The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 18, 1906, Page 21

' Pages 21 to 28 3 FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, FEBRUA RY 18, 1906. S SF MAXIME~ waSs MADE_ H TROM L SNAP SHOT ANXD 1S AS FAR AS ENOWN The ONLY 0000 PICTURS OF HIM MY OF THE SMPIRE AN CZAR, D WHO HAS S WHO HAS BEI HOWN WOND! o GUIDING FORCE OF THE RE- RFUL SKILL AS A LEADER TH vents sary, 1905, s apparently bee was but Government regarding this discovered tk y leader, I confidences by communicating The Russian itself orant C ars of this striking and fascin- personality 'he leader of the revolution in Rus- sia goes by the name of Maxime. It is &n assumed name, but he desires to be known thereby I will continue so to designate him in this article. Maxime is the mysterious invisible force re- spousible for the organigation of the Russian revolution. Maxime, with al- energy and incredible hes produced the pop- Petersburg, Mos- other parts of the \ man ng sk outbreaks in St Warsaw and led & series ts were In- flicted on th troops. He or- geniged and led the successive rebelliogs in -Moscow, both of which ended with out a decisive by either side He organized the rebellion in the town of Kharkoff, where the impe- rial troops were also defeated and a communistic republic fexime's presic Maxime oOrga d the rebellion in Warsaw a series of other revol tionary risings in- other parts of Rus en Poland. All the revolutionary ris- gs in Aifferent parts of Russia which seemed to be spontaneous and unorgan- ized movements were in reality e work of this weonderful leader of men Maxime Is not only an organizer, a vallant fighter. He has not elaborated the revolutionary plan campaign, but he has always fought at the head of his followers in the front rank and in the most exposed place of éenger. Since the outbreak of revolux jonary troubles, which occurred almost diately after the conclusion ace with Japan, Maxime -has taken, t in more than 200 ®engagements ‘ b imperial troops, and in spite of his desperate bravery and reckless be- Lavior under fire he has emerged from a1l these batties without 'a scratch. This immunity from bharm but only proclaimed under | { his connection ce. , the leader of the revolution- sses, is an aristocrat by birth, g, education and inclination. est of blue blood flows In his and h istocratic origin reveals 1 delicate refinement of his tes. HIs ancestors were family of the French no- One of them left France and led in Russia under the protection ter the Great and received in Rus- the same rank and nobility as he Joyed in France. Since then the ily has resided in Russia and many of its members have held high positions in o Russian army and state service. Maxime's father was a nobleman of wide culture and liberal views. He d extensive estates in the Baltic nces as well as in the central, southern and southwestern provinces of Russia. Maxime's father was a distin- guished member of the Russian diplo- matic service and in the discharge of & futies he resided for a number of years in other European countries. At the time of Maxime's birth his father was still at the zenith of his wealth and power. Maxime was reared in sumptuous luxury. He was taught all that money and the best European c F the rebellion | tutors could give him. After the usual course of study at a 1 rsity, Maxime entered the as an officer, but his mil- eer was not particularly aus- Among the students of his he had become imbued with university | seditious political opinions and revolu- N\ certain | province of Saratoff where, M {in time to find tionzry sympathies, so that he found himself considerably out of touch with his fellow officers in the army. After a few years" military service with the Russian army terminated through a remarkable. inci- dent. Young Maxime's regiment was dispatched to a remote district in the acgording circulated by the = official press,-a peasant rebellion had broken out. The battalion. numbering approx- imately one thousand men, in which me was leutenant, marched to the of disaffection and arrived at a in the center of the district just about 1500 peasants holding a poljtical meeting. There had been no rebellion and no breach of the peace. The peasants desired to obtain improvements in their condi- tions of life and labor by peaceful and to reports mCene village constitutional means, particularly by a ! petition to the Czar. When the troops came in sight the chairman of the meeting, together with a deputation of peasants, approached the major in command of the battalion Officer of the Army Known as Maxine Directs the Revolutionists of the Russian