Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-26
TIME IS BATTLING
New System of Marking
Hours Puzzles French.
ENFORCED BY RAILROADS
Employees Not Allowed to Use Old
Custom.
LONG DUEL IS FOUGHT
Sons of Former Presidents of Peru
in Clash With
Swords.
FOUGHT
BY GEORGE DUFREsNE.

BY GEORGE DUFRESNE.
Special Cablegram to The star.
PARIS. May oJ.-The new twenty-four-
hour railway time has been nut into
practice at all the railway stations in
Pars. AMI the system is being extended
throughout the entire country The new
way of telling the time caused some be-
Wilderment to travellers, who inquired
Tor trains. quite unconscious of the
change. When told that train so-and-so
was to start at 13 O'Clock or at y 30, they
looked in amazement at the employees
Many did not understand, and wondered
II the station hands had suddenly gone
mad. 1t was .of no use turning from one
puzzling guard to another to ask the
time in plain language. They all had re-
ceived the order to speak only in the
official timetable language, which they
repeated with provoking gravity.
Good heavens. Have all these people
gone mad?" exclaimed elderly ladies who
had not been warned of the change. At
all their eXciamations the station en-
pioyes retained their imperturbable de-
meanor. and spoke of IA o'clock and 1890
II it had been a current matter for
the last hundred years. 1t was in the
midst Of this confusion I heard one lady
1t could not be otherwise with this new
crazy way of telling the time.
Presidents Sons Duel.
A duel was fought today at the Grande
Roue by two sons of former presidents of
the Peruvian republic. Senior Garcia
Calderon and Senior Iglesias had quar-
relied over a private matter. There were
as many as nine encounters mostly of an
exciting nature as both gentlemen are
expert fencers. As early as the second
bout Senior Garcia Calderon received a
thrust in the forearm and ne Jared no
better in the third. Both injuries being
slight however il was oc-ded that the
fight could continue.
Nothing particular happened in the
three following encounters, but in the
beginning, Senior Garcia Calderon scored
an advantage. He wounded his adver-
sary, and there was a rather long pause
while the doctors who had been invited
to be present watched the case. They
eventually pronounced the injury not to
be sufficiently serious to warrant the
termination of the duel. so the principals
were once more confronted. The eighth
bout. which followed, was harmless; but
in the ninth Senior Eglesias was again
wounded this time with deep thrust in
the right wrist. and as it affected the
muscle connected with the thumb, and
put him in a decided position of in
fer:or.ty, the seconds, acting on the ad-
vice of the doctors, brought the fight TO
a close.
Senior Gomez Garlic and Senior LARGO
del Vale were the seconds of Senior Gar
cia Calderon. Senior Plasencia and M.
Soyer acting in a like caracity for Senior
Iglesjas, while the combat was directed
by Lieut.. Touny of the 1st Regiment of
Cuirassiers.
Aeronaut Is Drowned.
April 13 Nj. Leloup. an experienced aero
naut. started from ST. Cloud in a balloon
called Zodiac, in the competition for the
Dubonnet cup. Several days later the ball
loon was discovered in the Bay of Bis
cay, but nothing could be ascertained as
to the fate Of it's pilot. Now the Aero
Club has received a dispatch from a
naval official at Les Stables d'Olonne,
stating that the corpse of NJ. Leloup has
been picked up on the shore of Bretig-
nolleS. 1t is presumed that, the balloon
having been damaged by strong breeze
in the direction of the sea, the aeronaut
endeavored, when it was too late. to de-
scend, and that the Zodiac, alighting on
the water, was buffeted about. while it's
unfortunate occupant still hoped for res
cue from some passing vessel.
AS soon as the news of her husband
fate arrived at. the Aero Club. Nine. Le-
loup took the train for ST. Giles, and it
is thought that she will return to Paris
with the body. the service being at ST.
Sulpice, and the interment at Pere La
chaise. The utmost sympathy is felt for
the widow and her two children.
Famous Vineyard Sold.
Romance Cont, one of the most famous
vineyards in Burgundy, has been sold.
and no American millionaire disturbed
his bank account to obtain possession.
No English or German bid has been re-
corded. either. and the most royal of
vineyards remains in the hands of
Frenchman. who was one of it's former
CO. proprietors. Romance Cont has been
described as the king of Burgundy vine
yards. When Gen de Gallifet. who
loved good wine as Well as good fighting,
Dion ne is said to have ordered his men
to stop and the drum to beat while they
saluted the first wine of France each
time that they passed it.
rms Romance Cont stands in the very
center of the great burgundy vine
yards. Its vine-covered hillsides COW
cred an area of approximately forty
old French "ouvrees.'' equivalent to
about five acres. Ii these figures, which
were given when the sale was an
estate very small. indeed. but these
forty "ouvrees'' are said to furnish on an
average ten casks of wine a year, of
about zoo quarts. and the working ex-
penses are put down as on.y 1000 francs,
or S+iO a year. the taxes being iJ3
irahcs There were only six CASKS pro-
duced last year. but each of them sold
Tor loo francs, which is the highest
price ever paid for any vintage.
Lover of Splendor.
The assize court at Coutances is cram
med with people who have come to have
look at man who was for a while quite
a celebrity. He took a grand name. and
went about the country clad in mag
nihcent uniform of his invention. Of
hcials bowed down to him. generals were
Proud to have him at their side at parade.
and local tradesmen, dazzled by his
spiendor. gave him unlimited credit
Cognei, as he is called, is not more than
thirty-five years of age but he has seen
a good deal of life He was at one time
a genuine functionary. and as far back
as fourteen years ago he actually rep
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