The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-22
WOMEN MAKE
POOR SHOWING
In Recent Elections for Depu-
ties in France
HARDLY "ALSO RAMS"
Fully One Million Dollars VIII be Of
fered in Prizes for Aviation Meets
During the Coming Sum-
mer Mt Paris
HARDLY "ALSO RAMS


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Paris, May 21.-(Special.)- 1.-The recent
| elections have demonstrated that the
suffragette movement in France is not
yet in the realm of practical politics.
number of woman suffragists offered
themselves as candidates for the cham
Der of deputies, but they hardly received
votes enough to qualify them for the
| also ran" class. For instance, Nine.
Durand, the suffragette leader, who made
an especially vigorous campaign and who
| expressed the confident hope that she
would get vote which would surprise
the opponents of suffrage, was about the
most surprised of all when she was cred
| tied with only "a votes. Other women
candidates did not do SO well as this.
| Another fact was demonstrated by the
| returns. France is overwhelmingly re-
| publican Extraordinary efforts had been
made by the church party and the va
rious varieties of royalists to get out a
big vote, but of the S,563,716 votes cast
at the first ballots the parties of republic
can union and concentration (radicals
and socialist radicals, liberals, and in
dependent socialists) poled 4,909,347 or
nearly so per cent. The center parties,
the progressists and liberal colectivist
and revolutionary socialists, 1,094S37 the
conservatives, 1852, and the national
lists. 1864. Over 100000 voting cards
l. o,.1r lad
1t is significant that the liberal repub-
cans left, with an increase of nearly
100000, has gained more ground than
any other party since 1908. The radical
gain amounts to some 100000
Fully a million dollars will be offered
in prizes for aviation meets during the
year 1910. When the smaller meets and
special contests are considered it is prob
able that the figures will exceed the mil
lion mark by very considerable mar
gin.
AS the number of aviators who will
share in these prizes is as yet very small
this profession rivals the opponents of
grand opera as a high salaried profess
sion.
The following list of the principal avia-
ton meets of the year so far provided
has been prepared
April 80 to May 5, Tours, $1,000 francs.
May to 6, Palermo, 100000 francs.
May 10 to 15 Lyons, 100000 francs.
May 10 to Is, Bordeaux, 10000 francs.
May 10 to is, Berlin, 10000 francs.
May Is to 49, Marseilles, $4,000 francs.
May 20 to %, st. Petersburg, 100000
francs
May 20 to 80, Verona, 100000 francs.
May 81 to 81, Limoges, 10000 francs.
June 5 to Il, Juvisy, 10000 francs.
June 10 to 80, Burapest, 100000 francs.
June 10 to rs, Rouen, 100000 francs.
July 8 to g. Rheims 100000 francs.
July II to 16, Bournemouth, 100000
francs.
July "a to August 4, Brussels, 100000
francs.
July 81 to August 2, Caen, $4,000 francs.
August to 49, Southport, 100000 francs.
August 25 to September a. Havre, 240,-
600 francs.
September . to Is. Bordeaux, 100000
francs.
September o to October 9, Milan, 15O.-
900 francs.
October 2 to 9, Juvisy, 10000 francs.
October Is to November 2, New York.
10000 francs.
December 4 to IS, Marseilies, 100000
francs.
cally all civilized countries are included
This surely is the age of the man bird.
M. Guitry, who plays the name-part in
"Chantecler," Is guaranteed by contract
a minimum of 10000 and 10 per cent Of
the gross receipts. The takings are
growing less. During the first few weeks
the average evenings receipts at the
Porte St. Martin were between $3.50 and
ESQ., They now average f320.
The cry of "wolfr was not raised for
nothing in one of the most populous dis
trcts of Paris the other day, for she
wolf had actually got loose from a me-
nagerie and was taking the air Of the
streets, as they say But 1t was good
wolf after all, this native of liberia,
and had no intention of doing any harm.
1t felt bit lost among the crowd, and,
taking an elderly lady sitting on bench
for the. least dangerous person, it looked
at her with its gray eyes appealingly,
and stretched forth its pointed ears. The
lady got frightened and screamed, and
then the wolf got frightened, too, not
knowing what wrong 1t had DONE 1t
darted away down a side street, followed
by a yelling crowd, and finally reached
more deserted quarter, WneTe IL wan
dered about incognito for a long time,
an object of suspicion to the dogs round
about. At last, late at night, 1t was re-
discovered by some policemen in a pri-
vate passage. They hurriedly closed the
gate and notified the proprietor of the
menagerie, who came and took away his
wolf, which was as docile as a lamb. Next
morning the poor creature could be seen
in it's cage moving about very quietly,
and was seemingly delighted to be homo
again. 1t had a good conscience, for 1t
had done nobody any harm.
Police dogs are useless In tracking the
aristocracy of the French criminal COM
munity as was shown in recent case in
Paris A series of daring burglaries had
been committed at Chantilly, Malmaison,
and other fashionable resorts near Paris,
and were pronounced by detectives to be
the work of one man.
In his last job the burglar left behind
him a pair of shirt cuffs. Here was a
valuable clue, the police thought. Imme-
diately Cherry, the best police dog in
Paris was sent for and the hunt began,
the detectives following hot foot. The
trail was wearisome. Over hedges and
stiles. through fields and bitches, the dog
led them until a small stream was
reached. Here Cherry lost the scent COM
pletely, and the man hunters returned
disconnected, the disappointment being
all the greater because the burglary was
an affair of some Importance, $4,000
worth Of jewelry having been stolen.