The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18

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from beginning to end. During the
tforty-eigiht hours preceding the open
ing day we added strengthening sup
lports to the grand stand which were
wholly unnecessary, and which cos
some thousands of dollars i'm the way
of extra expenditures Before he would
permit the show to go on.
CROWDS OF PEOPLE AFTER
DAMAGES"
In those early days OF settlement
and confusion I was threatened and
persecuted with all kinds of small suits
know of nothing better, however
than the suit which was threatened for
personal damages to a lady in this
lneighboTllood which, grew out of clos
ling the street.
A black-eyed, brown-haired. very
selfIpossessed French woman about sc
| years of age, entered my office one
morning and said: 81 have called to
ask you to pay me $50 francs"
"Have you any bill with you, mad
ame?'
which 1 think you will consider just"
"Will you kindly tell me what is
your claim?"
81 am married.
"Yes?"
81 am your neighbor."
''Si, madame
''dy house faces on the street which
| you have closed
| Yes, madame"
'sMy husband is lame.'i
| ''Well?"
HE is clerk in the war department
in Paris
s'Well?"
HE has been in the habit of coming
home every day to his lunch. The
tramway brings him to the city gate,
so that he has just five minutes left
to come to the house. Since the street
| is closed he is Obliged to come around
the square the other way. On account
of his lameness he is unable to do it
in time. He is obliged to buy his
lunches in town. The price of his
lunches for the six months that you
have closed the street is $50 francs"
| I compromised this case for some
thing less but from previous. expert.
ences in similar cases I knew that if
Invent into a French court with it
would have been Obliged to pay. Every
kind of damage suit, no matter how
lpetty in character, was always con
lstrued against the foreigner by the
French courts. A French workman
around the stables who mad beer
warned to keep away from certain
vicious horse, paid no attention to thu
relatively heavy damages as result
of the accident growing out Of his owl
disobedience.
Another damage suit came from {
lady who got a bit of paint on the ell
bow of her dress from one of the seat:
lin the tribune. She recovered the full
VALUE of her dress In fact, French
French citizen should have anything
that ne should ask from the hands o
a foreigner.
VEXED WITH TAXES.
There was a great uproar and {
| scandal because we compromised OF
, the taxes which called for IL per cen
lof the gross receipts. [ went befor'
the municipal council of Neuilly befor'
the show had landed in France ant
sought to compromise this question O
taxes The council having never haC
lany experience with shows of this siZ'
had no understanding of the magni
ltude of the enterprise. They confound
ed it with the little perambulatint
shows that go around on wheels IL
France, and when [ asked to compro
mise the taxes they said they coult
mot afford to unless I would guarantee
some very large sum. / asked how
large a sum, and they said at leas
40, 900 francs. After some hesitation
!, ton, and my friends in the common
council comniserated me, saying I wa
sure to be landed in bankruptcy. Th
ireceipts the first month were sufficient
llv large to pay the 10000 francs from
the II per cent of the gross receipts
so the other five months were practi
Ically free from the tax. The newspa
ipers attacked the council and said the,
thad all been bri1bed to sell out. Th'
real fact of the case was that the coun
Gil made what they thought was IA YER!
bad bargain.
HOW SHOWS ARE ADVERTISED
IN FRANCE.
Every form of advertising is on diff
ferent basis than with US. Bill post
ing which is always a great feature o
American show advertising, had al
WAYS been done upon much more Inn
tied scale. The places for the dlspla.
of posters is comparatively limited, a
surface of buildings used by us was alb
solutely forbidden by the French au
thorities The kiosk in the streets am
certain well-known and permitted bill
boards are the sole places where dis
play advertising can be made. Eacl
one of the large sheets has to b.
stamped with a revenue stamp. In fact
every Autograph displayed has to pa.
tax. This, added to the large prize
asked for the use Of the boards. mad
this feat ure cost much more than II
this country. II brought in, however
very profitable returns, as the Frencl
people were much taken with the Amer
lean style Of bills.
The newspaper advertising was al
together on a different footing tina,
with u.s. Every line of any kind relat
ri ing to such an enterprise in a newspa
per has to be paid for Every form O
dramatic criticism costs so much line
You buy your favorable notices; onl
unfavorable notices are given to yoJ
and you get plenty of those the me
ment you refuse to pay. The Frenc
: press is a very compact organization
No outside enterprise could hope t
, succeed in France without the aid c
: the newspapers, and their rates ar
much higher to foreigners than to thei
own people was fortunate enough t
have the assistance, however, of Nor
sieur Fernand Xau, one of the leadin
Journalists in Paris and at nresent tn
director and chief of one of the Yer
: best newspapers. Through his kind OF
) fees I was enabled to contract with a
1.-The leading newspapers upon fairl
decent terms. I contracted for so muc
space in the advertising columns an
50 Rlany lines. of comment each month
y These lines Of comment ran throug