Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-06

in the velvet glove. They have imposed
1t on their men-within these walls. This
is society for them.
There is also the practical side. Without
this ideal of an urbane social gathering,
Indeed, the Moulin could not exist for a
week. The Paris papers recount almost
daily the street battles between bands OF
these same courteous gentlemen. Whom
they lump together Unfortunately under
the general name of "Apaches." Fighting
twenty thirty on a side with knives ana
revolvers. they have come to be piquant
up-to-date Partisan speciality. At times
they arrive at terrorizing a whole city
division in the midst of the busy capital, as
in the Faubourg Montmartre or the size
streets around the Cathedral of Notre
Dame. But in all this the Moulin de Ia
GAZETTE remains an oasis of brotherly love-
Even tourists are quite safe SO long as
they remain within its walls. And 1t Is on
this fact that the proprietor relies to keep
his license MY place is more peacefui
than the so-called high-class balls and
promeno.rs!" he boasts with truth. What
he naturally does not tell Is that these
quill velvet-curtained supper rooms-are
nightly incubators of horrid passions-mur-
ders duels, remorseless vendettas, all have
their beg innings at the Moulin.
That Is why the Paris municipality de-
sires that the extraordinary rendezvous
should be suppressed. Its suppression has
been often threatened, but two strange
| considerations stand in the way.
Why It Has Not Been Suppressed.
| First, it Is impossible to get a word of
evidence against the Moulin de la GAZETTE
| in its own neighborhood. Shopkeepers and
residen s-the whole surrounding popula-
| tion-when pushed to the wall by evidence
| seekers, end by affirming that the place Is
| perfectly well kept. a model for all such,
| correct and peaceful. Its clientele goes
| home at night orderly as from natural
/ L.G ~f he Acs
nomical Society. AS a fact the wise neu-
| trality which the girls of these Paris
| toughs have thrown round the Moulin more
or less protects the citizens who dwell I'M
| medately beside it: while, for the rest. a
| blind terror of cruel and lingering retalia-
| ton closes every mouth.
| Secondly. the Moulin is protected by the
Par police of the secret service.
Did the Moulin not exist. should have
| to invent it, observed Goron when he
was ch.ef-de-surete. In word, the Moulin
makes a magnificent hunting ground for
thugs and thieves-the best In Europe.
Once Paris Grim nal of the ordinary
brand has brought coup of-has made
a condition. as they call 1.-THE feels the
attraction of the Moulin irresstibly. He
cannot keep away from It..
police count on his turning up In these
bright halls with his ill-gotten gains. why
is he not wise enough to keep away from
them?''
that The thug who has brought of a.
| coup" may quite as well argue that h s
absence will be taken still more signif-
icant
He may keep away one night. two nights;
but the thought will Obtrude itself: II
look as If l were afraid to show up!'
In the end he always shows up. He
breads that IS absence will be noted. not
only by the police. but by the camaros tor
comrades)-dreads to be sneered at as over
prudent. breads that sinister type of
Judas-comradc, shadowy and troublesome
to think about. the true deadly microbe of
this life. more feared a thousand times
than the police, shall note his absence and
put two and two together.
The Call is Irresistible.
Every. motive calls him to the Moul'
His girl wants to be there to show off
her newly-acqured finery. She wants to
dance and drink and laugh triumphantly
with her man in these good moments Of
plenty. Both want to have their fling be-
meath these glittering chandel ers. And If
the man have a peculiarly black crime
newly on h. conscience he wants to forget