The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
ART DEALERS SEE
FAR INTO FUTURE
Bait Traps Years Ahead Which
Are to Catch Rich "Connois-
seurs " Fancy.
HOW "ANGELUS" DOOMED
France Will Try American Plan
of Testing Guns on Old
Battleship,
HOW "ANGELUs" BOO
BY PAUL VILLIERS.
, to The Tribune .

Special Cable to The Tribune
PARIS, May 20.-The picture dealers
now hire at great rents hanging rooms in
private galleries OF high repute for the
pictures they hope to boom. The heavy
i, rent is but a trifle compared To what a
boom sale brings.
The judges tell me chat there is more
cheating in pictures than in race horses.
One attributes this TO the great number
| OF mil)ionaires now about who want to
pass for being men of taste. They judge
chiefly OF the merits OF an ancient master
by the nail on which it has hung or
the price to which something done by
the same hand has been worked up at
sales.
Preparations for q sensational sale at
which the late NJ, Chauchard could be
melted" sometimes went on for several
years. II was in this way that Millets
"Angelus" was doomed up 10 the huge
figure al which he bought il. Were there
not piles OF Millets stored-for he was a
prolific painter-in view to future sales.
and planted in we'll known collections
there must have been a slump in bis
works on Chauchard S death. ~
Following the example of the American
government the French. navy department
has decided to make experiments To test
the destructive power OF a new melinite
shell for the guns OF tho new battle
ships.
An old battleship. the Neptune. Will be
the target and shells will be fired into
her from guns on, shore. These shells
plates, but fail to burst when they strike
lighter material.
Printers Error Costly.
A curious claim for damage came be-
fore the correctional court recently.
George TournieuN died from the effects
culled from book called Tho People S
Doctor" where, owing 10 d misprint. Is
Srammes of ammonia were prescribed in
stead OF Is drops.
The author OF the book has bepn SEN
fenced to three months Imprisonment and
fined and the man who made up the
prescription is sentenced TO one months
Imprisonment and a fine. The widow was
ava rded 5000 damages and an annuity Of
$50. while her children will receive $50
year each until reaching their ma
jority-
Big Wine Firms Favored.
The fact that the vignerons OF the
Aube have been excluded from the prov
the delimita tiop act shows that the in
fluence of the big firms has been para
mount. in drafting ii. The Aube belongs
as certainly to Champagne as Midlothian
does TO Scotland. Its chief town once
was the capital OF the province But the
wines OF the Aube are not used by the
firms IN question, lower priced cham
pagnes being made from them.
1t is worth noticing that the big cham
pagne firms. for whose benefit the de-
Limitation act was passed by the BRAND
administration, arc almost without eX-
cePticn In the hands Of enemies OF the
Republican regime. "Veuve Cliauot' is
the property of the Duchesse Dues. who
subscribed $4,000 10 the Boulangist
fund. The husband Of the former Mile
de Werle Is Vicomte de Nun, and his
manager is the Marquis dc Polignac. The
Marquis de Montebello was French en-
bassador to st. Petersburg, who looked
down on President Loubet. and for hav-
ing done so lost his high situation.
The Aube vignerons seem to know
nothing OF this. They burn in effigy NJ.
NJ. Monis and Leon Bourgeois, and let
BRAND alone.