Empire. fresh hold on-the superstitious j intentions and their urgent desire to population, which has come to [ communicate thelr grievances to the that he bears a charmed life | Czar. They asked the major. whether joys the especial protection of‘ht‘ would be willing to convey ' thelr | | has given [and explained to him thelr peaceful’ | he sald: humble and loyal petition to his impe- rial Majesty in St. Petersburg. The major, who belonged to the old school of Russian tyrants and despots, refused to parley with the deputation and ordered his men to prepare to fire at the peasants. The soldlers loaded their rifles and were awaliting the order to fire on the crowd of peasants, when young Maxime left his own company and hurried to the spot where the ma- jor was standing. Saluting ‘the major, “I suppose there is some mis- take. I have received orders to direot my company's fire against ghese peas- ants at a given signal. Surely it can- not be your intention to allow a thou- sand soldiers_ armed with repeating rifies to fire on a gathering of peaceful Russian citizens. It would be nothing more than a cold-blooded massacre, and I for one refuse to participate In such a dastardly deed.” Maxime's military career came to a premature end. He was ' dlsmissed from the army and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in a remote dis- trict of the Caucasian provinces for his insuberdination. His punishment would have been far more severe but for his father's great influence which saved him from the worst consequenoces of his . rash deed. Henceforth Maxime lived a life de- voted partly to amusement and partly to 'study. When the Russo-Japanese war broke out he contrived to enlist under an assumed name and went to the Far East to fight as a common sol- dier on behalf of his fatherland against the Japanese. He took partiin all the engagements in the first six months of the campalgn in Manchuria, thereby gaining much valuable practical mili- tary experlence, which he subsequently used In organizing armed rebellions against the Czar's Government, Toward the end of 1904 he was wounded and consequently invalided home, whete he soon recovered from the effects of the injury received from the Japanese bullet. He was in St. Petersburg at the time of Father Gapon's agitation and witnessed the events of Bloody Sunday, which made such a deep impression on his mind that he resolved there and then to devote him- self henceforth to the movement for the political emancipation of the Russian people. Hitherto, notwithstanding his strong democratic sympathles, Maxime has had no connection with the revolutionary party, and when he introduced himself to the revolutionary leaders in the Russlan capital he was recelved with deep sus- piclon. He was suspected of being a spy in the pay of the Government and he ex- perienced considerable difficulty in per- suading the leaders ‘of the -subversive AT LEADS SLAV REBELSIBI( FANCY DRESS BALL O LONDON Affair Planned by| Mrs. Bradley Martin. Will Be on Scale of Her Entertainment in New York, Countess of Craven Is to Assist at the Coming Function. 2 R Special Cable to The Call. LONDON, Feb. 17.—People are begin- ning to'talk a great deal about the fancy dress ball which - Mrs. Bradley Martin intends to give du‘ng athe spring, and which, by all accbunts, is going to be on quite as elaborate and cxpensive a scale as the famous one she gave when wishing farewell to the United States. This event has been spoken about in society for a long time, but one thing or another caused it to be postponed, among others, Mrs. Brad- ley Martin's deep mourning for her mother, out of which she only recently emerged. The possibility of Mrs, Bradley Mar- tir being once more able to wear her wonderful jewels (some one who knows tells me that were they all placed to- gether they would turn the scale at half a hundredweight) means a certain cxcitement for London society, for these gems have already caused many a sen- sation. She has now practically de- cided upon her gown and will repre- sent the Queen of Sheba. On this ex- quisite robe emeralds, rubies, pearls and sapphires will fight for supremacy. She is having two of her largest dia- mond tiaras unmounted and fixed so as to oscillate in the manner which has been so much In vogue lately amoay Parisian jewelers. “This arrangement in tiaras will surely prove an anachron- ism on her M from “but Mrs. Martin is not the diz'-.lo take mere details of this description into consideration. For some unexplained reason Mrs. Bradley Martin has never been in great favor with the royal set, though Princess Christian