THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.. AUGUST 29. 1926-PART 5. 3 People of Other Lands Play at Being Booed as Americans in Paris They Also Play at Being Frenchmen and 800 Real Americans ItV STERLING lIEVLIG. i United States. French factory srfrN PARIS. August can buy silk stockings, and do. 19. Two classes suffer cruelly from the thousands of Americans fall in French money, both of the \v)ir> do “Paris by night” in educated set. Middle-class people "Seeing Paris” motor omni- that is. those who have fixed in- THEbuses are bound to take in comes-—find that their incomes buy sur-h night life as is adapted as to thrones only one-fifth as much before. The in a hurry. same reason applies to civil and cor- XVe admire, we seldom criticize, poration employes, school teachers, srgue or stir up the French. Presi- army navy officers. These, too. dent pleased ami C'oolidge would be to have no time to waste on the boule- know the impressions of a man Figaro vards, but are as likely as not to who went about with- such a “Paris found, officers, by night” be the in their spare crowd.* or auto "If time, at engineering work in the whistlers and bno-ers of night the boulevard garages, accountants at extra could know with what work, university driving tax admiring application marveling students and so on. appreciate ioahs. and these tourists the ‘curiosi- The papers printed in English i:i ties' shown to says the them.” Figaro; Paris avoided giving publicity t> editor, "they would feel disarmed and these moved!” facts and tlte French papers mentioned them only to express r- How to seriously not admire the gret. Suddenly exaggerated stories streets of Paris by night? Four motor omnibuses follow each other down the came back from America by cable. goes fHi- Grand Boulevard, brilliantly lighted Personal knowledge no ther than a very brief disturbance on promenade which every one has heard of. Past the “terrace" of the Case de la Pai.x. the st. Martin and St. Dents Is gates of ancient Paris,*which remain, which about the center of the
— tourist Paris. The terrace is the side they arrive at the Place of Bast lie case, along which was torn down by the people walk in front of the which with their hands! What a night ride! chairs and little tables are lined three deep, enough a < to Seine; to hold few hundred ‘ut across Paris the River as stop at the antique Coliseum of "consumers." the French say. Eutcce. where mcr. fought with boasts They consume beer sweetened wa- In Roman times. They stop 20 min- ters, lemonade, coffee, ten. chocolate, utes In the Rue Mouffetard. to go ices of every color. On that particu down into the Catacombs! larly warm night, somehow who can We th<» Pantheon by night!-- j tell how. in a croud like that?--on<* hv way of the old Eat In quarter] Individual, a bare-headed blond- . Boulevard St. Michel; tin- quais of the! ‘spectacled, scarred red on his cheek, Seine—by niglu! ihe pa’ace of the j talked or talked back to a band of French Academy, ihe Beaux Arts, the young Frenchmen passing in front (“heather of Deputies, the Place de la These were not seated, not drinking, Concorde, the Champs Klvsees. the not spending money. Two or three Arch of Triumph, and across Paris Other men at the tables joined in and bv night up. up. to the Basilica of the made the back talk worse. The bare Par red Heart. High up there, on the headed blonde got away before the Kill of Montmartre, we have a pano- police came up to know what v\a< ramic view of Paris night lights! going on in so plotter a place. Thre- Close by the magnificent church arrests were made, not of Ameri dominating profane Montmartre, we cans, for resisting police orders an 1 stop half an hour at a special estab- | that was all. lishment gotten up for “Paris by ** * * Sight” motor bus parties. Music and dancing! The four immense cars, full I 'pilF waiters explained—"Youn t of tourists, roll through Montmartre I Patriots." That is a name for to the famous Place Blanche and young students and employes and T’igallc, centers night ' j Place of life- l:k> thence hack where we started on the middle-class boys who do not boulevard, where Parisians “boo” and the way politics i« going and cm •* whistle at u«! You - see. we are near A TOI IIK-OItT IN I ONF. 01’ THE PARIS TOCRIST V\RS THAT H \VK BKKN