The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-21
PARIS ARMS AGAINST
THE CHEESE TRUST.
"BoycOtt ~Camembert," Is War
Cry Of All Who Won't Pay
Quarter a Cake.
ART PRICES STIFFEN TOO
Special Correspondence 10 THk srx.

cheese as well as In o A boycott
haus hecn declared against camembert by
honest dealers. who put notices In their
windows to the effect that the combins-
ton which IL managing the distribution
of this precious cheese is extorting the
sum OF one franc twenty-five centimes
t2b cents) n cake. which In bought from
the manufactures at Atty centtmts. u
appears tina the soldiers on the front
prefer camembert to all other cheeses.
Wholesale buyers have more or less
rornered the whole supply. which Ia sold
In small bits TO soldiers along the front
by little pedler merchants. who extort
two francs for ninety centimcs worth
Cor 40 cents for Is cents WORTH.
At the camembert counter OF the
cheese department at Les Halles. the
great central markets OF Paris. there
have been demonstrations bordering on
riot. One fierce woman cheese mer-
chant, bargaining over the counter
sasly in the morning for her days sup
ply OF camembert, actually slapped a
corrupt Spectator n r~esounding smack.
whereupon there was a tumult through
out the cheese department. The police
had to stop the row.
A few days ago certain army re.
v~ictuallng trains failed to leave Paris.
90 camembert fell from rs to IS francs
HiS
The special police commissions OF
Les Halles has written a learned report
on the subject. the Project OF Police
has taken the matter up with the Min
lister of the Interior and the Minister
OF War and II Is proposed to stop ex-
ploitation of the Partisan and frontal
populations as regards camembert by
severe fixed price measures. Malvy has
ordered the police to keep track Of all
abuses ut Les Halles and some passion
ate trials may come out Of II all.
The amount of cheese coming into
Paris has never been SO great and
the price has never been so high. Dur
ing the first nine months OF this year
Paris received 200. 900 pounds more Of
camembert than during the correspond
ing period of the peace year OF 1913.
Henry Duveen, h came over from
London for n fortnight on business and
VINO is returning to London 'oebo!o
taking the Holland-America Line home.
expressed surprise to the correspondent
Of THE Sun at the high prices at which
French people are holding their art
treasures. He said that he had come
over with the feeling that he could
buy a great many things cheap on ac-
count OF the war. When he got here he
found that the owners OF beautiful
things had marked them up In lrtce,
Just az IL they resented the theory that
art should he cheaper on account OF the
war. Dealers az well as individuals
hold out for even higher prices than
in time of peace. he said. So he has
bought very little. The economical
habits of the French he estimated
would hold them In good stead as re-
CARDS the preservation OF their art
works.
The English, in Mr.. Duveen's opinion.
~in ,,rnh. hly soil pipturaS and OhtRCfa
OF art at "A sacrifice long before the
French will he reduced to such meas
ures. MIR. Duveen. indeed. anticipates
rather heavy sales Of rare thing In
England before long.
In his opinion permanent art values
will not be disturbed much by the war.
Good things, he said. will hold their
price. although there may be deprec!a-
tion In things which had been previously
held AT inflated prices.
The King of Spain has a way Of re-
membering people when they are In
trouble The celebrated Hungarian
gypsy Niolinisi and orchestra conductor
Bold. who played daily and nightly at
the RITZ. Mourice and Cafe de la PalN
in Paris for some thirty years. was sent
10 a concentration camp by the French
authorities at the opening OF the war.
Ioldi had brought up a large family In
Paris. but he had never thought OF get
ting naturalized. So when the war
came the whole family. along with the
score or more of Hungarian musicians
In the orchestra. was bundled on to .
camp. The property which Bold had
acquired out OF hls years OF savings
was put under sequester and the family
found itself in straits.
Now the King of Spain Is passionately
fond Of Hungarian music and used to
IL, ,.,l,- 900 tfnJ IN IlnlIt as.arxy HIM
lie came to Paris for many years.
Boldis son even went to play in a fash
ionable restaurant at Madrid on recon-
mendations given by the King. When
the king heard from Hungarians at
Madrid that the Bold family was In
difficulties he had his secretary send
them a monthly allowance of 900 franc
$500, which has gone to the camp
every month since the outbreak Of the
war. There is little need for money
al. the camp. so the whole family In
qGite comfortable Oh king Ahonso's
allowance.
The Comqtoir National d'Ecomptc,
one OF the important banks Of France.
has given notice that 'in consequence
Of the feeling shown 81 the present time
among certain people against natural
lied citizens. Emile Ullmann, one OF the
directors and vice-presidents OF the
bank, has considered II his duty to ask
the hoard TO accept his resignation. al
though his naturalization dates back
thirty-one years. aud his only Son Ia
at the front"
The board has accepted the resigna-
tion. although II considers the feeling
against Mr.. Ullmann altogether unjust.
as he has given forty years Of active
work to the bank and has fulfilled his
duties toward his adopted country. The
board ~tcstifies to confidence In Mr.. III
mann by retaining him as an honorary
director.
This resignation is the result OF a long
campaign carried. on in the Action
Francais by its edtor. Leon Daudet. who
has been accusing MIR. Cllmann Of being
a German spy, naturalized In order to
carry on his work, and challenging Mr..
Tllmann to bring him tDaudet) before
the courts for defamation.
BcRging.is, or rather has always been.
a perfectly sure wa of earning a liv-
ing in France, where all classes seem
10 open to "A beggar's appeal and where
the worthy bourgeois, whose English or
American equivalent would never think
Of such a thing, will unbutton his over
coat. FISH out a purse and carefully ex-
tract a penny or two, But the war
patrons have been impoverished and
ave many war charity appeals to an
swer. At Lyons, outside OF Saint Nigier
Church. a blind man has tried to turn
the war To his advantage by displaying