The evening times., 1896-08-21

New York, Aug. 21.-Leander Chanas.
been described by a learned critic OF that
art, Henry dc Goudourville. AS "a colossal
feDcer and a distinguished artist, and Marie
Cabourg, aiso OF Paris, are in the house OF
detention On Ellis Island.
They arrived On sunday In the steerage
or La GascogDe, and upon their own dec
laratiOn and other reports that had come
to the ears of the commissioner of emf
grafton, were refused permission TO land In
New York. The charge against them wus
that they had eloped and that Chanas had
abandoned his wife.
There is at present the distance of one
Third OF u city block between them. He is
In the mems department and she in the
women's, and they look at each other
through the gratings OF their Prisons long
ingly from morning until night. She Is
not pretty. and has in reality the '.sea
green" eyes that he has sung OF in poems.
lie Is OF average height, solidly built. and
burned by the sun OF Algiers. His long,
black rrock coat falls almost TO his ankles.
He signs frequently
WIFE AND CHILD IN PARIS.
st have wife and child in Paris. That
Is why came in tie steerage. had to
give all my money to them. My son is an
expert as a fencer and only eighteen years
old. am detained Iere on tire charge that
have aba andoned my wife to run away with
Marie Cabourg. She is my collaboration.
In your mora. country cannot woman be
a mans literary assocute?":
All th is lie said yesterday In very sad
tone OF voice, and then continued:
II left Paris because the publication Of
my psychological fencing theory almost
ruined zoe. l came TO New York because
you have here fencing league. a club, u
splendid field for my enterprise.
Miss Cabourg is 10 aid me, as she aided
me in Paris. We are here, in prison, unable
TO console each other. surrounded by people
with whom we cannot talk. 1t Is an out
rage. Oh. if 1 tad Only known!"
He produced his biography, printed be-
side Rochats in Les Sales d'Armes d 'Au-
iourd'hui. According 10 it. he was born
at fournon February IL, 1884. He was en-
listed at sixteen years OF age in Toulouse's s
Battalion OF Chasseurs Pied.
AN EXPERT FENCER.
Ht was 1919 dt tht
ing schoolo OF the government ut Joinville-le
Pont. Then he became teacher at the
Military Academy of Algiers. He pronot-
ed the organization OF the fencing academy
there, and went to Paris with n we'll
planned theory of scientific fencing.
Chanas' hiographer writes: in the twen.
ty years wmcn ne mas ouusccrated l0 the
study OF arms, he has by his principles Gle
waited the noble science of fencing to a
height that none could have attained, even
by superhuman work"
Chanas edited in Paris a journal, LES
crime Psychologique," headed by the fol
lowing epiGraph, Fencing is to the mind
as the sun is to matter, that is, life. For
the sun, Hfe is material, for fencing life is
Spiritual Fencing is the cult of great
men"
In his journal, which was not a success
In Paris, Chanas published poems. One o
them, addressed to Mile Marie Cabourg
translated into English prose ,is as follows:
in It's sinuous lines her divine body re-
calls the waves Of the Rhine, the soft
curves of which are indolent Like the
water from a fountain, her hair seems tc
come out OF her SIRENS neck. But
the sprlnE. which yieiOS To me tnt
flood that love always is from her per
verse sea green eyes. when she weeps over
our love"
FENCING MASTERS ARE JEALOUS.
Comm issioner OF Emigration Nc
Sweeny has Informed the poet and fencer
that moral turpitude. under the law, de-
bars him as an Immigrant into this coun.
try and that lie must return To France next
Saturday.
Miss Marie Cabourg, in tears, at her graf
ing said yes tcrday:
''The fencing masters are jealous OF
Chanas He is greater than all Of them
This horrible Imprisonment is. doubtless
an effect of their envy. There is nothing
hetwce us other than literary association
and respectful admiration.
She was told that he will be permitted
To land alone, and that the objection was
against her companionship. which" sale
the commissioner, You must admit is un
| conventional"
HE win not land without me-" she re
| Piled. with flames of anger in her eyes
| And it is true that he will not.
ChaDas looks at her from the long dis
| tance that separates them. and his smils
4 is radiant through the gratings.