The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-09-24

hung for two centuries above the door
OF contectioner who. in the eigh-
teenth century. was Queen Marie An
toinette's chocolate maker and nennar.
mint confectioner. The same house
was Datronized later by the Empress
Josephine. and in one OF its first floor
rooms the playwright. Eugene Scribe
was born in 1891
The house stood, and still stands al
the corner of the Rue ST. Denis and
the Rue de la Roynic. a short alley
not far from the Church OF ST Merri
and also near the tountain OF the In e.
nocen's This ancient edifce. however.
Is about TO be pulled down to make
room for wider horoughfare and
modern buildings. and NJ. Cain hasten.
co 10 claim the relic of old Paris that
would otherwise have persisted
Shop and house signs still abound
In France. scntentious. funny. or phil
osophic. but naturally, in those DAYS
OF clearly named and numbered streets.
their mission in life has been lost
The committee Of the societe Ma
tionale des Beaux Arts is about to
meet TO elect a president. NJ. Rolrs
term of Office expiring this year. since
the famous secession which gave us
the Champs de Mars Salon twenty
years ago the young Societe has ONLY
had four presidents. of whom Nelson
nier was the first. the great Puvis de
ChaVannes was the second Carolus
Duran the third. and NJ. Roll, the out
going president. the fourth NJ. Roll
VIII probably be asked to run third
time, but in the event of his refusing
an onerous and delicate task, his sue
cessor will. in all probability. be either
NJ. Rodin or Albert Besnard
The committee is anxious to make
some changes this year in their or.
ganization, with the object of raising
the standard OF their annual exhibit
ton The two rival salons are now
held side by side in the immense
Grand Palais, and many people are
of the opinion that the one Is as
academic and stereotyped as the other.
The BeauN Arts has the reputation
or course, of being more cordial to
new men and new formulae than the
older Societe des Artistes Francois,
and the more advanced of the asso-
ciates are anxious to carry their
eciecticism to still greater lengths.
NJ Matisse exhibits at the Beaux
Arts. but up to the present the
"cuhistes" have not found admittance,
and they complain bitterly of the fact.
The League of Big Families. which
gained so much popular sympathy two
or three months ago when they or
ganized a meeting on the Esplanade
as Invalides, is loud in protest against
Partisan proprietors who refuse to let
their apartments to parents of large
families, or even in some cases to
n 40
Asnieres, just outside Paris work
man was giSen notice to leave the
house he occupied, owing to his having
eight children. Since then he has been
unable to find another home, as every
where he IL met with the reply that
the proprietor viii not have children
In the house" The family have, there
fore. been obliged to sleep wherever
they best corld, and for the last few
nights have been put up at the town
fhc other day they were escorted
by several inhabitants through the
streets of Asnieres in order to find
shelter. and whenever the caretaknr
Of house refused to let he was re-
ceived with storm of insults. and
in some cases the proprietors them
selves were roughly handled, But tho
been found, and the workman and his
family we're obliged to go back to the
town hall for the night.
a collection made during their march
amounted to nearly SIS. and the father
Immediately sent half of this sum to
"houvenin, the bread-winnar OF a
family who some time ago was ex-
PEELED from his house at Puteaux. and
who has not yet succeeded in finding
proprietor willing to let house to
him.