New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-20

GUS private subscriptions, and M. Osiris,
philanthropist,. has announced that he hopes
that his prize OF $4,000 that he placed three
years ago in the hands OF committee of
editors OF the Paris newspapers to be given to
the most meritorious scientist of France, and
which far has not been awarded, will be
given to the Curies. Thus radium has sud
denly become la mode in Paris, and IT is
talked about at fashionable tea tables and
smart dinner parties This new mundane i'm
petus, it is hoped will enable the modest and
hitherto sadly neglected workers to make
further developments with startling results.
The speech made by Mr.. LOOMS. Assistant
Secretary of State at the Quill Club banquet on
Panama and the Latin republics Of South Amer
ica is widely reproduced in the French papers
several Of which call attention to the phrase
attributed to Mr.. LOOMS, I'VE have respected
the rights of sovereignty of every government
when it was possible TO do SO" The Petit
Journal" for instance, construes this as new
departure saying the word possible" is a very
elastic expression and differs from President
RooseVelt's declaration that the United States
would respect the rights Of sovereignty of other
countries not merely when convenient. but on
all occasions The hypothesis attributed to
Mr., Loomis, of France under any circunl-
stances having ever contemplated the military
occupation OF the isthmus. draws forth stout
denials on all sides and revives the memory of
Bazaine's Mexican expedition, which is unani-
mously regarded in republican France as one of
the most disastrous plumbers ever committed by
any French government. NJ. Ernest Judet
criticising Mr. Loomis's speech In the Petit
Journal" puts what seems likely TO be forced
constructions on ii, and says this statement
from the Assistant Secretary of State indicates
that the Washington Cabinet is entering on
period of renewed Yankee Imperialism" and
hints at the annexation of Hayti San Domingo
and the rest of the Antilles.
All Americans who have visited Paris recol-
lect the bronze equestrian statue or Jeanne
dare, in the Place de Rivoli, considered the
masterpiece OF Fremiet the sculptor. The art
world of Paris is greatly excited over the
revelation just made by FreIniet. who declares
that he was so dissatisfied with his statue and
so annoyed by newspaper criticisms in regard
to it that he had surreptitiously substituted
another statue in it's place. The figure Of the
original statue was thought too small for the
massive horse she riding, an unjust crit
icism for the artist. preferrng truth to effect,
had modelled Percheron, the huge breed Of
horse so commonly used at that epoch for
chargers. When the excavations for the Metro
politan Railroad were undertaken in 1899 1t
found that the pedestal Of this statue was
sinking, and Fremiet took advantage of the
fact to have the statue taken TO his studio
while the pedestal being readjusted. He
then had another statue, at which he had been
secretly working for years and secretly cast IN
bronze. installed in place Of the original which
taken steathily by night to the Bar
bedienne bronze foundry, broken in pieces and
melted in the white flames. 1t seems the des-
tiny Of all Jeanne d'Arcs to be burnt Fremet
says he did this simply for amour propre. be
cause he did not like his original statue.
The singular part of 1t all is that none among
the government authorities. the art critics
or the public discovered the substitution
Meanwhile this pious fraud is considered
most dangerous precedent. and NJ. Roger Ballu,
former inspector of fine arts and now deputy,
has Informed the Cabinet of an Interpolation
on the subject. NJ. Roger Ballu says he no.
ticed the difference in the new from the old
statue and questioned NJ RouJon, then director
Of fine arts saying GOOD Heavensl They have
put up for us an entirely Jeanne dare
NJ. Roujon said. "Oh nonsense; the statue has
not been changed Fremet has only modified
the breastplate, raised the head a bit and put
the tail of the charger higher up, that is ALL
The public was informed at the time of the
Inoval for repairs of the pedestal IN 1899 that
the statue would be regilded, and ten days
Afterward the new statue. shining brilliantly in
stratagem Fremiet was enabled secretly to &C
complish his bold artistic coup d'etat.
At a meeting of the journeymen bakers at
the Bourse de Travail, or Labor Exchange, 1t has
been decided that all the bakers of Paris and
the Department of the Seine will go strike
two days before Christmas. AS the flour mer-
chants and bosses refuse to grant the extra
compensation demanded by the bakers. it seems
pretty certain that Paris will be without bread
on Christmas Day. Moreover the bakers exam
pie may be followed by a general strike of all
persons employed in the provision business
Paul Hervieu's new play, in FIVE acts, called
"Dedale, or the Labyrinth" produced tonight
at the Theatre F'rancais, gives Nine. Bartet
one of the most effective parts that she has
ever acted. The play, originally called Their
Wife" is the story of a woman divorced from
her husband No. 1, to whom she has given
birth 10 an infant son. and who marries husband
No. 2 but shortly afterward feels herself
drawn irresistibly back again to her first hus-
band and becomes his mistress. The two hus-
bands, as the curtain falls. meet beside deep
pond near their heroine's chateau. fierce strug-
gle ensues, In which husband No. 2 the bigger
man of the pair, grasps husband No. l and
both fall into the deep pond and drowned.
The play contains subtle thoughts and sugges-
tions of feminine psychology. Its rhythmic prose
has the delicate aroma Of poetry. but NJ. Her
vieu, with his graceful literary talent, lacks
that dramatic color sense and stage intuition
which the theatrical public demands.
c. L B.
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