The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-13
.BOulevards. Overrun BY
Thugs and Burglars.
Deserted.
200 ROBBERIES
REPORTED DAILY
Police Have Begun Publication
Campaign, and Hope for Good
Results-Home OF Distin-
guished Artist Robbed.
American Com
RS fnents.

Tspeclal Cable to The Times Dispatch and
New York Hernld.) %S5
Copyright. by the Now York Herald Coz ga
PARIS, August 12-Thcsc are the hal
c3 on days Of the Parssan burglar The
fashionable residential quarters Of the
city are practically deserted save for
an occasional somnolent ccne:erse 4 or
domestic on board wages, and the police
are so taken UP with the .'puril;cation"
+ Of the centrn! bolevards that their at
tentlonis somewha, distracted iron out-5
lying sectons.
Statistics given OF the number Of buzz
Elarics committed during the summer
months. when Parisans are out Of :cwn,
arc almost appalling. Two hundred bur !.
glarlcs daily Is the figure, and the rlun-
der Is estimated at 1000 francs (ss.t1gt
( n day). Were this rate maintained the
year through, the annual loss OF Paris-
ians would amount to 14,5oo,oo0 frane5
(s2,9Oo.ooo). is
Artist Robbed
NJ William Bougucreau, an artist, so
many OF whose pink n?mpha have found
many whose Partisan residences have
been burglariously entered recently M.
Isougereau Is at La Rochelle. q few
nights ago thieves climbed the entrance
d gate of his residence. In the Euc Notre
Dame dcs Champs, smashed a glass door
and apparently taking fright IT some
thing they saw or beard, dccampcd IN
such a hurry that they left Il g. jimmy
behind them or course the police found
the Jimmy later. 5s8 II
I with reference TO the publication OF the
central boulcyards just alluded to, the
}calrnpaIsn goes on merrily. Every night
5the police gather In hundred or SO bad
characters, male and female, and an an
{nouncement to that cffectis made in the
newsI,ape the following day. One wor-
fders when the process Of publication VIII
come 10 an end
I Already some thousands oftarrests have
been made, and yet the bouicvards are
7 far from, being clear of the undo frable
characters whose presence there has SO
completely changed the character OF mat
tract from the Madeleine TO the Ruc
& ~ . . +,
Drouou,. which was once tho fnyorte
lounging place Of respectable S'risians.
1t is not only the shopkeepers OF the
district who complain of the laxity OF the
police regulations which mas MADE me
dccadencc OF the boucvards possible. !
have heard American visitors declare that
one of the most enjoyable features Oh
Partisan life has been lost. ding TO this
invasion of the central houlevards by the
! % H,,S fh.at
[of the capital.
Driven From Boulevards.
} "a few years ago." said one American
who knows his Paris well, there was no
fnore agreeable way OF passing n part OF
y summer evening than taking seat
IN the terrace of q good cafe like the
ir,afe dc la Paix and studying the streams
~ nron,enadcrs. You had a Kaleidoscope
{such as no other city in the world coulds
fpresent. ~, I,
Paris was represented. You Sd" y Wen, Wen
to-da bourgeois stro!ling alone WIN ms
wife, respectable artisan ~ ms pun 'ul-
dav hest came with his family; all ma
(tions and all climes we're p'esen a' ~
~ tho cosmopolitan throng; rich and poor
brushed elbows in truly democrauc
fashion Of course, there we're unde-
lsira bles in the crowd, but they did NOT
{constitute the majority
{ "Nowadays this last class has practl-
}cally taken possession OF the boulcvaras'
with the result that decent people nave
been forced to remain away. Foreigners
rriying in London raise their lands IN
horror at the spectacle presented at night
fall by PiccadIlly and the strand me
state Of the central bouleVnrus OF far's
has become even worse
4 At present tho police campaign, now
ever, is having good results, and hopes
are entertained that the boulevards may
again become the focus Of Paris NE