Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-07-17

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for YOU no matter how frantically you
gesticulatc at the driver and conductor.
They have enough without you.
The ideal way to see Paris (or Lon
dom is from the roof of one OF these
omnibuScS. Hold on tight and you go
fying through the air high above every
body else and with 4 splendid view Of
street scenes. My experience has gem
orally been that the bus is full when
you want il, but when you do manage
to get on board you have seat and are
never compelled to stand rs in so many
of our public conyeyanceS at home.
CABS IN DEMAND.
The cabs are also in great demand. If
YOU are in hurry take cap. There
are -. 900 of them in Paris regularly Ii
cenSed The streets are crowded from
morning till nearly midnight with We
hicleS of one kind or another and every
body drives furiOuSly. And you must
get out OF the way. In Berlin they fine
you for getting in the way, but in Paris
il cab driver sees you starting across
the street he drives for you with all his
might, probably TO prevent you from
ever getting in the way. Really. pedeS-
trianS have no rights al all, Policemen
do not check up teams and assist people
over crossings rs i'm London and in
American cities. Ii is no wonder that
accidents are frequent. \ famous cross
ing. I'm sight of the y. NJ. c. \. rooms,
is called the Crossing OF the Crushed.
II is not hard TO guess the reason.
Yesterday Sunday was the day of
the "Grand Prize" the great day of the
International Races at LongchampS.
near the city. The papers say that the
gate receipts for the day amounted to
400, 900 francs. or aeout $4,000. ! was
not there myself, but saw the ParlSlanS
coming home y constant stream OF
elegant turn-outS filled the Champs
Elysees an evening, and there must
have been two or three hundred thouS-
and people gathered on this popular
boulevard between the Garden of the
TuilerieS and the Arc de Triomphc.
SUNDAY is a great gala day in Paris al
ways. Everything is done ON that day
/ that Is done ON other days and much be-
sides. The mcrry-go-roundS and shoot
| ing galleries. aud all imaginable devices
i lOl HlNtI AAAllIlNAN anu AllNtA' ttAes Att -
are carried on in the parks. ltiSa holt
day more like our Fourth of July than
Sunday. or like the day when Barnum
comes 10 town and everybody turns out
20 see him. noticed too that painters.
carpenters, teamStcrS and labOring men
generally were working as ON other
days. There might be some apology
for the Partisan Sunday if it gave the
workingman his rest and his liberty,
but 10 does not. Americans bere say
that that there are not As many stores
open rs formerly and that Paris is i'm
proving in Sabbath observance. For
the peoples sake il Is TO be hoped so.
PRESIDENT CAENOT AND His WIFE
were in the party returning from the
races They drove along in a very un-
prctentious way and without creating
any enthusiasm. The crowd was evil
IDENTIFY glad 10 see them, and the PrcSi-
dent repeatedly took of his hat to the
crowd.
The English papers, by the
way. are just now congratu-
lating the French President for
the good sense he has shown
i'm his treatment OF the troublesome
Due d'OrleanS. This Duke is the great
grandson Of Louis Philippe. the "Citi-
zen King" whose whole family was
baniShed from France at the Inaugural
ton of the present Republic. If Kings
were the order of the day this young
man would be- heir to the throne. 1t
seems that sometime ago he returned TO
Paris. ignoring the edict of exile against
the Orleans family, and his presence
here was regarded rs constant menace
20 the Republic. Consequently he was
imprisoned. Only the other day the
President pardoned him and an officer
escorted him To the French frontier,
giving him Il parting warning not 10
come back. The papers compliment
the President for letting him 90, judg-
ing that ne had been imprisoned long
enough 10 punish him. yet not
81 long as 20 make q martyr
Of him. OF course the Duke and his
father have following. too, and the
feeling which the presence of single
representative Of the family aroused III
the capital indicates that there is
smoldcring fire underneath the Repub-
lic which may break ont any time.
IlLI Ear I'll lNN isit
is still one OF the most popular sights IN
Paris. 10 and the Art Gallery are about
AN that remains of the great EXPOSE
ton. Both receive considerable atten-
ton from American visitors. The cle-
vators are kept going constantly, and
there are enough people ON the Tower
every day To- Justify keeping up three
restaurants. There are also souvenir
shops and a pOStolice on the summit
thousand feet above the ground. ana
they have plenty of business to keep
them going. 1t costs twenty
cents to 90 TO the hrSt ialiu-
ing. twenty more TO the
second. and 40 cents additional to the
highest point. Every few evenings a
concert is given on the first landing
which always draws an audience by the
novelty of the thing. They say they
have had aS many as 10000 people on
the Tower at one time, and that IL pald
for itself the first year That beng
thc case Chicago can afford To 0uIld one
twice rs high. But they should ar
rance not To have cyclones that year.
An Americans and especially those
Interested IN arr VIII Nv = ."N
The American students Association
now organized in Paris. Mr. \. a.
Anderson. prosperous artist orig
i,allv from New York. is president Oh
the new organization. While three oil
us sat with him at breakfast In his coy
bachelor quarters on the highest moor
of one of the highest buildings on the
boulevard de Clichy he gave
us some interesting facts IN
regard TO this movement
and concerning the trials, tribulatlonS
and temptations in the way OF the arr
aSpirant who comes to Paris. There
are fifteen hundred
AMERICAN ART STUDENTS
HOW i'm the city. The majority of them
are Young men of very limited means
From the start il is great struggle
Many of them have hard work to make
ends meet. They are plucky fellows
and take il good naturally. one LOT
example. when his purse was exhausted
moved into an attic, and he Sald the
ceiling was so low that after he got INTO
bed there wasn't room for an extra sheet
between him and the roof They are
talented tooand have something in them
or they never would have reached Paris.
Resides those of limited means there are
of course others of wealthy families
whose friends rs home keep them Wen