Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-16


city. second only 10 Paris in size. has
resigned HE post because bis salary
did not pny his living expenses 10 this /
land Of high. priced food and dwellings, |
and our affairs are left for the present |
10 the hands OF yice-consul who is q |
Frenchmar, and who. though couf teous |
to Americans. is little interested In or |
concersaDt with our commercial affairs. |
The United States is now giving at |
Paris the most complete and elaborate |
d smonstration OF her resources and |
enterprise that has ever been made 10 |
| a foreign land and If this Is followed |
| by intelligent and systematic effort 1t
ought to increase our commerce.
A number Of Congresses nrs being
held In Paris in which the United
States is well represented by those
who will discuss such subjects as
"Charities,,' whose principle Is aid
| In return for work" 'Hieber Edu.
cation,'' on which Miss NJ. Cary
Thomas, president Of Bryn Mnwr Dol
] leae and Prof. Howe Of Columbia
| College. will be among the speakers.
Secondary" and Primary Edu.
catiun," on which Miss Annie Tolman
Smith, expert OF the United States
Board OF Edutstion will speak, and
the Press Association, ~ whose object
10 part IL to establish friendly feeling
and communication among journalists
Of all nations. 10 maintain permanent
and regular relations between all the
press clubs in Europe and America,
to give aid to its members who may
need employ ment rs correspondents or
~ editorial or reportorial work, and TO
eudeavor to secure international legis.
lation In settling disputes between
journalists, publishers and editors,
and 10 regard to copyright and ie-
duction 10 postal and telegraph rates
charged newspapers and journals. 1t
also proposes 20 establish an inter
national hospital for journalists In
| Paris.
Paris is not only getting much Of hor
money back from the great number OF
foreigners, especially Americans, who
Nre within her gates, but will be left
the richer by two ur three fms new
railway stations, built CD account OF
the exposition. by new electric tram
ways, an underground railway, new
hotels and apartment houses, and the
finest bridge of its kind 10 the world,
the Alexander Third bridge across the
Seine.
We took day off from the exposition
and went to Fontainebleau to spend
the day 10 the celebrated forest. 1t
. was such rest for tired body and
. brain TO sit in the train and look out
, at the wheat fields, like waving seas CT
I grain where
, The peoples, 1.-the aud fleet,
! Seemed running, fiery torchmen, to and fro.
! Not very welcome sight perhaps to
, farmer, but 5
! joy to think that days perhaps remain to
, me,
|, In which shall be glad. remembering
. How the tall. 1.-THE peoples ran like torch
men with the wheat
We first visited the palace which WAS
. begun b, Francis / aud finished
, and embellished by subsequent kings.
3 1t was favorite residence Of Napoleon
!. /, but must have had its bitter
= memories, for it was here he wrote and
: signed his abdication of the throne,
Of which we saw the first rough draft
!, he made. His feelings.may be inferred
I from the vicious dig with his penknife
2 he made In the table on which he
y wrote it and which remains as evidence
y of his ill huInor. The hangings OF his
D state bed are ornamented with golden
y bees, his favorite emblem.
The apartments OF Mary Antoinettt
y we're exquisitely furnished and the
y windows we're fitted with iron bolts
y made by her husband who was better
y locksmith than king, and who would
:, have been mole profitaEly employed In
studying the condition and needs o.
Y bis kingdom. We took carriage anc
, rode for nine hours through and acros.
?. and around the magnificent old roys
y forest, the paradise of artists, with it
v grand old oaks and beeches, its pic
: turesque Files of messy rocks. ferny,
:, shady glades and rocky gens. It'll.
= quite free of underground and Their,
- are charming yistas Of gray and moss,
y old tree trunks with their foliage high
?. overhead. Merles, and fauvettes, ant
20 Einsons sang to us, brown lizard
y scurried across the rocks, and in tn,
10 open glades bees were humming arouut
y, tho heather. We could have found n,
70 greater contrast nor better rost from
=, the constant demands on the attention
\. at the fair, and | recommend thi
!. cruise to other visitors. The fores
y, confirms AZ, 800 acres and the drive /
~ 80 miles in extent. There are still de
Nv scendants In it's depths of the dee
h once hunted by royal sportsmen, an.
10 every winter the forest Is rented for
~ week by retired brewer Of PARIS, wht
4; 10 plays the king for awhile. Our coach
Is man naively remarked that 1t Is RICH
InaJ tue STATE 5nOuld preserve tn
ho forest as it is the dependence of th
No whole district because of the visitor
~ ~ it brings.
yo From Paris / also went down h
a. Blois &c see the old Chateau, Catherin
.sa de Medici and the Duke of Guise, j
a. Balafie, had been from childhood m.
Il, pet historical detestation and | wantel
~ to see the spot where the one died an,
i, the other was murdered by the king
mn 1t has many other historical asso
M, Citations, still another bloody one, 70
~ Cardinal Guise was also assassinate,
III in the dungeon by the order Of tn
sw king. There is fine old carved stair
nd way il pentagonal tower which ha
~ wide fame. ! arrived at Blois late il
H. the evening. and when the omnibu
nd drove up to the Grand Hotel at Franc
he and the whole force OF servants, draw
,rs up IN the sidewalk and a smilin
nd hostess in the doorway, awaited onl
tic me felt very inadequate and wished
he could multiply myself. Outlying nj
hy fractions In France are having a moo
Il time Just now, but are hoping 70
II. patronage later A. S.
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