did grace one or two of Ler parties last season. COUNTESS WILL ASSIST. The young Countess of Craven will, of course, help her mother with this great ball, into which, I hear, she will enter when it takes place in the very same sedan chaif as that in which Mrs. Bradley Martin was carried on they uight of her never-to-be-forgotten fes- tivity. It is impossible to imagine a greater contrast between mother and daughter than that which exists between these two ladies. Lally Craven is an exceed- ingly shy young woman, is domesti- cated to a degree, and takes little in- terest in things outside her husband's famous abbey, with its unique kitchen, gardens and fowl yards. Of poultry she is the greatest fancier in the kingdom and the most successful breeder, so much so that her name is a household ward in every farmhouse in England. It is merely to please her mother that she ever enters into society with a large S. But for all that, she has many fast friends. LADY CLARKE COMING. Sir Caspar Purden Clarke, who has charge of the Metropplitan Museum of Art in New York, will not be able to return to England for the marriage of his daughter, which is to take place in March, but after the event Lady Clarke hopes to join her husband for a brief stay in New York. Lady Purden Clarke is bound to be popular among Ameri- cans, for although she is essentially a grande dame, yet her geniality and kindness of heart are proverbial. She is still a strikingly handsome woman and her friends look mystified when she owns to the fact that she has been married quite forty years, for, like all wise women of the age, she looks wonderfully youthtul, giving the idea of being well under 50. She is a brilliant conversationist, uniquely so for an Englishwoman, and she knows almost as much about art as her hus- band. Her London residence ls a treasure house of beautiful things, in which no one period prevails. Persian master- pieces, Chinese curiosities, Moorish cabinets, Majolica gnd Sevres wares, perfeot of their kind, delight the lover of the beautiful. The house is full of surprises in ingle nooks, unusual rooms and cozy corners, while the clever plc- tures, occasionally by artists who have not yet. “arrived,” are a proof of Sir Clarke's unblased desire to help those who show talent. Altogether the house suggests the fine catholicism in art of the host and hostess. B movement to permit him to co-operate with them in any way whatever. Maxime was ordered to show his mettle | by organizing an armed rebellion in the remote province of Saratoff. He mhnd| off to the appointed district and threw himself into the work of offanization with burning zeal. Maxime proved to be no empty-headed demagogue, but soon revealed the fact that he was as much a man of actlon as of words. He procured supplies of arms and ammunition, drilled the peasants, in- | structed them in military tactics. and made all the necessary preparations for armed rebellion. When the favorable mo- ment came he himself led his peasant army against the imperial troops. One great advantage which Maxime possesses over other prominent men in the revolutionary movement is his pe- cuniary independence. He Inherited a fortune from his father and took the pre-- caution of investing it in foreign securi- ties soon after the revolutionary troubles began in Russia. Consequently he is a rich man and in receipt of a regular as- sured Income from this source. Maxime is 3 years of age. ~ -~ - e NEW PRESIDENT OF FRANCE JPRINGS FROM THE PEOPLE /M. Fallieres, who is about to succeed Loubet as President of France, is his country home with its vineyards to the palace in Paris and the salary of $240,000 a year which he will receive. His grandfather was a blacksmith and hie father a court clerk. a man of the people. He prefers —— Pa lace — Special Cable to The Call. PARIS, Feb. 17.—M. Armand Fal- lieres, entering upon his seven years’ reign at the Palace Elysee as President of the French republic at a sal- ary of $240,000 a year, is a living in- dication. of the stability which the re- public has attained. In its days of storm and stress, when it had to fight for existence against enemles within and without, when it had to pick its way amid snares and pitfalls, it need- ed a Keen-witted, brilliant, resourceful. masterful man at its head—a man of the born leader type. Now what it needs above all else is a safe man—a man who can be trusted to keep things jogging along smoothly, to leave well | enough alone and firmly resist all dan- gerous innovations. M. Fallieres is that sort of man— clear hemded, practical, amiable, genial | and tolerant. Kepublicans