Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-10-03
ANNA COULD s SON
EAGER FOR PEACE
So CAN GET LANDS
Little Duke of Sagan Anxious
~ To Ascertain What Has
Been Done With Estate Un-
der New German Regime
Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publish
ing Co
(The New York World)
Especial Gable Dispatch)

Paris, oct 2.--The Duchess of Tai
leyrand, before marriage Miss Anna
Gould of New York, is awaiting with
considerable impatience the ratifiea-
tion of the peace treaty by France.
AS soon as peace is officially re-es-
tablished between France and Ger
many the duchess wishes TO visit the
Silesian estates which belong to her
son Howard as the Duke of Sagan and
to ascertain what their owners status
will be under the new German regime.
Howard, who now Is 10 years old,
was invested with the Sagan title
through his fathers remuneration OF
it in 1911. preferring to bear only his
French title of the Duke of Talley-
rand and Perigord AS a fief of the
King of Prussia the Duke of SaRan
had to swear fealty to that monarch
or lose his rank and domain, VIII
liam II having abdicated, however a
Guest ,un eriras as to what becomes nt
the Duchv of Sagan and its lord
Wealth Smothcrs Sentiment.
The youthful duke, being thor
oughly French. with a dash Of Anlerl-
can cordiality, detests the "borhes'
and dislikes the idea Of having any
connection whatever with Germany
But his parents naturally are disln-
clined to surrender the valuable do
main bestowed by the Prussian
crown in 1S46 upon his grandmother,
born a princess of the court.
'If they only had given Lower in
stead of Upper Silesia to the Poles.
Sagan is in Lower Silesia, near
| LeignitZ.
Harry Pilcer. whom Parisians deem
the most accomplished exponent ot
Jazz dancing, is planning to open a
midnight roof garden show on some
boulevard just as soon as the ]
o'clock city curfew regulation is abol-
| ished-and 1t is reliably reported that
restaurants and dance halls Will be
permitted to remain omen all night
| Immediately after the treaty is rati-
| fled bv the chamber of deputies
Pilcer means to transform the roof OF
one of the Paris theaters into an es-
! tablishment similar TO the Century
Grove and to give an entertainment
| of the Ziegfeld Follies variety with
general dancing between acts. There
| never has been roof garden of this
kind in the French capital.
! The gIories of the historic Chateau
| of Versailles are to be enhanced by
| the opening " special room IN
which will be displayed relics of the
| American war for independence ir
| Joint commemoration of Frances par
| ticipation in the war of the American
revolution and Americas part in the
| great European war In the room
will be placed a huge painting oi
Louis XVI, a great bronze statue oi
! Washington taken from a picture by
Houdon. busts of Lafayette. Franklin
and American admirals and pictures
representing naval battles, particu-
larly the capture of the Isle of Gre
NADIA. Rochambeau's picture also
will be there.
Hostel at Romangc.
The hostel shortly to be opened al
Romange will be used as headquar-
ters for intending visitors or relatives
| in quest of the graves of faller
heroes among the French battle fields
| where Americans fought The hoste
will be managed Jointly by the Rec
Cross the army and the Y. M. c. a
1t will have sleeping accommodation
for twenty persons and dining accom-
modations for thirty.
Romange is the biggest American
cemetery in France. Here lie 21.00t
Americans. Nearby Is Thiaucourt
where there are 1920 graves Othel
large cemeteries are at Beaumont
Fismes, Ploisy, near scissors, Jusigny
Fere- -Tardenois close to the Marn'
and Saint Quentin In northern
France. Similar hostels are to bt
! opened up in various parts of th'
front.