New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-07
PARIS TOPICS.
loose LAWS AND BAD ADMINISTRATIONS.
THE LAST OF nrtJ,rIGHTING IN PARTISAN At
TEMPT TO PREVENT PREMATURE BURrALs.

|
TEMPT TO PREVENT PREMATURE DURrALs.
Paris April 30.
| Owing IN tbe tropical heat from which we arc
suffering. and which shows no signs OF decrease
the Concours IIippique has been FAR from success
ful. az far as popular attendance Is concerned"
! The public seemed 10 prefer the racecourseS "'
Loncchamps and at Auteull, ana outdoor aiI"sc-
mcnts in general. 10 the heat and noise OF the
Palais de I'Industrie Tho close of the snow
therefore. has left us comparatively indineren''
and unless the weather becomes very much cooier
Tho Salon or annual picture exhibition, which
opens shortly. will suffer from the same hcK OF
nonular interest. One OF the results Of this UNI
| soasonabIo heat is the increase of hydrophobia
Doodavs az rule, are not supposed to begin
iii, rho month of July, but this year they seem
N have beoun in April, and the Project Of Police
hoe hoon lcd bv the numerous cases OF injuries
| cau.ed nv mad dogs 10 issue an order directed
AGAINST all the stray and unmu2zled four-footed
friends Of man Another effect OF the hot weather
s the alarming growth of the death rate, influenza
and typhus being declared TO be the two principai
causes thereof This increase CT mortality was
made the subject of an interesting discussion ac
tbe sitting OF tn, Academy OF Medicine the other
| dav. during the course of which it was Drough'
| 10 light that France is practically without any
,oritarv laws and that no ono is responsible TOT
| tho health OF the nation. Nobody Is bound 70
| inform the authorities of the existence oil cases
which denote the beginning OF an epidemic anu
The efforts made by the provincial projects mayors
and municipal consus to conceal the OUTBREAKS
| OF dangerous epidcmics or to diminish their in-
| portance fearing that the news would lriSh'c"
away from France foreign visitors TO the injury
Of trade and commerce. are a matter OF pnohc
notoricty. Indeed, there is regular conspiracy
., s;loncc the truth being scdulously concealed
| The result is that everybody grows suspioiou''
cyacrerated rumors abound, and the secrecy be-
| comes more dangerous than exposure. Inc
Academy of Medicine is now taking the initiative
% sccnre the enactment of stringent sanitary laws,
| bv means of which all doctors and Official luhc-
tionorcs will be forced, under pain and penalty' 10
| ,onort publicly the appearance OF epidemic mal'-
| dies in their respective districts, so that inc
| ,oouistc measures may be taken at an early stage
Of the evil TO check it.
Tn view of thc high temperature, the military
authorities might well have permitted the troops
70 paradc in their summer instead OF their winter
clothing at the annual review of the Paris gar
,ison. which took place Friday morning Oh Tie
nlain adjoining the Vincenrcs racccourSe lhcre
were about Il, GOO mon on the ground, ncludihg
twelve regiments OF infantry, four regiments OF
cavalry and four batteries OF artillery. Inc d's'
was terrible, and the men seemed to feel the neat
severely in their heavy winter clothing, great
coats and weighty knapsacks. III" palm OF the
show was undoubtedly carried away by the bri-
code If cuirassicrs which swept by in splendid
STYLE. with swords helmets and breastplates sem
tillatinc in the sun. The reviewing officer was
General Saussicr the Military Governor OF Paris,
and who has been officially designated to act as
ocneralissimo Of the French army in case Of war.
Hinge crowds were present and appaudcd the troops
with great enthusiasm.
Inasmuch a. the Duke Of Veragua is now in the
United States he may he interested TO learn Of the
erloguc of the Plaza de TorDs enterprise, which he,
along with several other fcllow-grandees OF SPAN.
launched here some three years ago. StartcI at
the time of the last Paris Exhibition, the concern
WAS turned about year later by the Duke Of
Vcragna into q Joint stock company, and some
time ago it went into bankruptcy Tho day be-
fore yesterday the various properties and build
ngs of the company were sold at public auctlDn,
and the bull-fghtng arena Of the RE Pcrgolcse
is more. The prices realized at the sale
wcrc ridiculorsy small. ami the od-fasmoned
Gilt coach in which the star torrcador was driven
around the arena, and the seventeenth century
livcrics of the coachmen and servants, were pur
chased by the Marquis San Carlos for the paltry
sum of $500. The whole enterprise doomed
to failure from the outset, for bullightne
is only exciting as long blood Is shed, and it
was hopeless task to attempt to create popullr
taste here for bloodlcss bull-ighting.
The municipal consul has just granted to a
syndicate the authorization to construct nun.
her of ediiices styled "Paas de In Mort" and
intended for the reception of dead bodies pend
ing their final burial The object of the COM
Iany. which poss' IN ALREADY pad-up capital of
million francs, is two-fold. In the first place
II desires 10 prevent hasty and premature burals:
and, second, il aims at diminishing the danger
of contagion caused by the retention OF dead
bodies in dwclling-honscs pending the arrange
mcnt for their burial. The first death palace
churchyard near the Montmartre cemetery, and
special departments for the various classes Of
the community are being arranged The idea, al
though new here, is not So in Germany, where
cdccs of this kind have been IN use for
some time At Munich, moreover. these
mortuaries are provided with electric wires. fast
encd to the wrists of the dead temporarily de-
posted there for the purpose of arOuslng the at
tcndant doctor should the departed be only IN
a trance Here II is proposed TO keep the bodies
in the mortuares until the first traces Of de-
composition appear. But IT remains 70 be seen
whether this is calculated to Increase public
salubrity. since IT would seem that the sooner
body is laid into its natural resting place
namely. the earth, the safer it is for the
community
Vicomte de la Rochcfoucauld, held yesterday its
first meeting on the lawn at Bagatele. in the
Bois de Roulogne. which has been placed at its
disposal by the city o. Paris. \ number Of drags
and coaches, filled both inside and out with
wcll-lSnown mondanes and leaders of society,
were present To witness the two matches, which
were played by teams under the respective com
mand Of the Prince dc Polk, son of the Duke
dc Mouchy. and NJ. Manuel Escandon. The honors
were equally divided
Everybody interested in sport will he sorry to
hear of the accident which the old Marquis
de LAglc has just met with in being knocked
down by carriage on the Place de la ConcOrde
and having two Of his ribs broken. The Mar
ouis who is cighty-fve years old. and who. like
his friend Marshal Mcmahon, is still straight as
dart and retains perfect seat in the sad
die. may he regarded as the dean of the
chase in France His pack is the most ancient
in the country, and even the great Revolution
- buuJ,.d wears ooo did not succeed i'm inter