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Show f' LID NAILED DOWR : , TIGHTLY IN PIS Former Gayest City in tho World Is Now Trying to Be Good. 'EARLY TO BED' MOTTO 4 Escapades of Noted French Airman Are One of the Contributory Causes. y By International News Service. hi RAiUS, Oct 6. -The- "lid" Is on tlffht-Jjs tlffht-Jjs today In Paris than it ever has been since the beginning of the -war. The city closes up tightly and goes to sleep before be-fore midnight, as all theaters must close at 11 o'clock, and the street cars and -. aubways atop running after handling this t ' traffic. All the cafes and restaurants close their doors at 9:30 o'clock at night to the minute, and the only place where It is possible to get a drink after that hour is at the bars of the various theaters for every playhouse in Paris has Its bar. It is absolutely impossible, however to ' get anything to eat after 9:30, except in , one or two tiny, dingy restaurants in the neighborhood of les Halles, the great central markets, where business starts at about 1 o'clock In the morning. Several email cafes are permitted to open there at about 2 o'clock in the morning in order or-der that farmers or rather the wives and daughters of farmers, since all the men are in the army' may have a sand- wlch or a sausage and a glass of wine ; A. after their all-night drive from their : farms to the market. No other restau- ! rants open until 6 o'clock. Quiet in Restaurants. For the first two years of the war the j closing hour of cafes and restaurants was f 10:30 o'clock, but the hour was set for-i for-i ward to 9:30 a year ago, when the lack of coat necessitated stringent saving in light and heat everywhere. Dancing and music have been prohibited prohib-ited since August, 1915, and there has not been an orchestra In a restaurant, nor a tango tea, nor a cabaret since that date. I But at all times, down to date, there rave been "under cover" places where tourists and officers and soldiers and the i A demi-monde repaired at 11 o'clock, when j X the theaters closed, for a bottle of cham-' cham-' pagne and perhaps a sandwich, and dancing. dan-cing. The music In most cases was from a phonograph, although in some places there was a piano. Last winter the number of after-hour - drinking and dancing resorts reached V, their maximum. For awhile during the bitter cold spell of January, February and ' ffarch there were more than a score of well-known resorts open from 10 o'clock JL at night to 5 and 6 In the morning. They ( vrere crowded every night, too, because r rhe "sun-dodgers," who lived the night i lite and slept during the day, preferred to go to the resorts where .the rooms were packed with incessantly smoking men and women, as it was warmer there than in hotels and apartments. Coal Is Apportioned. , What little coal there was In Paris dur ing the cold snap went to the extremely rich and to the extremely poor. There was no fuel to be had by the middle class and all landlords were unable to provide heat, no maUer what complaints were made. It But cooped up In the salons of the after-hour resorts, with all windows I. closed tightly for fear the police might liear the sound of the music, and with i dancing to he Indulged In as exercise, it I -was a comparatively easy matter to keep '- warm. ,! It was the escapade of Sub-Lieutenant , Jean Navarre, who was tied with Captain Georges Guynemer for France's aerial su-i su-i premacy, with twelve German machines . destroyed In Way, 1916. when he was wounded, that started the police cam- , , paign against the night resorts. I j In April, 3917, after Navarre had recov- ered from the bullet wounds which had perforated his chest ' and shattered his left arm from shoulder, to wrist, he came i to Paris on leave one evening, and with i Ms boon companion, Louis de Ponthieu. , 1 now a private in the French army, and ' J before the war well known as a light- 1 weight boxer In America, he started to ; ' "have a good tlmo." !i First Demonstration. ; f Navarro drove his automobile to les ' ; Halles after the theater and proceeded ; ' to "tank up" In one of the after-hour A resorts that have nourished there since before the war. Ho and de Ponthieu left Ot the place about 3 o'clock In the morning, r taking with them two civilians whom they had met. "I'll show you just how the 'tanks' work at the front," said Navarre, as he I took his place at the steering wheel and I "A threw the lever into high gear. They cut ; up the Ruo du Louvre and down toward JL the Rue du Rivoll. In the moonlight they could see a gendarme standing at ' .w. fixed post on the corner. CNow there's a