The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-05
IND illegal Can be Found Against
Factory Which
Sells Bone
Frames.
RICE FROM $500 UP
-. Few Know o. the Existence OF
the plant Where un-
claimed Bodies
Go.

rpv william Philip Simms, Paris Cor
RESPONDENT Of the United Press.l
PARIS. April 4.-The skeleton In
dnstry here is threatened. the quar-
~ ia which the works are located IS
m IN arms against it and. after one
rnsuccessful legal tilt, is now seeking
nav means, which the inhabitants
s,na will prove effective. Until legal
.ot;on was spoken Of against the
ernesome shop, few artisans knew OF
r. existence, vet large part OF the
vorlds supply of skeletons is made
there.
In one of the most populous quar-
ters Of Paris, in the Rue Albert, up
and down which swarms mighty
crowd of workings every day, is an
old and battered wall, almost black
wifi; age. It is an equally somber
door bearing the number So. Over 1t
vine struggles. Life at the door Of
death.
To enter this door is not easy. |rhe
latch.string is not hanging on the otu-
side Few people have ever seen 1t
opened, for it is very early in the
morning before many are astir, that
the uncanny carts stop before it. load
ed with strange shapes covered with
dark canvases, splotched with deep
trownish spots. The door opens sill
entity, the carts file in, and 1t closes
noiselessly and instantly after them.
When they come out after a while
thew are empty save for the notified
canyasses which lie huddled In the
bottoms.
The inhabitants. of the quarter dis
covered when they visited Attorney
Uolumeau to have him bring suit to
Dust the skeleton works from the
neighborhood. that everything was
legal They claimed they smelled
the dead cooking" and all that, but
the attorney told them nothing could
be done at present. Doctors every
where demanded skeletons, colleges
Of medicine demanded them. and so
on The factory was an adjunct OF
science and violated no law.
Unclaimed bodies go from hospitals
to the skeleton factory at Is Rue Al
bert They are carted through the
streets past the sinister. dark door,
and put in boiling vats where the flesh
is separated from the bones. Later
the bones are bleached by special pro-
cess and the pieces assembled. me
price Of the average skeleton, +. 0. D..
the factory, Is about SIS, if you viii
take it without fancy trimmings
1t is said that the inmates of the
home for tie INDECENT aged, at Bicetre,
used to wind up there, but union
was formed among the old people and
a formal protest made against their
skeletons adjoining the walls OF ana
tomical museums. colleges, doctors
offices, etc. Whereupon the practice
was discontinued. The waste product,
that is the flesh, is carried away in the
sewers.
II the people in Rue Albert and Vi
cinity win out against the factory, a
bull movement in the skeleton marke.
may be felt around the world.
Project of Police Hennion is offer
Ing every encouragement to the ri
peranto school for policemen now IN
full course here He declares that I'M
portant results already have been Cd
tanned. especially in the interchange
OF communications between the police
departments of different countries.
From August to 10 an international
Esperanto congress will be held IN
Paris and at this time M. Hennion will
advocate the study OF Esperanto by
the police officials, at least, OF all the
big cities of the world.
Works OF art may soon be Bertiilon
ed in order to prevent counterfeits pc
ing made and sold as genuine. accord
Ing to Prof. Bordas here. He has sus
gested scheme whereby artists II
addition to their signatures, shouie
have the imprint Of their fingers OF
their works. If they do this, he con
tends. counterfeits will become I'm
Possible.
1t is feared here that Germany sooi
VIII wrest from France the laureis 0
the air. Despite French claims U
supremacy in aeroplane matters
French authorities admit that Franc
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