The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-09-03
|PAR|S|ANS PREY
/ ON ALL AMERICANS
Tourists Pay Double Prices and
in Addition Are Easy
for Thieves.
HOTEL SERVANTS IN PLOT
Wrench Sharpers Regard Ameri-
cans as Wealthy and Legiti-
l, mate Victims.
hotel SERVANTS IN PLOT
cIal Cable 10 The Tribune.

Special Cable TO The tribune
III PARIS, Sept 2.-This has been a rec
lprd breaking year not only in Paris. but
throughout Europe, In the matter OF re-
JlieyIng rich American travellers of their
-supernuous money by means not recog-
3ihlzed by law.
= The way OF the American in Europe is
Euffclently hard at the hands of honest
merchants and hotel men He is con-
bIdercd legitimate prey, and the Ameri-
-can price is a very different figure from
HE ordinary price wherever one goes
An Americans, TO the mind OF the Euro
-bean OF the shoplSeeper class. arc rich
Ind II is really a good deed to relieve
fhem OF somo OF their superfluous wealth
This is generally recognized.
But this year the crooks have been
llDayIng especial attention 10 the Ameri-
sIrAns, The police have been busy looking
Vffer jewel robberies, the victims being
IAme ricsns. II has been developed that
fherc Is regular organization for the
-pnrpose OF carrying out these robberies.
II includes clerks III 1ewelry stores and
.hofel employees, The method is for the
y cIerk TO tip off the hotel servants when
u particularly valuable purchase has been
nnade, The servants do the rest:
y In the combination are also included
Expert thieves who are called i'll when
)fEhe hotel servants are unable TO learn 1rn
frequentcd by Americans and
he apaches are beginning TO pey atten-
StIon to the show slums' patronized by
americans, and frequent crimes Of Nio-
.ence. are reported TO the police.
|6I Scouts for crooked gambling clubs
yiwarm the hotel Hobbies on the lookout
Ire steered against games at which they
haven't the slightest chance OF winning.
Ilnd IL in an excess of caution they get
DAway with any OF their money. knock.
hut drops or actual holdups supplement
M Chicago. New York, New Orleans or
lar Francisco in their palmicst days OF
fide openness had nothing on Paris as
A IL today.
M Americans who have been travelling
eVHer the continent tell me that II is al
bost as bad in Italy. Germany and Aus
1|TIuly the American in Europe today
slleeds a paddock on his pocket. and then
should be steel lined If he wishes to
Much sympathy is felt in the American
4 aJ0olony here for the young flancee Of
s'foLoneI John Jacob Astor.
aIColoncl Astor is well known In Paris
md he is looked upon as a man with
!. Fhom any girl might fall In love, re-
'serdless OF his millions. He is courtly
kentleman, with an oid--tiine chiyalrIc
Uoference towards women that appeals. II
!. ~ felt. therefore. that the denunciations
w Miss Force arc unmanly, unchivalrous
md untrue, Il is hoped the colonel will
!. We well received here
Young Girls Swimming Feat.
4 In a great swimming race across Paris
Vsanized by the Society for the EncouT-
Ls9gefnent OF NatatIon, special interest at
Ecned to Juliette Cure. girl lis Years
! One very curious feature OF the race
paHa5 the desperate effort OF the reporter
steal a march on his conferees, He
D Nunged into the Seine after his victim,
yeVe swan up TO Juliette's side. There
PaB no time 10 present a card. Just
fRine word. anything that she said then
SSHu there. would do for an interview,
~ Yepds and feet. The reporter insisted.
surely you must feel tired" he said.
"a (Eo. was Juliette's curt reply. Il am
9slQing to finish.
lThe course was. roughly. four and
l6 pree quarter miles. The girls perform
'v'pce Is considered remarkable for one of
age, and she was cheered all along
nhve course.
D'IMlle Cure is the champion Of the
ehools here and has been swimming
Eee she was years old, She declared
Nerwards that 1t was the biggest eff
99aEt she had ever made, but she would
y again next year. Her schoolmates
e@ye making collection for her. and she
yVH nappy also with the receipt OF con-
I'll fucation There were thirty in the con-
:. at and Juliette finished fourth
~ SF1ve young women have been arrest
IN largo emporium on a charge of
rop.lifting, They were found TO be
OF n Portuguese family who
Pre- ruined by the revolution. When
BWfught IN the act they confessed that
ey were obliged to resort TO this means
supporting their rank
m The Bank Of Morocco has entrusted tho
rls mint with an order to strike a sill :
u coinage with tho eff1gy OF Mulai
Phd. This IS remarkable procedure,
AG, IN accordance with Islamic principles,
QNSe coinage OF Mussulnlan countries has
%nert3 never borne representation OF
y living creature