The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-03-02
FIRST NIGHT IN PARIS
Went TO Hotel Rivera. But Not to
Monte Carlo.


MY first night at tie Blue Seasider-
Cote d'Azur-has given me a sensation
which I did not expect after Paris. and
which I certainly never associated with
Monte Carlo. It was long after dark,
and had occasion to go up the hill to
the immensely fine and magnihcently
dear Riviera Palace Hotel. which the last
two years have planted there, a thousand
feet above the sea. The cogwheel rail
way, which winds the tourist UP to the
heights Of La Turbie, passes the end Of
the motel terrace; but its work is done
with the daylight. The two-horse car
''iages that wait about the Casino give an
experience only less costly than the gam
ing tables within and the swell hotels
without; and besides the distance is long.
L was told that the hotel, which looks
in superb independence of the crowd be-
low from the lofty perch where it has
been receiving millionaires from Ameri-
ca like Mr.. Schwab, money-making
playwrights from London like Mr.. Henry
Arthur Jones, and equally well paid ac-
tors from Paris like NJ Guitry has a
service Of automobiles night and day
from the Casino. The price is reasonable,
as happens frequently in the service of
millionaires We were two, and for
thirty cents apiece the powerful machine.
with soiidly cushioned seats for eight.
was at our disposition.
Automobiles Of all sizes and going at
all rates of speed arc only too common
in the Paris streets, where they wiz soon
outnumber the private equippages. Hill
climbing by automobiles is also a matter
Of frequent record; but the commercial
and daily use Of such vehicles for hire
up an ascent like that TO La Turbie. to
me at least. seems altogether noteworthy.
Along the cogwheel railway the perpen-
dicular rise is often twenty-five feet to
every hundred forward. The carriage
road, which is used by automobiles. has
TO take this by zigzags. I did not count
the number of turnings as far as the
hotel, but there must be more than
twenty. They are sharp turnings, most
of them, as the road IS cut In the zteep
descent Of the mountain rock On What
nay be called the land size new villas
have been constructed here and there.
with the idea, ! believe that this Monte
Carlo SUPERIOR might become the winter
sun-bath OF the rich independently Of the
gaming tables below. On the air side.
where the descent breaks away sheer
and awful, high stone walls are built
at the turning points and lights fare
dimly.
Up these climbing zigzags. along the
narrow shelf, between the cut hillside
and the outer darkness. thrilling Tar away
with the Casinos glare and the laz,ping
waves on the rocks hundreds of feet
below. our automobile sped. apparently
without heed to space on the part OF our
conductor. and certainly without mental
security on our own part. The corners
were turned with unslackened speed and
with only a doubly imperative cali to
a possible passerby TO stand from under.
In the surviving fragment of some None
gasque village of the middle ages dogs
and children fed for their lives beside us.
No madden flight was made when Bar
oarossa's corsairs stormed these heiehts.
A sense Of exhilieration. oblivious OF
space and time. drove afar ali vain
alarms amid Tire cool fragrance Of the
southern night ard beneath unwinIine
stars. 1t was only when brought up
sharp ~ tho dazzling lights Of the hotels
open doors that I came back 70 world
Tliere a steel king had Just learned. by
telesams. that he was not free
10 amuse himself Ike the average Ameri- /
IAN citizen ar Monte Carlo.
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