ELECTRICITY AND GAS
Gas still holds its own in lighting the streets of Paris. There are to-day 32,945 Parisian street lamps lit by gas, compared with 21,127 lit by electric’ty. Paris likes to be called the City of Light, a reputation won by the brilliant illuminations in the central boulevards. The annual street-lighting bill was, until recently, about £600,000, but it has soared up this year in consequence of the two devaluations of the franc.
Gas holds its own in London, too, where many famous streets are still lit by gas. Statistics show that gas and electricity have an equal share in lighting London streets. But the burgesses of Nice, the Riviera’s capital, would have none of gas until long after many small French towns had adopted it. The reason was that the peasants stood to lose a market for the olive oil which burned in the smoky, flickering street lanterns, most of which blew out every time a wind came roaring down from the mountains.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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166ELECTRICITY AND GAS Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 278, 20 August 1938, Page 3 (Supplement)
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