The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-11
Where the Fashionables Most Do
Congregate When the Dog
Star RACES.
che Predominating Mercenary
Reasons for Holding on the
Grand Prix.
and Deauville, Though the Lead
Ing. Arc Poor Excuses ~ Resorts
Crooked Racing.

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ute number Of Inhabitants left IN the
kay city by the Seine, and the stranger
hight be 'pardoned if he failed to see any
outward sign of the diminution of the pop
Rlation. But to the habitue the fact 10 evil
lent that the Bots is deserted and that the
|rowd at the Cascades and driving up the
Champs Elysees, is composed for the most
bart of the ubiquitous tourist. This year
he season has lasted far over the allotted
pan, In former years the Grand Prix was
he signal of the exodus. It used to be run
n the first week Of June but the Paris mu-
kicipality who are the principal donors to
khe prize recognized the fact that moneyed
Paris left the city Immediately after the
ace, and as they were anxious that the
rowd should spend just little more
mong the Partisan tradesmen, they made
sine qua non with the jockey club
hat if they gave donation
he race should be postponed SO
g to prolonR the season. This, the turf au-
horities agreed to and after the grand
prix one excuse and another was found
o prolong it until after the national fete
pn the 18th of July. Next year, suppose,
will extend still further until the Parls
Ssn viii he Fas snn
bnds the fashionable crowd does very much
what the same crowd does in other capitals;
they HE themselves to the fashionable
watering places where they carry on the
bame interminable round of supposed pleas
IRE under a differant atmosphere. The
great object of this crowd who ''toil not,
father time'' in as novel manner as they
know how, and the benefactor of this par
bicular section of humanity 10 he who can
hevise the pleasantest way OF doing it.
Ennui is the disease most feared by "the
nppe. and if half a t the R,e tso
aesh is heir to which are used to drive
away ennui, then indeed, would the life of
fashionable be long one.
The watering places most patronized by
Partisan society are Trouville and Deau-
willie. Both these places date from the days
leader Of fashion of the court of Napoleon,
The Duo de Morny. Before these places be-
came the rage Dieppe and Boulogne had the
pail, but they have been voted common.
They are the resting places and the havens
Df safety of hordes of impecunious English
people and their proximity to the English
boast make them a happy hunting ground
for cheap trippers.
There is nothing beautiful about either
Trouvilleo- Deauville and they cannot be
mentioned in the same breath with the best
american or English watering places. The
houses or villas are all of the gim-crack
order, and the amusements are away below
par. At each place there is Of course a
casino whore baccarat is played in what ia
dignified by the name of 'club," but
which is of the kind that anyone can be-
come member of who has decent coat on
his back. These clubs are infested with
bogus counts, barons, marquises and grecs
and 0cOno men OenorQl0v and mora than
one English girl has cause to rue
the day when she first visited French
watering place. The principal amusement
With the bulk Of the crowd is, PLAYING at
petit chevaux,'' in the Casino. This is the
finest game in the world--for the proprie-
favor of the bank every time. A tenth rate
band also plays at the casino and in listen
ing to this and bathing now and again in
risky costumes constitutes q days
pleasure (?) at French watering place.
Whenever go to one of these places I
Unfortunate in den in the Wisconsin
woods: We've lots of pleasure here, there's
band playing all the time" The band
consisted Of piano out of tune, q violin
1itto, and a cornet with crack in it. They
have about weeks racing at each of these
places where every race with perhaps the
reception Of the grand prix is run before
he horses leave the stable.
speaking OF racing, there was grand
Tow at the Colonies race course, near Paris.
he other day. Ever since the abolition of
Fhe "Pari mutuels" in the city, the race
courses have been thronged with all the
Bcum and blackguardism Of Paris. The aver
hge Frenchman is a gambler first and a
portsman afterwards, and as rule he only
eares for racing as medium for gambling.
The French turf has been in bad way
ately and the jobs that have been put up on
ne general public by what is known as the
black gang" have driven every honest man
champs, Chantilly and Maison Lafitte are
es we'll conducted as it is possible for race
meetings to be, but Apply 'Ampton in its
worst days was as pure as snow in comparl-
on with some Of these suburban meetings
o-dav. Well, to make long story short,
here was meeting at Colonies the other
lay and as the card showed an excellent
programme, there was correspondingly
lg crowd: When race after another was
Pa!pably fixed, and those that were not had
My one or two runners, the crowd thought
was about time they had look in and
yet some fun Tor their money. n'hey &C
ordingly broke onto the course and began
y making bonfire of the hurdles. Then
hey proceeded to demolish whatever came
post handy and it was only the arrival of
he military that prevented them from
turning down the grand stand.
Betting IN the city il no longer legal in
ny way, shape or form, and any one who
rants to back his fancy must 90 to the
curse to do it. All sorts Of lodges ere
Forked to evade the Law, the latest being
utilize the churches. The other day the
acristan of one of the large city churches
bserved quite . procession of men going
|ehind one of the pillars of the church-s
|illar of stone, not q deacon, and ON exam
ming the cause thereof, he discovered q
|ookie laying the odds to the worshippera