale at Sidmount,about 17 acres of land, situate in the Common and Royalty of Charlottetown, and adjoins, and is to the north of the properites of the Hon. Fred Peters and George Lewis, and extends from the North River Road to the North River.

Land will be sold in acre lots. P

Terms made known at sale.

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Physical Culture & Dancing

MISS H. MACDONALD

Will re-open her Classes on Thursday October T.h. Private lessons at any hour. Adults at 8 p.m. Juveniles at 4 p,m. Fancy Dancing a specia-ty. Full particulars on application at her yooms in Masonic Building. or at the esidence of John A. Macdonald, Esq. ownal St. oct 7—

«HERE IS A PEACE THAT COMETH

AFTER SORROW.”

'"'There is a peace that cometh after sorrow,”’ Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;

A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow, But calmly on a tempest that is stilled;

A peace which lives not now in joy’s excesses Nor in the happy life of love secure, Butin the unerring strength the heart pos- sesses Of conflicts won while learning to endure.

A peace there is in sacrifice secluded, A life subdued, from will and passion free. *Tis not the peace which over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. —Jessie Rose Gates in Century.

CH!CAGO TO BE A VENICE.

Five Hundred Years Hence the Windy City Will Stand In a Great Lake.

Chicago has troubles ahead of her—none of your ordinary, everyday troubles, but the real thing in mental disquieters. True, it is 500 years off, but posterity must be considered.

Professor G. K. Gilbeft of the United States geological survey is responsible for this prediction. Fora number of years the professor has been making notes of the rise and fall of the great lakes from his own observa''ons and from the records of the government surveys. From these he declares the waters at the lower end of Lake Michigan rise six inches in each century and that the lake is preparing to overflow its southern edge to the infinite discomfort of the Chicagoan of the future.

If his figures speak truly, the whole dis- trict covered by the great lakes is under- going « change of level, and he believes it will oly be a matter of time before their outlet into the Atlantic is closed and a new one through the basin of the Migssis- sippi is opened. As the land in the neigh- borhood of Chicago is the lowest along the lake shore, it is there Professor Gil- bert has located the outlet. of the future. But as the waters only rise atthe rate of one inch in ten years, it is plainly to be scen there is no immediate danger to the Windy City’s real estate valuation.

In fact, 500 years will have elapsed be- fore the cry of the gondolier will begin to be heard in the waterways of the western Venice and the clang of the cable car is hushed forever. Then the real trouble will begin. And in another such trifling period —for years are as but seconds in the pre- dictions of the professor—the formation of the new outlet from the lakes to the Mississippi will have taken place, and over the site of the Chicago of today a mighty river will be flowing.

After Chicago has been disposed of the professor predicts trouble for the Niagara Falls hack drivers and newly wedded cou- ples. The latter will have to seek new fields to exhibit themselves in, and this will take away the sole support of the for- mer. In 2,500 years from now Niagara will be merely an intermittent stream and after another 500 years there will not be even a rivulet there.

The only consolation remaining for Chi- cago in all this is that, even if New York does exist, she won't have Niagara at her doors any ‘axger..

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The Evening Session

—OF THE— Charlottetown Business College and Writing Academy

OPENS ON OCTOBER I8TH INST. This Session affords an exeellent opportunity for those whu cannot attend during the avy to acquire @ business education. Its obj*ct isto assist those in needof help; nd ‘he work isso arranged that no one, huwever deficient, need feel any embarassment.

INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION

SUBJ ECTS—Preactical Arithmetic, Writ- ing. easy and rapid) Business Cor:espond-nce Book xeeping by single a:1d Double Entry Actual Business Practise, not copying short hand and Typewriting.

The Penmanship Department is conducted by Mr J. Harry Williams; for specimens of his students’ work, see Geo. Carter & Co’s window. Shorthand by Mr Wm Moran, the coor ear public teacher in this Prov- nee.

Five sessions per week; hours 7 30 to 9 30 p. m Forrates and full information call at the C, B. C. or write to

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FOR SALE

The suscribers have been instrucled to offer for sale, part of Town Lot No 96, in the 2nd Hundred of Town Lots in Charlottetown, known as the “Jakeman’ property. This Lot has a frontage of 70 feet on Grafton Street, and extends back therefrom 100 feet. It will be sold en bloc, or can be subdivided if required

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THE NEW YORKER.

