A NARROW STREET

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 20

A NARROW STREET

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Quebo.e, in Canada, has. what is said to bo the narrowest; street" in the world. ',"■;:.■•,■ ;,:; ' ;•'.•;, X-'.J It. ia called.Sur le Cup, and. its tvidtb froni hoiiso to;houso is seven feet: There are no sidewalks. It is a crooked littlo thoroughfare, and very short. ■ A small wooden; bridgo at one point • joins its upper..reaches. Clothes^ line| strotch across its width at various placos, but the sun does not find its way1 into the street." ..; ~ . • . ■ ,■ Sur le ■ Gap has ' suiali inhabitants whose only .knowledge of English is the one word "penny," which the urchin repeats over and over again" with outstretched hand.;.: • '■-•„ !",'... . ■■■' "There"are many 'other narro>v streets in Quebec, notably LittleV • (•jhaniplain street—justwido .'enough foij» a motorcar to pass through. The houses along these streets have all,the charm of Old World habitations —littlo : balconicß, dormer windows, green shutters, scrubbed steps, with horo- and there bright oilcloth extending right -into the street, covering .the two or three' slips below the doorway. '. . ;'■'.. At one end of Littlo ChamplAln street are the famous Breakneck Stops—a long, br.oad flight of iron stairs, which bring one down from the upper city. Fortunately,.it is not necessary to,walk up,--.unless one is so minded, for there is. an elevator which works on an inclined cable. The French children have a way all their own of descending the Breakneck Stairs—Via the long handrails, in the accepted manner. ;The railings have a high polish, caused by the friction of boyish trousers. '