German soldier, and 1 Thai ie how the 'tanks' get them," said 1 Navarre, and ho drove hts car straight at j the policeman. The gendarme tried to I dodge, but too late, and the automobile i ran over his chest. ? Navarre started up the Rue de Rivoli. and at the Intersection of the Rue des ' Pyrnmldes, where stands a statue of Joan . d'Arc. he found another victim also a 7 gendarme. This polh'enian tried to escape behind the archus along the Rue de Ri-', Ri-', k vol I, but Navarre had not become the " premier French aviator for nothing, and !: ducking and curving in and out between ' the archways he finally ran down the ; eecond policeman. W Another ne Bagged. sun going northward, Navarre reached , the Place do la Concorde, at the end of 1 IF he Tuilerles Gardens, and this time, at I one of the "isles of safety." he bapRod J Another gendarmo and two civilians whom I the policeman had been directing on their way. , . Turning eastward Navarre ran his car through the Rue Royalo to the Rue Saint ! Honofe and knocked down another gen-j gen-j darme at that corner. Then he turned i south through the Rue Saint Honore, which parallels the Rue de KtvoU At I the intersection of the Rue Custigltone i he struck another policeman and a civil- ian who ran out In the street to see what J the trouble was. ' Navarre continued south and was fired upon bv the police when his machine i ; ,-rossed'the Rue des Fyramides again. At ' the Place du Theater Francals. where the f wen ue de l'Opera forms a Junction with i "the Rue Saint Honore Navarro stopped the automobile, and with de Ponthieu and A the two civilians, jumped out and ran k ) awav. dodaing into the corridors and 4 ' archways of the Palais . . f The police were hard on the heels of , I fouV however, and when one of the -L-ivfllans tripped and fell he was captured Tand arrested. Navarre, de Ponthieu and f the other civilian got .'uvaj . f Navarre made his way to a certain i avMlon Held just oiHsid whf he had been experimenting Kh the newest creation of Robert Conine maker mak-er of the Murane-Saumier '''P- He unlocked the hansar where the "Morane Jarasol moiPlano" he had been tcslins was housed, ran the machine out, and (lew away Just after daybreak. Navarre Hew straight to the airdrome of the escadrille to which he waa attached at-tached at the front, and reported there I before 9 o'clock. Meanwhile the police questioned tho civilian they had caught, examined Navarre's Na-varre's automobile and soon came to the conclusion that the star aviator was the man thoy wanted. That afternoon they arrested Navarre just as he landed In his , airdrome after an aerial fight with an enemy machine Inside the German lines. Navarre was taken to Paris and confined con-fined in the Cherche Midi military prison. A lawyer was assigned to him and when he was asked to plead to the charge of running down a dozen policemen and threo civilians and seriously wounding four of them. Navarre replied that he remembered re-membered nothing at all about the matter. Ingenious Plan Made. Navarre's lawyer pleaded temporary Insanity on the part of his client and advanced the argument that Navarre's brain had become affected from ascend -intr to such Kreat altitudes as 16.000 to L'O.OOn feet nmi diving down rapidly to tho earl h. Blood pressure liad undoubtedly undoubt-edly had a bud effect on the airman's brain and caused a form nf insanity, said ho lawyer. He submitted statements from noted doctors and alienists to support sup-port his contention. Investigation disclosed that Navarre had been drinkinsr until o'clock in the morning and probably was also under the influence of liquor, and, as a result, the airman was adjudged temporarily insane and was remanded to a convalescent hospital hos-pital until he should he cured, when he was to receive his discharge from the army for beinir physically and mentally unfit for service. Houses Ordered Closed. When the Paris newspapers printed the account of the nfi.iir minors were deluged 1 with letters from subscribers who de- I manded how it was possible for Navarre ! or anybody else to pet drinks until 3 o'clock in the morning when all ca;'es and bars and re sUiu rants were supposed to close up tight at 9. SO o'clock. As a result of the public Indignation Prefect of Police Laurent designated M. T.mguv head of a sort of "strong arm" squad to raid and close every night resort. And M. Tanguy has been making mak-ing good on his job. In threo months he "had closed -about ovrry oM - established place which had been flourishing, and as fnst as new ones were opened for they sprang up like toadstools he raided and closed uieui. |