ROOM). • Stleks. laughing, talking Copyright, Sioriinp Hoilig. Copyright, Storllttp Hoiiip 300 tourists, and car through perhaps criticizing, in those four big One tourist drove tlm touring cars, all in a line! i crowded Rue Mouffetnrd. all ale e The Palermo (Italian-Englisli name) ;of all the "sights.” in doubt- The Dead Rat has a famous repu- miles, empty and shut up. be- jsteel armor from their hotel to a i j ists, anyway, fee the moftt beautiful ** + * I vast, j with “little people.” and a tourist, .is gay and elegant, because much l'ul taste, but not bad many may tation —it is the Rat Mort which so neath the old Latin Quarter, stone motor omnibus. The foremost re- j part of Paris night lift"--the streets all j so as i who was to be [patronized by the French. It« specialty imagine. The dressed have hoard of. Today, having been from them to build marks to others “Lucky we j lighted up! said an American. COME of us get up in Mont- 1 waiters are many it is cut the j pennies out. jiis the Charleston. El Uarron (as its like angels, with wings. St. Peter, in no more than a cabaret, where spec- the most ancient part of the capital, bought this old armor for the j * * * *¦ I• threw out to them. Even martro, and are lost among the ! i in Morocco such insinuation | name implies) is a gay cabaret where | celestial robes, with a great key. is tacular -and somewhat undressed when Home ndnied it “Lutece.” museum, at home. Tt's just the! are Englishmen j an tha• pleasure seekers of cai»arets and j Argentine j more tour-j j they beggers would he resented j tango is indulged in by real | there —and the doubtful taste does dancing is looked at. The Moulin little ! thing to visit Paris by Night!" 'J'HBRE were sights. Now, night life has claimed a j \ ing here anil nearly as many Hoi- ; Most of the crowd—little tradesmen, ; South Americans. “Pigalle’s" is full f not go further. Rouge is nothing, any more, of the stretch of the Catacombs, reaching Also, they are net all young ; i At the greater ones we sometimes; of correct landers—and Germans, too—all ith artisans, odd-jobbers—gave back lan j Americans and English and "Walls and ceilings of "Heaven," on great popular dance hall that made off into blackness where none ven- Parisians who “boo," just as they w j have to a''guc and criticize about eve- a i i guage so forcible that tlie tourist un- jlias Harlem jazz orchestra. Also, three floors, are decorated in Middle- its name. ture. They have, found a forgotten are not all American tourists who | ! money dearer than the French. They' i ring clothes. How is a tourist in a ! it is in is j derstood. the Place Pigallc—there j Agei ideas of Heaven; and “Nothingness" is the awful “Case entrance to them in the old get “boo-ed.” p« o- motor omnibus to “dress”? Some | no Pigalle more rue | are boo-od all the same -and by j The trouble with things of this proprietor named for | serious looking visitors are told to j of Death," where the drinking cups MoufTetard; and tourists in motor In one motor omnibus of a “Paris j cabarets won't let us in. unless we I "Piga i pie who are not always French, but kind Is that, when they begin, they j lie's!" ! "go up higher,” are shaped like skulls, visitor omnibuses only are taken down to | !j are, at leaat. wearing a “tuxedo!" where the discourses, | and a j | by night.” contingent, there were four | ‘are apt to The travel agency The Abbey very times, companions by twenty ladies, enjoying the night. grow. Also, observe the foremost names, jj and Jeunie arc .at have been beautiful. : can horrify his stand- :j dance for minutes In the Paris Englishmen, five English two jare front of whose boulevard office ! French. I admit. But look at the | lng in an upright coffin, where Catacombs' Danes and four Danish ladies and two The police pet mixed up—usually : !in They arc the Perroquet (means “Par- j With Parisian tact, ttic- angel- j a i | j on | the cabled shindies tomt (dace i- rot”), (America.!!-named>, | others! As their names show, they : trick of projected lignt transforms ' ** * * South American men—-to complete the ;j the wholesome police rule to get there ] rite Florida in | waiters conduct themselves with mod- j ! French. It at once asked the go\ fare made for us. evening clothes e.