New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-16

press q OeSlTe mat some arrangement S@S~N
upon pecuniary indemnity and a formal apol-
ogy Of the Chinese Government may be con-
ciuded-anything. in fact, TO prevent France
from becoming involved in difficulties in North
srn China
The 'Tntransigeant" comes out with a huge
cartoon entitled "L'Accord des Puissanoes" and
with the inscription, China, already famous
for her porcelain vases. is about to become still
more so, for her chens de faience." The car
toon represents Ii Hung Chang gazing upon
group Of colored porcelain dogs, each represent
ing a foreign Power. and glazing heplessly at
another from their terra Gotta pedestaIs
with glazed immobllity
The Steele" publishes a leader calling atten-
ton to the enormous cost of maintaining a
French contingent in Pe-Ch-L during the win
ter, which it estimates, If the occupation con-
tinues until January J. Will exceed S0,O000O0
francs
The "Gaulois" to-day comes out with an elabo-
rate illustrated supplement devoted to American
painters at the Exposition. The "Gaulois" art
critic NJ De Fourcaude. draws comparisons be-
tween the works Of American artists who live
abroad and those who live at home, and ex-
presses the opinion that among the former group
the essential American character is by no means
preponderant NJ de Fourcaude speaks in the
highest terms Of the work accomplished by
American painters their own soil and under
their sky, which marks the development of
an original American school. In this connection
1t is interesting to note that Austrian anna
teur has offered $4,000 for a small canvas in the
Grand Paais at the Exposition, painted by an
American who lives in the United States.
Ger6me. who nowadays devotes more time to
sculpture than to painting, has Just completed
the marquette Of a dying eagle clutchinG the
Imperial flag. which is to be placed on the bat
tlefeld of Waterloo the site purchased in be
half Of the Sahretache Society hy Henry Hous-
save and Gustave Larroume. The monument
will be fifteen metres high, the eagle being two
metres in height and the space between the ex-
tended wings three and one-hah metres. The
eagle clutches the broken stan of a flag sur
mounted by the letter IN" bearing the words,
"Austerlitz, Eylau."
In literary circles much interest is expressed
in the forthcoming memoirs Of Lassouche, the
veteran comedian Of the Palais Royal and Va
rietes who now retires from the stage in his
SEVENTEEN year. Lasscuche, besides being an
actor. IS an expert brc-h-brac collector His
recolections will throw pleasing sidelights upon
the Second Empire and the pristine days of
MeiIhac and Halevy
The influx Of visitors Is now greater than at
any period since the opening Of the Exposition,
average
for the last six days being 100000 as against
10000 during the height of the season in May
and June, Among the we'll known Americans
who are taking advantage Of the ideal Septem-
her weather for parting glance al the Worlds
Fair are Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Mex. Twom-
bey. Mr.. and Mrs. A. Ollins Morse Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice Untermyer, Judge and Mrs. Batcheller.
en- route for Cairo; Mr.. and Mrs Smith Ryland
Mrs. Robert Coelet Mrs. Pendleton BOwlder,
Mrs. Lorillard Spencer. c. Emo. Joseph Pea
body, Commanders Richard Davenport and
Henry Mansfield Of the United States ships
Essex and Lancaster. and officers who have
up from Havre. Social activity in the American
colony has taken the attractive form Of cosey
and Informal lunches, teas, dinners automobile
excursions and discreet little theatre parties.
Lady Angesea has resumed her Saturday
ceptions Mrs. Thomas Walsh. assisted by Miss
Cockrell Miss Wilson and Miss Rochester has
taken up her Thursday teas. The little army OF
American functionares connected with the
hibition is back in Paris again after the
mer holidays. and a fresh epidemic Of mutual
entertainments is already in view. The Amer
lean Lady Commissioners. with Mrs. Potter
Palmer Mrs Daniel Manning Mrs. Charles
Metcalf and Mrs Clarence Burns at their head,
have once more assembled from seaside
mountain resorts. and. having missed the In
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TO make up for lost time by attending the fate
TO be given at the United States National Pa
vilion Monday evening by the New-York
Commissioners. The American pavilion. being
neither ornamental nor artistic, is now utilized
as a sort Of national concert hall for dances and
amateur musicals. which have become very
popular in spite of the fact that every fes-
tive occasion the electric lights invariably give
out and the confusion in the Cloakroom be
comes such that The Paris Herald" is filled
next morning with respondent letters headed:
who Took the Wrong Coat?" who Walled
of inadvertently with My White Silk Necker
chief?" who Carried Away My Silver-Headed
Cameo Has Any One Found My Silk Hat"
etc, in which the owners make urgent inquiries
for lost property.
Automobilism. favored by the superb weather.
is at it's height. Clarence Dinsmore and
William J. Tiffany are due in Paris tomorrow
from a six weeks run through Savoy and South
eastern France during which they made thor
ough tests of five different descriptions Of
motor carriages. Their experience convinces
them that French automobiles are for European
roads far better and more practical than any
thing yet turned out by American makers
Another successful motor carriage trip has just
lien made by Mr.. and Mrs William H. Payne
and Mrs. Ingraham from Hougat, the Nor
man coast, to Aix-leB ains, in Savoy Robert
A Gardiner and Frank Grswold have left AK
le-Bains on bicycles for Lucerne by the Rhone
Valley and Furka Pass.
The great feature OF the autumn manoeuvres
in the fat Beauce country, near Charities, where
over one hundred thousand men now oper-
ating, is the success Of military automobilism.
The roads around and throughout Beauce are
thick with motorcycles, voiturettes and trucks
propelled by steam, petroleum electricity.
They are all handled by chaffeurs in the uni
form Of reserYists The work Of the General