Omaha daily bee., 1911-06-25
BIG LOAN IS IN CONTEMPLATION
Proceeds Would Be Used to Build
Houses for Workers.
POPULATION OF PARIS GROWS
Has Nearly 100000 Inhabitants at
This Time.
MANY FOREIGNERS RESIDENTS
Counsel General of AlRiers Votes 60
Give 100000 90 First Aviator
Carrying Bulky war Ma
teriaI 900 Miles.
by PAIL. YILLIERs.

BY PAUL VILLIERS.
PARIS. June 24-(Special to The Bee)-
This city is now engaged in an attempt
to solve the problem OF providing homes
for the people who cannot stand the ex-
actions OF the landlords. There are loud
and bitter complaints over the steady rise
OF rentals.
NJ Brunei who represents a district
chiefly inhabited by the working class, Will
lay before the Municipal council PROPOSE
ton for the raising by the city of loan
Of SIG 900 with view to the erection
OF houses on sites which can easily be
obtained and which will afford healthy
quarters at reasonable rentals. NJ. Brunei
points out the expediency, of such a course,
as there are more than 5000 houses In
which the death rate from tuberculosis
alone amounts to about 7 per cent Of the
Inhabitants.
Population of Paris.
The census OF the city gives the popua-
ton of Paris-that OF the city within forti-
flcation-as 2,S47,Oo0 this being increase
Of a trifle over $4,000 since the census Of
1905, due mainly to the immigration Of
provincials and foreigners.
Dr. Bertlllon gives us some figures
which show that in 1892 the population Of
Paris, which was then smaller town,
was ABOUT IN inc Slklltehln Otn-
fury 1t showed steady figure of 50O00os
that is to say. up to the outbreak OF the
revolution In 1901 It had risen to $4,000.
In 1851 It was a little over 100000. but
ten years later It had reached very nearly
10000. 1t passed the figure of 100000
in 1881, when the score was 2,2e9,000. II the
suburban townships we're included in the
census the total would be little over
100000.
Monopoly JeaIOusIy Guarded.
A poor woman has been heavily fined
for infringement OF the tobacco mo-
nopoly by making and selling cigarettes
and using government tobacco, which she
purchased, thus ekins out a precarious
livelihood. In default OF payment she will
have to. undergo two years. Imprisonment
Suicide an Protest.
Nine Melaine Lemoir, aged GO. drowned
herself at Fontainebleau recently because
her husband had invented health bev-
erage which he insisted should always be
served at the table
Thirty ChiIdren I'm FamiIy.
A farmer has celebrated the baptism of
his thirtieth child. The man, who has
been married three times, has had seven
teen sons and thirteen daughters, twenty
two Of whom are alive.
big Prise for AvihtOra.
The latest aviation prize offered. though
one which will probably take a long time
to win. is that proposed by the counsel
general of Algiers, which has voted to
give $4,000 to the first aviator who carries
a ton OF war material 300 odd miles. The
motion was proposed by the vice president
of the council. and II is to be called the
Berteaux prize in honor Of M. Berteaux,
the late minister of war. The flight must
be uninterrupted and over Algerian terri
tory.
"RecOnstitutinE'' a Crime.
The capture of four masked men who
broke into a villa at Bry- Sur Marine with
the intention of robbing and numbering
Madame Delorme. 80 years old, and her
servant has given rise to a curious re
constitution" as It is called of the al
| legged crime The four men were conveyed
to the spot In the clothes which they are
supposed to have worn. One of the men,
securely handcuffed. wore a top hat and q
magnificent overcoat, with gold spectacIes.
Another OF the quartet wore an impeccable
| blue suit that might have been made by
the best tailor. Otherwise he was also inn
pressive, being handsome and almost dis
tinguished'' In appearance.
AS the police wagon drove up before the
| villa and the examining magistrate and DO
lice officials stepped out and accompanied
the party Of burglars to the villa the two
women inside had almost as great a fright
as on the night OF the attempted crime
At last when the magistrate threatened
to have the gates opened. the mistress
ordered the servant TO open the gates.
The masks were then put on the prisoners.
They were made to take up the various
positions in which they are alleged to have
been seen and the occupants OF the villa
positively asserted that they were the men.
The outlines OF each were exactly the same
as what they had seen and they also iden-
titled their voices.