The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-01
PLAN GREAT NAVY
FOR FRENCH EMPIRE
Enthusiasm Aroused Over.
Project to Regain Second
Place as Sea Power.
CLOSE FAMOUS RESORT
Latin Quarter of Paris Is No
Longer Center of Bo-
hemian Set.
CLOSE FAMOUS RESORT
BY PAUL VILLIERS.


| Special Cable to The Tribune.
| PARIS. Sept 3o.--One OF the results OF
the trouble. over Morocco. regardless of
how ii may be settled. VIII bc the rehab-
| ii,ation OF the French navy
| Not so many years ago France was sec
ond only to Great Britain in naval power,
| Now she is in fifth place In enactive
| that position, She has been passed by
| Germany The United States and Japan.
Austria. too, has developed the naval
spirit, and today France finds herself im-
potent to maintain her claims for supre-
macy in the Mediterranean.
| The return TO practical power OF NJ
]Dcl Carse, the most energetic. aggressive
and far seeing statesman in France to-
DAY, has effected n change in the dispo-
sitiou towards the navy.
| The parliamentary commission which
! was appointed some time ago to suggest
| a scheme FOR increasing the French navy
] has just concluded its report. which Will
be submitted TO the chamber OF deputies
commission. NJ. Nail deputy for l. Oricrt.
declares that France must regain the
naval position which she has lost. II is
| necessary. he says not only for the pro-
lection of her commerce. but also for the
maintenance of the peace of the world
Arouses Great Enthusiasm.
In the actual state o. affairs i'm Eu
| rope. France is compelled TO pay two
insurance premiums against war-she
| a powerful fleet. The commission urges
| the construction Of sixteen new battle
ships, twenty torpedo craft and fifty sub
marines OF various tonnages The cost OF
| this new fleet will work out at between
$500, 600 and sioo ooo.oO No sugges-
| ton OF recent times has created so much
enthusiasm and that the scheme viii be
adopted II not enlarged upon seems as
| sured
Even the newsooys along the boulevards
arc. clamoring for sixteen super dread
|
I the naval strength OF the world. This
would give France a fleet i'm 1920 that VIII
practicable combination Of sea fighters in
Germany Austria Hungary and Italy be-
tween Gibraltar and Alexandria.
Famous Resort Is Closed.
Hard hearted men OF business closed
up the Bal Butler last week, II was
practically the last resort of the old
Latin quarter which held out against the
attractions OF Montmarte and the boule-
wards But In these progressive days
sentiment and tradition have 10 give
way before the stern advance OF picture
| shows and syndicate music halls.
| The Bal Buier. although it lost some
of its Bohemian atmosphere in the past
decade was always the. finishing point
| OF younger students when they were
| celebrating" Here every one danced
You did not come to witness exotic dis
leap and Jig yourself in the company OF
some amusing little lady OF the quarter
last survivors OF the oId-time Grisette.
| The grlsettes who used TO frequent Bull
licr have been celebrated by authors and
historic in his "scenes Of Bohemian
| Life
Right in the heart OF the Latin quar-
| ter on the other side'' OF the river
the old dancing hall has had its floor
trodden by many famous men. Most of
| Frances leading sta lesnlen, writer's
philosophers and professional men have
| been poor students in the quarter.
Latin Quarter Is Gone.
In America there will be any number
of worthy, even wealthy, citizens who
will feel strangely older when they hear
| Butler has been shut up. But the old
| Latin quarter no longer exists A few
artists still have studios. and naturally
hundreds of students at the university
technical schools board In the quarter
but Montmarte Is the center Of that pc
cyliar life Of poverty and cbeeerfulness
The famous old places have been over
run by tourists. who frightened away the
original denizens The Latin quarter, as
even the Montmarte cabarets. are no
longer spontaneous. They as mar
| tistic as tho smaller music halls. Bo.
hemianism was utilized as a draw for
inquisitive snobs and the old days are
over Butler Is closed. No more can
/ we file UP to its doors in monome or
long procession. singing. dancing, doing
all sorts OF Wild tricks that the sober,
students.
One particular association OF students
had n club song taught them by an in
genuous American artist, IT was 'John
Browns Body" They sang it IN Eng
lish Mt supper time. In fact. II served
them In lieu OF grace and went something
Joan Browen bod doe lays amolle cen
zee greffe.''
Several Chicago travellers once picked
n fight with the students over this.
thinking the Frencfimen were insulting
America In the fight which resulted the
students. led by q stalwart English paint
er and two French Rugby football inter
nationals. put the Chicagoans outside,
the light OF the street lamps
Dramatic Court Scene.
There was a dramatic scene In n Paris
court recently when Clement Boucheller
was charged with beating Jennie Benoit.
his sweetheart,
The case seemed simple one. and the
magistrate called for the complainant
The usher took up the cry, bur no one
appeared.
Then Boucheller got up and exclaimed:
You need not call her. Eight days ago
l killed her"
The sentence for the assault was six
months imprisonment, and Boucheller
, will now be tried for murder.
, The lady with the wasp waist. Mdle
Poltare. has become an agltntor. She is
leading movement TO do away with the
fashion Of wearing false halr,
Contemplates Great University.
Special Cable 10 The Tribune.
MADRID, Sept. SO.-king Alfonso has
In contemplation the project of erecting