The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-14
NEW YORK EQUAL
TO CITY Of PARIS
Better for Pleasure in Some
Respects, Is Belief of a
French NObleman.
PRAISES THE THEATERS.
STREETS AND COOKING
Comments Upon Fact That Re-
spectacle Women Are Safe
After Dark.
Rv LEASED Wire 10 The Tribune.

NEW YORK, Aug. 13.-" Paris has
nothing on New York for gaicty, pleas
ure, cooking, wines or theaters.'
This is the conclusion Ferdinand de
Bourbon of Orleans. Due de Montpensier
who, if his family had their hereditary
rights, would be very close to the throne
of France. His royal highness has been
making a close study of New York, and
be knows his Paris from center to cir
cumference.
Here are some interesting compari-
sons the due makes between Paris and
New York:
"Your lights are one of the most in
teresting and beautiful features of your
night life he exclaimed glibly,
AS a whole, your streets are much
better lighted than ours, and we have
no Broadway. There is not one street
in Paris which contains so much. Even
IN the shop windows we do not burn as
many lights as you, and as for the elec-
trio signs on the theaters and on the
tops of buildings, never have | beheld
their equal.
Admires Unique Signs.
"The horses that galloP, tho baby
elephant that sits on It's tail, the young
lady with the flowing skirt, the fjzzing
bottles and steaming coffee cnps-myl
but they are marvellous. j think he rs
a great artist who designs the1-wc
have none so clever in Paris.
You waste light AS gloriously as you
waste everything else. y continued the
due, smiling bill quizzically.
s'Have you been in Chinatown at
night7"
/" Only the other night" he replied,
saw ut all, the opium dcns and all
the rost 1t was very interesting, for
we have no Chinese colony in Paris.
But, really, IL did not seem to mo very
wicked, as You would say. | understand
that the police cleared it out while
ago he added, a trifle rcgretfulIy.
What sort OF people do You meet
IN Your wanderings?''
"All sorts, positively any one whom
] might sec in the daytime,' he
answered readily. ''What impressed me
most was the number of respectable
women one secs on the streets alone aft
er dark. If a woman appears without
an escort IN Paris at night-well if you
Will pardon MY frankncss, she is only
waiting to find one. Young women,
pretty, too, hurry along without glanc
ing or being glanced at -
"Do New Workers enjoy their pleas
ures as much as Parisians?''
Thinks Americans Happy.
Yes, | am sure. Wherever | &c. in
the shows IN the cafes, everyone looks
so happy, SO excited. They follow tho
plays with such absorption, they laugh
and talk so gaily at dinner and sup
per. With us it is different. The faces
of men and women in cur public places
are often so triste, so blase Your thea
ters are most remarkable. The scenery
is more beautiful and the acting IS bet
ter than | find in Paris. AS for the
cafes, i can assure you that in the best
of them the cooking is twice as good
as | find at home. 1t is so rare in Paris
10 see man drunk; over here it is not
rare, eh, bicn, to see men who have
drunk too much, - laughed the due,
The due recently saw New York
gang fight, in which a man was shot
to death. This nearly brought on
comparison between the famous Paris
Apaches and the New York gang,
AS 1t happens, ] have never been
an eye witness of one of the Apaches
encounters. But / know what they are
like, and / assure you that lf the fights
you have here are of the sort ] wit
messed they are more dangerous than
those of Paris. In a sense. the Apaches
commit horrible crimes, for they use
knives and make fatal wounds. fancy,
TOO, that they get into trouble oftener
than your street ronghs here. But they
fight chiefly among themselves. and.
most important of all. they do not use
pistols That means that passers by are
in very little danger
But hero 1T is very different. /
don Z see how Il dozen men escape being
wounded, the way the bullets fly
around.
Praises Night Court,
"It is the most remarkable thing
he said, concerning the night court
which he had visited. ''Wc have none
IN Paris, You know, and / believe that
the establishment of one would be most
desirable. 1t is not right TO put peo-
pie who have not done anything into n
prison even over night And do You
know, great many of the people saw
there did not seem TO have done any.
thing
You have visited the roof garden,
of course7''
Yes. and ! found it most interest.
ing, said the due again. choosing what
Is his most choice adjective of all words.
In Paris we have no roof gardens, but
we have thcatcrs in gardens-salons
with trees, grass and flowers How
very charming they are Only here /
realize YOU would not have space for
such. and so you go UP on the high
buildings to be cool, But with us it is
never so warm as YOU have it here,
Hotf Yes, but without the danpness-
what you call humidity -