Show GOING TO GAY PAREE Sightseeing Americans cans Pour Into tIle the French Capital TO TAKE W IN EXPOSITION I HOTELS MOTELS puLING FILLING G UP AND AD PRICES OIT ON THE RISE BISE 4 I With an Eye to Business Frenchmen Propose to Squeeze Visitors For All AU They Are Worth Struggle Between Nations at Pair Fair Grounds Which Are in Chaotic Condition I Copyright 1000 by the tho Associated Press Earls April 7 The advance guard of the army of foreigners invading Paris for the exposition has made its entry and a very large larg proportion of them are Americans Every moment of the day one now sees cabs flying fl ing about the boulevards loaded with Saratoga trunks while the the familiar American accent is heard in restaurants and places of popular resort The hotels are already filling up and the prices prIc of everything ever are rising In fact fact these thee first fr arrivals form fon a sort of ofa ofa a forlorn hope on o whom the hotel and ad shopkeepers shopkeeper are experimenting with in increased I creased charges Not only the te visitors but permanent residents are beginning to feel the burden burde of the advanced advance rates which most mo of the hotels have haves so s raised that the regular guests get are obliged ether to leave leve or accept other accommodations Those who are unfortunate enough to have only monthly leases les on their heir apartments have been ben notified that their rents rent will wi be doubled for fO six months mont after ater the opening of the exposition The Te cab drivers driver have an eye e e on greater geater wealth and are trying tring to arrange with wih the government for tor increased fares fare Bustle Bute and Confusion At the exposition itself everything is bustle buste and ad confusion confusion Heavy draught teams line lne the streets streets adjoining the ex exposition exposition position buildings waiting to deposit their loads of exhibits The Te American exhibitors exhibitor are finding themselves ser seriously lonely handicapped in preparing for the thE Installation owing to o the lie be unexpected congestion on the railways between Havre and an Paris and ad also on the he tracks within the the exposition grounds gounds There Is a 11 n continual struggle between representatives of oC o every evl ever nation naion to get ge cars in the grounds gounds but the French people hold the key to the situation and ad take good care that their own cars car are taken to the exhibit space and hd unload unIon unloaded ed before those of the United States and other nations Russia and Belgium Belgum are the te e only onh countries countie favored United States State Commissioner General Peck is disturbed by b this situation and in or order order ordee der dee to expedite matters matte has ha stationed men along the railroad from Havre to Paris Pais for the purpose of pushing through the te cars cr carrying American ex cx Smallpox in Paris Pari Some alarm aarm was wa recently created by the discovery of a ii few cases of o small smallpox smallpox pox in Paris especially as 3 the discovery discovery ery was made in the eve of the te expo exp exposition alon and and for f r a short time there was wasa a great gret demand for vaccination Medi Medical cal statistics st tc just published show how however however however ever that there is i little ground for as the disease disse dese which made its Is appearance at the beginning of theyer the year yer has now practically disappeared In all only nine mIne deaths have been al ben re reported reported ported pore among a 8 population of The talk of society te i 1 the crop of duels springing from the thc De Dc De quarrel which is really the first fruit of the present mite mie mania mn a The whole affair is of trivial origin dated date from the school days dayn dyo of the two principal actors actor when on one occasion Count de Lubersac found found Baron Baon de Rothschild in posses possession possession I sion of the college tennis court and asked aske him to quit qui Cause of the Row Rw t De Dc Rothschild refused and an in the course our of a dispute which ensued De Dc Lubersac called him a a dirty ensue Jew The resultant i ill feeling lasted lae during the remainder reander jf f C the college coU e days da s Comte Cointe de Lubersac was Wa recently recent a member of the jockey Jokey club and an un unpleasant pleasant mrk rt was repeated to him which he he Attributed to his old disputant V and und he thereupon wrote an insulting letter to Baron Robert de d Rothschild Although the seconds 3 decided that the fact that the baron bron was a minor de dc barred barre him from seeking ekin satisfaction a meeting between the two is only post polled as a De D Rothschild is i determined to settle the matter upon the field of honor Three other duels duels of which one wa wag was decided dide on Wednesday are the im immediate immediate mediate meite outcome of the quarrel and andare andare andare are directly traceable to the hostility of the rival Semite and an clubs The offensive reference to De D childs second M de d Saint Alery in insinuating insinuating that he te Ia I a Jewish coward made In the letter leter written by b the Comte de do Leon Len ind uw Comte Real Foni de Castellane in 1 it their capacity as 86 De Dc see sec has brought brug a 1 challenge from se M I Saint Alerv to de Leon Ln who sac was vail aa the principal second of De Dc Luber This Thia Tb attack atack on the Is considered most moat mo unkind as they are remarkable for their generosity toward all al charitable undertakings u in Paris |