Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-28
NEW SENSATION
IN OLD LONDON.
Emperor Lebaudy Says bon
Jour, but Not Another Word to
Newspaper lnteryiewers
JACQUES THE FIRST IS SHY.
Is Wroth Over Fun Pokcd at Him and
His saharan Empire by Partisan
Seribes,
Special Correspondence,

| Special Correspondence
London. Oct. 16.-There IS quaint
little French story about poet who
wrote triolet ending, bon Jour,
| Monsieur and who was so delighted
with the effect OF his effort that he
expanded lt, first into q short poem,
then Into n long one and finally worked
the thing up into an epic In the last
FEW days, newspaper writer's here have
been doing their best to make another
lion jour cover corresponding
amount of ground--thls Gallo equlva-
lent for good day being the single
solitary utterance that the representa-
tives Of the press have been able to
get out OF the man who could, II he
would, talk more Interestingly than any
other man in London at present
SORE ON THE sCRIBEs,
Probably the profound silence which
Nj JaQues Lehaudy who calls himself
emperor OF the Sahara, has preserved
since he cfept into the fashionable Sa-
Voy hotel few nights ago win lead
to- no international complications. but
English newspaper readers and partlc-
ularly the men whose business Il is to
supply them with news are sore on
the journalists of Paris. For It IL
Just because so much fun was poSed at
NJ, Lehaudy In the French capital after
he had talked for publication about his
terribly serious imperial schemes that
Jacques the First determined that
no word should lead to his being rldi-
culed while he was on his empire"
business In London.
OF course, the story of this serious
little Frenchman, Who inherited $780,
100000 from his father, and his dream
OF rounding a dynasty In the Desert Of
Sahara Is familiar enough 1t win be
remembered that Lebaudy sailed down
to the African coast In his private
yacht early last May, and after taking
a look at the coast of his future "em.
pre- landed five marlners-who sub
sequently We're taken prisoners by saw
age tribes-and then sailed for France
again Returning TO Paris, he pro-
claimed his intention OF founding IN
the Sahara a capital city, which he
proposed to call Troya- composed of
collapslble houses with oelluloid win.
dows-and then II was that the press
or Paris went for the self-styled EN-.
peror and made him the laughing stock
Of the whole world.
BUYING MACHINERY.
The little Frenchman. however I'm.
stead OF being discouraged has pona
straight ahead with his schemes for his
Sahara commonwealth. SO when n tale-
gram from Paris. the other day an
nounced that Jacques the First was
about 70 visit London for the puYpose
OF buying agricultural Implements
ana portable houses 30 be shlpped TO
AFRICA, the metropolis was naturally
curious 10 see what he would have 10 |
say for himgalf Thnp co,,,a IN IL an. |
that a little, clean-sbav. /
en- Trenchman had suddenly appeared !
at the Savoy, had remarked II am /
LebGudy-give me a room" and had
been accommodated. and promptly the /
entire newspaper fraternity swoooed |
icHn upon the hotel, prepared to ex-
tract from the empire builder every
morsel of information OF which he
might be possessed.
CHAMBERS BEsIEGED.
And that little hurried uniform
ing bon Jour, Monsieur" was the
only result, The newspaper men found
mat they were by no means the only
ok who were anxious TO interview the
Emperor OF the sahara" for the Sa-
ioy STAFF was being kent az lis wis,
md IN stallling on agents whose mock
ITS bulged with models OF the latest
machinery, and the porter stationed nj
he courtyard entrance came near hav-
ng a tight with the representative OF
collapsible house company who had
brought q model OF his building on n
I'VE horse truck. But though literally
luhureds OF cards were sent up to suite
No. eZb.5V where Jacques the First
vas lodged, not one person would he
ZEE nor one message would he send. J