The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
PAR|S|AN FIFE IS
 HELD AT PARIS For Benefit of Sufferers of
 Floods In France BIG PRICES FOR BOXES Society of American Architects at societe des Reaux Arts Receives
 Donation of 2o,ooo From
 American Friends.
BIG PRICES FOR BOXES

! Paris December 2S.-(Special Cable by | Paul Villiers)-It was a great and quite | Parisian fete that has just been held at
 the Grand Palais in the Champs Elysees 1 on behalf of the victims and sufferers l from the floods in the South of France. | The entrance was only g, but boxes were i selling at all prices, since everyone was
 there who is anything at all in Paris
 society
 The President paid 10.O00 francs for his
 box, and the Rothschilds and other big
 families paid similar sums toward the
 1 good cause. All up the Champs Elysees l was lined with dazzling array of cuiras- 1 siers on horseback whose helmets gilt
 tered in the light from thousands of | electric lights.
 The interior of the Palais, which had 1 only quite recently contained the auto | mobile salon, was lit up with a quarter l of million colored electric lamps, and l the scene was brilliant in the extreme. | The programme began at 9 o'clock with | selections from a massed military band 1 of 1000 performers, who had been brought l from Paris and it's suburbs by the rail- | ways free of cost. The band continued | to play selections all through the even l ing.
 1 From U CLOCK onward there were lH 1 the central hall displays of boxing, eques- | trianism and other exercises by the art | ists of the various circuses. At Il the | great "clou" started a procession il- | frustrating the progress of locomoton | through the ages. It contained faithful | representations of vehicles lin the stone l age, Roman chariots and Greek curricles, | Sedan chairs, dilgencies. mail coaches, | omnbuses and automobiles since their in l vention up to the present time. | Three thousand persons took part in | this display, and some 800 horses. Various l shows and theatres were set up in differ | ent parts of the hall, and in one of these the Ballet des Nations was performed | by the corps de ballet of the opera: in
 another the ballet dancers of the opera | comique were giving their serfic. | There was not a theatre. music hall | or carbaret in Paris from which several actors and actresses had not come to give 1 their services, and in most cases the en- | tire company had come on and given | performances after the play was over. | Some 200 of the youngest and prettiest | actresses were selling programmes and | tickets for the lottery. At 80 a grand 1 ball began, the music being rendered by | 800 performers and this lasted until well
 into the morning.
 1 The Society of American Architects att tending the classes of the Societe des | Beaux Arts has received a donation of | s2oO0O from a group of American friends l to enable them to create a fund to defray | the expenses of the Paris prize. | The donors are MT. Goelet, Mrs. Payne ] Whitney, Mrs. Richard Auchmuty and | MT. W. R. Vanderbilt. This prize was | given to the winner by arrangement with | the French government, the privilege of 1 following the lectures and taking part in | the competition of the first class in. | architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. ] The competitor must have already pur- | sued studies corresponding to those pre- | scrbed in the second class of the Ecole, l being allowed six months in which to | qualify. The winner receives an emolu-
 ment of s250 quarterly durinG two and d
 half years.
 | Competitors for this prize have to be i under 27 years of age on July l, 1908. | There are to be two preliminary sketch | competitions and a final competition on | March '. April G. and May Is, respectively. l The prize is open to all Americans ln- | dependently of their connection with the | society of architects of the Beapx-Arts. | with this new fund of s2o.000 the society | can send student to Paris every three l years allowing him s2500.
 | They hope to raise s40.00O more, so as | to be able to send a student every year. | In previous years similar sums have been | paid by MT, Andrew Carnegie and MT. | Pierpont Morgan.
 l The property owners of the city of | Naples are in despair as more than 50 l tenants six months go decided that they l would neither pay rent nor vacate their | apartments.
 | Time and again the house owners have appealed to the civil authorities who say, l however. that they can do nothing unless | martial law is declared and troops used ! to put out the striking tenants | This unique strike was caused by the | general increase of land which was de- cided upon by the property owners or | ganization and heretofore not one tenant | has been elected in the hands of the | law. Now that proprietors are ready to | accept the former low rate, the tenants | who have discovered their strength in- | sist on 10 per cent cut and will not | pay anytheing for the mast six months. The Naples garrison has been incrc | by 10000 troops from neighboring cities, | and in a few days( wholesale, ejec- l tons are to take place beginning with
 4S00 families living in tenements owned ! by the Soceta del Risamamento | It is feared that the crisis will develop. l into serious riots as the people are des- | perate. and declare that they might as | well fight it out now as later Naples l is the most densely populated city in | Italy, and is noted throughout Europe 1 for it's unspeakably filthy slums. | Therei is a rumor current in this city | to the effect that Emperor Wilhelm of | Germany will visit Paris secretly for the l purpose of submitting to an operation by l Dr. Moure the famous specialist in dis | eases of the nose and throat. | Only few weeks ago King Alfonso of | Spain was operated upon by Dr. Moure | at Boudeaux, and at that time it is said | he made inquiry which tended to show | that the Kaiser might possibly consult l the doctor.