New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-25
NATURE AND ARR AT CANNES.
THE SCENERY, THE DRIVES, THE HOUSES
AND THE PEOPLE.

| AND THE PEOPLE.
| rrRoN TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUST.l
| CANNES. January 81.
Cannes is one of the least gay resorts OF the
wealthy and aristocratIc classes in all France. I'm
less in the business quarter, where nobody OF any
| social standing lives, the town is made up OF de-
tached houses and hotels Each villa stands in
garden in which there oranges, aloes olives and
| Australian gum trees, which are a prominent
feature of the Riviera The hotels have fairly large
| grounds which are laid out in manner TO
| facilitate the entrance and the exit Of carriages.
| All the new quarters are well up the hill. Since
| water has been brought from a high level
| in the Alpine region Spectators find that
| 1t pays to build some distance up the mountain
| slopes Cannes was discovered" as the world
| knows, by an Englishman-thel late Lord Brougham
| and England has since set her stamp upon 1t. In
| the nam street the shops have Britannia air. The
| young generation of coachmen cabdrivers, MILL
ners girls and, most of all, the children who play
| in some dark narrow back streets, have much In
| their appearance which betrays an Anglo-Saxon
| cross. Young ladies go, in dresses made at Peck
ham, South KensinPtOn. Noting Hill, Brighton,
Manchester, Liverpool, and so on, to the English
| churches-of which there arc two-and to the Tenn
| pie Evangelique. They walk rapidly-as If for
wager-along the Esplanade and are to bemet with
| IN all the country walks and drives
But Cannes is especially English in it's non-con-
ductibiity of social warmth IL is very un-French
| in this respect There is no general bond of SYM
| pathy no object of common iutercst,-unlcss when
| the Prince Of Wales is here,-no humanzing dissi-
patton In which the world and his wife participate.
| Society is split up into chques and coteries. Even
| the French and Russians who come here TO winter
| get into the way of the place. The arisiocratic
English and French quarter of Cannes is at the west
| OF NapOule end. 1t is the which Lord
| Brougham built the Villa El6onOre Contrary
| to the general law in virtue of which
cities in their growth follow the course of the sun,
this town of detached villas spreads east, toward
| GoIfe Jouan, where the Gladstone family are stay
ing with Lord and Lady WOverton. The West
| End is lower than the East and not far from some
| unhealthy marshes, The Princess de Sagan has a
winter abode there on the Ronte de Fr6us. She is
| almost the next door neighbor Of tho Duchess de
Luynes the Countess de Pourtales and the Duchess
| de Vaembrosa. Hard by the Dowager Baroness
| James Rothschild has palatial abode. Sir Charles
| Augustus Murray lives at the Villa Victoria over
the way. A Neapolitan scion of Royalty. the Prince
Of Caser a. is the owner of the villa Marie Therese
| The Duo de la Rochefaucauld Bssacs is a denizen
| OF the Brougham quarter He belongs to the French
| and English set which inhabits IL, and ia a
friend like most of his ghbors. Of the Prince
| Of Wales.
| Cannes used to be a cheap place. II is now very
| expensive Nothing is so runously dear as carriage
rides. The tariff does not seem hgh-2 francs 80
confines an hour. But all the streets and roads
twist about like coiledup snakes, and go perpetuay
up or down high hills. the pace of the horse is
necessarily creeping In ascending the vehicle
ia aboriously dragged up. In descending the brake
| is put ON. The driver chooses the steepest hills.
After riding about three or four hours finds that
| he has been simply nowhere. There are lovely
| rides in the environs, and fiat roads TO boot But
| one must know them before he can get the drivers
of hackney carriages to take Them | enjoyed yes
terdav ride along Collie Jouan, the Cap dAntibes,
| on the end of which Mr.. Cunlife Brookes
has villa. This gentleman is Man
chester banker. He has a revenue OF about
100000 year One Of his daughters by his
first wife is married to that sad scamp the Marquis
of Huntly, and the other to an English nobleman.
The present Mrs G. Brookes Is fveand-twenty years
the Junior OF her husband and pretty. simple
nered lady of Highland breeding. She had
| fortune and il not i'll tho least spoiled by her
wealth. The boundary of the extensive grounds
surrounding her villa are not walled in, but only
marked by low coping OF rough stones. Nature
does not appear anywhere outraged. The villa is
roomy inside and outside. has dark red bal
comics and widows framed round with Dutch tiles
Picturesae effects are obtained by creepors and a
large porch or entrance vestbule Of colored glass
The park IS wooded with olives, oranges, and all
sorts of frs and pines, which give out stimulating
aroma. And the view 1t is one Of bewilderine
loneliness Cap d. Antilles is a headland which en-
closes Collie JOuan the eastern side. One sees
from it the whole Of that CLASSY bay, the mountain
bordered coast line. with it's bold promontories all
the way to Iouon, and in looking in opposite
direction the Maritime Alps and the bays of Nice
Villa Franco, Bordighera, and Genoa
In front of them are the Lerin Isles, from one oil
which Marshal Bazaine escaped" Mr.. Gladstone
went TO visit it yesterday. He wanted to see the
nrison of the Man with the Iron Mask, and of the
interruptions soldier who delivered Metz to the
Germans Mr. Gladstone was under the impression
that fat Bazaine descended by knotted rope into
bark which the Misses Campbell had engaged fol
bis use. He asked to be shown the spot where til,
perilous descent was accomplished The Governor
showed it to him. When no was pointing out the
: dangers incurred the boatman said 1t was not
that at all, Mt ALL The Marshal walked out by the
door lust IA Monsieur has done He quietly got int
| nv boat which the MARKETABLE hired for him, and
| was one of the men who took him across to yach
at Cannes"
Those who want life run pretty often to Nice
, "a Journey that takes Gfty-fve minutes-or t.
, Monte Carlo. where Mile. Van Zandt is sing
, ing. Albert Edward is to be present
| at the Nice Carnival. But doubt whether his Lon
don engagements will admit of his staying for the
Battle OF Flowers. He Is staying at Cannes at the
old-fashIoned Pavilion Hotel in the English quar-
ter. On Sunday he went 10 church at st. Paups-in
the expectation of seeing there an American young
lady to whom he had previously sent an elegantly
bound prayer-book with dedication written and
signed by him. The fair recipient is C Misc Cham
berlain. She was charmed with the attention. but
declares that, bad the gift taken any other form,
she would have sent 1t back.