The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-10-13
RrcctaI Chile pisratch.


Copyright 1919. by Public Ledger CO.
PARIS. Oct. IL Ny tickets w"r" tax
en- for London last Sunday morning. but
I found myself suddenly maroon"d IN
Paris by III" railroad str'k" III En%laud.
Narrowing in pars has its c"nIpcmSa-
lions as we'll as It's DRAWBACKS. Foo" ~
any quantity. eXt"p, sugar and butter.
10 obtainahle everywhere. although AT
tremendous prices. The city has rrSum-
cd it's old prc-war appearance. but is less
crowded than II WAS som" months ago.
since tho disappearance Of IN" Peace
Conference. although | found t"lun"\ J..
n. House working in his calm. unhaSt-
ing. unrcStinE way in tn" Hotel 'rI''"n.
and, judging by appearances. | should
say as friendly and powerful as ever
with President Wilson.
But tho spirit Of the Worldwide" rcvo-
lutionlry bacillus ais" has entered
Paris for the working people especially,
taxi drivers have lost much Of their old
French politeness and put up their ta\Is
especially late at night. almost At auI-
ton 10 tho highest bidder impossible"
prices and on tho smallest rr"N"C1''nn
burst into phillipics against the hated
bOurSnoISic.
Rumauian People Admired.
There resides in the same h"t"l as
mine Sir william Goodc, whr III II" "id
days was Herbert Hoover'S chief AID" IN
feeding Belgium and who today Is chi"t
! revictualling organizer. !ounI III -
room, officials arriving from all parts
with intimate aud interesting details
from every capital in Eurorc. Thus i
man comes from Rumanta fun Nf admir-.
alton OF the resources Of thH country ami
! the admirable qualities of is H"ori" and
! equally vehement detcstatlors fox ITS
| politicians.
! Rumania is bursting with prosperity.
| chiefly owing to America, for even the
| peasants with small oil wells do not
| trouble to send III demands for rcTara,
! ton to Germany for their destroyed
| wells. because the yare already safe
guarded by profitable deals with the
Standard Oil Company.
a most impressive picture was
| brought by young sailor employed on
! the English fleets small boats on tho
! Danube who gives a CHASTITY picture a.
/ Budapest with starvation stalking
! through the streets. and RumaniAn
| troops alone between the eNa%rrrat"d
! porulacc and the morncntar!ly h"urgr-
! oisic government. Six hundred JOYS are
! IN gaol who formed part OF Eri3 Nun. =
! hattalions. One Of these dcthronca Of
ticials is charged with having S'GN" d
J with his own hand $50 warrants 81 O.
! ccution, and in spite of has suaNc dec
! larations OF innocent ini"n'l"nS, nc -
J row probably doomed - the same f1''.
! as well rs many others Of The same
| creed If the old rcactUnarN elements are
! once moro loft a frc" hand. Indeed |
|
| sition Of the Jews IN cast Eur"r', II ;h'N
arc left to the mercy OF 4 Triumphant
reaction anywhere.
Patti "Reminiscences
| turn from these prcscnt-day occur
/ rcnces to "reminiscences Of Ad"llna Patti.
! I met her MANY times but my knoWltG-'
| Of her inside life came mainly thr"urh
Lahby (Hcnry LabouChcrc) and l'ahhE 5
wife who were among h"r "ld"S, ana
closest friends in the eighties OF the last
! century IAabby entertained all that Wa
interesting in London during tho summer
! months in the villa which AlcNnnd':
! Pope, England's great poet erected GU
| of his savings from his traSlati"n "t
| Homer HIS guests belonged L. upper
| Bohemia, but they were only the mor'
! interesting for that reason. for You mot
| nero on The pleasant lawn going right
| down to the Thames all the th'atr"al
literary and most of the political world
and PatG was one OF its most welcome
! guests.
Patti spoke very freely and always
| with som" bitterness To- lsan"uChcr" 81
her first husband. III" Marquis q" ''uIH
! who was OF long aristncrH'i" descent
and one Of tho ChamheraIHS IL Emperor
! \apolron and Eugene. IT, nnl al The
external distinction. fine looks and beau
tlful manners Of the French arIS'"Cr",
when he married the great diva. and thu
marriage brought only bitter d:Sa"
poIntmcnt. coupled with contempt am'