A City Of Champagne

Epernay, France, is a vast subterranean "city of champagne. " For miles and miles there are streets hewn out of the solid chalk, flanked with piles of champagne of all blends and qualities. There is no light in thia labyrinth of streets, crossings and turnings except what the spnttering candles afford. All is dark, dank and damp, with the temperature away down about zero. The largest champagne manufacturera in Epernay have underground cellars which cover 45 acres and contain 5,000,000 bottles of wine. There is a vrhole street in Epernay lined with fine chateaux, the proprietors of which possess similar establishments. The whole town is honeycombed with these underground galleries for the manufacture and storaee of