New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-10-02
TOPICS IN PARIS.
Disappointed in Russia A Motor
Lifeboat-Dr. Thurber's York.

Especial TO The Nsw-york Tribune By French Cah!sl
Copyright: 1904: BY The Tribune Association)
Paris. Oct. French confidence i'm the ulti-
mate success of Russia is steadily waning. The
trend Of feeling is one of disappointment over
the alliance with Russia. Dismal forebodings are
voiced in editorial in the 'Eclair,' stating
that Russia will never retrieve her maritime
SUI erfority and the least disastrous out
come OF the war will leave Russia physi-
cally and financially in such a crippled
condition that In of need she could
be Of little avail 70 France This feeling 10
also re-echoed in the fashionable clubs. where
establishment is expressed that. with two excep-
lions, none OF the numerous Russian grand
dukes have gone 10 the front The return Of the
Grand Duke Boris to ST. Petersburg called forth
the remark from a fervtd French royalist at
fashionable gathering. in the presence OF the Rus
sian Ambassador that the history OF France
records the fact that ffty-nine princes OF the
House Of Bourbon met their death on the field
OF battle" The Grand Duke Michael has ar
rived al Cannes. where an abandoned villa on
the Frotus road has been transformed into a
convalescent hospital for Russian officers. The
grand duke was received by the Russian High
Priest and Sisters Of the Red Cross, and icons
were placed IN the hospital.
A feature Of the French life saving exhibition
a motor lifeboat, the first ever built in France
II is provided with a mobile centreboard which
enables the boat 20 right itself automatically
by wedge Of lead az the extremity OF the false
keel which by the force Of gravity brings her
Up agnin When the boat ships a sea It is
automatically pumped dry by means OF a fun
mel valve. which prevents the water coming in
from below The motor can be totally i'm
mersed Two minutes without danger of an ex-
plosion. Henri Naval the designer At Roche
fort who invented the boat. has been congrar-
ulated nv President Loubet
The congregation Of the American Church in
the Rue de Berri has presented the Rev DR. Ed
ward q Thurber. who FOR sixteen years has
been the pastor substantial gift on the
casion Of his retirement. DR.. Thurber. who with
his wife sailed from Antwerp on Saturday for
NewYork win be deeply regretted in Paris as
liberal minded unsectarian. doing good wher-
ever it in his power. particularly amoag
young American students
Great disappointment in the scientific circles
OF Paris and Berlin Is expressed that the ofhc!al
report or the Americanist Congress Of 1892. held
in New-TQrk and which should have been pre-
sented at the nineteenth congress- recently held
ar StGrgardt Is not yet published. The sci
entifc "Globus," in 4 leading article, written by
DR. Preuss. OF the chronological Museum al Ber-
lin. calls attention to this failure OF the Ameri-
canists 10 keep q promise. and asks. who
knows II the report ever Will come into the
hands OF the subscribers"
lie Friquet Haute Ecoc a melodrama. pre-
senting the ragic adventures ~ Partisan cir
Gus girl. drawn from Gyp's novel by NJ Willy
attracted amateurs in theatrical sensations al
the Gymnase last night by the realistic scene
OF the artiste's dressing room where an aged
aaIuirer offers violence 10 the sixteen-year-old
circus girl az she energies from behind screen
in silk tricots The girl stabs and kills the old
man. Immediately afterward meeting her own
death a trapeze. owing 10 her nerves being
VI strung by the incident.
Mrs. Robert Goelet and a few friends are in
Paris. having left the yacht Nahma al HaVre.
James Gordon Bennett has returned 10 Paris
from partridge shooting in Bohemia, with his
guests the Due de Gramont. Count Hallez
Claparede. Jean de la Rochefoucauld and Baron
Gourgaud.
George Kessler. OF Hew-York. has purchased
the chateau park II Ia Afuett~. facing the Bots
de Bouogne from the Comte de Franqueville.
and is tearing dowr the historical house where
Louis XIV lodged La Pompsdour, and is repiac-
ing n by a superb modern structure. with pict-
ure galleries and an automobile garage
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