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Show PRESIDENT FALLIERES IS CALLED STINGY J President Fallieres is again being subjected to criticism on the score of parsimony. When, a few years ago, the king and queen of Norway were guests of the republic, an accident happened at Versailles which might easily have had fatal consequences for the queen and Mme. FalliereB. The postillion who was riding one of the horses drawing the state landau, lan-dau, in which they sat, took too sharp a turn In erasing a bridge spanning the ornamental lake near Trianon, and fell with his mount into the water. Happily the carriage remained re-mained on the bank. It was stated at the time that since M. Fallieres' installation the Elysee stable was farmed out, and that horses and servants were supplied by a contractor. Thus the accident was explained on the ground of the postillion's pos-tillion's inexperience. M. Fallierea was then accused of farming out his stables in order to reduce the ex- V Si penses of his occupation of the Elysee. and a part of the Paris press denounced de-nounced his efforts to economize at the expense of the prestige of the republic. Similar attacks are being made now in connection with the visit of the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch, who, with his uncle, has been provided with vehicles of shabby appearance, poor-looking horses, and coachmen in ill-fitting old liveries. |