The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-12-20
PARTISAN GOSSIP.
Casimir-Perier and His Wife as
Bicyclists.
GOFF CRUSADE IN THE CAPITAL.
Society at Work to Remedy the Police
and other Crying Evils-HysteP-
ical FPenchmen.

Wane. however, IL Is as universal as
ever it was. And why? Nine. CAST
mir Perier is an enthusiastic bicycliste.
All her children ride bicycles and the
President himself is no mean performer
on the two-wheeled machine. This is
quite enough for Paris. Indeed, de-
spite the somewhat dull and rainy
weather we are at present experiencing
the cycling parties which morning and
afternoon crowd the avenues of the
Champs Elysees and the Bots de Boul-
ogne have in no way decreased.
The President is rarely to be seen on
his wheel He fears it would not be
dignified, and truly it would appear
somewhat comical to see the process
sion of Deputies headed by M. Perier
racing toward the Chamber on the
oddly graceful little vehicles which
have taken such strong hold on the
popularity of all classes of Parisians.
M. Perier has designed for himself a
novelty in carriages, which attracts
the attention of all the population
wherever he drives. This carriage has
a body shaped very like canoe, and is
swung upon C-shaped springs made Of
strong leather bands of several thick
nesses. The wheels are exactly like
those of bicycle, and the whole effect
is of extreme lightness and grace. The
carriage is drawn by four superb bay
horses, ridden by postlllions. The
affair is snowy in the utmost degree,
and l am told that it cost somewhere
in the neighborhood of four thousand
dollars.
The President is usually accompanied
by his beautiful spouse wherever he
goes, and, as he is always preceded by
uniformed outriders, there is never
lacking cheering, hero worshiping
crowd to greet him as he passes by.
J Talking of worshiping, this
characteristic of the French people has
, never been so wildly shown as recently
during the illness of the Gar and the
Jubilee celebrations in honor of Johann
Strauss, the musician. Such eulogy
has rarely been penned as the Partisan
newspapers have contained concerning
these two men. Every shop and store
J has in someway or other displayed
, tokens of the respect in which these
two people are held. Their photo.
graphs, from the exquisite work OF
, Nadar to the poorest copies by litho
graphic process, have been sold by the
million. The poetasters have devoted
, uuires of paper and quarts of ink tt
their praise, and the vendors of street
songs have sung of the Gar and the
musician on every street corner and IL
every brasserie.
Paris, however, without some kline
of popular sensation, would not b.
l Paris. The "social purists," hav,
q stepped into the breach, headed, un
i derstand, by some members of the Sal
walton Army here, and following il
s the footsteps of their brethren in Lon
0 don and New York are making a deter
= mined stand against the immoralitie
h of the Moulin Rouge, the Elysees, Mont
martre, the Butler, the Divan Japonai
n and kindred places of public enter
# tainment.
a The renovated police recently mad
!. raid on den of iniquity known a
1.-THE Man in the Moon, close to tn
Porte st. Martin, and number c
convictions for vile offenses followed
Then came the closing of 'The Queen
of France another brasserie of i'll
70 fame near the Boulevard Poissoniert
:. both raids being made at the instigatio
az of the Society for the Promotion {
RI Public Purity, and the conviction
II which ensued were the result of ev
o dence given in the main by members {
70 this association. The winter seaso
NJ of the resorts mentioned above is jul
his commencing, and the society is dete
is mined, if possible, to shut them up, O
al at all events, to restrict their licens
lis and Righteousness.
TX Paris is indeed undergoing one
re those social revolutions which ev'
er and anon come upon all great cente
yo of population, and which are in realit
Is only the outcome of many years
ed silent but unrelenting work. I'll
ed social purity party has been in exis
lie; ence in Paris for nearly half centur
N, They have been bidding their time,
q, as the Scotch say, only waiting for 6
he opportunity. The peccadilloes of Il
-as police gave them their first opportunit
%, which they utilized by getting rid
ed M. Garon and almost completely I
constituting the police force. The a
lso sassination of President Carnot ga
no them another handle. Several sc
~. iously scandalous occasions put the
ng up to their attack on the iniquito
ere places of amusement with which Pan
,ut has always been riddled, and now tha
ad at last, they are showing their hal
ad openly and taking up the matter
nst dead earnest it is impossible to tt
ch what will be the end of it all. 1t
ter fair to prognosticate, however, tn
m they will not stop until they have do
'ay all they can to purify the moral atmC
its phere of the gayest and most immor
len city in Europe.
lso The proposition to build an undo
led ground railway in Paris, original
ice suggested by M. Yves Guyot VIII
no Minister of Public Works, seems like
~ to see fulfillment at last. The new i
1T, termural line will not be wholly belle
es. ground. 1t will combine the TUNE
M ing system of London, the elevat
Ire system of New York and the lev
the ground system of some of our Amel
ses can smaller cities. The main object
I'm not so much to provide rapid loo
ell transit as it is to give rapid connects
he between the various termini of Il
It's, great railroad companies at the Gan
ter du Nord, d'Orleans, de ST. Lazare,
ull Lyons, which will enable workers wit
ce. in the walls of Paris to get to their s