The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-03-11
BY stephen Austin.


is the main rendezvous of exiles; 1t has
been so from the day when the great
Dante. driven out of Florence, fed here to
nurse his tragic hate. Every European
who has got in trouble with the Powers
that Be in his own land naturally gravi-
tates hitherward, to the big, gay city all
painting with Intellectual life where he is
sure TO meet many of his own similarly
situated countrXmen TO conspire with, ana
whence he can at a moments notice take
train or boat back TO his country when
things ere ripe for a fresh revolutionary
effort Every really up TO date guide book
TO this city should have chapter de-
voted TO the Plotting Places OF Paris
These are mostly cafes, where sit the
exes of many lands. weaving over beer
stained tables deadly combinations against
the tyrants at home.
The walters at the Cafe Souffiot in the
Latin quarter points out to you, If he feels
communicative a dark lazy-looking young
man who smokes innumerab,e cigarettes
and chats in bored way with other dark,
lszy-looking young men. To the waiter
ne is a parsonage.
That" says the functionary proudly,
lis Monsieur Sidi- Ben Hassan Bey. He
is the chief of the Syrian branch of the
young Turks. Those are his leutenants
and his two secretaries there with him.
They come here every night to conspire.
That Cafe Souffiot is a noted rendez-
vous of Orientals One sees there as many
Wearers of the fez ordinary silk-hat-
ted citizens: and it is rare not to find
certain proportion Of the clients arrayed
in gorgeous robes from different paris
Of the Lands of the Rising sun The
newspapers kept for the customers are
printed in some five or six of the Ian
guages, whose characters look to the I'M
instructed eye like the trail of light
footed spider. 1t is just because this is
noted habitat of Orientals that it is
used the Matching ground of political
cabals. Why? Sidi-Ben- Hessan Bey shall
give you the reason.
I'VE come here because we are prac-
tcally lost among a nightly crowd OF
some 200 persons OF course, We, the
chiefs, are known to the Sultan's spies
who abound in Paris. But we often have
business instructions to communicate
and reports 90 receive with members of
cur party, who are not yet known. They
pass in here unobserved among so many
Eastern people, and we seize a favora-
BILE moment for handing them or receiv-
ing from them any document necessary
TO our affairs. 1t is done in second,
well known and watched met them on
the streets or boulevards or in an ordi-
nary cafe, they would at once be entered
on the bad books of the Yildiz Kiosk
That would increase our difficulties ten
fold; for no one who has been seen talk
ing to any of us leaders would be allow
ed to enter any Turkish port, or In any
way to cross the Turkish frontier His
full description and a fanciful history Of
his doings would reach the authorities
ahead of him, and he would be at once
stripped of his papers and thrown int
prison for an indefinite time"
The different countries which furnish
recruits to the strong and extensive
Dung Turkish" reVolutionaries make
their headquarters in several cafes at va
fious ends of the city. The quiet and re
spectacle Cafe Cardinal on the Boulevard
des Italians is a meeting place for the
two or three supreme heads of the or
ganization. the men who know the rami-
fcations of the whole movement but who
90 little or no active work, guiding the
whole from distance, and leaving pro-
paganda and the daily grind Of clerical
business to younger men. When one be-
gins to understand how enormous in Pa
ris alone is the organization of intrigue
against the present regime in Turkey, one
is astonished that the fabric remains in
tact 1t would almost seem as If tyran.
strong the more it is conspired against
There seems to be some jealousy. or
at any rate, distinct lack OF sympathy
between the Young Turks" and she
Revolutionary Armenians. Some of the
leaders of the one are leaders of the
other; out the rank and file of each do
not appear at all anxious to kiss and be
friends, in the common action against the
regime of the Sublime Ports MANY Of
the most prominent members of the Ar
menian "Haik' Society foregather in a
musical cafe, the Taverne Muller. in the
grim shadow of the Pantheon where. to
the light strains OF the Blue Danube. &"
or OF "Traviata," the Armenian leaders.
the Tchobagians. Elmassians and Doritor-
choorians, lay their mines for the liberia
ZION of their remote mountain lands and
Tor the avenging of their thousand of mas
sacred fellow cOuntrymen.
Those Partisan exiles for whom "Kose-
ziusko fell,' TO Wit. the Poles, have
necessarily TO wage a triple war. Some
OF them are German subjects some are
under the Knout of Russia others are
ground down by the white uniformed
Austrians They meet in Paris to plot
against the three countries. They are en-
gagged In striving by all means short OF
force to keep the Polish spirit still burn.
ing and to preserve the national Language
and customs against the foreigners q
who. In those three different lands are
trying to absorb aud transform the Pol
ish element. In this the agitators are sue.
ceeding singularly. The three powers are
finding 1t increasigly hard to assimilat,
their reluctant Polish subjects.
Wherever there are few thousand Pole,
in town the administration rapidly fall,
into their hands and the local "acts" ar,
couched in the Polish language. TIL,
Paris Committee Of the Sons OF Kosczi
usko," which meets weekly at the CAT,
Napolitain, is making the digestion o.
their countrymen increasingly difficult I,
every power that controls a concentrated
Polish population.
Hundreds Of Americans know every cor
ner OF certain long. lowFoofed BARRON
within a stones throw offthe fashiona bl,
and stately Church OF the Madeleine. T'hI
IL "Old Pats" though Pat Reynolds him
self is now dead. Pats" was the rem
devious of extreme Irish revolutionists
Fenians. Clau-na-Gael men, and member
OF all kinds Of desperate little societie
that split off from these or hung OF