Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-10

oughfares. 1t is a business street,
some three miles long, lined with
shops of average appearance, church"
es representing Greek, Protestant and
Catholic religions, bank buildings. the
Public Library, the Imperial &Theater,
a garden, and some dark red palaces
The remarkably diversified life Of the
remarkable empire flows ina never.
ending stream along this avenue.
Upon it may be seen the military;
members OF the capitals student
corps of ten thousand or more, from
every government, the Finn, Lap, Lit
tie Russian, Tartar. Lithunian, Pole.
and so on; the government clerk, and
members Of hussia's highest nobility.
Calais.
Calais, which has recently had a
worldwide military prominence thrust
upon it, has been passed, almost un-
suspected. by thousands OF tourists.
who have given it mere chance con.
sideratiOn as a necessary par. OF the
transition from London to Paris.
There is no amusement to speak Of III
Calais; there are, few imposing build
ings, and only occasional, unheralded
relics Of the achievement, effort and
romance OF the past. hut Calais Is an
important port, a tourists threshold,
a drab aud earnest industrial city,
continental ENlrope's nearest harbor
to England, a vital key in naval Chan.
mel maneuverS, the seat OF an Anleyi-
an consulate which in normal times
watches over a huge French-American
business, and one Of the four greatest
machine.made lace cities Of the world.
1t Is as a center of manufactured laces
that Calais in peace times Is most
widely noted.
Calais is a lace town. Almost
everything about it has some bearing
upon the filmy, delicate webbing
which it makes and distributes over
the world. Should a tourist miss his
Paris sexpress--aeth jBg, by the way,
which is most improbable, for the
Calais.P arts connections are excellent
and find himself forced to spend
some hours in the city, the first thing
he remarks is that there seems to be
a dozen or more women to every man
upon the streets. Willie. Of course,
the relative disproportion is nowhere
near so great, still girls and women
do largely Ioutnumber the men, as the
lace industry is continually drawing
them from the surrounding country
to its factories. Wages in this indus
try are very low, and many OF rs
operations can. be performed as we'll
by; young girls as by men.
THE loiterer next notices lace
signs everywhere, upon commission
houses and factories. Generally,
these signs appear in three languages,
French, German and English. In tile
spring and autumn, he will meet a
continual stream of his countrymen,
buyers for the big importing houses.
"Of his own free will, however, the
traveller seldom stays. He is always
willing to leave Calais for most any.
where. There arc plenty of self.cen-
tered, serious, hustling busineess
towns at home, and there is no ,iocca.
sion for enduring the monotonous
twentieth century atmosphere when
one is on a pleasure trip. There are,
nevertheless. many things worth see
ing in the flat. dingy, strictly practical
port city. Visits to the great lace fac:
tories are well worth while, and us.
ually give n q new reverence for
the possibilities Of insensible machin.
cry. To see the most intricate pat
terms mingled in a. fOamy weave of ex.
lace, possibly Of several col.
ors, with gold and silver threads, and
all this done. by a massive, compli.
Gated piece Of machinery, at one end
devouring thousands Of thread strands
and, at the other, giving forth a laco
equal to the highest cunning of the
hand, is to witness almost the
perfection, Of. mans inventive genius.
And, then, this piece Of machinery op.
crates automatically, much like the
player.pianO. ~
slais shares with Nottingham,
England, the honors for: tire manufac.
ture OF machine.woyen laces. The
other two leading lace towns make
what are known as the embroidered
and burnt out" laces, Oh entirely dill.
machines. Calais Struggled its
industry from England, but it has add
ed 20 the original English processes
and. machinery enough to be in posi-.
ton to claim a perfection OF its own.
Aside from, and beyond, its momen.
tary military interest. Calais has the
interest for the person wide
to present.day marvels, as a
world center Of lace production where
Ill the-famed handmade lace genre
are initiated ON machines"
T. b. Loomis of Sterling has pur.
the leading hotel at Sheldon
and will sun the management at
II hassbeen managed for a num-
Der Of years by =. r. Foster.
North Dakota cattle shipments are
much better this wear than last, say
Great Northern officials. The ship.
ments during the past two months
have averaged much greaterIthan for
the same period last wear.
Burt wants new depot and the
people OF that hustlinK littlN hNrg.
think they are entitled to one