France to escape the ravages of the threatened French revolution. Women of Kentucky have erected a heroic Confederate monument at the end of Third Avenue. In front of the court house there is a life-size monument of Thomas Jefferson, and in the court house a heroic monument to Henry Clay, modeled by Kentucky's master sculptor, Joel T. Hart. The federal government is preparing to erect a $100,000 monument to the memory of George Rodgers Clark on Corn Island, where he lived before and after his conquest of the Northwest territory.

Louisville's boulevard and park system is perhaps unsurpassed in the Western hemisphere. Cherokee Park, Iroquois Park and Shawnee Park are especially notable specimens of landscape architecture. They are connected by a superb boulevard some eighteen miles in length. More than a score of other parks, and as many more playgrounds, furnish recreation and outing scenes for Louisville citizens during the summer months.

Louisville contains also several summer amusement parks, particularly Fontaine Park, Riverview and Sennings, all easily accessible by car line, and where vaudeville performances are given and excellent meals served.

The Ohio River, fronting seven miles of Louisville, furnishes an unlimited means of pleasure and recreation, aside from its commercial advantages. More than 300 water pleasure craft are owned in Louisville. More than 2,000 automobiles constantly ply the smooth streets of the Southern city. Industrial scenes in Louisville attract visitors, such as the Louisville and Nashville shops, where 5,000 men are employed, many of the tobacco factories where thousands are employed, wagon works, plow factory and numerous other industries.

From a real estate standpoint, Louisville will be especially interesting with the Watterson and Tyler Hotels, recently completed; the Seelbach Hotel annex, being perhaps in course of construction; the quarter million dollar Weissinger-Gaulbert apartment annex, nearing completion; the million dollar InterSouthern Life Insurance Company skyscraper, ready for occupancy; the Realty skyscraper, completed at a cost of $350,000; the million dollar city hospital, going up; the $300,000 Y. M. C. A. building, more than half completed, and innumerable apartments and hotels, either recently completed, or in course of construction. Louisville contains 105 schools, three medical colleges, four

business colleges, two theological seminaries, colleges of pharmacy, college of dentistry and an art college and many private schools and academies. She has churches of all denominations to the number of 265. Of her streets three hundred miles are paved, and the car lines are on 216 miles of streets. The thoroughfares are electric lighted. About thirty business blocks have recently adopted the great white way illumination, and in that district Louisville at night is as brilliant and dazzling almost as the sun's fiercest rays. Scores of moving picture theaters give continuous session winter and summer. Most of the high-class theaters, except at the summer parks, are closed in the summer months.

Louisville is an amusement-loving city, and in addition to her theatrical attractions, pleasure boats and vehicles, she has innumerable city and country clubs and two race courses. The State fair grounds are located on a straight car ride of Louisville— besides that the federal government is now preparing to erect a fish hatchery.

The rathskeller in the Seelbach Hotel is regarded as the finest on the Western continent, although the rathkeller which is being constructed for the new Watterson Hotel, although along different lines, is said to be surpassing in beauty and fame. There are on the streets of Louisville more than 300,000 shade trees.

Innumerable side trips may be taken out of Louisville, such as Manimoth Cave, which may be visited for $6 or less, including transportation, cave fees and meals; Lincoln farm, connected by two railroads and fast being connected by a magnificent boulevard, and sixty miles farther the old home of Jefferson Davis. In another direction, some seventy-five miles distant, lies the head of the Bluegrass land of Kentucky, reached by three railroad lines, and with an interurban line practically complete.

Louisville occupies a territory of 20 square miles. The property valuation of Louisville is $171,000,000. She has approximately 85,000 buildings. Nine railroad trunk lines enter Louisville, many steamboat lines, interurban lines going northward through Indiana, and eastward through the Bluegrass region of Kentucky, and a dozen suburban lines extending out into the State. The Louisville Railway Company operates cars conveniently over the streets of Louisville and a five-cent fare, with its accompanying transfers, carries passengers to and from the most distant sections.