The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-03-10
PLOTTERS IN PARIS CAFES.
CoNGP1RATORs PROM ALL PARTS or
TIE WORLD FOUND THERE.
YssAg Turks and Armsnians Preparing 70
Overthrow the sultan Poles busy win
Three Power The Irish Rendezvous Don
CarIoss Courteous but seedy Adherent''

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Csrios., Courteous but seedy Adherents.
PANS, March This city Is a rendezvous
a snIes. Every European who has got into
tyouble IN hi, own land naturally gravitates
hithsr. Every really up-to-date guide book
10 this city should have a chapter devoted 10
tbs splotttne Places Of Paris These are
mostly cafes, where st the exlles OF many
lands weaving over beer-stained tables coUl-
binations against the tyrants at home
The waiter at the Cafe Soufiot In the Iaun
Quarter points out to you. II he Is commune
cstive. q dark. lazy-looking young man who
.mokee innumerable cigarettes and chaH III
q bored way with other dark. la1y-looRihs
young men. To the waiter he Is a personase'
That" says the functionary prouuly' :
M. Sid ben Hassan Bey. lie IL 'he 'nIe' '"
the Syrian branch OF the Young TURKS lh2ee
are his lieutenants and his two secretaries
tbere with him. They come here every nish'
70 ~oonspire
The cafe Souf.ot IL a noted rendezvous OF
Orisntal. One sees there a. many wearers
~ the fez az ordinary silk-hatt"t citiZens'
and IL ,s rar. not 10 ind a certain proportion
OF the customers arrayed In gorgeous t"oes'
The newspapers kept for the customers are
printed In FIVE or six of the language who--
characters look 10 the uninstruoted eve we
the trail Of a light-footed spider.
" com here because We are practically
lost among a nightly crowd OF some 200 per-
sons I" says sid ben Hassan Bey. course
We. the chiefs. are known 10 the SuI'ah
spies, who abound in Paris But we oi'eh
hsve busine,s Instructions to communicate
10 members NJ our party. who are not y't
known. They pass III here unohserreu
.mong 40 many Eastern people II wo met
them on the streets. or In an ordinary care
thew would at once hp entered on the hau
books OF the Yildiz Kiosk That would m
crease our difficulties tanfuld for no one VINO
has been seen talking 10 any oi US leaders
would be allowed TO enter any turkish port
or In any way To cross the turkish ifoht'e
His full description and a fanchhl history
of his doings would reach the authorities
ahead of him. and he would be atonce stripped
Of his papers and thrown into prison Tor an
Indefinite time
There seems TO be some jealousy. or az
.nv rate. a distinct lack of sympathy between
the young Turks and the revolutionary At
menians. Some of the leaders OF the one
are leaders Of the other. but the rank and
ale do not appear al all anxious TO he friends
in the common action against the Porte
MANY OF the most prominent members OF
the Armenian Haik Society foregather IN a
musical cafe. the Taverne Muller. In the
shadow Of the Pantheon. where 10 the lisht
strains ~ tho Blue Danube or OF lraN-
iata." the Armenian leaders the Tchobagiahs'
Elmass!ans and DoritCrchOorians. lay their
mines for the liberation 81 their remotem noun
tain lands and for the aveueing OF their thou
eand OF mastered fellow countrymen.
Those Partisan eSiles for whom koscziusko
fell. 70 wit. the Poles. have to wage n triple
war. Some Of them are German SUBJECTS
.ome are under the rule Of Russia. others are
- ~ - ~. .A,,a ,.,tf.rpna I AHEfrIanA
They meet In Paris to plot against the three
countries. They are engaged IN striving
by all means short Of force to keep the Polish
shirt still burning and to preserve the ma
tional Ian giage and customs against the fore
eicner, who, in those three different lands.
are trying to absorb and transform the Polish
element.
In this the asitators are succeeding Gin
pularly. The three Powers are finding II
Increasingly hard 10 assimilate their reIuc-
tant Polish subjects. Wherever there are
a few thousand Poles In a town the admins
tratlon rapidly falls into their hands and the
local acts are couched in the Polish language.
The Paris Committee of the Sons 81 nos
cziusko. which meets weekly sttheCate Napol-
itain. IL making the digestion OF their cohn-
trymen Increasingly difficult 10 every Power
that controls Polish population
Hun1relS OF Americans hU'N '
Of a certain long. low-rooiad barroom within
a stones throw Of the Madeleine. This Is
Old Pats. though Pat REYNOLDS himself IL
now dead. Pat, was the rendezvous Of
extreme Irish revolution SIS. FonlHns tlan-
na-Gael men and members of all kinds or
desperate little societies that split of from
these or hung upon their outskirts. Many
Q desperate plot was arranged In IN" N'te
curtained recess at the rIght end of N" room
many a bravo fellow left that place to take
ship for Dublin. carrying document. Ia tho
home leaders. or guns for a hop"d-for rising
There is no lri-Lmin or Irish American
OF note in III" uuwrI't"r secret history ot
the Green Isle. anon M" carry .rNt'S OF
AS, the FenIHn leaders of % or III" Land.
into that little reoce, aud talked lroInntt to the
fumes of Old Pat curious whl~hcy.
There was a curious -c@n" az. Old Pats
several years ngo Arthur baliGur, the
nephew Of Lord Salisbury. who wa then the
incarnation In the Emerald III" Of IA" rigld,
represslve measures Of England and was lcii
in detestation bv the people, WIS one" brought
20 visit the lri -h- American bar - on" of the
curiositicS OF Paris. II" aret man be- saw.
O'Brien. who's" shaNcn E1ir had uo' Vet had
sine To grow since b" cam" ont ~ pri~on.
where Mr.. Balfour himself had sent him
The English visitor made a hUSty salute
and passed along " 2 mn" dls'anc" down
the room he nearly i"il INT" III" arms Of
Michael D1vitt. who. at ia" very moment.
was wanted hv the Balfour police on u cocr.
cfon writ, when had forced the MAYO patriot
over the straits Had the Brltun veutured
q little further he would have fallen ninou.
an assemblage of Irishmen who's" principles
and plans would have made his hair stand
on end: men I'm comparison with whom Mr.
O'Brien and Nr Davitt were a. .unocen,
bab es OF the revolutionary movement
But Mr.. Balfour stood not upon the order
OF his g9ins. he went az once. fleeing as II hi-
own police were after him ODD Fat ltughod
20 his dying dav over Nj HHlfours conf.
cally rueful faCe on this occasion
Another English-~I"aklng lar Mt which
conspiracy-oi a kIud-huS been Matched
is the ~wcll-krown house IN the Rue 10 Ia
Chuussee d'AHtlu, " hero, two or three yea r.
ago. the late ex-king Milan of S"rvIa used
20 hold his highly unkIuglv r.Nri- Milan
loved English ale and scotch vht~k"v Wien
he had imb!bed generously of both in turn
be used 10 hold forth with "logu-nce on hl,
doings and on the lr'I!al conduct Of hl-
"usurpiny son" and called upon all who
happened 10 be there to loin him ia seems
justice done to Ia ucthruned king ana an IN.
happy father.
son,suna- hc would conollde his moo.
hcrent orattun> with a request for the loar
oil half u dollar to- ~ On with IL i y 'att
that re often ran absolutely out 81 cash
through ms reckless Nt'aNnglur. thou Il
he had a prthcelv allowance from the rrivat.
purse OF his son. N" ku.. A. we'll a, from
the S"rvAL House of IhrlluInent. Iots OF
people lent him Tn" haif dollar ur the - fran,
he happened To- ak for. fh"r' Il always q cor.