The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-20
|MA5TER0F HOUNDS
GIVES UP HUNTING.
Ex-Presidcnt's Parsimony To-
ward Flood Sufferers Is
Harslly Criticized.
BY MARQUIS DE oAsrEnnAsB,

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| 1speciaI Gable to The Times -D!spatch-1
| Paris, February l9.--Americans' En-
glish and French alike deplore the
resolution of that crack sportsman
! Henry Ridgeway to give UP the houfo
hunting at Pau this year.
For the past ten years Mr.. Ridseway
| has been master of the fox hounds at
Pau. and no better sportsman ever sat
in the pigskin. He Is an exceiient
| cross country rider. and rain or shlhe'
never misses days hunt HIS famllS
connections are so large they almost
make up a field. For the Ridgeways,
4 the De Ganays. the Munroes and the
; Hotteingeurs are all united by FANNY
ties. Mrs Ridgeway is a Munroe, Nine.
;. Hotteingeur Is also Munroe. and the
Marquis de Ganay is a Ridgeway
lie Henry Ridgeway is retiring in the
flower of his life. 1t is to be hoped ne
- will one day write a book on his hunt
SIS ing experiences.
w The success of this sportsman re-
y minds me that many American hunts
n men are winning fame on foreign
" at Pau and Biarrit5, but even on the
N Roman Champagne. The Leishmans
3 and the Gontaut de Birons are well
~ known upon the Biarritz field. Walter
40 Winans recently organized hunt IN
20 Normandy. The Pytchley hunt is fol-
70 lowed by the beautiful Irene Osgood'
who married Robert II. Snerrard. FOX
a as hall Keene, Mr.. and Mrs. K - Straw
CT bridge and Mrs Frank Mackay are as
re we'll known at the Meton-M owbray
~ hunt as they are In New York. Phila-
w. delphia and Chicago.
no Loubet Attacked by Rochefort.
"a Henri Rochefort is again up In arms
~ This time his anger is directed agalns|
~ OK President Loubet of France. who Is
N. also in the lists to be future President
,se M. Loubet, it seems, thought 200
a francs (S40) sufficient sum to contri-
butte toward the relief of the late 1000
lot sufferers. NJ. Loubets son mad contrl-
IS buted so francs (s1ot.
IN. NJ. Rochcfort says that while Emile
n 1oubet was President of the French re-
IFS public, he drew from the treasury a
ed sum in salaries amounting to 1,7Oo,0oC
francs. He goes further and hints thai
= the economical President economical
another million over state dinners ant
receptions.
There is a story told of two yount
men arrested for stealing loaf O.
hread from a bakers wagon. They wer
b in evening dress. When takon to tn
M police station they gave as their eN
MI cuse that they had been dining VII
"a the President Whereupon the Judge re
N marked bland!y: I'm that case you a.
Ri excused Rochefort relates that Low
s4 het actually used to sell the game she
IA hy his guests at his hunting lodge
IA Compiegne.
In view Of all these things old Roche
fort says that he is not astonlshs
that the ex-President could only atfof
$40 for the victims of the FLOOD. Roch
fort is q terrible old man. AND woe
tn any one (even PresidcnD VINO
- caught in the ,neshes OF his ois ne,,
- Two missing American Girls Found.
The students Hostel, for America
girl students in Paris, has covered
self with glory 1t all came about
this way:
!. During the flood the parents of "
III American girls became extremely an?
Gus as TO their safety. y cablegrf
the came from the State Department
washington to Ambassador Bac'
tits asking him to find a Miss lsolena W.
who was studying in the Latin quart
of About the Same, time another ihessa
~. came 10 Consul General Mason,
ie'y schultz. also "A student OF the quarter
This was all the information the
n.y. bassador and the consul had. In tn
,nts need they applied to Miss Richards
ons, the head of the hostel. The you
II a ladies We're not on her list but so
and 200 others were And what these
girls did not know OF the Latin Quart
was not worth knowing,
When they heard that two Americ
girls were missing, the charge
city Balaclavs was nothing TO tho char
arth thev made on the quarter.
). IN lust one hour a deputatSon setul
Nod ed triumphantly bearing Miss 1sole
hara Wlch, Then some one remembered t
nine montha previous Miss Sop
schultz had been a guest at the hos
e, The books were overhauled. and
elves hold there was the name and addr
do, OF tho missing student
mail And now Mrs. Whitney Hoff, !
card mothers this institution. and
s48 Richardson, who directs ii, are be
overwhelmed with congratulations,