New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-17

n,ta, comforts TO the combatants Of both the
United States and SPAIN Owing TO the P'oe
poets Of war and the exceptional length OF 'he
Riviera season the usual spring social activity
IN tho American colony here has not yet begun
The Paris Horse Show is drawing to a close. ana
over So5 900 has been awarded in prizes. The
modal for the best stud OF twenty horses IS
r,vcn 10 Mr.. Charles Van der Heyden. Many
horses that have won high honors are found 10
be foreign bred and next year animals not
reared in France will probably be excluded from
competition. The best judges say that the SAD
die horses have not improved this year. although
they are much better broken and ridden Among
thos. present this afternoon at the jumping con-
tests and ur-inhand presentations were inc
Queen Regent and young Queen wilhelmine OF
Holland; the Prince Of Wales, the Marpuise
d'Angre Mime. Renardaki. Mr.. and Mrs William
c. Tiffany Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Rutherford
Mr. and Mrs Austin Lee. Mr.. and Mrs
John HAYS Hammond. Miss Hammond. MT
Antonio Terry whose wife. formerly Miss
Svbil Sandersoi. since her return to Paris.
Is slightly recovering from the paralysis or
her limbs but is still confined 70 her bed:
Mr. and Mrs Oliver Ames, Of Boston, MI Allan
Tucker. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fay. just returned
from Cannes where Mr.. Fay so creditaby car
RED off many prizes on the golf links. and Mr.
ard Mrs William Ooihout. recently returned
from Egypt
Mr. and Mrs William Story have started for
their Villa Vallombrosa. near Florence. to pass
few weeks. Mrs. George Law has taken
villa on Lake Como for month and with Lady
Anglesea is entertaining a small house party
there. Mr. Henry Ridgway and Prince Iucinge
have arrived in Paris after an agreeable trip
on the Red Sea with Mr.. James Gordon Bennett
NJ, VI
on board. Is now in Monaco Harbor This
varuna with MI Eugene Higgins and a party
Of friends. after making several excursions to
Princes Islands near Constartinople arrived
Yesterday at Odessa. and will cruise along the
Cr,mean Coast The Andria. Mr.. John f..
Brooks left Naples for Genoa on Friday. The
Narada Mr. Henry Walters is at Corfu Other
American yachts in the Mediterranean are with
in convenient reach of Marseilles and Nice
The proceedings Instituted by Mr. ]. II. Della
mar OF New-York against his wife. demanding
that the French tribunals grant decree OF ab-
solute divorce are set down for hearing on
April % Mr.. Delamar has returned from Nice
with his young daughter, and Is occupying his
apartment In the Avenue Bois de Boulogne Mrs
Delamar. whose portrait by Chartran was ex-
hb,ed last spring in NewYcrk and during the
winter in Paris. has also returned TO Paris. and.
with her mother. Mrs. Sands. is living In
hotel in the Champs Elystes quarter. The cause
Of the suit is package Of letters addressed to
Mrs Deamar discovered by Mr.. Delamar in
their common safe at the Credit Lyonnais.
where II is stated. Mrs. Delamar placed them
for safe-keeping. The affair causes n painful
surprise in the American colony. where both
Mr.. and Mrs. Delamar have many warm friends.
The Bbogra phcal Congress. which under
the presidency of the Duke de Broge. is hold
ing its sessions in Paris. has come to the con-
clusion that the enormous development Of BIZ
cycling In France has almost killed the taste
for reading the classical French authors. such
as Iamartine. Hugo. Musset. Chateaubriand.
etc. Consequently at the suggestion Of Count
Bizemont. seconded by Hector Malot and Jules
Claretie. a one-cent bi-weekly magazine luxu-
r.ously printed las been established. which shall
reproduce the works OF standard French au-
thors The Congress noted the fact that OF
books which far this year have attained the
highest sale Hola's Paris has sold 10000
copies; Rostands "Cyrano de Bergerac." $4,000.
Paul and Victor Marguerite "Desastre" $4,000.
and Daudets "Souten de Famille," $4,000.
The Normandie sailed with her usual install.
ment Of carrier pigeons. Among the passengers
are Mr. Louis Leroy Mr.. and Mrs f. Shepard
son and Mrs. Leon Rheims