The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-09-26
EXPIRING DUKE HAD
HA|RORESSER At
DEATH BED
DE poupEAuviLLE's LAST HOURS
WERE LIKE THE DANDY HE Al.
WAYS HAD HEEN-LAsT OF
GRAND sEleNEuRs.

PARIS. Sept. 25.-France is the ia
vored land OF the automobile; nowhere
else is self-destruction by motor made
so easy At last the public authorities
are trying to eau halt.
With the death OF the young Ameri.
can, NJ. Winthrop Sands. stepson OF
| w. X. Vanderbilt. movement was
started to control hurricane racing on
| the public roads
The French government has now
drafted a bill which would impose OIL
every owner OF an automobile TO
equip his machine with an instrument.
an automatic recorder. which would
register all the speeds that had been
made on a journey. The police would
have a right to take down this record,
and its evidence would be as conclu-
sive as II the driver had been caught
in the act OF scorchiDg.
told you the other day OF the
gigantic spreadthat ladies hats are
assuming. Their dimensions are "a
be more and more exaggerated as the
winter approaches.
1t has been ordained by the rulers
OF fashion that hats shall be sur
mounted by great mass of ostrich
plumes. This should be good news
for South Africa, which derives $1,000.
900 every year from its ostrich feath'
ers. Once the output OF ostrich
feathers wos 80 great that anybody
could AFFORD them, and they lost all
pretensions to fashion. The breeders
In despair, petitioned Queen Victoria
to come to their aid by using her au.
thority to restore the plumes to fash.
ion. But the great Partisan modistes
would not hear OF II.
Today, however, the fancy for them
has triumphed and placed the ostrich
In the front fight Of elegance thing
that Queen Victoria could not go.
The Due de Doudeauville is dead
Before his three-score descendants
were summoned round his deathbed
TO say adisu. he had ordered his hair
dresser to card his locks and trim his
mustache and let him die the dandy
that he had lived.
With him Is gone the last of the
duu SCiBuGuIB VI France. NrTduu
seigneur by the possession of vact
territorial domains; by the representa-
ton OF interests Of thousands OF peas
ants who live near him anr by him:
and by his fidelity to the monarchic
principle. The Due de Doudeauville
was all that; and to such pitch was
loyalty to his ideas. that when ambas-
sador OF the republic in 1873 he found
1t quite natural to propose to the
French legislative assembly the res
toration OF the monarchy
1t was In vain that his friends tried
to persuade him that he could not de-
Gently ask his colleagues to destroy
the regime which he served Officially.
There are still In France members OF
the old nobility who would willingly
follow his attitude. but certainly none
OF them Is both royalist and possessor
of great domains and champion of
what We hold dearest-our peasants.
And II is because of that that say
the last OF the French grand seigneurs
has disappeared.
Truly we are under the law OF the
outlaw. II proof were wanted, read
tnlS entry In the ponce charge book
Of Paris proletarian quarter OF Belle
Vile:
Last night police cylists heard on
the Boulevard de la Villette a terrified
woman screaming: Help, MURDER
They raced up and found woman
on the ground held down by two
apaches. One. gripping a cutlass, was
to cut her throat. His com
panion escaped, but he and the wom-
an were taken to the police station.
There 1t transpired that the man
was Jules Bachelet. called 'Julot of
20 years old. aAd the WON.
an Marie Gassin. Bachelet's explana.
tion was this: Marie Gassin was a
police informer. We condemned her
to death last night In a drink shop
where we meet In the Rue de Flandre.
My friends and I drew cards to
learn on whom the lot should fall to
kill the girl. It was | that had to Kill
her,
Only fortnight before three
apaches sentenced a girl TO death and
all took part In stabbing and killing
her