-t friendliness; ! him slowly to a skeleton. j “American” carful! jlate —and they, too, have difficulty in ; the Cauassinn. the Palermo. Ea as | and the discourses j V/VET same tourists get ' eminent to stop them, “Florenz's,” much as possible. They are speakers, named, Such are the. more famous sights 1 1 these Naturally, these foreign tourists j• finding out tbho's who. Americans are : 1 Jennie. “Pigalle's." El ! by the not are of i on the. Boulevard— t j During these same days, in front L'Abbey. new and special (almost) as th« “cA-- of Paris night life. The truth is that | • "boo od" ! think it great fun to ho “boo-ed” at as ; apt to say very loudly that it is they. Garron and whose name is • Christian simplicity, really, and not j J I I 1 ! J of the solemn Church of Saint-Su!- row mongrel French-English, trans- nier de la. Butte," tip there, estab- one mocking word! For those who j (he motor omnibuses have done more |j simply because their "Paris Night i Americans! • and because they have the money and exclusively i j pice, it took several policemen to r* formed from the fine old "Abha.ye de lished for tourists In motor understand French, it is all such a. (for picturesque interest) than those j j Life" parties, in four big motor oninl- Also, it is fun 1o "boo" American jthej French have none---and Parisians may j j contingent bring move three young American anti-pro Theleme.” where French literature omnibuses. None others enter! surprise, that the surprise Itself ! who cater to the dress suit | | buses each, laugh, talk and perhaps motor omnibus parties—even ifyou’re jj retort that Americans need to a grand The, hibitlonists to the cooler. says “you do as you please.” The "Grenier" is place. makes the greater thrill! and the seekers of thrills. jcriticize, altogether, attracting at- not Parisian or even French! I prohibition w ith them. Thirty are given the A French reporter took the drive must a table at the minutes tourists sight taste The motor omnibuses fake the without thinking about it. Echo de Paris publishes a cartoon in j j Whatever else the Parisian work- You reserve "Hell” is another of had j | tention in one of the touring cars and found Florida, the Caticassian and half the to dance, while looking down on the in essence, yet correct in detail. The tourist a great ride through the Patriotic Parisians, imagining which two young Herman follows are j man may he up to. he is not going night lights j | young ¦ he was with Chinese. Hollanders. Pe- of all Paris! night-lit. * looking for a good time on the boule- j 'round grand boulevards at night to rest. Evening clothes are necessary. scenery of the three floors is dia- streets—the greatest Paris •j that Paris Is being made fun of. I ruvians. who squealed with delight specialty Is quality At half an hour apiece you cannot Satan hy-Ntght sight of you vard. jhoo at American tourists. Workmen, The Florida's the bolical. and his lieutenants all. if must “boo” and whistle at them, chiefly Fritz," when the booing began—and one English-American visitors. take in many sights, the night, exult over "the wicked" impersonally, choose. Away at the other side of "Come, says one, “were that is, men and women doing some of the same on Boulevard, where they have American Florenz’s is expensive in motor omnibus party. Yet many and threaten them with shame and night-lit Paris from Montmartre, they the going to ‘boo’ the Americans!" ! kind of manual labor for day’s wages. who moralized on the ev»n more a nothing evening. old-time French-Ameriean friendship. and about elegant, with Italian at- tourists want to see “The Dead Rat," pain. He who plays the part of Satan glye their tourists exclusive dance else to do in the | Everybody knows that Americans | are better off than any one else in as an not deceived, i The tourists asked what the matter mosphere and hybrid namp The Fer- “Hell," "Heaven” and “Nothing- is a former university professor, get- in the rea.l Catacombs! Older Parisians are j I will still come and have a good time! i J France. They suffer from no unern- —astonishing! The ness."