New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-15
ALL AUTOS IN FRANCE
. TO Be DECLARED DEC. 81
Motor Cars Not Wanted In the
Alice des ACacias, Paris
Most Famous Drive.
CUBISTS TO LOWER REGION
Postal Authorities Forbid Use Of
General Delivery" to Girls
Under 1S and Youths
Under 16.
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Paris. Dec. 14.-It will be interesting
20 Americans passing through Paris
this month on their way 10 the French
or Italian Riviera to learn that owners
Of all types OF automobiles and motor
cycles in France are required to attend
at the local Marie before December 81
In order to make declaration regard
ing their vehicles. The declaration
comprises:
First-Name, profession and domicile
Of owner.
Second-Number, type and principal
characteristics OF the vehicles, classified
In ths following two categories: Heavy
commercial automobiles (autobuses.
vans and lorries). touring and ambu-
lance automobiles and motorcycles.
Third-Name Of usual driver; II sub
ject to military service.
The lists Of the automobile census
will be closed on December 81. but those
who acquire or sell any automobile or
motor cycle on or after January /, 1918,
must Immediately make a declaration
at the Marie. and obtain a certificate
that the declaration has been duly
made.
In Favor Of the Horse.
Lovers Of the horse in Paris are not
going to surrender to the all-conquer-
ing automobile without a struggle If
the Societe du Bots de Boulogne has its
way. the famous Alice des Acacias will
be closed to motor cars for two hours
in the norning--the time Of the fash
ionable parade-and left to horsed car
riages. The idea is to encourage the
use Of horses IN the Rotten Row Of
Paris and to penalize in some sort the
mechanically driven vehicle, whose
domination is oppressive TO the noble
friend Of man."
The Municipal Council is considering
the matter. Three OF its representa-
tives are TO meet the society this week.
end at the Restaurant Armenonville.
The president OF the societe is the
Comte de Beauchan.p. who wants also
the regulations concerning riding to be
altered with a view to bringing the
horse again into favor with profess
sional and fashionable Partisan society.
&c. o." Barred to Girls.
Girls under eighteen and youths un-
der sixteen are forbidden to use the
poste restante (the equivalent OF the
American General Delivery") in Paris
for letters marked only with figures or
initials This new regulation came into
force this week. A postal official, ex-
planning how the age OF an applicant
for the forbidden letters would be de-
cided, said: I'VE shall use psychology.
Are we not as we'll able to decide as
the railway officials who determine the
ago OF children under seven and under
fourteen"
II rumor Is correct Paris is to have
a chastened autumn Salon next year.
Notwithstanding the protests OF GER
tain distinguished critics. NJ. Berard,
Minister OF Fine Arts. has decided, and
no doubt rightly. to lend the Grand
Palais to Young Art. But the Cubists
arc not to have 1t all their own way.
They are to be Gagged below stairs. in
stead Of being allowed to roam about
the best rooms. This compromise
pleases the majority In the Salon,
which is not favorable to eccentricities.
After all, an OK with a pentagonal
head is not everybody's vision: though,
II sincere, it has right to exhibition
perhaps. The principal business of the
president Frantz Jourdain) is to check
the foreign influences, which are over
whelming. Out OF a committee OF
thirty at the last Salon twenty-slx
were foreigners.
The electric underground railway
has practically given the last touch to
the metamorphosis Of Montmartre, and
Of the many changes that the Latin
Quarter has experienced perhaps the
most disagreeable is the 10 per cent in
crease in rent which landlords have
made on the pretext Of the convenience
added to the quarter by the under
ground trains. The electric mole has
bored its way under the Mount OF
Martyrs, and there Is station close to
the Sacre Coeur and to the edge Of the
hill whence spreads the panorama OF
Paris.
The metamorphosis Of Montmartre is
symbolized by the blocks Of fats that
have arisen-sumptuous flats, flats
with electric light and central heating.
Bohemia cannot be expected to con-
tinue to exist where there is an mean
descent lamp that Is turned on with a
switch. The shadows are necessary,
the high and low relief. And again,
the cabarets are changing with the de-
parture of the atmosphere. AS to the
chief places of resort they are now
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