Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-12
EMBRYO JOURNALISTS
School TO Grind Them Out to Order is
Opened in Paris.
PROMINENT EDITORS ARE THE LECTURERS
Many Young Women Enroll Themselves as
Students the First Day.
AMERICAN NoTABLeS TRAVEL IN FRANCE
Nearly Every Steamer from New York
Carries Many of Them Over.
EXPOSITION NOW ATTRACTS ATTENTION
Two Young Girls who Want to See II,
but Have Not the Money. Go as
stowawny on n French
steamer.
Nearly Every Steamer from New York
Carries Many of Them Over.
EXPOSITION NOW ATTRACTS ATTENTION

PARIS, Nov 11.-(New York WorlC
Cablegram-Specal Telegram. )--The Schoo
of Journalism opened this week, Henr
Fouquier being the first lecturer The at
tendance was 1872, two-thirds of whom ar,
young women. Registration is lively and 4
is expected that fully 400 students will follow
the course. The professors are all celebrite.
of journalism, among others being Henr
Fouquier, Joseph Gornely, Francis de Pres
senes, Charles Malato, Marcel Provost, also
Severne and Marguerite Durand, editor o
La Fronde.
rumor is afloat in governmental circles
that in view of the fact that high court
trials seem to degenerate into a farce and
are not taken seriously by the country, the
premier will introduce bill of amnesty be-
fore the Chamber of Deputies, requesting ar
immediate vote. II the bill passes all suits
related to the Dreyfus affair and plot would
be dropped, the proceedings now before the
Senate stopping abruptly. The cabinet is
now back of the best opinion and desires
political peace at any price.
The Churchill hospital ship fund is not
meeting the same enthusiasm on this side
of the channel as in England. Most Ameri-
cans here give because asked by somebody
whom they dare not refuse. Many do refuse
however, pointing to Mrs. Belmont's answer
to the Red Cross society, composed of the
best French women, to head a similar col
uecting movement in favor OF wounded
Boers
Massenet told your correspondent he had
great hopes to prevail upon Sybil Sanderson
to return to the stage. 1t will be remem-
bered it was Massenet who supported the
Frisco girls first win in Paris, 1t being In
his opera, "Nanon," that she won her first
great triumph. Today, the great composer
says, her voice is better than ever.
Paul Bourget announces his intention to
pay a second visit to the United States next
spring to gather material for novel dealing
in the highest or rather the richest, social
life. He says he will probably spend the
months of May and June in Newport. sailing
then to the exposition.
The Riviera season opens this year much
earlier than usual. Many American resi-
dents have gone are on the point of de-
parture. Every American steamer brings
notables from the states. Most of them re-
main but few days in Paris and then pro-
ceed south to Cannes or Nice. Monte Carlo
Is already lively. Cairo is also becoming a
great winter resort. Many OF the French
and American fashionable set who have
never been there intend to spend several
weeks there this year. w. X. Vanderbilt
and wife have taken a hotel apartment at
Nice for prolonged stay.
HadinS Fails ns Playwright.
Jane Hading after her failure in more
Than a Queen" on this side, looked high
and low for q suitable piece and finally, in
sheer despair, attempted to write one her.
self. Finding the task too difficult she sue
cessively engaged three of the most sue
nj ,NIa -,f,Ht
The final result is that she acknowledges a
dismal failure. Hading has just received
the American manuscript of More Than a
Queen" as arranged by Nirdlinger and Melt
ger. Herself and her advisers consider the
adaptation a vast improvement on the orig
inal, containing more life. She will open
negotiations Immediately to re-translate 1t
into French and produce 1t here. News
papers scorn the idea of American writers
improving a French play, but Bergeast, the
author, is siding with Hading.
Benz Castellane. who was a witness in the
Royalist trial today, attempted a boyish
prank. coming three times to register each
time laughing and making faces at friends
in the gallery. President Falleres sharply
and Contemptuously reprimanded Anna q
husband, threatening to commit him for dis
respect Boni went back as meek as a
lamb.
new weekly paper called American
Paris is about to appear. Some well known
New York journalists are associated in the
enterprise with two editors of important
Partisan dallies 1t Is the intention OF the
promoters to make a publication OF interest
not only to the colony here but to American
residents in London and all over Europe.
1t is TO be fashionable social authority.
full OF gossip written In biting, smart
style, The offices are to be furnished
sumptuously and will be thrown open as a
sort of American rendezvous and reading
rooms.
Several prominent English capitalists are
here to discuss with French money kings
the transcontinental line proposed some
time ago from Alexandria, Egypt, TO Shang-
hal through southern Asia. The total
length is to be 6S7 miles. OF which a third
is already built and operated.
Plague is Spreading.
The plague continues to spread Physi-
clans here have received from their coll
leagues in oporto private information that
several authenticated cases have been dis
covered in Spain. Two sailors died yester-
day at Bordeaux, in southern France Local
physicians reported their cases as unmis-
taxable plague but later officials issued
denials and the matter was hushed up.
though the disinfection afterward was ex-
traordinarily thorough.
The prince of Monaco has given 10, 600
francs 10 the Boer ambulance fund organized
by the women OF France.
squad OF American Mormons PASSED
through Paris with some fifty or sixty Swiss
girls recently converted. This small regi-
ment OF future wives was split here into
small groups to avoid attention, some going
10 Holland. some to England and others 10
Belgium, but all eventually going TO Utah.
-Four OF the Mormon apostles remained be-
h,nd presumably with the purpose OF seek
ing new female converts among the French
rural population.
Tho exposition is already stirring up tho
Imagination OF many Americans who desire
TO see It but who cannot afford the passage.
The last time 1t came to Hayre the French
'ser Bretagne brought in two girls as