Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-31
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The Famous Moulin Rouge
Has Closed It's Doors.
PARIS GREW WEARY
oUADRILLE HAS BEEN SUCCEED
ED BY THE CAKE WALK.
Bad News for American Tourists-one
Place Where Everyone
Went.
PARIS GREW WEARY.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, January 10, 1903.
The Moulin Rouge has closed its doors.
and Partisan landmark disappears. From
Chinese Tartary to central Texas and from
the chill coasts OF Patagonia to Ceylon's
sunny isle uncounted thousands will re-
ceive the news with a tinge Of regretful in
terest.
Returned tourists told tales Of the Mou-
lin Rouge which summed up for them in a
picture word a whole. life Of Partisan
glamcr. Prospective tourists wrote the
name In memorandum books, and tourists
on the spot in Paris spoke 1t with hesita-
ton and a funny imitation Of Indifference
to their friends in Paris, to their guides and
their interpreters, their hotel clerks and
their cabmen.
Moulin means mill" and rouge
means red" The Moulin Rouge was the
Red Mill, as every visitor could sec as he
approached It in the darkness, for across
the electric-light- spangled night Of the
Bowery-like Place Blanche floods Of red
light streamed from the revolving arms Of
great Imitation windmill.
The tourist thrilled. It looked the real
thing.
The broad place in front Of those red
flaming windmill arms was filled with a
joyous population very feminine; the side
walk edges of the place were dotted with a
thousand little cafe terrace tables, where
the Joyous population took the air beneath
the cafe awnings shelter even in the win
ter; cab calls resounded; there was a con-
tinuous Joyous chatter and excitement,
while thousand pretty girls seemed to
hopper.
The tourist precipitated himself into the
same. He paid his francs eco cents) on
special nights and 2 francs 40 cents) on
ordinary nights, and II he were not Ill
enough advised to come IN a bicycle cos
tune he passed into realms Of light and
laughter. Girls In bicycle costume were
admitted-fndeed, for years past knicker-
bockers have been something Of a tad with
certain types OF the fair; but the solution Of
this matter would lead one too far into
Partisan complications OF the thirty-third
degree 1t will suffice to tell that the
knickerbocker damsels, with traditions dat
ing from the Isle of Greece, were much in
evidence both at 1.-THE Moulin" and its all
night annex, the great noisy restaurant of
the Dead Rat across the place.
Could Take His Choice.
The tourist walked in halls of light to the
strains Of powerful orchestra world ia
nous for its special way of punctuating
dancing time. Immediately he perceived
that he could take his choice Of several
proceedings. ~
HE might appropriate one Of several
hundred little tables set against the balus-
trade of a raised balcony few feet higher
than the dance floor and extending around
the four sides OF the great hail. Here he
might view at his ease the promenading
multitudes and even catch good views Of
the nearest. set Of the eccentric quadrille'
in the open space before him. Or 20
Pile might Join the giddy promenade.
For the tfmid this had the slight disadvan-
tage of a peculiarly piratical promiscuity,
for languishing damsels, alone or in cou-
pies, would aecost him; hooking damsels,
with the demon staring from their eyes,
would guy him, and all kinds Of damsels
would proclaim to him their thirst, their
craving for bonbons., cigarettes and INTEL
lectual conversation. But up on his little
balcony the timid tourist found himself
p.rsued in worse way. The damsels
would sit down beside him!
3-Therefore his timidity soon left him.
Growing hardened, he would penetrate to