New-York tribune., 1902-08-17

their suicidal mania7 Already a great many
village Mayors have closed their districts 10
automobiles going over ten miles an hour. Auto
mobiiism, both as sport and as q nationai m
dustry, is now threatened with the general up
rising of an exasperated rural population
Young Brotet the mechanic of the late MT
Fair. states that 1t the tire of the left rear
wheel not front, which exploded. and caused the
accident. In reply to the question, What were
the last words of Mrs. Fair?' he says:
IT was Mrs. Fair who spoke TO me last She
said What beautiful country we are going
through and just AS we were passing St.-AQui-
ling. a few seconds before the accident, she no.
ticed that 1 held in my hands pair of extra
pneumatic tires. She said: What a splendid
having. If our tires do not burst we
shall reach the Hotel Ritz. Paris, at o'clock,
few moments later she and her husband were
killed at the same instant
The Roman Catholic manifestations in Brit
tany on Ascension Day when over fifteen thou
sand peasants made pilgrimage to Folgoet to
protest against the ejectment of the nuns. have
still further increased the fanaticism and ami
mostly against the ministry Eyewitnesses re-
late that 1t was a strange and stirring sight.
recalling scenes from the Middle ages when
swarthy Bretons, men, women and children,
wearing the black and red national costumes,
and bearing crosses images of the Saviour,
banners and amulets. chanted cantcles, invok-
ing divine punishment NJ. Combes. The
Cabinet, meanwhile. relying on strong Radical
majority in the Chamber of Nationalist and
Clerical Deputies which 1t will interpellate next
October, decided to carry out NJ. Combes's in
depreciation of the association laws with an
unfiinching hand. The military force in Brit
tany is so overwhelming that the disaffection of
the population has definitely renounced all ideas
OF a hostile resistance. 1t is the religious ques-
ton there. nevertheless, which dominates all
else. and the League for Free Education is en-
listing many adherents, even in stanch repubi-
ranks.
Paris is pretty well deserted just now, except
by the transient Americans who passing
from watering resort TO another. Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew and Mrs. Depew and
Chauncey Jr, have arrived in Paris from Nevay.
and are making daily visits TO Mr.. and Mrs.
Tuck at their summer home at Reuil. and 10
other friends living at Versailles, st. German
and other environs Of Paris.
Mrs Richardson Glover passed through Paris
on her way to Switzerland. James Gordon Ben
nett. with a party Of friends, arrived on
wednesday at Ragusa on his yacht, Lysistrata.
Regret is expressed by the American resi-
dents here that Hegerman Lindencrone. for
many years Danish Minister at Paris. has finally
accepted the post of minister al Berlin. Nine.
Hegerman Lindencrone. formerly Mrs. Charles
Moulton, of the most feted bellies at the
court Of Napoleon III. and caused a furor with
her dramatic, soprano voice. She with the
Princess Metternich, the Duchesse de Mouchy
and the Countesse de Pourtales. was a brilliant
society leader of the Tueries days, position
she has retained under the Third Republic One
Of Theophile Gautier's finest poems dedi-
Gated to her, as was also music composed by
Auber, Gounod. Verdi. Massenet and Liszt
Nine Lindencrone. who is now in the United
States. is expected to visit her daughter the
Countess Raben. in Denmark before proceeding
to Berlin
Among the Americans at st. Moritz Mr..
and Mrs. Waldo Story. Miss Story. Miss Eddy
Mrs. Ellis Hoffman, Mrs. and Miss Whiting,
Miss Wadsworth, Miss Forbes. Miss Bronson
Miss Sands, Mrs and Miss Patterson Mrs. and
Miss Eddy. Miss Cation. James Deering, Will
lam Cresson. Marshall Elliott and H l.
Eithers.
Trouville Dieppe and the other French sea
side resorts include fewer Americans this sea-
son than for many years past. c. J. B.