New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-12-27
LANDMARKS OF PARIS.
,uaR FIGURES AND BUILDINGS DIS
APPEARING.


APPEARING
r.sroNAL CORRESPONDENT OF The rslnrSr.
Paris, December 10.
-. xanoleon has gone not a member of the
Wv .r,e family, but familiar and curious
SD'f well known 10 every frequenter of the
su'',x Va one who has ever driven to the Cataract,
Ds. -rninal point of the Paris carriage outing,
k Sost the sergeant de Vile" or to put him
"..sriean garb, the French sparrow policeman,
j. Good guard at that place He bore such
Wv Fable resemblance to the late Emperor Ma
e. III that the effect was absolutely startling.
..ne droop of the eye, the same sloping
!" ,aors handy legs and carefully waxed i'm
81 For many years this policeman was one
-. sights always To- be pointed out to wonder
~.untrv cousins. He enjoyed the notoriety
~.,y and wOald respond to the soubrquet OF
p.1.on with avidity and eagerness. Many have
NT..tcd him of making up" as the Emperor
'T - rehearsng little traits and habits which
IA heard were peculiar to the exile of Chisel-
p, II has been said that the Empress Eugene,
- ~ her mysterious visits TO Paris recently,
,on,nted 10 drive out on the Bots in a closed
go As she glanced from the window at
familiar landscape she loved so well. she drew
" with startled exclamation of surprise Her
...,saut gave a hurried look at an object TO
x,.b the Empress was pointing with every sign
'..s, emotion. On a slight knoll ahead of them
| = the exact counterpart of the late Emperor Of
!. French, twirling his mustaches and
king up and down with that peculiar stride
,1s Ronapartes few minutes sufticed ITO
,,ve that the Egure was not an apparition but
,slity. and only the freak of some as yet I'M
Am law of human resemblance. Eugene
"A, inquiries about this person and sent him
,,s.ome present. She declined, however, any
,.,er rides in the Bots. The old man is
.,sran Of the Algerian war and although proud
| , ,is accidental likeness, is in heart an ardent
p.,rhlcan and despises the name of Bonaparte.
. q. face has been his fortune and he received I'M
,-ited pourboires from Bonapartist sympathlzers
. % he bore the lgnOminy cheerfully. lie has
. IN missing for some time and lies at Oeath
~, in his little home at LIE Vallois Perret,
sburb Of Paris.
With him, strangely, another landmark of the
Ek has disappeared. This place was Of SPECIAL
mprest 10 Americans, as II was the laltene or
hty near the Grand Avenue, the scene of the
~ moments of Adelaide Nelson The place
a, been under cloud ever since that evening
vben one of the most gifted women on the
E,ghsh stage lay writing in fortunes IN It's
,nueipal salon, with no one 10 give her aid or
,Ssance The last scene, when the propretors
nssed that the beautiful clay should be carted
. the morgue and laid there among the corpses
4 drunkards and unfoTtunates who had cast
usnselves into the river will never be forgotten
curse lay on the place. The proprietors parted
10 one could be induced to let it. For years III
sOod rotting eyesore until this autumn, when
1 rs yermin-infested timberS, falling into decay at
/ ne touch. were gathered together IN one great
zap and burned with the litter of leaves ana the
aher rubbish at the seasons bonhre
lncessantly indeed, the familiar landmarks are
|nlishinc one by one. 1t is only recently that
lie whole quarter surrounding the historic mar
| h Of the Temple has gone TO make way lOr wac
streets and business blocks. The fauoouIg oI'
|Gernain is rapidly developing into manufactures
ND the Quarter Latin of Paul de kock exists only
IL spots Montmartre has succeeded the land OF
lie students as the stamping -ground tor the deNI-
|rav-care Bohemian. The steep Mills and WIDEN
IN crooked streets of this bleak district TEEN
|yiih dance-hals, cabaTetS and cates-chantants'
Inc recent festivities at the Moulin kOuSe-a
|Alroom built around that rlcKety wlndmlll WHOSE
am ragged sails are feature In the faIls land
IaDc-haVe drawn crowds among when not
H. great social leaders were recognized that
Jratic individual who is known as Prince Lub9
: becn one OF IN. attractions of the place. lie
f. Mid King Of the Carnival. ana, seated on
ys,Ope clad in purple and golq eHactS roSaI
homage from the patrons OF the MIL. once an
evening he degns 90 Join in the dance, ana so
wonderful is his agility that he has been chrlstcned
the Emperor Of the Cancan. But the best draw
inc card is waltYer known among the denlzens
n Vontmartre as Hearf-in-the- Mouth. Until re-
entiy he was a humble garcon in a ffth-rate
restaurant. and to-day he commands fashionable
Paris lie whirls around in the d-fashioned. non,
pyersihle trOis temps like splnnlne-tOp, ana
lo2S his partner in such a way that II is SAID
ast names that nave weathered centuries, borne
~ those most caprcious Of beings. the Paris
women Of fashion, on his list, waiting Tor the
blights Of a turn. Heart-in-the-Mcuth has 0een
rrsged next week in the salon of a Duchess. and
/ new figure Of the cotllon has been invented. on
| ss lottery scheme by which the fair winner OF
|hcky ticket obtains as prize the dehgh1s thao
|tsnd the measuring of steps with this Adonis
4 the Sums