New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-16
LEON GAMBETTA.
t,,S HOME LEE AND RELATIVES.

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named To Gambetta 1t probably gives mn 49,
annovance than any of the rebuifs OF 1or1uilo
obos met with SINCE his visit TO Cahors. Inv 3.
orator has taste for pomp ana sno"': ";rloo he
when gratifed out of tune Win inc = aariooes
haa h;,herto represented. He rides IN ciill"e -.
amounted with luxurious elegance an" ma IN
Hood horses The Petit Bourbon siiio0 s-o 90 IN.
live in il has been fitted up ANEW 0o~ s.;n;.olv
Nv noono and boudoirs there are so exc
f,,uisbed rs to seem TO cry out lor o'ou1 u-or
;n;ne fashionable and rehneu' ~, ~,
- - IA Mornv has been restored and IS useu "
DL+,o Snlcndid vases are filled every lholhlis
,;,h rooos in the rooms of the great orator. VIM
fond of flowers and accepts willingly inc
of NJ Aphaud the chief overseer OF the c.'y -
and gardens. Trompetre, formerly 'he onol tatto,
Duc de Noaies prepares the repasts Oh ua'uo''
his secretaries and the friends whom ne hiNi'V' T."
dcieuuey or dinner. l believe that Gamoe''" mn
estlv. if very enormously imagined TINS uiSP''9
- vronld add 70 his prestige. 1t has aleha'eu
fror him the Woodworking democracy Oh ans
ot whom he for many Se",0
ao,htod Tribune shocked people OF eieNa'ou
continent and drew toward him with the preclpi-
TONS violence of the incoming wave OF spil"s 'u0
crew of greedy seli-seekers eager to mount Oh HIS
.bonlders TO wealth and office. henz the last %
tLa Roman Tribunes. fell into a similar error OF
Judgment and conduct and through it lost the pop
MARTY which had borne him to the top
This show and gorgeousness at the Petit Bourbon
was of course greatly talked about and eXagge-
rated by the reactonary and irreconcllaoly heu
journals The noise they made about 1t reached
italy and penetrated to little hSh'hs
village on the Gulf of Genoa named Narazze. lhere
lives here an old woman who Is now a sepluago-
MARIAN She has seen much trouble IN the course oI
her long existence and borne 1t bravely. inns ola
woman is the widow of fisherman named Mohnari
and the mother of six children four OF Whoh are
sons and emigrated years ago to America; what mas
happened to them there she does not know Inc
oldest if now alive is fifty and the youngest four
ondthrtv The rest of her family consists OF daugh-
ters both of whom, when their health admits OF IT,
sell fish The oldest is thirytwo and the other SIX
and-twentv They both live with their mother
who has fallen into an infrm condition, and belng
INDECENT is obliged to trust to public charity Tor
morsel of bread The maiden name OF veronica
Molinari, widow of the fisherman, was Gampetta'
She is sister to the well-tO-dO tradesman VINO ersU
carried on the business of grocer IN the bazaar
GenOis at CahOrs 1t appears that when Narazze
heard how Leon Ganbetta, the son OF 30
seph and the nephew of the INDECENT Old
widow, laved himself every morning In the
silver bath of de Morny and was in
possession of splendid private fortune, that the
inhabitants urged her to apply TO him Tor relef
She wrote 10 her brother Joseph at Nice. He sent
her in return land after long hestation) but a
promise TO forward her letter to his son at Pans
No answer being vouchsafed from that quarter the
amt Veronica who expresses herself with
strength, eloquence and wonderful dignity ior
person asking aims, returned to the charge. bank
order for 100 francs 1920 was sent her through
her brother who lectured her for bothering her
relatives while promising that something should be
done to relieve her from the necessity of
begging in her old age. She rcioiced at
the prospect opened to her in the letter, and
thourbt the 100 francs gage of kind feeling
that would endure. Some time after she received
80 francs and then another note for the same
amount 1t was the last charitable gift that was to
be sent to her from her powerful kinsman lniirmlty
overlook her. She was laid low with illness; she
wrote to her brother Joseph, and he SAID that he
forwarded the letters TO his son. At length she was
induced to 90 as a miserable pauper to demand
relief of the Syndic of Varazze He again cxhorted
her before she took bread from the mouths of other
Door people to apply TO the Petit Bourbon. The un-
fortunate Cd woman was driven to ask crust from
the Domincans, who have convent at NaraZze.
They were very kind TO her and she states that but
for them she must have sank under the weight of
her misery. Itmay have been of the good
fathers who advised the uunt Veronica to punish
the silence of her cOlheartcd relations by sending
full statement of her position to the Figaro, which
woman said that she did not want to share in the
opulence of her nephew, but only to be allowed to
nick I'D some of the crumbs that fall from his
table This Scnptural phrase Is suggestive of ecce
siastical prompting. Gambetta is detestod by all
the religious orders for having announced at Belle
willie his intention to apply, if he look office next
session, the law of mOrtmaln to their estates, OF
which he said at Inns and Belleville, before the
last elections, that he had caused schedule to be
drawn up.
OF course one should hear what Gambetta has to
plead in his own defence before com
pletely adopts the statement made to the Figaro
by the widow Molinari. AS the man is highly en-
dowed both in head and heart, prefer 10 suspend
Judgment. Appended to the letter are certificates
of pauperism written by the Syndic OF Varazze and
the parish priest for the benefit of the widow
MOnari.
Gambetta has not many relations and
he was brought up. it should be remem-
bered, among the kindred of his mother.
who is native of Monauban, in France.
Her estmable sister, Mile. Massabie kept
house for him in the most glorious part of his career
which was from 1871 to 1876. In that period he
fought good fight against the ReactiOnists at Yer
sailles. and was the great organ through which
democratic enthusiasm uttered what it felt. Poor
Mile Massabie was an honest and warm-hearted
old woman All her sentiments were deep and strong
and she entirely without false pride preten
sion of any sort. On of the happiest days OF her
life she was feed by paralysis. 1t at the second
wedding of her niece, Gambetta's only sister Her
nephew few weeks previously, had shared with
Theirs the hOnOrS OF grand electOr of France The
first Chamber under the existing Constitution had
been elected. 1t was the one which MacMahon dis
solved in 1877. From her | understand that
Joseph Gambetta a selfish, mean-spirited
Hp aho h,a