Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1898 — Old-Time Street Dighting in Paris. [ARTICLE]

Old-Time Street Dighting in Paris.

It Is exactly 200 years since the cities of France have been lighted at night, though Chief of Police La Reyale had caused lanterns to be used regularly in Paris thirty years before. In the edict issued by King Louis XIV. In 1097, ordering the Innovation, he says: “Of all the arrangements made In our good town of Paris there is none whose usefulness is clearer and more generally admitted than that of the lanterns which light the streets, and as we believe It our duty to care no less for the safety and convenience of the other towns in our kingdom we have determined to establish the same system in them and provide the means for con tlnulng It forever." The system consisted In hanging a lantern with a lighted candle in It across the middle of the longer streets.