New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-21
TOPICS IN PARIS.
THE RESTAURANTS AND THE POLICE
AN AMERICAN-BORN PRINCE-A GovERNEss's
RoMANCE-A CEREMONY AT THE INvALIDEs.

Among the many in 1icatons of the approach
of winter there is none more noticeable than the
close of all the open-air cafes-concerts OF the
Champs Elysees. The putting up OF the smut
tiers of the Ambassadors. the Horloge. the
Alcazar, etc, has the effect of converting that
magnificent avenue so briliiantiy hgh'eu
throughout the summer nights, and so iuii OF
life into dark, gloomy and deserted thorough
fare soon after the sets. The darkness
seems all the more dense owing to the generous
manner In which the Place de la Concorde Is
Illuminated and a movement is now in progress
TO bring pressure upon the authorities to ex-
tend the same system Of lighting all the way up
the avenue to the Arc de Triomphe TO none
would this improvement be more welcome imam
to the police. who experience considerable ulHl-
Guilty in keeping the side avenues and footpaths
free from human birds Of prey. The number Of
trees and the density of the shrubs render 1t very
easy for miscreants to remain in hiding until they
can dart out and intimidate, rob and even muir
der homeward- bound citizens before the SER
geants de vile can come to the rescue. In view
of the Champs Elysees being one Of the most UNI
rivalled avenues in the world, 1t certainly does
seem strange that the Parisians should have
hitherto been content to have 1t even less well
lighted than many of the minor bouevards and
streets
OF course the usual crusade has begun against
the encroachment upon the pavement OF the IN
Vulnerable restaurateurs and cafe proprietors
of high and low degree. An agitation or THIS
kind always does take place in autumn every
year when people begin to come back from the
seaside and country. But | have never known
II to result in any change and II the worm!
bonifaces only have the good sense TO hold lheh
tongues and close their to all the vitupera-
tons that in progress against thehi' 'he
storm will blow over and leave them relatively
,,niniured. In one way this is to be regretted
as many of the leading restaurateurs on the
boulevards monopoze the pavement to such an
extent with chairs and tables to leave prac-
tcally no room for the pedestrians. who are
sometimes driven right into the roadway by
these distractions on the pavement Last year
an old man was knocked down and Killed by an
omnibus while endeavoring to get by the chairs
and tables that blocked the whole pavement III
front Of what formerly Brebans. or course
there was a great uproar. and the newspapers
were loud in their demands for the suppression
of this evil; but it all ended in smoke. nothing
was done. and We are now in worse condltloh
In this respect than we were twelve months ago
II is difficult to understand why the authorizes
should show so much indifference in the matter;
Golfers from the cafe and restaurant owners can
hardly be considered sufficient to weigh III
the balance 1t is merely a nominal sum. paid
to the city by a middleman who farms out the
privilege to each of the establishments who wish
thus TO increase their accommodation He can
only accord the right, however for one row OF
chairs and tables in front of the restaurant and
all the additional rows are a matter Of private
ARRANGEMENT between the bonface and the police,
who are supposed to increase their ridicuously
small salary in this not altogether legal manner
The Partisan policeman is miserably paid, his
wages ranging from 81 &c So a week, which is
being all the time diminished by fines for the
most trivial offences, and under the circum-
stances it is astonishing that the force should be
as efficient as it is. and relatively free from
scandals Of any kind.
OF course there is not word Of truth in the
story which has been current here for some
DAYS and which have reproduced in the
London papers that have just reached here, to
the effect that Prince Joachim Muat is about
to marry the Baroness Hainguerlot, daughter
of Sir Edward Blount and mother of the young
girl who was welded last month to the Comte
de sabran. The Baroness Hainguerlot has been
dead for nearly twenty years, and under the cir
cumstances a marriage seems out of the question.
point Of leading Miss Gwendoline Caldwell to the
altar is very striking looking and handsome
man of sixty, and was born, as were most OF his
brothers and sisters. at Bordentown ~ j.
He has already been married once. his wife hav-
ing been a daughter of the late Duke of Wag
ram, by whom he has had large family some
of his children having married and possessing
progeny Of their He has been In con-
siderable financial difficulties since the fall OF
the Empire put an end to the annuity which he
drew from the civil list and to the generous
allowance which he received from Napoleon III.
He is now understood to be more or less de-
pendent upon his children. all three Of whom are
married and we'll off, more especially his young
est daughter Anna, who is married to Count
Golouchowski the Austrian Minister at Bucha-
rest who nominated as successor mere 10
Count Hoyos. but was objected to by the French
Government on the ground that his wife was so
closely allied to the Bonaparte dynasty. 1t is
not alone by the location of his birth that Prince
Murat is connected with America. His mother,
too. was an American GIRL Miss Caroline Fraser.
who occupied the position Of governess in the
household of King Joseph Bonaparte, at Borden
town ~ j. The Princes father, Lucien.
had been affianced to her charge. young Princess
Charlotte Bonaparte. the daughter Of the ex
King but Tilted her in order to marry her hand
some duenna. The latter. Notwithstanding her
relatively humble antecedents, was accorded the
same honors and dignity as her husband at the
imperial court Of the Tuileries, and when stand
ing on the steps Of the throne beside Empress
Eugene must sometimes have recalled the
strange vicisstudes of her career, her husband,
Prince Lucien. having after their marriage been
in such straits, for money that he was actually
reduced to drive a milk wagon a Trenton for
living until recalled to Europe in 1913. Prince
Joachim held the rank Of General of Brigade at
the time when the decree was issued In 1887. de-
priving the Princes Of the Houses OF Bonaparte
and Orleans Of the commissions which they held
In the French Army. He considerably dis
tineuished himself, not only in the petty Alge-
Ran wars prior to 1870. but also IN the conflict
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