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Show II ENTHUSIAST CRM MANY Coming of Airships Is Responsible Respon-sible for Exclusive Club for Women. Varis IS CENTER FOR THIS LATEST IN FADS Habitation of Clnb Is on Grounds of Aero Park in French BY PAUL VILLIEES. Spoclal Cable to The Tribune. PARIS, July 30. The- coming of the ilrshlp Is responsible for what Is perhaps per-haps the most aristocratic and exclusive club for women in the world. It Is the Stella club of SL Cloud, and Its purpose la the promotion of aviation matches, and It numbers In Its membership some of the highest placed women In French society. so-ciety. "While It la primarily a woman's club and Its officers are women who have won their spurs, figuratively, as aviators, a few men have been granted the privilege privi-lege of membership. Grand dukes and grand duchesses head the list. The Archduke Arch-duke Leopold and Archduchess Blanche of Castile, his" wife, have, I hear, ac-f-cepted honorary membership. They are ' both air enthusiasts, and their eight children chil-dren are bitten with their craze. The archduchess is a sister of the Spanish prelender, Don Jaime, and the last person per-son one might, on seeing her, think to go In for air flights with all the Impetuosity Impetu-osity of her Bourbon nature. Tho llgure of this air princess Is short and extremely extreme-ly stout a feature that rather hlt3 the eye as one sees her between her two eldest daughters, tall, slim archduchesses, well on In their teens. The French arch-uuehesses arch-uuehesses of tho club are all authentic and women of wealth In their own right. M Barthou, the keeper of the seals, and the French oil king. M. Dcutcho do La Mcurlhe, have just joined. Mme. Blerlot has been elected presldento, and Mmcs. Surcouf and PolInkofC the vice presi-tlcntes. presi-tlcntes. The name of the former figures In the French naval annals as a glorious pirate, ihc auxiliary of De Tourvlllc, with no other commission that that of his audacious genius. The lady secretary and Iracsurer have proved their skill as air women, but only in the baskets of the balloons. The local habitation of the club Is In the grounds of the Aero park and .many have been encouraged to Join In Its "sport. As to Aerial Rights. While on the subject of aviation It maj' W be noted that the Euroean conference on aerial rights, which lias been sitting for some weeks in Paris, apparently without earning to any definite conclusions, stands adjourned till October. In the meantime Us proceedings are to be kept secret. It was supposed that its object would be I, merely to introduce some kind of uni- f, formlty into the municipal arrangements of the various powers In respect of flying fly-ing machines, but T understand thnt lareer nuestions have been Introduced, Ml I calling for the consideration of the for- 1 nign orflces rather than of the boards of IL Paris Disfigured, fe From time to time attention has been called to tho apparent lack of a due con-f con-f rem for the preservation of tho beau- ' , lies and amenities of Paris, which char acterizes those who are responsible for the condition of its streets and squares There have recently been symptoms of an awakening In this respect In compc-tent compc-tent quarters. For several years the f Place de 1'Opera has been disfigured and obstructed by the now works of the Met- ropolltnn Underground railway. Theso were to have been finished In December of last year. The floods Intervened, and " U the last state of tho central square and ; crossroads of Paris Is worse than the I first Fresh underground operations have !( been begun, and. according to the esti mate of the engineers, they will not ho completed until May, 1012. This esli-i esli-i mate, to judge from past experience, is ; far too sanguine, and Parisians are sadly '. reckoning with a continuance of the pres ent unsightly obstructions In the Place i de TOpcra for at least four years more. : A similar fato appears to have befallen the Place do Havre, in front of St. Ln-sare Ln-sare railway station. One of the busiest a thoroughfares in Paris and another great f artery of traffic, the Rue Royalc, which ' leads up to the front of the Madeleine. H appears to be In a chronic state of trans- K formation and destruction. The sublcr- ranean works, to which these disastrous results are due. are doubtless iridispen- Kr sable, but the railway engineers and con- Wr, tractors seem to display uncommonly lit S, tie Ingenuity or resource In mitigating Jfc the public inconvenience which they en- ; tall. In no other great European or American city, outside of Russia or Tur-! Tur-! ! key. would such proceedings be long lol- " crated. . i '.4 Submarines in Naval Warfaxo. I The official report on the French ma- M f; Tieuvcrs throws a startling light on tho 1 vital part which submarines are destined : . to play in naval warfare of the future. s Three submerslbles, the Clrco. the Papln, (,' and Calypso, took part In tho first part u nf the maneuvers. Thoy were sent to : act against Admiral Jonqulcros's squad- IV - ron. which was blockading Ajacclo, Their Instructions were to attack If tho oppor- tunlty presented Itself, but primarily to r give information to tho naval force "tied up in Ajacclo of the strength of its ad-ijlw ad-ijlw vorsarles. The Clrco and Papln carried VL out both parts of their Instructions with B remarkable success. Posting themselves iJB In the strait of Bonifacio, thev waited JT for Admiral Jonquiercs's squadron, which soon sallied out, steaming at a speed of 1 seventeen knots an hour, to meet the rival fleet under Admiral Aubert. A forco t of destroyers had been sent out on each i side, and the admiral thought ho was perfectly safo, but the submarines,, dived under tho destroyers, tho Papln shooting t. l to within throe hundred yards or two ;. battleshlpu. which she torpedoed in rapid Huccesslon, the more easily as thev be-9 be-9 lieved themselves to be in perfect so- rurlty. A few days later, off Toulon, the Tapln again ran across the course of Ad- f nilral .lonqulcros. The 'destroyers spied y hor out by a blot, of oil on the surface ; hut. cleverly avoiding them, she torpo-H torpo-H ; :'oed the flagship, the new battleship AVK Patrlc. H Strango Rumor Afloat.- H 1, When the accident occurred to the 1M t Pluvlusc there was a strange rumor that ' a lady was on board the Ill-fated sub- K , marine. This lcporl excited vorv nalu- ;r nil curiosity, but after tho lapse of a I ft'W 'lave no more was heard of the mnt- I- JV1;,. -llc a7'u's' correspondent of the t IN' Ht Var. which Is a steady-going Rc-K Rc-K i publican newspaper, published at Toulon. V ld w,l,,'5; li'cnls largely of naval nuos- " lions, has, however, returned to the sub- ! P J''ct. and he says thai' on the unlucky I day two members of tho crew were Inhd- j -l to Jiiake 100m for Captain Pmt and jC- another poison. Who was Hint person? Hflr The number of the corpses rocoynrod .vas officially reported ns nine, wherras ijlff. Hie writer alleges, there were In realltv tf ' , ,'Morfovcr. as he. further asserts, tho i inliabltanls of Calais were, greatly ox-KT ox-KT cited because dredger which had got ijmK hold of the riuviose was not porailtted in K trontlnue Jin work. Thou ton men are IJJjr 'Pi-gfid to have lived on wt-vernl hmirH IJIIK after the catastrophct happened, and oih- By tfyr' ' r v - - of them Is affirmed to have taken notes which wore found, but havo disappeared! All this, the correspondent declares, Is current talk at Calais, and the emotion which It has crcuted will probably find an ocho in parliament. There was. lie acknowledges, considerably Incredulity at first ln naval circles, but puoplo aro beginning be-ginning to entertain doubts, and ho concludes con-cludes "Really nil tine la quite extraordinary" extraor-dinary" Tho Petit Var Is anything but a sensational organ, and it has felt justified jus-tified In Inserting this melancholy sturv. But tho chnnces oro that Mils sad tab-will tab-will meet with fiat contradiction, and that It will be proved that it has no fuundallon v. h"tcvi r. V |