The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
"STATUEMANIA" IS
RAGING IN FRANCE
People Are Erecting Statues to
Everybody and Every
thing.
MORGAN REMEMB Erred
People Glorify Him Because He
Gave Check to Widen
Street.
ORGAN REM EN- B Erred
by MARQUIS DE cAsTELLANE.
TSoecial Gable Ia THE TimesDiara.,h

lSpcclal Cabic to the Times-DiHpatch.t
Paris, June 11.--A perfect epidemic
of what night call statue mania haa
broken out in France. Formerly we
only erected statues to our illustrioua
dead. but now we erect statues to
everybody.
For instance. Mistral. the poet OF
Provence. Is still hale and hearty.
yet his statue has been set up In the
public square at Aries.
Now there is movement on foot
at Aix-les-B ains to erect a statue to
Its patron, j. Pierpent Morgan. One
day the great flnancier discovered that
the main thoroughfare was not wide
enough to permit his automobile and a,
pedestrian to pass at the same time.
He Immediately gave check to have
the street widened. Now as many as
two pedestrians and Mr. Morgan's
automobile can easily pass.
The grateful inhabitants have named
boulevard after Mr.. Morgan, and
they want to erect a statue to him
as WE'LL You perceive they are not
lacking in gratitude. The Empress
Eugene made Trouville, Mrs. Hughes
Hallet made Dinard and certainly Mr..
Morgan may be said to have made AK.
| We have statues of Washington and
Franklin and Horace Wells. the dem
| tist. Why should not AK have statue
| of J.. Plerpont Morgan?
Miss Barncy's Muse Mt Work.
| have Just received an advance copy
| Of new book of poems and plays by
| Miss Natalie Barney Miss Barney and
her sister, Miss Laura Clifford Barney.
1 OF Washington, are both well known
| In the literary world as we'll as In the
artistic and exclusive social sets OF
| Paris.
One of the plays in the book before
! Sapho who lived. as we all know. 500
years before the Christian era An
other play is laid in Avignon, In
France. at the time it was ruled by the
Popes.
Miss Barney has written some very
beautiful verse. most OF which has
been inspired by a sotourn in Venice.
| A relative OF mine, the Countess de
| Marles Bagatelles. has Just wiiled to
| our world-famed National Library the
manuscript memoirs of the Marshal de.
i Castellane.
/ The marshal was one of my most
/ distinguished lighting ancestors. and
near relative of that Castellane who
| commanded a frigate in the American
! War of Independence. He had rough
and ready tongue like the fighting
MEN of his day, and he was equally
| outspoken when welding his pen.
| Hence 1t is we'll known that the
| countess has imposed condition that
the memoirs be unpublished for still
another forty years
True. Count Victor de Castellane. as
the marshal was called, died in 1863.
Yet there are things in these memoirs
~-cowardice. incapacity. treason and
other unmilitary qualitieS-laid at the
door of many members of our Oldest
aristocracy that would be very painful
reading for their families indeed.
| The restriction is wise one, and
will prevent many duels.
Paris Listens to Breton Singers.
We are now in the midst of the So
| cial whirl of 1910. international So
! ciety in Paris to-day is made up of a.
| few thousand people whose names are
| printed in the Gaulols or the Figaro,
t and FOR few weeks each season are
| seen at all the great routs and public
| gatherings. During these brief weeks
\ these good folk take themselves very
seriously indeed. 1t is as though they
| We're performing a public duty-whicI
| no doubt they are. The season of 1910
Will go out in. a blaze of glory by rea-
| son of two r, larkable functions. The
| first was given by an American wo-
man. the Countess de Rodelloc da
/ Porzic. The countess is a daughter of
4 the late General de Trobriand OF the
United States Army From the neigh
borhood of her magnificent chateau.
near Karstairs. in Brest, she brought
Il up to Paris a troupe of pretty Breton
singers. These girls, in picturesque
Il native costume. sank folk songs to
delightful gathering in the salon OF
/ the countess
4 on this occasion the American
4 countess wore her famous blue diamond
! for the first time since Russian
/ diplomat was accused of stealing it.
i One of the other entertainments
which is expected to make a great
| sensation is to be a sparrow ball The
! guests are to be dressed to represent
sparrows. and many women are pale
With fear lest the costume be unbe-s
| coming. "