Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 234, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1918 — Colored Scavengers In Paris. [ARTICLE]

Colored Scavengers In Paris.

Paris streets have recently gained! in picturesqueness by the employment of colored scavengers, says a writer in London Dally Chronicle. Ebonyhued Senegalese and copper-colored Arabs from Algeria and Morocco* whose terracotta fefczes contrast so deliciously with the pale blue soldiers* uniform, clean, or affect to clean, metrppolitan thoroughfares. In the boulevard there is a giant negro, with the lordly gait of an African prince, who trails his broom behind him as majestically as If it were a peacock feather fan.