New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-17
BISMARCK AND LUCIA.
THE DIVA ABOUT TO RETIRE - he
CATASTROPHE AT ST. ETlENNE.
Paris. August l.

Paris. August l..
w.. p;,.,,.no,.,s oil oncrafic friend Pauline
Tucca. is going to bid farewell 10 the stage one
writes 10 her friends who are connected WIN tle
nross If Munich and Frankfort that this IS
really no false alarm and that she hopes they VIII
conc 70 her closing performances, and enable her
n mako her exit in grand feu darfliice one
roans whom she rctires 70 set up singing schooi
7 hone she will not come TO Paris. and 90 not
COO how she can benefit herself by dong so.
There ore already in the fiej Madame Marchcsl'
cousin of Baron Hunsscmann, who having, apart
from her excellent method. facilities Tor Starting
punils In operate careers wmch none ''"''
commnnds. deacs competition Madame Lagrange
Nile Krlnss and Madame Marie Sars. his last
teacher and cx-star sang az the opera House w
lnpcrlol command La MarscillaiSc, on the daN
on which war with Prussia was declarcd' Io'o
Marchcsi, tie most famous Of all through her
pupils. never was star. though she ana her
husband the Marquis de Castronc. aspircd poth
10 opcratic starshp. Melba, Marie Dccca' Nevada
Miss Eamcs and others who have great rputa-
lions were her pupils.
Primer Bisnarcl: once advertised Pauline Lucca
splcndidly by being photographed with her Inc
photograph caused no little aStonshment. not only
at the Court Of Berlin. but AZ the cosmopolitan
vatcrlng-plnces Of Germany. The statesman was
forming the encourage Of William and Augusta.
In a letter 10 the former he kissed the rod. 1t
was n wonderfully eloquent cplslc and almost
dcscrvcs 70 rank rs a pcntcntial psalm. II
Pauline Lucca could &c; hold Of the negative and
have any number Of copies taken for publication
in the different capitals % Europe, America and
Australia il misht ill her classroom. Nothing
paws now better than ecccntricty when backed
hy capacity. An example thereof is Sarah Bern
harlt. who is now starring at Lyons She has
been making a tour round the Southern counties
10 play " Joan Of Arc" and with such quantity
Of impcdimcnta in The way OF dresses that an
extra lU@cngc van had T. 10 hooked on 10 the
train in which she travelled, for her dresses.
There has been kind Of competition among the
representative men Of the different parties. here
as 10 which OF them should most prominently show
sympathy with tie families OF the l20 golfers
or thcrcabou,s who were killed by hreaamp
explosion in a pit al Saint Etiennr. II is sign
that all arc awakening 10 knowledge of the
democratic course on which the human racr en-
tered % years ago The Due Dc Ia Rochcloucanld,
president Of the Jockey Club and honorary head
of the Right in the Chamber Of Deputies. sent
$3.50 through Madame Seycrine. an cX-rcd Radical
Indy, who associated lc- des,iuies on the Mrs.
Mona Card platform with thc late Jules Wales.
the Communist. Madame Seycrine is q very
pretty woman and a strong writer OF the decam-
atory kind. She is said 10 be the road TO
Damascus and she pleaded in the name OF freedom
for the liberation Of the Due dOrlcans when
hc WAS ut the C0ncirrccrc. / never was more
osfonishcd than when | saw hcr come into the
court where he being tried the OF
Tire Uuc de Ia Rochcfoucould who was more
daudined than ! ever SAW him III his lfc and
followed hy his grandson. the Due dc Iuyncs
from that ci'y 10 onclate AZ the funeral OF The vie
Tins OF the catastrophe. and " Yves Guyot. Minis
ter Of PGblic Works. vent down 10 distribute relief
and none 10 the families Of the unfortunate col
lirrs. Madame Cons'ar-. wife " the Minister Of
the Interior, sent $500, and the Chamber OF
Deputies voted with urgency relief fund OF
So. 600. There were ninety collins borne e. the
church ~ glu.y men from other pits. siy carry
ing each dead body. The pals were OF no matter
what sOr; of black Stuf-caIicO wOollcn that
w1S al haud-wi'h n white cross pinned the
top - each. Tie cross formed of n long
placed there by the living mates bore the words
To tie Martyrs Of Labor There was col
lcctiyc Protestant funeral rs we'll as Catholic
one. NJ Yves Gnyoi did not 20 20 either Of
the churches, hut attended the ceremony OF low
e-ing the bodies into common grave. Fiery
speeches were deliyercd there 10y col
liers. Tho causes OF the disasters are
storm was brooding. the weather was sutry.
and the ventilation, Of course, not good. owing 70
the state OF tic atmosphere. And so fircdamp was
accumulated, which q spark or a broken lamp
OF the pipe Of smoking collier caused TO cX-
plodc. In such states OF the atmosphere miners
shonld not be allowed TO 60 down into the col
licrcs. f. &.