The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1906-11-09
PARIS CROOKS HAVE
SORT OF 400"
Balls Given by the "Apaches"
Rival In Gorgeousness
Those of "Select."
PARTICIPANTS CRIMINALS
None But Those Who Are Engaged in
Some Questionable Vocation Can
Become Members Of the Mou.
lin de la GAZETTE.
From the Kansas City Star.

a h'S A"AAeA SASS oStSA
The Paris municipal council wishes to
suppress the Moulin de la Galette.
To outward seeming it is but a gor-
,geous dance TALL. Inwardly, however
and this is the explanation of the coun-
ellis nlovement-it is nothing less than
a great public parlor Of Partisan GRIM
finals.
Burglars from the middle class down,
garroters, strong-arms, sneaks, pick
pockets, footpads and an immense class
of crooks look upon the Moulin de la
GAZETTE as their unique society resort,
vast, luxurious n brilliant.
1t it's way, it is the most eXtraor-
binary spot in Paris. 1t is al enormous
hall, With quantities of supper rooms
tor quiet conversations. The curtains
are of velvet. So are the coverings of
the chairs and sofas. The furniture is
carved and gilded.
The walls are all lined with mirrors.
The band stand, elevated at n end,
contains a first class orchestra of fifty
pieces.
The ceiling is one vast unending mir
ror. And when the orchestra plays the
grande quadrille and you look from the
ceiling to the floor n back again you
see a sight to turn your head-a pande-
anonium of deviltry.
Here any night throughout the year
SOu i sec ouCllc IL 3 vi lOuSllS
and thugs and bad men as cannot be
found elsewhere in all the world. be-
cause in Paris only does there exist
such a general criminals parlor.
Balls Are Orderly.
Yet night after night you will observe
@ curious anomaly in such u gathering
There are no fights.
On the contrary you will perceive that
these hard characters are curiously
~, NC o,,1 oorGt,onnio11c wifi tIa,,,rol,,n.
and with their ome Harsh, crude
words are not thrown about recklessly.
When a boisterous dancer bumps
against a lady or a gentleman he begs
pardon most politely. o examination
you will find the statement 1nexact,"
is the nearest you will heal to liar"
The reason is because they are full
filling an ideal. 1t is the social ideal of
their ONE These fierce girls are
proud of their garroters. burglars and
DULLES, looking on them as high-spir-
tied n brilliant exceptions in the
slow and stupid rank and file of men.
1T is the ideal of the iron han in the
velvet glove. They hav imposed it 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
" IN NAAJ An SILVIA
between bands Of these same courteous
gentlemen, whom they lump together
Unfortunately under the general
name of "Apaches." Fighting twenty
Or thirty on a side with knives and re-
v%olvers, they have come t. be a
At times they arrive at terrorizing a
whole city division in the midst of the
busy capital as in the Faubourg Mont
martre or the side streets around the
cathedral Of Notre Dame. But in all
this the Moulin lie la GAZETTE remains
an oasis of %brotherly love.
Even tourists are quite safe so LONG
as they remain within it's walls. And
Is is on this fact that the proprietor
relies to keep his license.
My place is more peaceful than the
so-called high class balls and prone
noirs,' he boasts with truth. What he
naturally does not tell is that these
gilded halls of peacefulness-these
tranquil velvet-curtained supper rooms
are nightly ~incubators of horrid pas
sions-murders, duels, remorseless ven
dettas-all have their beginnings at
the Moulin.
Buebear to Police.
That is why the Paris municipality
desires that the extraordinary rendez-
vous should be suppressed. Its SUP
preston has been often threatened,
but two strange considerations stand
in the way.
First. it is impossible to get a word
of evidence against the Moulin de la
Galette IN it's own neighborhood. Shop
keepers ard residents-the whole sur
rounding population-when pushed to
the wall by evidence-seekers, end by
affirming that the place is perfectly
we'll kept, a mode for all such, correct
and peaceful. It's clientele goes home
at night as orderly as from a natural
history lecture at the hall of the AS
Economical society. AS a fact. the wise
neutrality which h girls Of these