New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-11
TOPICS IN Paris.
Combes Cabinet Sustains ITSELF
Automobile Exhibition

Paris, Dec. 10.-The Combes Cabinet egb+in
during the week tooth and nall for it's existence
mas JUST repealed three Onslaughts led almost SIM
UNANIMOUSLY nv NJ. RibOt, a Conservative Repub-
ii'@ii' on one hank, and by NJ. Milerand a Col
.eo'tNe'ociaIst' on the other flank. Both orators
i''eiy denounced Premier Combes for alleged
pro'eetlon OF taletelng in every department of
l"'e' particularly the army the navy, the uni
Versities. the public schools and the law courts
ai'et three pitched parliamentary battles, NJ
Comoes. with extraordinary adroitness, grit and
Piuch' Won each engagement with majorities
respectively. of eleven nineteen and thirty HE
irlends compare Premier Combes's defence Of
MS PORTFOLIO to General StoessePs heroic de-
ieice OF Fort Arthur. and predict that he will
remain IN Office quite as long that beeaguered
fortress holds out against the japanese
The mysterious death of NJ syveton, the Ma
tionalist French Boxer and stormy petrol of the
Chamoer OF Deputies. which. by a strange CO.
incidence happened on the verge of his trial
for assaulting General Andre ex-Minister of
War is being worked for all it IS worth by
Nationalist and Clericals as a weapon against
Premier Combes. Enthusiasts like FRANCOIS
Coppee, Leon Daudet, Jules Lematre Henri
Rochefort and Edouard Drumont openly declare
over signed proclamations, headed "Assassins"
that NJ. syveton was murdered by some mystic
deduced to support such assertions. Leon Dau-
det who passes over in silence the death by
asphyxtation Of Zola, does not hesitate to at
tribute the death of Gambetta TO the Free
Masons; also the death of President Felix Faure
to them. the death of the latter having oc-
CURED the day before the petition for a new trial
of Dreyfus to be presented for his signature
a document which the President had decided to
reject. Leon Daudet now accuses the Grand
0-i nf From % IT,
Syveton. The public generally attributes NJ.
Syveton's death to suicide, of which. however,
there is direct evidence This popular YER
sion finds credence mainly because Of the ex-
ceed1ng improbabty that a strong, active man,
wide awake in broad daylight, sitting working
at his desk should be asphyxiated by nauseous
Illuminating gas from a defective. unlighted gas
stove without being induced by the sense of
smell to open a window or leave the room.
The exhibition in the Grand Palace, in the
Champs Elysees and in the Palace of the Cours
La Refine. bordering the Seine, opened to-day by
President Loubet and attended by the Ministers
Of Commerce and of Agriculture, is regarded
as the apotheosis of automobile industry.
Nothing like ii has ever been seen in Paris
before Dozens of Greek pylons surround the
palace like huge lighthouses. each surmounted
by electric lights The roofs of both palaces
outlined by OF electric Examinations. In
the interior of the Grand Palace two hundred
wires hang from the central point of the dome,
stretching to the furthest corners of the
nices, each burning thousand electric lamps,
giving the impression that the entire ceiling is
blazing Each stand is arranged with
elaborate motives in white, yellow, red and blue
lights. All the great motor firms vying
with one another in this decorative competition,
to the delight of the public
The splendor of the illumination and the
lighting may be realized by the fact that the
total number of separate electric lamps exceeds
nine hundred thousand
The salient feature of the motor cars them
selves is not so much startling novelties, but the
perfectng of what has already been discovered
and tested. The general tendency is toward
greater horsepower. For instance. firms such
the Mercedes longer make any Of the
IS horsepower type. For the year 1903 the
most in vogue are 40 to 80 horsepower ma
chimes The Panhard turn out 80 horsepower
the Charron 40 to so. Richard Brazier 40 to 90
the American Hotchkiss 90 and the American
Pope Company, of Toledo, 40 horsepower. The
small IS 10 "a horsepower. SO much in favor
last year abandoned for the greater
force and power for touring and the average
road. The pure racing machines of so TO 100
horsepower longer in much demand.
There is marked Improvement In automobile
coach work. Tonneaus no longer seen, but
replaced by comfortable carryals with side
entrances. sheltered by glass. What just now
is most in fashionable vogue is the large coupe
limousing with doors and top carried for
ward to shelter the driver.
President Loubet seemed highly pleased with
the show and stopped several minutes at the
three stands OF the American Hotchkiss, where
he admired a businessike nickeled steel 80 to
IS horsepower. and at the Pope Motor Com
pany, where the President expressed great sat
isfacton with a Toledo OF 30 horsepower, and
seemed delighted with the ingenious innova-
lions perfected by the Westinghouse Schmid
Company to avoid shaking and trepdaton. The
vast palace OF the Cour La Refine is filled with
motorboats of every description, including life
boats for coast service and rapid high power
canoes which dash swiftly along the Seine, at
tracing the attention Of thousands Of spec
tators Altogether. this seventh annual automo-
bile exhibition is a brilliant success. far ahead
of anything attempted before Statistics
show that in the year over twenty-one thous-
and automobiles were sold by French manu-
facturers the estimated value Of which is $685.
600 900 Attached to the show are professors of
engineering who give daily lectures in the ex-
hibition upon all subjects pertaining to automo-
bilism on land and on water. The second floor
of the palace is devoted TO object lessons Of
hotels and inns I'm the country with the latest
improvements for comfort and health The ven
tlation heating lighting and sanitary arrange
ments are features of the exhibition which
President Loubet during his visit, paid special
attention and in which the Iu5lic shows keen
interest {. l. b.