Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-06
GROWERS ARE Up IN ARMS
Want Law Passed BY Government
to Stop the Frauds.
HONOR FOR PIERRE LOTT"
Novelist Is Made Commander Of
Legion Of Honor-Hotel-Keep.
ing School Opens.
reign Correspondence Of The star.

PARIS. November %, 1910.
The agitation in the wine growing
district Of Champagne against the
description OF wine from
other districts as champagne has
reached a crisis. An angry body OF
"vignerons'' held a demonstration 1T
Epernay a few weeks ago to demand
that measures be taken at once by the
government to prevent the importation
OF wine grown in other districts, to be
subsequently labeled and sold as the
product Of Champagne. The agitation
has spread throughout the Marine valley.
especially I'm those districts where the
cheaper qualities Of wine are produced.
and has eliminated In the suggestion OF
general strike against taxes.
On Monday last q consignment OF forty
casks Of wine from Touraine reached the
station Of Pamery, consigned to a dealer
suspected OF praoticing the substitution
objected to. AS soon as the news epread
a crowd numbering 1900 invaded the sta
ton protesting that the win de fraude''
should not be delivered. They had al
ready preached four casks and had
broken the windows OF the offending con-
signees before the subprefect and the
officials OF their own federation could in
duce them to desist from further rio-
lence by the promise that the remaining
casks should be detained.
Delegation Sees BRAND.
This week Premier BRAND received Q
deputation Of wine growers from the de-
partment Of the Saone-et-Loire. Cote dor.
Ain and Yonne. and discussed with them
the distress prevailing In those depart
ments. owing to the totel failure Of the
wine crop. and the measures necessary to
cope with 1t. So grave Is the situation
that q number OF the smaller vineyard
proprietors. who possess no other source
OF income. are face to face with irretriev-
able ruin unless prompt steps are taken
for their relief. NJ. BRAND explained that
for more than month the ministry OF
agriculture had been studying the facts
with view to preparing measures Of
relief. The result Of it's deliberations will
be laid before the ministerial council and
will be introduced in the chamber with
the least possible delay.
The minister OF finance later received
the senators and deputies for the Marine
department and discussed with them the
agitation against the fraudulent substi
tuition Of wines in the Champagne dis
trict. The members OF the deputation an
amendment to the finance bill dealing
with the subject.
Capt. viaud. better known By his pssu.
donym Pierre Lott" the novelist and
member OF the Academic FRANCHISE. has
Of the Legion of Honor. The cellar.
which Is the badge OF the commander.
ship. was conferred on him on board the
cruiser Patrfe by Vice Admiral de JON
auieres. At the luncheon which fol-
quieres proposed the health of the new
commander, prefacing his remarks BY %
invocation in the language 6f TSh1u
which. he said. had already beeh ~
and more musical, though not more
friendly. - -
To Curtail Speeches.
Two hundred new members In the
chamber OF deputies are up in arms
against the sea OF eioQuence among their
elders. Their chief reason seems to d.
that they have not yet got In q word
edgeways since the day they were re-
turned and not one OF them has yet sue
ceeded in firing of his maiden speech.
One OF them. therefore. proposed Q time
limit for speeches. such as exists In some
parliaments Of the old world. He is gen
erous enough, however, six times more
SO. indeed, than the trainers Of rules At
some labor congresses. He proposes 10
allow, not ten. but q maximum OF sixty
minutes to every speaker each day. This
seems q fairly wide margin. STILL it
might prove irksome restraint upon some
members.
The first bookkeeping school in France
has been opened with fifteen pupils.
Schools Of the kind have long fourfshed
in Germany, Austria, and. Of course.
Switzerland. The curriculum covers the
entire business OF hotel keeping, from
bottle washing to hygiene and modcri
languages.
For some unexplained reason the cap
ital Of Normandy, Caen. has almost the
monopoly for the printing OF inscriptions
upon ribbons for funeral wreaths. WHY
this should be 80 nobody knows. hut thai
it is so is a fact, and i'm the saline WAY
the little town of Nantes has almost "A
monopoly for the manufacture Of COM
munion dresses for boys and girls and
wedding garbs for brides. The other DAY
a ribbon printer I'm Caen received order
to print the words, REST I'm Peace. Au
Revoir,' upon a large black ribbon I'm
letters Of fine silver. The order came h.
letter. and two hours after its reception
his customer telegraphed: PLEASE add
In Heaven II there Is room" The cus-
toner was bit surprised when he re-
ceived the ribbon to find this inscription
on il In letters Of fine silver: Rest In
Peace. Au revoir In heaven IL there II
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POSTAL CARD SOUNDS ALARM.
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