The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-31
AIR ENTHUSIAST
CRAZE BITE MANY
Coming Of Airships Is Respon.
sibIe for Exclusive Club
for Women.
PARIS IS CENTER FOR
THIS LATEST IN FADS
liabitatiOn Of Club Is on Grounds
Of Aero Park in French
Capital.
BY PAUL vILLERS.

BY PAUL VILLIERS.
Special Cable to The Tribune.
PARIS, July 30.-The coming OF the
airship IS responsible for what Is per-
haps the most aristocratic and exclusive
club for women in the world. It is the
Stella club Of ST. Cloud, and its purpose is
the promotion Of aviation matches, and
1t numbers in its membership some Of
the highest placed women In French So
ciety. While 1t Is primarily woman's g
club and Its officers are women who have
won their spurs. heuratively, as aviators,
few men have been granted the privi-
lege of membership. Grand dukes and
Grand crane duehesses ehe;s head the list The Arch.
of CASTLE. his wife. have. hear, ac-
tcepted honorary membe rship. They are
both air enthusiasts. and their eight chill
dren are bitten with their craze. The
archduchess Is a sister of the Spanish
pretender, Don Jaime. and the last per
son one might, on seeing her, think to
go In for air flights with all the impetu-
osity OF her Bourbon nature. The figure
OF this air princess is short and extreme
ly stout-a feature that rather hits the
eldest daughters. tall, slim archduchesses.
we'll on In their teens. The French arch
duchesses OF the club are all authentic
NJ. Barthou, the keeper of the seals. and
the French oil king. M. Deutche de La
Meurthe: have just Joined. Nine Blerlot
has been elected pTesidente. and Mines.
Surcouf and Poliakof the vice presi-
dentes. The name OF the former figures
In the French naval annals as glorious
pirate. the auxiliary of De Tourville, with
no other commission that that OF his
nudacious genius. The lady secretary and
treasurer have proved their skill as air
women. but only in the baskets of the
balloons The local habitation OF the club
Is IN the grounds of the Aero park and
many have been encouraged to join In its
AS to Aerial Rights.
While on the subject Of aviation 1t may
he noted that the Euroean conference on
aerial rights, which has been sitting. for
coming to any definite conclusions. stands
adjourned till October. In the meantime
It's proceedings are to be kept secret: 1t
supposed that its object would be
mcrelv to Introduce some kind of uni
formity into the municipal arrangements
cf the various powers In respect OF fly
larger questions have been introduced.
calling for the consideration of the for
eisn offices rather than OF the boards Of
trade.
Paris Disfgured.
From time to time attention has been
called 10 the apparent lack OF due con-
Germ for the preservation Of the beau
ties and amenities OF Paris which char
the condition OF its streets and squares
There have recently been symptoms OF
an awakening in this respect in compe-
tent quarters. For several years the
Place de pOpera has been dis6gured and
obstructed by the new works OF the Met
ropolltan Underground railway These
were TO have been finished In December
of last year, The floods Intervened, and
!, the last state of the central square and
crossroads of Paris is worse than the
first. Fresh underground operations have
been begun. and. according TO the esti-
mate Of the engineers, they will not he
completed until May, 1912. This esti-
mate. TO judge from past experience, is
far too sangulne. and ParIsIuns are sadly
reckoning with q continuance OF the pres
ent unsishtly distractions in tho Place
dc fOpera for at least four years more.
similar fate appears 10 have befallen
the Place de Havre. in front Of ST. La
zare railway station. One of the busiest
thoroughfares in Paris and another great
artery of traffic the Rue Royale. which
appears TO be in a chronic state OF trans
formation and destruction. The subter-
rancan works, TO which these disastrous
results are due. are doubtless indispen-
sable. but the railway engineers and con-
tractors seem to display uncommonly lit
lie ingenuity or resource In mitigating
tail In no other great European or
American city, outside OF Russia or Tur-
key. would such proceedings be long toll
Grated,
Submarines in Naval Warfare.
The official report on the French ma
vital part which submarines are destined
TO play in naval warfare Of the future
Three submersibes, the Circe. the Papin,
and Calypso. took part in the first part
of the maneuvers. They wero sent to
act against Admiral Jonuuieres's squad.
ron, which was blockading Ajaccio, Their
tunity presented Itself. but primarily to
give information to the naval force tied
up in Ajacclo of the strength OF It's ad
versaricg, The CIrcc and Papin carried
out both Of their {OStrncfiopy ;,I,
remarkable success, Posting themselves
In the strait OF Bonifacio, they waited
for Admiral Jonquieress squadron. which
soon sailed out, stcanng at a speed OF
seventeen Knots all hour, 10 meet the
rival feet under Admiral Aubert A force
OF destroyers had been sent out OH each
side, and the admiral thought he was
perfectly safe, but the submarines. dived
under the destroyers. the Paplu shooting
up TO within three hundred yards Of two
hattleships. which she torpedocd in rapid
succession, the more easily as they be-
leved themselves 10 be in perfect So
curlty a few days later. off Toulon. the
mlral Jonquieres. The dcstroyers spied
her out by blot OF oil on the surface
but. clevclly avoiding them she torpc-
- docd the flagship. the new battIcgbir
Patrie.
Strange Rumor Afoat.
When the accident occurred to the
Pluviose there was u strange ruinor that
a lady WIS vas on board the Inflated sub
'ht' '''HS' liiS report c%clNHu very natu-
raj curiosity, but after tho lapse of a
few days no more was heard of tho mat
ter Inc calais correspondent of the
Petit Var. which Is a stcady-eoing Re
publican newspaper. published nj Toulon
and which treats largely OF naval ques-
lions. has. however returned TO the sub
ject. ap6 ne says thar on the unluckv
day Two members Of tho crew were land
.d 10 make room for Captain Frut and
another person. Who WAS That person
TIC number OF tho corpses recovered
Sas officially reported as nine, whereas
the Nritcr alleges, there Mere I'm rcality
Ten. Moreover. rs he further asserts. tho
inhabitants OF Cnais were greatly ox-
cited because n drcdgar which had go,
hold OF The Pluvicsc WIS not permitted 81
lfnntinuc lis work. Then ten men arc
fH!leSec TO have lived on several notIrs
after tho catastrophe. happened. and one