El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28
To CELEBRATE.
THE TREATY
Of CLIENT
American Committee Will
Join in Observance of the
Centenary of the Treaty.
PARIS INTERESTED
IN AMERICAN ARTIST

/ Paris, France, Sept est seems
/ likely that the city of Client. as well as
! the important British and American
I committee established for the pur-
/ pose, will join actively in the cefebra-
( ton of the Centenary of the Treaty of
/ Client, signed Dec. a, 1914, and of the
Hundred Years Peace among English
I speaking peoples.
The Belgian contribution is likely to
take the form of restoration of the
room in the old Carthusian convent
where the treaty was signed, and OF the
fine old banqueting hall in the Hotel
de Vile, where the municipality OF
Client entertained the British and
American plenipotentiaries after the
conclusion of the treaty nearly 100
} years ago, which concluded the war
between America and England.
William B. Rowland, chairman of the
American committee On interna tional
organization and Mrs. Rowland; Harry
E. Britain chairman of the CORE
spending committee in Great Britain,
together with the secretary of the
British committee: H. s. PERKS and
Mrs. Britain, have been most Hospitality
received by the burSOmaSter, Emile
Braun, and assured of the hearty CO.
operation OF the authorities of the city
! OF Client.
Spanish Papers Bitter.
Spanish newspapers are bitter over
what they alIege to be the harsh treat
1QenI ACCORDED their representative
who accompanied king Alfonso on q
mountain climb near Santander. The
arrangements We're in charge OF the
marquis de Niana of the royal family,
who it appears objected to the presence
of newspaper correspondents On the
kings SoJOurn.
The marquis, it is declared, gave or
ders to the civil guard not to allow the
journalists TO come within 5000 feet of
the royal tent. This proved disastrous
to the newspaper men, for they had
brought no tents with them, having
planned to spend the night in the royal
camp under royal tenting. They were
forced therefore to spend the night in
the open air.
The cold was intense and Is CORE
spondents found themselves the next
morning suffering from grippe His
majesty upon hearing of their plight is
reported to nave been exceedingly
angry. The next night the news
writer's treated their colds under the
kings special tents
1IacCaIneroE's New Painting
Great interest is attached in Paris to
the announcement that Robert Mac
Cameron. the Chicago painter, who has
been a member of the Paris colony for
the last 20 years, is at work now
On large and strikingly effective can
vas which is destined for next years
Salon of French Artists. 1t is a SYM
pathetic study of a group of "unfOr-
tunateS" who are passing the night on
a bench on the Thames embankment,
London. Much more than hunger and
II
faces. Despair is written on'each.
The painter has given the picture the
title Waiting for the Dawn" suggest
ing not only the literal sunrise but the
better day which is hoped for.
Mr.. MacCamerOn said: Such a
painting as this is untitled for the
drawing room, of course, but 1 shall be
pleased if those who see it in the salon
are made to think alphabetically of
the type of humanity it representative
characters back of the canvas. Why
should not a painting, as well as a nov
ell, teach its leSSon?"
Plan Shield for Bandits Bullet.
The war like destruction of the Paris
bandits several months ago, when a
kill several terrorists who had turned
a house into fortress, induced the po-
lice to evolve some instrument which
would protect them from the bullets of
similar bandits in the future. The re-
suit was the manufacture of a power
full steel shield designed to protect the
policeman's body in case of future con-
flicts.
NJ Lepine, the project of police, like
wise appointed a commission to study
other means of defence and offence in
criminal The commission has pro-
posed a sort of she'll, Weighing about
pound, which, launched by a special ap-
paratus, emits a powerful gas which
momentarily blinds the bandits and
makes effective fighting on their part
impossible. Experiments with the new
proJecti1e were entirely successful, and
the deadly gas shell has now taken its
place among the instruments of police
attack.
Oppose RObespierre Statue.
The project to erect a statue of
Robespierre, the Incorruptible," in his
native town of Arras, has awakened
fierce opposition among it's citizens, by
many of whom he is stigmatised as the
chief purveyOr of the guillotine during
the Reign of Terror"
A newspaper of Arras announces in
grim sentences that it places it's col
umns at the disposal of the organizers
of the movement for the erection of the
names of contributors to that object;
but it adds: I'VE warn them of one
thing: Never will the statue in ques-
ton be erected at Arras. If they at
tempt it, the stones of our roadways
viii rise of themselves, and we know Of
an army of honest folk who are deter
mined to resist it by force"