Charlie and Stephen Marsh
New Ipswich Historical Society
On this day - October 4, 1897
William Jurian Kaula diary
I spent yesterday in waiting and hunting after Bentley and divided my time at the Club and writing notes at the Hotel Louvre. I took a room in the "Menagerie" for the night and met Bentley at an early hour in his room. Jack has been to London to buy Turkish tobacco and has made such a successful business transaction that he was in high spirits. There are two others with him, two Greeks, one is his business partner in Boston. They came to Paris to see the sights and have a good time and it looked as if they were having great success. Mr. Timayenis is Jack's partner and a most remarkable man for his versatility. He was at one time one of the professors in French in the Chataqua and in one of the New York schools of languages and has written a complete history of Greece which has sold into the hundred thousands and as it was a work of so much merit it won for him the degree of PhD at Harvard and the King of Greece has bestowed upon him some high decoration - the name of which I cannot remember, but it has only been conferred upon six men. Last winter Mr. Timayenis wrote a play that was produced in New York and Washington that netted him $18000. Yet this man prefers business to the fine arts. As partners they are a good pair, and as friends they think so much of each other that they seem to live for each other. Mr. Timayenis is somewhat extravagant and Jack has his hands full in trying to prevent him from spending vast sums. I went with them to the Palais Royal among the jewelery [sic] shops where they were all but on laying in a supply of bijoux that simply dazed me. It is a long time since I saw so much money spent so quickly. The other Greek is named Pappaelia and conducts a tobacco business in London. Therefore I was rolling in luxury of good cigars and Turkish cigarettes. These men had made flying trips all over Paris and only Mr. Timayenis knew anything about the city as he was once a student here. They did not care much for ordinary sights and so I could not interest them much on suggesting much about the art treasures of the city. I took them to the great fête in progress in the Latin Quartier and to the rendezvous of the students at the Café D'Harcourt. During the evening we visited the Casino de Paris, one of the largest concert halls in the city where we sat at the table watching the variety show which was not lively enough. So we took a cab for the famous Moulin Rouge. One of the first places of amusement the average American or Englishman visits is the Moulin Rouge. I have often heard it said that the place could hardly exist if it were not for the patronage of the foreigners. It is a music hall similiar [sic] to the Bal Bullier in the Latin Quarter. The Moulin Rouge is in the Montmartre Quarter. There was very little to be seen here that was new - if I visited this place ten months or so ago I would have been thunderstruck to see the dancing done by the girls employed by the management.
Note: bijoux = jewelry
Note: Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, a Greek American, wrote several books and was engaged in numerous business ventures. Over time, he was considered a fraud, a plagiarist, and embezzler and had many scrapes with the law and our court system. Eventually, Greece dis-owned him and his books were considered either scandalous or completely plagiarized. See below:
Telemachus Thomas Timayenis
Book - A History of Greece, 1883
Book - The American Jew: An Expose of His Career, 1888
Website re scandals of Timayenis
On this day - October 4, 1908
James Roger diary entry
4th (Sunday)
Fine bright forenoon, clouding afterwards, wind varying to N.E. Mr. Peacock preached on the “Joy of Harvest”. Church decorated with corn pumpkins. & corn &c. No Sunday school at a meeting of S.S. it was voted to give five dollars to Col. Carpenter of the Salvation Army who is to be the preacher next Sunday. C.E. Topic: Vows F. Whittemore leader.
Why does it not surprise me that Kayla we hang out with such rogues? Why do I keep reading his diaries?