Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-03
AMERICAN AID
MUCH APPRECIATED
French Government and French
People Touched by Profound
Expressions of Sympathy.
AN UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT.
Nuns Abandon Rcd Cross Post Be-
cause 1t Was Established in Building
Owned by Free Mason.

Paris, Feb. 3.-The river Seine con-
tinues it's recession. the gage today
showing a drop of nearly feet from
it's crest.
The relief contributions from
crowned heads amount now to approx
imately $4,000. Other foreign scions
exceed 100000
or the s12O, 600 already transferred to
Foreign Minister Pichon by American
Ambassador Bacon, $4,000 has been
turned over to the French Red Cross
In conformity to the wishes of the dom
orS
Rodman Wanamaker. who desires to
pay the bread bill of flood victims for
one month, has forwarded first in
stallment of $4,000.
A high official, speaking today of the
generosity of Americans, expressed the
deep impression created by their SYM
pathy in France. He said;
The French government and French
people alike have been touched by the
profound expressions OF sympathy and
the liberal contributions pouring in
from abroad, but none has aroused
quite the same sense of gratitude as
those from the people of the sister re-
public across the sea. Misery is still
great and the work of relief must con-
tinue for months See what wreck
age has been left behind even here"
The official pointed from window
TO the devastation about the foreign
office, the high water mark showing
on the buildings nine feet above the
ground and the still flooded Rue de
Constantine.
1t is estimated that clothing and food
is being supplied to a quarter of a
| million persons in Paris and its i'm
mediate vicinity.
SOME BUILDINGS FALLING.
The, fear that the buildings whose
foundations had been weakened would
fall as the waters receded. has been
| realized, but not to great extent
! and this damage thus far has been
| confined to old structures I'm the sur
| rounding towns as the Courbevoie, in
| the region OF Ahortville Ivry and VII
leneuve-St. Georges.
Several recent subsdences in the
| streets were reported today. one occur
| ring in front of the ministry OF war.
An unfortunate incident has resulted
in the abandonment of one4 Of the-Red
Cross posts. The building within
which 1t was established had been
| placed at the disposition of the So
| ciety by the owner. Placide Alexandra
ASllT, lne 6dulCdl SOcldlfst deputy.
When the nuns. who were acting
as nurses. learning that the building
| belonged to a Socialist and Free Ma
| son they declined to remain. saying
| they feared communication. There
| upon the Countess D'Haussonyille or
| dered that the place be evacuated.
Several prominent Catholic writer's
| delivered broadsldes in today's papers
| against what is termed the bank
| ruptcy Of the modern science of en-
| gineering, contrasting the stability of
| the ancient bridges, like Pont Royal
| and the Pont Neuf, with the latter day
| structures such as the Pont de l'Alma,
and the Pont des Arts. the safety OF
which was in doubt throughout the
| height of the flood. They declare that
! not a single ancient sewer broke un-
der the pressure of the waters. while
/ the modern labyrinth cracked and
gave way In many places.
BITTER ARTICLE.
Frederick Mason. a member of the
French academy. in a bitter article,
lays the blame on the laIcization Of
France. saying that still in the hour
| of calamity the only consolation of the
crew Is found In divine faith and char
| fty. He concludes
In this total bankruptcy of science
| government, police and the others who
should have forescen and protected
u1, the cross alone is triumphant"