The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-22
MONACO 4 VENERABLE CITY.
srPPoRTED rRON DRoPPINGs OF
THE MONTE CARLO SANCTUARY.
New York City WouIa He Like
IL aan ON the Prince Of Monaco
Pian-Seerets Of CAsino Revealed.

Here Is frosty example az tire vagarses
OF the Riviera climate. You stand %
morning On the terrace a. Monte Carlo.
where you are sheltered from the wtn3 and
The suz has tuI sweep you and for
several hours n the day you can alrnass
imagine yourself ia Tampa, or Havana, Or
some other place that Is really warm
Then yoa take an omnibus over Ia Monaco.
IN waseb every window II shut tight. The
sun blazing upon the big sheets Of glass
converts the interior iryo q travelling oven.
In which you pant and wipe your face and
wish yourself further away from s.ie Old
woman with the basket Of fragrant fish
The bus rattIsx On through the Coada-
mine. as they call the connecting link be-
tween the two towns. and in FIVE minutes
you are IN the narrow. damp streets of the
busy part OF Monaco. You see the Ane
distinctly where the FIRST Of q long row OF
tail buildings shuts cut the sun. TIE line
OF shadow locks inviting from the hot We
hicle, but 10 sooner are ycu IA the shade
than You are as much too cool as before
you were toc warm IL is the same damp
chill that you soon learn 20 knew and de-
test In mos. parts CT Europe. We seldom
have anything Ike Il in Amerfca except in
few bad days In spring and fan TIE
Thermometer would sboN no great degree
q cold, but the chill Is there. rut on the
heavy winter oyercoat and Ii warns you
externally, brt the chin remains in the
bones ard viii not come out till you find
the SUI again.
The bus stops by the side Of the market
pace. shaded hy the great castle hin. that
lies between town and sea. and the driver.
having few minutes 10 spare before the
return trip runs over TO TIE stand ard
drinks cup OF hot coffee The girl who
keeps the stand rubs her bare feet to-
gethsr to warm them, ard draws the little
ut4ra-xr - -,
more girls and women are enga gad in the
hopeless task of trying 10 warm them
selves. Their being barefoot is no evil
dence OF warm climate; IL only shows
that they have no money 20 buy shoes
The romance that attaches 10 some Euro
pean market PLACES Is wanting here for
romance is sscklY thing when !, begins
10 shlver. These people are in need OF
some soap and water. and Of a few sub
s;antial meals. and OF some thick woolea
stockings. But they are to be piueti rather
than blamed, for what can you expect Of
q people who are compelled by Law TO live
On the drsgs or a gambling shop
Living on tanning Table Dr~as.
That Is what Il amounts 10: they live on
the drainage fran the roulette tables. and
they cannot hep themselves. for there are
NOT enough OF them 10 make a successful
revolution IL they had the ambition No
look detected and ragged and dirty. The
only money thai comes into the kingdom
comes through '';he tables" and they
must live upon such crumbs as they can
catch. The bes. employment man can
get here is 10 become one OF the l. $50 ssry-
ants OF the Casino Company, and on his
slender salary he can marry some OF these
barefoot Monaco girls. His children go 10
one OF the schools supported hy the Casino
Company. and study out OF books Dough.
by the Casino Company. On Sunday he
goes 10 one OF the churches built b. the
Casino Company, and listens TO a preacher
who draws his salary from the Casino
Company. When he falls sick he goes 20
the Casino Company's hospital. In old age
he draws small pension from the Casino
Company. All his life long he has been
policed and lighted and watered and payei
and drained by the Casino Company.
"Ab. but he has no taxes 10 payr' SAYS
his royal highness the Prince OF Monaco.
Neither does patient In a ieper hospitsI
but We do not envy his good fortune.
II Ia useless TO waste words describing
the degradation OF this toy kingdom Of
Monaco; X is TOO far away. and there are
matters nearer home needing attention
The best can do is to ask you TO ina CINE
New York city reduced 10 a similar ccnds-
ton. the population OF New York being
about 900 times as large as the population
postofficc building 10 be turned into the
great gambling house OF the world and
leased 10 a company that pays 81, $40 coo 900
n year IN dividends, after paying the
Prince OF New York si225 sc zoe a year to
be spent for hts own pleasure: the com
paDy having sole charge Of the streets the
police, the lights. water and drains the
schools and churches. and employing Soc 90
men In it's own service. That IS simply
multiplying the Monaco figures by SO and
how would You like II? Would you con-
slider no taxes any equivalent for such a
state OF affairs? TIE only help far Ii that
/ can see must come from France. The
prince is renegade and his subjects are
helpers, but with a squad OF police and a
Calling gun France could soon put an end
10 the Brownie reign Of The Grimaidi fam
fly.
The GrtmaIdis of Monaco.
In a Thousand years Monaco the city has
gFown 20 be- a town 81 1900 or 5 go inha b.
tants. The Greeks are said &c have found
ea IL. hut so long ago fha, nothing definite
il known about IT'S early history. II IS the
custom new 20 speak Of IL as only 3 VII
lsge." bat there is nothing IN the least
v!llagelike about *: X IS closely built and
has some fins structures, and locks mora
like a section cat out 81 some big city. \
temple OF Hercules ouce stood on the
pro-0ortory which now supports The castle
and the town was known in different ages
as Aoneeci Portus. rortus Herculis and
MonoecuS. Lucan. the classic poet, makes
several mentions Of 81:
Where winding rocks The peaceful food
receive
Nor CoruS three. nor Zephyras resort
NSr roll loud surges in the sacred port.
CtrCSUs : loud blast alone Is heard to roar
And vex the safety Of Monoecus' shore"
J; vas not until about the tenth century.
merely the other day. that the Grims, ii
family appeared upon the scene Win in
credible labor al transaatiug have learned
frora the big books In the Casino library
that the Gr!maIdIs came from Genoa
where they were enc OF the four great
families. Instead OF four hundred. Genoa
has only a four--she Dorias. Splsalas
Griu7sldls and Fieschis II the DAYS %
the Geneese republic the Doge Was usually
chosen rom ons OF those families. The in
tereS'ing history OF the Grimaldis. without
any reference 10 the roalstte episode. caa
be found IN q volume written by Honore
IL or Monaco. under the nem de plume -
Charles CO Nprzeg>fssaz 81 rst,Auazsise-.