—these being known to all the ting off a discourse that, makes great Nobody had visited the Catacombs They take the whole thing as a ; There were never so many as at this , ployment and their wages go up with was. The barker answered cheerily: roquet is French I “Oh. just Communists demonstrat Oaucassian is very select —and Rus- world along with the old Moulin sins out of envy, jealousy, anger, ill- : jbefore, although the municipal au kind of joke. Yesterday, the “Petit ! moment. The crowds of American see | prices. The French francs in which sian. A hundred Russian artistes lead Rouge, and gotten up to thrill. thinking, harsh judgment, and so | thoritles often discussed opening Journal." with a very heavy circu- ! ing Paris night life are simple im- they, are paid buy nearly twice as ing." And the tourists understood f as why the police took sides against its gayety. or three floors, with three "Heaven" requires more than half j on. I fancy that a visit to "Hell" j j those antique subterranean quarries lation, published a. cartoon in which mense. Also, along with it (and Paris much in France their exchange the | begins to realize the fact), our tour- value in dollars would buy in the booers orchestras! an hour! It is the most pictorial does good to all who understand him! as a day-time sight. They exist for three Americans walk in t ancient I Wirz Trial Witnesses Suggest Hounds and Myths to Rambler What Variety of Dogs Was Employed in Pursuit of Fugitives? any Then, bloodhound, ' ! with no small amount of interest. third witness in the trial " " bet with subscriber that if Tom !i the real monster nf Henry Wirz. superintendent '• should meet a bloodhound in the back !i of fiction, is not a bad-natured dog. What ran ho expected of a girl horn ' ; Washington in •if the Confederate military yard, the bloodhound would climb the | j “Bloodhound” merely stood for “talood- and reared in and prison at, Andersonville, Ga., fence. I ed hound.” meaning a thoroughbred Fairfax County? Since July 1, how- authority says of ever, 1 have horn away from home THEwas col. G. E. Gibbs, ex- •!' * * * I dog of its breed. An Confederate. He testified that he him: ”Tho true bloodhound will trail petting acquainted with the beautiful bloodhound was a dog in of Maine had been on duty at the Anderson- THE rare a man to tiie last of its strength, hut coast winch my young niece 1 long long see. t prison conditions were this section during the period will not voluntarily attack him. When (Anita* and I had desired to ille and that a deplorable. He did not know that of negro slavery. I never saw one it has located him. It will keep guard Yesterday I received a letter from your to men, > and many of iny people have told me prevent his escape, and may, if friend inclosing article. ‘Wirz Wirz had Riven orders shoot and every Vo.it it was a regulation that any they never saw one. I strongly doubt attacked, use its great powers in self- Execution.* 1 have detail of prisoner crossing the "dead line" the bloodhound. Many writers, sher- defense. but not in the savage manner that famous trial locked away safely, should he shot. iffs and sheriffs' posses seem to have generally attributed to it. It is not in also a letter referring to it addressed Davis. He was senior to Wirz. and he an ungovernable desire to call blood- its nature to be cruel." to my dear father by Jefferson testified that there were enough hounds dogs that are just plain and Turning to the encyclopedia for I know you ought to see all this. I rations of meat, corn meal. peas, common houn’ dogs. On nearly all more information about dogs, I read am glad you published the Wirz letter molasses and flour while he was on farms In the Potomac region and on that there was introduced into Cuba to inv father. November 10 was al- dog day my duty at Andersonville. The dogs re- little pieces of ground just big enough America from Spain a ways a sad for father. and South a living ferred to in the charges were not for a cabin and a patch of eo’n. ’lnters that was a cross between some kind "My brother Fred is lawyer bloodhounds but ordinary plantation and ’bacev there were dogs which we of a dog called a "war dog” and the not at Seattle but Spokane, Wash. dogs, and there were seven or eight tailed "dawgs.” They were only houn’ Spanish pointer, tt is written that he He is still interested in politics and dawgs. you about of them. Witness did not ktiou by They were black and tan, was an ugly dog and that because of Senator Dill will tell much - - Many whose orders they Mere kept. The short haired, long bodied and long- his