New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28


The witnesses for the bride were her brother.
Isaac Bell and Mr. Bacon. The witnesses for
the bridegroom the Marquis d Aramon, MS
first cousin, and Count Edouard de Ia Roche
foucauld The bride was dressed simply IN
white, with plain tulle veil. Among those at the
ceremony were Count Louis de Montesquiou ana
his daughter. the Prince and Princesse Brancac-
cio the Comtesse de Kersaint, the Duchesse de
Bassano. the Due de Bissaccia, the Marquis de
Montesduiou the Due de Luynes, Comte Louis
de Turenn, Mrs. Henry Ridgeway and Prince
Constantin RadziwiI. After the ceremony the
couple proceeded in an electric automobile,
decked with flowers, to Mrs. Bells apartment. In
the Avenue Henri Martin. where the "eoolhs
presents were viewed and the wedding break
fast was enjoyed. James Gordon Bennett was
not present, having arrived yesterday at
Naples on his yacht. the Lysistrant, from trip
on the Adriatic
Among Americans in Paris are Thomas W.
Cridler commissioner for the St Louis EXPOSE
ton. and Mrs. Cridler. Mr.. Cridier is about to
start for Germany, where there is considerable
reluctance on the part of the German indus
trial exhibitors to send their products to St.
Louis as they say that the Americans
Of their German goods and the more they real
iZe their cheap prices the more stringent will
become the tariff measures TO keep them out of
the United States. Mr.. Crder hopes TO
straighten out matters by visiting Cologne, Ber-
lin Frankfort and other German Industrial CEN
tres and persuading those interested that tariff
reciprocity will before long put matters on a
fair business basis.
Signor Mascagni. the Italian composer, who
sails from Cherbourg to-day for New-Yor
the American liner Philadelphia carries with
him fifteen artists. sixty musicians and
chorus of sixty. He intends to give hun
bred performances. including "Cavaleria," Ia
netto.' "Radcliff' and Iris" He is delighted
at the prospect of his first visit TO the United
States. He expects to be present at the first
performance of Mr.. Hall Gaines Eternal City,
in Washington October g. for which he wrote
the incidental music. He says: Il think Hall
Game an ideal Hbrettist and I should like very
much to compose an opera to his words
think Americans will be pleased with THE Eter-
nal City 1t is so scenic full of life, movs
ment and incident I have been pretty busy
lately planning composition for an opera on
Marie Antoinette TO the book written by 1llca."
Miss Fanny Reed. well known IN Paris and
New York. has just completed a book which
her friends have induced her to write on celeb
rites she has met Miss Reed has put her
celebrities and other prominent personalities
with whom she has conversed all together IN a
congenial company in a stout volume. called
"Reminiscences by Fanny Reed Their traits
are happily hit off with piquancy, but without
malice by the quick witted leader Of a charming
coterie Of Parisian-American society.
The Count and Countess Boni de Castellane
are greatly pleased with their purchase, at what
is considered a remarkable bargain. of the
Chateau de Grignan. at Montelinar. which Is
associated with the life of Nine. de Sevigne, and
which recently owned by NJ Felix Faure.
The Chateau de Grignan is of the oldest in
France. II contains some fine paintings and
carved furniture. 1t partially destroyed IN
the Revolution, but what remains is highly in
teresting
Owing to the dismal financial outlook and the
new fiscal burdens in contemplation TO secure
an increased revenue, the French Government
bonds rentes fell Thursday to below par
"a slump which has not occurred on the Paris
market since July. 1899. The fluctuations of
national securities continue marked, they are
affected alternately by the optimism of the
Radicals and Socialists and by the extreme ,
pessirnisrn Of the Nationalist and Of the Cath
Ole reaction. In financial circles uneasiness is
felt at the increasing influence of socialism,
upon which the present Cabinet depends for its
majority, and which 1t is feared may cause con-
siderable embarrassment for the financial re |
form urged by M. Rouvier, the Finance Minister |
To-day the French rentes have risen to 80 CEN
times above par but there is depression IN rail-
road securities c. l. B.