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the Academies Pictures.
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PARIS. Aug. a.-Paris no longer has a
season for Americans. They are here on
and on all summer. The fad now adsys
10 to spend the summer motoring on the
Continent, making Paris a headquerters.
The dining room Of the Hotel Ritz this
week looked like the Casino in Newport,
so many fashionable Americans were there
who have returned from motor trips and
are resting here or replenishing their ward
robes before embarking on the homo voyage.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt gave sew
eral small dinners while at the Ritz. They
have pretty well motored the Continent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles B. Alexander and
their three daughters have been through
France, Germany and Switzerland in their
automobile They sailed for home to-day
and on their arrival will 60 at once to Tux
edo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney hav-
ing completed a trip to the Chateau covn-
try will leave Paris tomorrow TO spend
the shooting season on their Scottish moor.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Flood have finished
a elightful automobile trip through Ger
many. The trip was a great benefit to
Mr.. Flood. who has been in poor health.
Ernest Ackerman of Plainfeld, N. j., 10
here studying French legal proceedings.
Francis Egan. the American Minister at
Copenhagen, arrived in Paris yesterday.
French knowledge Of American affairs
has been extremely meagre until the last
few years. Now that the financial world
has grown 40 small that il knows no national
boundaries financial France at least makes
close study of the American factor. which
IL 10 freely acknowledged has become second
to none in importance This gives a special
value to representative comment made
by one OF the most conservative French
Journals, the SiScb, on President Roose-
veit's speech at Provinoetown, Mass. IL
says;
Nobody will think Of questioning MIR.
Roosevelt's good faith and sincerity, but
one cannot help thinking how eminently
dangerous this mission is which he allots
to the authorities. TO separate the tares
from the wheat, to make u choice between
honorable enterprises and those which are
not. Even with the best intentions, the
authorities will inevitably make mistakes;
but what. will IL be when this power, In an
eventually which must be admitted a. en-
tireIy possible, shall belong 10 men whose
disinterestedness cannot be uncontested
! like President Roosevelt's
"The idea has been advanced and almost
agreed to Of placing at the head Of great
trusts whose formation and proceedings
are suspected a temporary administrator.
charged with the direction Of their afairs.
where they form dangerous agglomerations
Of companies. What is this but q form Of
naturalization or socislixation Of under
takings and private property Those who
see in the Presidential campaign prece-
dent which will inevitably later on be in
voked by propagandists and promotersSbf
purely demagogio doctrines are assuredlv
not altogether wrong
ITO throw oneself at full speed with
eyes shut into the thick Of fight may be
exoellsnt tactics on q battlefield, and Mr..
Roosevelt himself has proved 1t In Cuba;
but undoubtedly IL 10 hardly 90 commend
able when IL is q question not Of giving or
roceiving blows. but Of solving difiioulties
born from the nature OF things. from the
over rapid development OF industry In an
ardent young nation
A peculiar point In French Law has arisen
over the lsgacy OF an American woman.
Miss Margaret Cagger. who died 1t Mont>
pellier, leaving the bulk Of her fortune to
the doctor attending hcr. According to
tho law In France a physician cannot re-
ceivo q bequest from patient. 20 abrother
Of the tsstatrix claimed the fortune. Bsn
ths doctor n0v eeanss forward With Tho