Evening star., 1917-03-04

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
PARIS, February 13, 1917.
oS the millennium coming, after all?
Two European chiefs of state, not
allied. but just friendly nations"
q seem to have been influenced by
President Wilson's ideas of good will.
President Poincare and King Alfonso
are shaking hands over a remarkable
proposition to "internationalze" a large
section of their common frontier in a
Franco-Spanish Yellowstone Park on
both slopes Of the wild and romantic
Pyrenees.
Scarcely two years ago Gin 1879 the
man in the street in Paris was suspi-
cious Of Spain. Were there not rumors
Of some necessity to defect 100000
French troops to waste their time IN
guarding the frontier of the Pyrenees?
Now all such ideas are forgotten, and
this American park of nature. to re-
place forts and "strategic'' roads, Is
as sweet and kindly as summers day.
In Madrid the Spanish parliament
has taken 1t up.
In Paris. at a meeting to formulate
the work of the park commissions. the
Marquis of Villaviciosa, Spanish SEN
elemental, French minister of agricul-.
ture: and a third European chief of
state, the scientific Prince of Monaco.
invited the commissioners OF France
and Spain to use the headquarters
which he has prepared for the general
congress of allied or friendly nations
for the expansion of thermo-mineral.
climatic and sea-bathing stations. to
be held at Monaco Immediately after
the war.
Speaking of the park. the prince paid
a tribute to America.
II have been much struck he said,
'by the results obtained in the United
States by institutions of this kind, OF
which the first was the famous Yell
lowstone Park, and to which have since
been added forty-three other creations
on the same model. distributed over the
breadth of the great republic In these
spaces, more or less vast. and of which
the greatest Cthe Yellowstone) meas
ures sixty five miles by fifty miles, the
law protects with the utmost severity
the great domain Of life and nature.
Neither animal nor plant may be de-
stroyed. and man is received therein
only to admire in calm and peace a
corner of the earth which recalls to
mind the terrestrial paradise, because
the most ferocious animals themselves
come to respect and do not dream of
violating the pact which man. therein.
has proposed to them"
frontier plan is going through. It will
be realized. At the same time. the
prince let out a hint of the extension
of such nature parks. not only to the
mountains of Auvergne in France. but
also Corsica, Algeria (observe the pro-
gression), the Alps. etc. No more word
is said about frontiers, but wait. The
princely spokesman emphasized an
men, more or less. of the survivors of
the European armies will have been
living a hard. open-air life during three
or four years. Put this with "the COM
speaks. "in wide land and mountain" as
an arm against alcoholism. tubercu-
losis and the precocious using up Of
city ways" it gives a glimpse Of the
millennium. and then the scene is
shifted on the screen.
Quantities Of Americans know this
wild mountain region OF the Pyrenees
between France and Spain. Once, when
I got up to the Lake Of Gaube. where
track. met a business man from Buf-
falo. N. Y, wandering among the wild
sheep up there.
Ak
Another time, at Luchon. q New York
lawyer had come over the Port Of Spain
pass, which is icy and treaohsrous.
Again, away up above Gavarni. whore
I imagined our party to have done
something on mulsback. we met
Pittsburgh civil ensinssr, who was
shootinE isard: tRyrsasss oi,ssme,s!: ,sa = on
foot along With Tssecfi sixs yn. Sas famous
time, 1t Gavarni, it was st. Louis eye
specialist with his wife.
Above Gavarni-and Ground about
there-is to be the center OF the
# you read Maurice Hewlett It was
- csvsrni that Braxen-Noae the Great
had his last sht And e Il yGu ~ read the
.hova that Roland had his quarrel with
Oliver over the question Of calling to
ChariemaRne's army for help when am