know that in him they have secured a strictly constitutional Fresident—one who will confine himself absolutely within the strict prerogative of the chief magis-" tracy of a democracy. Though he does not rank high as an orator, the new President is an ef- | fective speaker. Threats and storms— and he has been through many—oring out all that is unylelding in his char- acter. He dealt with political bulug: as his grandfather used to deal wit ! restive horses at his blacksmith's forge. | He is a man of the people—the pro- | vincial people, not the gay, filppant, | chameleon-liko Paris folk by whom | Paris is so often misjudged—and in his own character he typifies the best qual- ities of that people. TRIES TO REDUCE WEIGHT. At the age of 64, despite seven years of official polishing as President of the Senate, he still bears the unmistakable stamp of his peasant origin. People who knew the Fallieres family in the little Gascon village of Mezin say that | the President is physically a reduced edition of his jolly giant of a father, the clerk of the petty court of Mezin, or of his big, burly, jolly grandfather, the blacksmith of the village, in whose house the future statesman was born. He s under the middle height, but what he lacks in length he more than makes up in girth, He rises at 7 o'clock every morning and goes for a long walk to decrease his weight, or, rather, as he says, to prevent himself from grow- ing stouter. Mr. Fallleres was not particularly anxious to. obtain the highest honor in his countrymen’s gift. Indeed, life at the Elysee wili be something like ban-/| ishment for him. He loves his own | “bourgeolse” fireside. He loves his na- | tive Gascony and his plain, comfortable, | thoroughly “‘bourgeoise” country house | —farmhouse—there at Loupillon. He has no great taste for the pomp and show of the Presidential office, no love of the ‘merely conventional proprieties. But he was much of the old Roman re- publican feeling of self-sacrifice to duty and will be found to endure all the ‘ceremonial boredom as smilingly and cheerfully as “Father Loubet” him- self, who goes to the length of attend- ing musical festivals, though he is un- able to distinguish one note from an- other. As a,_ youth Fallieres gave scant promise of ever attaining to greatness. He Wwas quick enough to,learn when he set his mind to it, but that was seldom. He was not a bit studigus, had a posi- tive hatred for text bodks, ‘and his pro- 1 Really Prefers His Country_Home to PALNCES ELYJEE~ THE. OFFICIAL. REJSIDBEMCE NEW. PRESIDENT OF FRANCE, HIS WIFE AND PALACE THEY WILL OCCUPY. —_—— | pensity for larking got him into lots | of scrapes. MEETING WITH LOUBET. “He will never come to any goo the old blacksmith grandfather fre- | who was | quently grumbled. The fathe anxious to make a lawyer of his som, thought that change of scene, of teach- ers and of classmates might Induce him to buckle down to work, and with this object in view sent him to the Lycee of Angouleme. But he continued to shirk his studles as much as possible | when he until the last year of his stay, put on a spurt which just carried him through his baccalaureate examination. He was 18 then. His father next sent him to Paris to study law in the office of an advocate. The selection of one had been left to the boy’'s own judg- ment. Trusting to chance to direct him, he obtained an official list of advocates, opened it at random, closed his eyes and stuek a pin into it. Then he ap- plied for admission at the office of the lawyer whose, name he had pricked. | There was no room for him there, but all the same it would appear that des- tiny had a hand in that chance /pin prick. Some of the clerks took him to a cheap table &’hote in the Latin quarter, where he made the acquaintance of two other law students for whom fame had great things in store—Leon Gambetta and Emlle Loubet. They introduced him. in turn to their set and as a result | he became a redhot Republican and the | time that he should have devoted to the study of law. he gave to politics. Of course he was plucked when he went | for examination to the law school. That was just forty-five years ago. He was recalled in disgrace to his na- tive village. The old blacksmith grand- father, .who .was a stanch Monarchist, held more stoutly than ever to the opin- fon that the young man would come to no good when he found what revolution- ary doetrines he had picked up in Paris. SPURRED ON BY LOVE. All of a sudden, and to the old black- smith's astonishment—to everybody's as- tonishment—the young man turned over a new leaf and ground away at his law books with