El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-10
latin RACES
STRONG IN
PARIS
Not AL Americans in the
French Capital From the
United States.
SPANISH-AMERICANS
PREDOMINANT THERE

Paris France June 10.-Anericans
abroad are inclined to the belief that
when the people Of Europe use the
word America" they mean their own
country and none other. and that the
United States is the most important.
ern world This idea is erroneous,
especially in Paris, where large and
wealthy South and Central American
and where Spanish speaking visitors
spend their money with 1avishness
that rejoices the heart Of the local
tradesmen-
There are permanent colonies OF
spanish Americans in Paris which,
taken together. are three times as
large as the North American colony
An American who told 1eweler in
the Rue de Ia Paix that Americans
spent more money there than in Fifth
avenue, New York. was reminded that
North Americans spend much less in
the Rue de Ia Paix than do South
Americans. 1t Is an undisputed fact
that Spanish Americans buy more
beautiful furniture, more Jewels more
objects Of modern French art IN Paris
than do visitors from the United
States Probably quite half OF the
large number OF canvasses shown in
the two great salons Of this month
will find their way to private houses
in some part of the Americas south OF
the Rio Grande.
Spanish Americans Like Paris.
Paris rather than Madrid is the IN
tellectua1 capital of Spanish America
and the connections IN the fields OF
culture, art and literature between the
French and the people Of Latin
America are deeper than the visiting
American realizes F1ench opera and
theatrical companies; French states
en-, such as NJ Clemenceau, the for
er premier. and Paul Doumer, and
French capitalists and representatives
of almost every department Of French
activity find in South America a SYM
pathetic welcome and almost com
munity Of language, because IL has
long been a principle of South Amer
lean education that the cultivated
person must know French While the
United States larger than in his own
country. French writers have cir
culatiOn in Spanish America second on
" to that OF France itself
Powerful Society Formed.
powerful society was formed last
year. called the COmite France
.Amerioue." designed to bring all the
peoples
into closer relations with France
Gabriel Hanotaux. for so many years
secretary OF foreign affairs, is the
president and gives its affairs a good
deal of personal attention He intends
TO visit the United States and Canada
next year, and possibly Mexico large
" in the interest OF the intellectual
and moral aims OF this society. As has
already been announced, NJ Hano-
taux and some Is or 20 other distin-
guished Frenchmen will go 70 the
United States next soring- One OF the
prominent Americans now living in
Paris, and the foremost American MEM
Der of the committee, is James H
HYDE. At a recent meeting OF the So
ciety, NJ. Hanotaux, while sletching
the progress already obtained by the
organization in the direction OF closer
relations with the Americas. paid
tribute to Mr.. Hyde's contribution TO
these. relations France, he said, owed
a debt of gratitude to the man who
had sown. many years ago. in the
United States the first seeds OF a
closer FrancO-American understand
ing. especially by establishing the
course of French lectures at Harvard
university
Robert Bacon, the American ambas-
sador. speaking at the same meeting.
declared that the savants, the artists
and writer's which france SeuQS 10
America, lead to the removal Of the
barriers which still separate peoples.
bring about a fusion OF the material
interests and pave the way to moral
unity between nations which constt-
tutes the true force of civilization
Pays Fortune for Fake Picture.
Among the pictures disposed OF at
the sale of the celebrated Delessert
collection last week. was one entitled
Cows on a knoll in a meadow" by
the Dutch master. Albert Cuyp- After
some vigorous bidding. the picture was
knocked down for $26. 600 to a dealer
acting on behalf of the proprietor OF
one OF the big department stores OF
Paris The day after the sale.
Dutch newspaper, the "Nieuwe Rot
terdamsche Courant," published an
article from its correspondent IN Paris.
affirming that the famous Cuyp was
a forgery The article was so cfrcum-
stantial that the dealer and his client
became alarmed and submitted the
matter TO the Dutch expert. Hofstelle
van Groos. After careful examina-
ton the expert concluded that the
picture was an old copy executed with
exceptional skill and care. and pos
sessing great artistic merit. but nei-
tber wholly nor partly the work OF
Cuyp-