The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-07
PARIS CHILLY BUT LIVELY
AMERICANS nor so NUMEROUS,
BUT MUCH ~ EVIDENCE.
Building OF FrankI I'm House Cheap Radium
Ftasco-Wlnter Circus stili In season
Entertainment OF tho Fourth AMI
other Days-DoinEs OF the Artists.
Special C abIs Despatch 10 Tar suS.

house In Paris In the news of It's projected
sale which was cable1 to THE U yesterday.
Most Americans who look up Franklin's
habitation hereabouts regard him solely
as a resident OF Passy. Emile Deschanel's
life OF Franklin" explains that while he
was living at Passy he built himself a house
on the Rue Penthievre. which was then the
Rue Vertc. II adGs that on this house
Frank lin erected the first lightning rod ever
installed in France.
Ever since Nine. Curie discovered radium
France has been proud Of her achievement
and yielded immediate belief 10 any fur
Their reported discoveries. A statement was
printed at the beginning OF the week that a
young student OF the school OF medicine at
Rochfort had discovered n new body which
yields radium at a cost of twenty francs per
gramme. compared with 5000 francs per
gramme. which bromide Of radium now
costs. IL In stated furthermore that the
adium of the new body does not cause
burning OF the skin. which Is the greatest
drawback in the ordinary employment OF
raGium. Unfortunately for the hope Of
cheap radium. Prof. Chatelier%
that what the press considered to be a new
body is m~olybdate Of uranyl and the amount
" Iduilii " COtltbtDS 10 Onb III tOTty tnOu-.
sand.
At last q man has been found bold enough
to defend the Partisan cab drivers, main
tanning that they are blameless in o, per
cent. OF the accidents. This bold man is
Pierre Brousset, whose card reads Pro-
lessor of Human Circulation in the Streets
He Is prepared to give lessons on how to
cross the street and how to avoid motors.
motor buses and bicycles, holding that il
Is the ignorance OF pedestrians in these
matters which causes accidents and not
bad driving.
Paris has been a cold, dreary city this
week, but 1t is impossible 10 dampen Ameri-
can enthusiasm, particularly abroad and
most particularly In Paris, and the summer
visitors, who continue to arrive in great
numbers, took their WRITINGS. their chills
and their enjoyments with equal good
nature, IL with some wry faces and certain
Of them with some other rye; for be l: said,
sub rosa, there are Americans who prefer
quicker aids to exhilsration than the wine
Of the country affords. even a. the Meri-
dionaux prefer absinthe to their professedly
beloved wine.
The Parisians themselves have had
their customary seasonal habits interrupted
by unreasonable weather. Whereas last
year at this time there we're eleven theatres
still open. now there are eighteen. Sarah
Bernhardt instead OF quitting the capital
for her lovely place at Belle Isle remains
In Paris playing -L'Aiglon." The Cirque
oliver. or Winter Circus. after closing
season according to the calendar re-
opens in this month Of July for a supple
mentary season.
or the Americans many were disap-
pointed that the usual Fourth of July cele-
bration was not held at the Embassy, but
The day was celebrated by various teas
and musioales, besides the usual dinners.
There we're some individual celebrations
and also celebrations by groups among
the boulevard cafes, but these resorts
declare that Notwithstanding the large
Of Americans in the city the num-
Der is smaller than last year at the same
date.
American v sitors, who called at the
Embassy and registered du ing the week,
included Frank s. Bigler Of Detroit. Mrs.
v C. Baird Of San Francisco. John c. Francis
OF Troy. n. Y; p. s. Hornall Of Liberty.
Mo-; J. w Waterman Of Providence r 1;
Miss Agnes s. Ladson OF At anita, Ga
Mrs. Herbert Cushing and Gen. Samuel G.
OF Boston. Mass; Mrs. John
Barclay Fassit. James Sherman, Mrs. NJ.
L. Baldwin, Manuel Barthold. Mrs. C. Ba-
CERT and A NJ. Crausen Of New York, W.
ID. Davis Of Brooklyn. r. Culver Carpenter
of Fort Wayne. Ind; A. 8. Carrier and
family Of Chicago. Charles T. Gallagher
OF Boston, ID. T. Wicken OF Manila, Albert
Nicholson. the American Consul at Turin;
r. @. Thompson. the Consul at Hanover.
and Rear Admiral Chadwick.
One OF the prettiest n most successful
Independence Day teas was given by Mrs.
Clinton Payne Of Baltimore and her two
daughters at h re-Catalan in the Bots
de Boulogne. As the weather was not
altogether favorable, tea was served in
doors instead Of on the lawn, but inasmuch
as the room had been converted into a
garden with a profusion OF beauti-
ful towers and plants it was not a disap-
pointment. Among the guests were Am
and Mrs. White, Consul-G General
and Mrs. Mason, Judge English and daugh-
ter and Mrs. Florence Fox OF New York;
Miss Warfield Of Baltimore, Major Boyd,
Mrs. William Younger. Mrs. Joseph Redding
Of San Francisco. NJ. r. Spencer, u. s. n,
and Capt. Cory.
Mrs. Charles Carroll Of Baltimore gave a
mail bridge party and tea in her fiat in the
Rue de Boissiere. The rooms were prettily
decorated with the national colors. Among
the American guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
Bishop Of New York, Mrs. George Holt
and Mrs. Edward More Robinson Of Phila-
delphia and Mrs. w. F. More.
A very delightful musicale was given by
Mrs. Mark Blumenberg Of New York in her
apartments on the Avenue Alphand.
Among the guests were : igmund Deale
and Mrs. William Hopkins Of San / Francisco
and Mrs. c. V. Baird.
The engagement 10 announced OF Janet
O'Brien OF Pittsburg to Mortimer Gette, a
prominent young Frcnchman. who is well
known in the socialistic set.
The American friends Of Miss Josephine
Ludwig Of Chicago. who is singing. in opera
here as Jane Noria. will be interested to
learn that her engagement Is reported to q
successful young pianist.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Postley, who have
been at the Elysee Palace Hotel. nave gone
to Dinard.
Joseph Redding OF San Francisco has
oona On m auto tour In Eerpapy -