vices ho was called a "bloodhound” him. of his Western friends (his and dogs Mere of ordinary size and not tailed. These dogs bad no more relish and was sometimes called the “Cuban call on us sisters Anita Clara* bring greetings. lie ferocious, nor Mere they altogether for a man’s blood than a poodle. They bloodhound.” He was not a. hound of to us Oneo ran knew were utterly without planters in for Congress but was defeated and ferocity. any of * harmless. lie that the does The kind. Thousands again. • * to escaped prisoners. notable traits of this bound were country never saw a perhaps he may tr> were kept track lazi- the Potomac i and They Mere subsisted on corn bread, ness and appetite, and he had the bloodhound, and tens of thousands Well, there is much more to tell I meet. Mere regularly enrolled the habit singing to moon. was Spanish dog which was you will bear all that when we and in of the He never saw .that • • • sincerely, Confederate service as "horses.'' A a peaceful dog and liked best to sleep called a bloodhound and was not a I Very charge of door, J&k • ANITA SCHADF," man named Turner had around the kitchen that he hound. them. should not he late at meals. Aunt *** * There was food enough in the com- Dinah used to bake “co’n braid” in a note in the testimony of Col. Teeth. missary stores for soldiers and big iron skillet for these dawgs, and YOU | Saws Without 1 trial that the prisoners, and Wirz drew rations on their highest pleasure was to squat on Gibbs at the Wirz An explanation of the manner in a a provision return daily. The prison their haunches in semi-circle and dogs referred to in the charges were which soft steel disk revolving at witness compared catch portions on a M-as croM'ded. and their of eo’n pone not bloodhounds, but ordinary planta- steel ha.- It to an am hili. The “dead line' the fly. a high velocity cuts hard tion dogs, and that they were not Mas to prevent prisoners getting too : Some of the sporting youth of the been sought with the aid of micro M-as nor harmless, near the stockade. The stockade century to ferocious altogether scopic Inspection. result corroba nineteenth used train these on j The of hewed timber, ten or eleven feet . dogs to fox, i They were subsisted cornbread. ! chase and it is said that j we | rates the view that the material acted high, and the dead line was parallel your ancestors trained them That was the breed of dog oldsters \ to chase heated at the point, of con to it. about CO feet inside. There deer. Some planters and knew when we were boys. One of i upon is [ their over- neighbors a kind. to the fusing point and then M-ere "stocks" at' the prison, and ' in slavery days taught rnv lias dog of that | tact seers these. brought him Washington brushed away. another mode of punishment was ball j simple-minded and strong-nosed dogs They to I chain. ; from the secession State of South j The high temperature appears to be and to track runaway slaves. They were narrowly point next Mitness mss John C. ! Carolina, and historically he ought to ! confined very to the The keen-scented and fleet, but when they gash Bates of Georgia, a contract physi- j be the bloodiest sort of bloodhound. of contact, so that a thin is cur came up with* a fugitive the worst temperature revolving at Andersonville prison On coming to my neighborhood ho The of the cian the i they did was bay, make other : so going noises my old cat. Tom Gray, napping disk does not rise high, because of hospital. On there he found ] and shake their tails. If the fugitive saw naked, dirty on windowsill. Mike, that’s the the large surface area of the disk. many patients and lying , had a stick and waded into the pack, the in the sand. There was little shelter, j bloodhound's name, set up a hulla- The part of the disk in contact is the dogs would bite him. Dogs is continually changing, while the frac- Some small tents M-ere crowded, titid j dogs baloo. the translation of which follows: dogs. You see these about old a cat! What tional energy is concentrated on •< shelters Mere set up of boards “Yelp! Yelp! Here’s some j places in Maryland and Virginia today, Come, area of the material sub and pieces of canvas. There M'ere | luck! Great Sport! Yelp! cat, very small and if their owners make any use of play! Yelp!” jected to its action. about 2.s