Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-13
BUSY IN PARIS
Senator DsPsw Has Trouble About Hi
Sleeping Quarters,
OTHER YANKEES At FRENCH CAPITAL
Tom walsh of Colorado ana Kina
Leopold of belgium Having .
Good Time with other
Kings.

Copyright, 1904 by Press Publishing Coz
PARIS, July ia.-(Now York World Ca
bleuam - Special Telegram Ex-senator
Chaunosy NJ. Depsw and his wife occupy an
apartment on tho top floor Of tho Elysee
hotel, to get tho broeHe. Lulu CHASER, the
operate star, arrived three days ago, en-
gagged the next apartment and began TO
practice culture with the best Paris mas
terS from 8 to 10 q. m. The first time Mr..
Depew was thus awakened he rang for the
manager, but by the time that ofhcer APP
peared Mrs. Depew's intercession, together
with the charm Of the unknown voice. had
modified the senator. Afterward he met
the singer in the corridor and said to her
Miss CHASER, you wake people mighty
early, but It is a sweet awakening"
BoQuets followed and now Miss CHASER
goes every afternoon to sing for the senator,
Mrs. Depew accompanying her on the piano.
The senator and his wife are spending
the time most quietly. Both will remain
In Paris a week longer, because "the town
Is so pleasant now that everybody has gone"
Mrs. Depew Is r~ansacking the curto shops,
intending to rearrange things In her Wash
ington home according to her ideas. Be-
Sides, the senator vows he never suspected
there were 30 many modistes and dress
makers in Paris. From here the Depews
Will go TO switzerland.
w. X. Vanderbilt, jr., offered to come on
from Lucerne with his wife In order to take
the quartet back In an automobile, but Mr..
Depew answered, "No, the railroads give
rough riding enough for me-" Today he
engaged return passage on the steamship
Philadelphia, sailing from Cherbourg Au-
gust 16.
M. sardOu's testimony has saved Elsie
DeWolfe $4,000. The actress recently
Bought In Italy four seventeenth century
paintings, agreeing to pay 5000 for them
when safely delivered at her summer resi-
dence In Versailles. When the paintings
arrived experts pronounced them spurious
copies and Miss DeWolfe refused TO pay.
The Italian dealer came to Paris and
brought suit. M. sardou. who is rated
here as the best living authority on old
italian pictures, pronounced the works not
genuine, whereupon the magistrate gave g
decision In favor of the American woman
King Leopold recently made a flying TRIP
here for a hurried conference with Mr..
Walsh, his business partner, and Mr.. Walsh
returned with the king to ostend, where
he attended a dinner given to the shah Of
Persia. The inference is drawn here that
an important investment of capital in Per-
STA is contemplated.
Mr.. Walsh was one Of the bidders for the
famous Humbert safe, long supposed t.
contain 800, 900, 900.
Mr.. and Mrs. oliver H.. p. Belmont have
arrived here from London. intending to
take a long stay here. 1t is persistently
rumored that Mr.. Belmont is backing the
syndicate which is seeking to buy and re-
organize the tramway and omnibus service
Of Paris.
Clyde Fitch writes to the World CORE
spondent from st. Moritz, Switzerland, thai
the climate there seems to be doing him
good. but the doctors, whose frank opinion
he demanded, have advised him to make his
will, because appendicitis is really the leasI
OF his troubles and the complication Of dis
eases renders him unfit for any operation
Mr.. Fitch writes that despite his physicians
he retains some hope and all his pluck
Mr.. Fitch believes he would have died in
Venice, stranded among unsympathetic
strangers. had he not CHANGED to meet there
Paul Potter, who acted like a brother and
procured for hin the best care.
Sarah Bernhard was one OF those who
purchased seats for the coronation process
sion on the stand erected in front Of ST
Martins church. When the money was re-
turned to her the actress Immediately sem
the sum to Sir Howard Vincent, asking tina
it be turned over to the League Of Mercy
which was instituted to pray for the re-
covery Of the king OF England.