Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-31
WILL PROMOTE ArRsHR CAUSE
WOman's Organization, but q Few
Men Are Admitted.
Grand DUKES HEAD THE LIST
Intrepid Band Represents the Wealth
of France.
TO PRESERVE BEAUTY OF PARIS
Many OF the Most Prominent show
Places OF the worlds wonder
City Are I'm Need of Atten-
tiOn ut Once.
BY PAUL YILLLERs.

BY PAUL VILLIERS.
PARIS, July S.-(Special Dispatch to
The Bee.)-The coming of the airship il re-
sponsible for what is perhaps the most aris-
tocratic and exclusive club for women in
the world 1t is the Stella Club of st.
Cloud and its purpose is the promotion of
aviation matches and IL numbers In It's
membership some of the highest placed
women in French society. While II Is pri-
marily a womans club and it's officers are
women who have won their spurs flgura-
| lively as aviators a few men have been
granted the privilege of membership.
Grand dukes and grand duchesses head
the list. The Archduke Leopold and the
| Archduchess Blanche OF Castillo, his wife
have, 1 hear, accepted honorary member
ship. They are both air enthusiasts, and
| their eight children are bitten with their
| craze. The archduches is a sister of Span
| ish pretender. Don Jaime, and the last
| person. one might on seeing her think
to go In for air flights with all the impet-
uousity OF her Bourbon nature. The fig
ure of this air princess is short and ex-
tremely stout-a feature that rather hits
the eye as one sees her between her two
eldest daughters tall slim arohduchesses
we'll on their teens. The French duch-
esses OF the club are all authentic and wo-
men of wealth in their own right. M. Bar
thou, the keeper of the seals, and the
French oil king, NJ. Deutche de L.aMeurthe,
have just Joined.
Nine Bleriot has been elected president,
and Mines. Surcouf and Poliakoff the vice
presidents. The name OF the former figures
In the French naval annals as glorious
pirate, the auxiliary OF De Tourvilie with
4 no other commission than that of his auda-
,lo Nalx oNa-r
surer have proved their skill as air-wo-
men, but only in the baskets OF the bal
looms.
d The local habitation of the club is In the
grounds of the Aero Park. Officers have
been encouraged to join in its sports.
Rights of Air StiII Open.
While on the subject of aviation 1t may
be noted that the European Conference on
! Aerial rights which has been sitting for
, some weeks in Paris. apparently without
, coming to any definite cocluslons stands
adjourned till October In the meantime its
/ proceedings are to be kept secret 1t was
supposed that its object would be merely
to Introduce some kind OF uniformity
7 into the municipal arrangements of the
various powers in respect of flying ma
> chimes, but understand that larger ques-
tons have been introduced calling for the
|
than the board of trade.
Paris all Torn Up.
From time to time attention has been
> called to the apparent lack of due con-
t Germ for the preservation of the beauties
E and amenities of Paris, which characterizes
a those who are responsible for the condition
of its streets and squares There have re-
Gently been symptoms of an awakening in
this rQgpeCt I'm cOmDRtent ouartara
For several years the Place de POpera
has been disfgured and obstructed by the
new works Of the Metropolitan Under
{ ground Railway These were to have been
finished In December of last year. The
floods interviewed, and the last state Of
the central square and cross roads of Paris
0 is worse than the first Fresh underground
( operations have been begun, and according
Il to the estimate OF the engineers, they will
: not be completed till May, 1912. This esti-
a mate, to judge from past experience, Is far
e too sanguine. and Parisians are sadly
reckoning with continuance of the pres
e ent unsightly distractions in the Place de
v rOpera for at least flour years more.
e A similar fate appears to have befallen
/. the Place de Havre In front OF st. Lazare
s railway station. One of the busiest thor
r oughfares In Paris and another great art
d cry of traffic, the Rue Royale which leads
n up to the. front of the Madeleine, appears
|. to be In a chronic state of transformation
d and destruction. This subterraneous works
to which these disastrous results are due
are doubtless indispensable, but the rail-
A way engineers and contractors seem to
= display uncommOnly little ingenuity or re-
source in mitigating the public inconveni-
ence which they entail. In no other great
European or American city outside OF Rus
STA or Turkey would such proceedings be
. long tolerated.
S Actress Wins.
a Madame Delmares, \ate of the Folea-
It Marigny suffered from toothache so badly
n that she had to fly from the theater to her
e. dentist and leave her part TO an understudy.
& Her manager sued her and cast doubt
upon her toothache. The courts have vim
= dicated her completely. Her toothache
IS was perfectly bona fide. and the manager
s. Loses his action for damages as well as
v being obliged to pay Madame Delmares
= fiO. balance Of salary due.
"a woman on the PIuviose.
II When the accident occurred to the Plu-
II viose there was strange rumor that q
n lady was on board the Inflated submarine.
This report excited very natural curiosity
but after the lapse Of a few days, ma
Y more was heard OF the matter. The Calais
' correspondent Of the Petit Var. which Is q
n steady-gong republican newspaper pub
lished at Toulon. and which treats largely
OF naval questions, has, however, returned
10 TO the subject, and he says that on the
re unlucky day two members OF the crew
m were landed to make room for Captain Prat
IN and another person Who was that person
L. The number OF the corpsos recovered wa,