almost savage en- ergy. The secret of this surprising change? Why, when In Paris young Master Fallieres had fallen in love. Back to Parls he must return and marry the girl of his | | - exercise of his profession that he might ba able to earn a living and set up house- keeping. He p s examination with fiying colors. A er sixties he hied himself to his native Gascony, where he quickly made his reputation as an able advocate who had a knack of win- ning difficult cases. Following the & which he owed to that lucky pen prick, he went in for poli- tics .and became Mayor of Nerac. He held that office when news came to the town of the fall of the empire and the ascent of Gambetta to the Ministry of the Interior. Fallieres Gid not wait for instructions to proclaim the republic and to order the removal of the imperial eagle from the 'public buildings. He first entered Parliament in 1876. His first official post, the Under Secretary- ship in the Ministry of the Interfor, was | givei him by 'Jules Ferry. He rose | steadily in the official hierarchy. He be- came Minister of Public Instruction, Min- ister of the Interior, Minister of Justice, Prime Minister. In 1899, after twenty- wo years of Parliamentary life, he was elected President of the Senate with a salary of 320,00 a year, with the Petit Luxembourd as an official residence. As Presideat of the Republic he will ¢ celve as much in a month as he was paid In a year in the billet which he will vacate to-day. But he will have to spend so much money entertaining that it is doubtful if he will be able to save any- thing out of his pay. Also, he will find the work much harder. The presidency of the Senate is not an arduous pest, and Fallieres, it is said, is fond of taking things easy. HOSPITABLE COUNTRY HOME. Once, when he left one ministerial of- fice for another, the new Minister who | succeeded him found 430 private letters, covered with dust, in the drawer of a | writing table. M. Fallieres had not even opened them. Fallieres loves most the simple coun- try life. Whenever he gets a chance of Rurrying off to his rustic Loupillon he | seizes it. He likes to smoke a pipe and talk vine culture with his old Gas- | con cronies. He is a successful vine grower and his vineyards bring him in | between $10,000 and $15.000 a year. | Among his vines he wears a Dbilouse, brown leggings and a broad-brimmed straw hat. His dwelling house is a square, white-washed, roomy building, with green venetian blinds. It is plain- ly furnished. The servants go about in sabots. The whole atmosphere of the place Indicates an utter' lack of anything approaching social ambition. There M. Fallieres is at home to everybody. He recognizes no caste dis- tinctions. It often happens that some | ccuntryman, standing in the road, will cal! out to him as he is pruning twigs, | “Eh, you man over there, is M. Fal- lieres at home?’ “Yes,” Fallieres will invariably answer; “just walk up to the house while I go for him.” He will then hasten round by a back entrance | and, coming through the hall, greet his visitor with a hearty laugh. Despite his corpulency he is an active man and thinks nothing o? taking a twelve mile ramble in the country, with stout stick and a stout pair of boots and his pipe for company. He is a cap- ital shot and there is nothing that he | enjoys so much as a day’s sport among | the moors or hills. Hig wife is a woman of strong do- mestic tastes and has never made any effort to shine in soclety. She is a rather sober-visaged woman. She Is not above accompanying her cook to | market. | She has never employed a man serv- ant, though she will find the Elysee full of them. Doubtless she will regard the grand functions there a sore trial and | will make 3very effort to remain in the | background. She ha® two grown-up | children, a son and a daughter. The ! tormer is a lawyer of great promise, but unlike his forbears is of frail physique. The daughter Is 31 years old. She has refused several offers of marriage, declaring that her one desire is to remain at home'and look after her | father and mother in their old age. | Strange to say, while M. Fallleres is one of the most conspicuous men In the anti-clerical party, Mme. Fallieres is a devout Catholie. —_——————— Wealth of Henry Irving. | LONDON. Feb. 17.—Probate of the | will of the late Sir Henry Irying has | been granted to his two sons, H. B. and Lgurence Irving. Details of the disposition of the will have already been published. The gross value of the ! | | | choice.” But that necessitated | estate was $102.623, of which the net ualify for the personalty bas been swora Vu *w.l.