An Account of the Most Powerful Flost- ing Fire Engine In the World.

In the series of articles on New York's fire department by Charles T. Hill in > Nicholas there is one devoted to ‘‘ Floating Fire Engines.’’ In describing New York's fleet of fireboats Mr. Hill says:

Foremost among these vessels stands the fireboat New Yorker, officially known as Engine Company No. 57, as she is without doubt the most powerful fireboat a/loat. The New Yorker's berth is at the Battery, where she lies beside a tasteful building erected by the fire department as a hous- ing for her crew or company. This build- ing is fitted up with all the requirements sf an engine house—bunkroom up stairs, tliding poles to make a quick descent to the ground floor, and a complete sei of telegraph instruments to inform the com- pany of all alarms throughout the city. She lies with steam up, at all times ready to respond in an instant to any alarm, whether it be by telegraph or a cry for as- sistance from a burning boet in midriver. She will dash up the river to attack a burning pier or warehouse or down the bay to meet an incoming steamship with its cargo afire with the same activity. Her powerful pumps make her almost in- vincible in any kind of marine fire, and she is also a valuable assistant to the land forces.

As she lies at her berth by the Battery she attracts a great deal of attention from all new arrivals in the harbor, and on ac- count of her formidable appearance she ia usually put down as some newfangled torpedo throwing addition to our navy, for with the rows of brass headed hose con- nections along the side of the deckhousc and the vicious Jooking stand pipes, or ‘‘monitor nozzles,’’ as they are called, mounted fore and aft, she certainly has a defiant and businesslike appearance.

In build she looks like a rather hand- some tug. She is 125 feet long, 26 feet wide and draws about 13 feet of water. She is built of steel and iron throughout making her thoroughly fireproof, even the top o: the wheelhouse and cabin being made of a kind of cement as hard as stone. There is little woodwork about her to ig nite, and she is thus enabled to approach very close to a fire and deliver her power ful streams at short range. She has twa very large boilers and four sets (eight in all) of vertical, double acting steam pumps and one additional small direct acting pump.

A GOOD STORY OF CLAY.

He Was Very Confident of Election as President In 1844,

‘“‘There never was a more disappointed candidate for the presidency than Mr. Clay was in 1844,’’ says one who knew him, ‘‘for he fully expected to tenant the White House from 1845 to 1849. He was then on his third run for the presidency, and had long been the idol of his party. In his first run, against Jackson and John Quincy Adams, in 1824, he received less than 50,000 votes; in his second, against Jackson, in 1882, over 600,000, and in his third run he received in a total popular vote of 2,600,000 votes within 40,000 of a majority over Mr. Polk. Thus he had much ground for hope, and his frionds, both here and throughout the country, were certain of his election. In fact, that being the day for news by slow muil, it was a week before his defeat was ack nowl- edged, and several times was the \i-tory (?) celebrated by the burning of borfircs. I was then employed as a messenge™ boy in the old Intelligencer office, and by that means I came to know Mr. Clay, fro. ucnt- ly being sent by Mr. Gales and Mr. }-vaton with messages to him. Sometimes I (ound him at the capitol, but generally »t his rooms in the building at the northwest corner of Eighth street and Market space, the site now occupied by Mr. Willian H. Hoeke. At his rooms he was friendly with me and seemed pleased with the manner in which I performed my duties.

‘*One day he said: ‘My lad, whe: I be- come president, I will do something for yoy. I want you to come to see me at the White House.’

‘Why, Mr. Clay,’ I responded, ‘how will I get to see you when your doors are guarded?’

‘*Bure enough,’ remarked Mr. Clay, picking up a card, on which he wrote: ‘Admit Mr. ——. H. Clay.’ Handing it to me, he said: ‘Take care of it, and it will pass you. Be sure to come.’

‘I fully expected to have occasion to use it, but, like Mr. Clay and thousands of others, I was disappointed. Thao had the card for over half a century and have treasured it as au evidence of Mr. \lay's good intentions.’’—Washington Star.

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