The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-10-13
Comment on Presidents Ac-
ton in Suspending the Pilot
Of Boat Who Placed Life in
Danger.
RESEMBLANCE TO KAISER
GROWS MORE STRIKING.
Results of the Last Census
Show That France Has a
Population Approximating
4O,OOO,OOO.
CBy Raoul de Saint Renee

Paris, oct. 12.-Ihe rams papers
have commented a great deal on Pres
ident Roosevelt's letter directing
that the pilot or master of the Missis-
sippi steamboat be suspended for nine
ty days for placing lie Roi Theodores"
life in danger
One of our most we'll known papers
said editorially:
That President Roosevelt is a boz
dictator we never doubted and as !
grows older in years and power his
semblance to the Kaiser grows e.
more striking.
Should Roosevelt remain in pow
for another four years we would rot
surprised to hear of 'Iese majestic" tn
ais, after the most approved German
pattern.
The American presidents action in
Immediately ordering the suspension
of q man untried, and whose guilt is
very doubtful, is characteristic of the
popular American dictator.
The Car of Russia's yacht ran upon
a reef on the coast of Finland some
weeks ago and still we have not heard
that the captain of that vessel has been
suspended, although the whole impe-
rial family was in danger. Dut then the
Gar thinks less Of himself than does
President Roosevelt.
The results of the last census now
published. show that there are now
1,O33,S71 foreigners in France for 81
100, 1913 French people-this being the
population of France today. This
works out at the rate of 269 resident
foreigners for 10000 inhabitants.
There are living in France 6,155
Americans of the United States. The
Italians are the most numerous, 800,
465. OF Belgians there are 323,39o,
. Germans. S9,772, Spaniards SO,425,
Swiss 1902, English 36,94S. Russians
16,O61. Americans from other parts
than the United States, 10,011: and aft
er these come Luxembourgians, Aus
TRANS, Dutch, Romanians, Serbians,
Bulgarians. Turks, Greeks. Hungari-
ans, Swedes Norwegians and Danes.
The country contributing the small
est number to the population On
French soil among the larger countries
is the Portuguese, TO. The depart
ment in which there are most foreign
ers is the Alps, Maritimes (2,62S per
10000 French.) This arises from its
famous health resorts and it's near
neighborhood to Italy. In the north
there are more than 100000 Belgians,
and in the Neurthe ct Noselle there
are 1900 Germans.
In the two frontier departments of
the Bases Pyrenees and the Pyronese
Orientales there live 200 Spaniards.
In the department Of the Seine there
live 37,S1S Belgians, 3O,7O3 Germans,
1926 English and 1856 Americans. In
the whole of France 20 per cent. of the
foreigners were born in that country.
On the other hand, 1926 French per-
sons were born abroad.
49,
M. Santos-Dumont has been expert
menting on the lake in the Bots de
Boulogne with his new hydroplane,
with which he proposes to win a bet
Of $4,000 by travelling at the rate OF
sixty miles an hour.
The hydroplane, which is called the
Santos-Dumont, No. Is, is a curious
looking apparatus. composed of three
cigar-shaped bulbs, the center one CT
which is thirty-five feet long, and the
other two about four feet long. The
three bulbs are filled with compressed
air and protected by wood and steel. M
Santos-Dumont sits on a sort of saddle
at the back of the large bulb.
The entire apparatus as at present
constructed only weighs 100 pounds
but it will be heavier when the 100
horsepower motor is fitted although
this will be made wonderfully light.
There Is a storm in the telephone
teacup in Paris, owing to a circular
which has been sent out to the gir
telephone clerks.
The circular states that telephon,
employees in future will have to get thS
authorization of the Postmaster-Gen
eral before they can marry Until thi:
permission is granted no date for tn,
ceremony may be fixed
The employees are not allowed Il
marry foreigners, members of the DO
lice force, detectives, mayors clerks, o.
cashiers. The reason given for this
peculiar rule is 1.-THE safeguarding O
the secrets of the public"
Paris was invaded yesterday by +;
Belgian band known as the Cooker,
academy.
This band, which is forty strong, i
not composed of cooks. but of philan
thropists. 1t is q group of young mel
and girls who use their spare time TO
the collection of funds for charitable
purposes.
They wear quaint medieval cos
tune, and their instruments all hav
the form Of vegetables of all kinds an,
immense knives, forks and spoons.
The academy has collected $4,000,
for various charitable objects within
the last few months. They parade,
Paris yesterday and today on behalf O
u.