The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-11-01

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the Emperor was its Governor. Over thirteen
Years ago oOv vn, onidea ca.nedra on
their rude offerings. and afterwards by the Romans
as temple to Hercules and Mars. But Clovis had
found light and he builded his church-long since
gone to wreck from lightning and tine winds, and
where now stands the highest Gothic spire In the
world-founded in the eleventh century, in the
glow and flame OF Catholicism when Pope ruled
the world with his shepherds crook and religious
drais which are ali over Europe ana in crusades
for the Holy Sepulchre Strasburg was great
city in the time Of Dagobert who was King iSso
1t many good service. Then Louis the Great
seized it, and his held 1t until Bismarck
came In 1870. SO 1t was French for 1S9 years.
When Louis took it there were about 30 600 people;
at the time OF the French Revolution there were
by marriages and births, as an old-fashioned town
should grow. SO the men and women who live
for centuries, and when they go to France il means
the severance from very, very deep roots OF
ancestry, pride, association and affection
THE TRADITIONS or STRASBURG.
Strasburg has other memories. Here Calvin
preached after Geneva quarrelled with him, remain
yersed her affections and he went back to expound
the gospel and contemplate eternity from the
who won the battle Of Marengo and became Duke
OF valmy under Napoleon was born, while just
beyond the walls In valley. from where Baden
monument to Desaix, whose death at Marengo
took from Napoleon all pleasure In the victory.
struggling square called after him, with q bronze
monument OF the General in a high state OF vaior-
was here Goethe studied. and along these green
terraced walks of vauban he walked and unused,
have forgotten it, here one Louis Napoleon Bona
parte big with destiny and following his star came
s %e L Worth as w tse
world goes, as the beginning OF q career
that has ended IN Chiselhurst I was on the soth
and the skies as dark as they are now, suppose,
at daybrcak, when the young Prince, not thirty,
Austertz-the same gate through which your cor
respondent passed this afternoon-and now ten
woman selling toothsome cakes to all who choose
to buy. The Prince had bribed some soldiers to
9n him Of the Fourth aTey and they
went into the large barracks right at the gate at
whose windows you may see twenty fair haired
when they cried aViue SEnps,eSrr' to the in.
rather stupid young man dressed up In the historic
costume OF the great Napoleon, 1t only required the
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And so Louis was sent out to America, to an exile
IN Hoboken, and to events thereafter which the
UNDER LIFE IN sTRAsBURa.
:, Strasburg looks Ike well-patched city. The
evils of the bOmbardment. You only see traces OF
the firing In the new spaces on the repaired walls.
paired. The bridges have been built The owners
Of injured private houses were Unidentified and the
houses rebuilt. The old Library Building is still
ruin, and had sad thoughts as l walked around
it and remembered the two hundred thousand vol
umes burned into ashes-sOme OF them never to be
Alexandrlan Library. But the old city looks bright
and busy and full of interest," and to q new eye
nearly ali open. The Prussari sentry was every.
where, and Prussian officers were always drifting
along the WARM inviting streets + In the evening
and there was quite gathering. But as far as we
could see they were wives and families of Prussian
pie do not go on the ''Platz' when the German
band plays 1t is a mark OF patriotism There
are other "marks OF Patriotism welcome to the
female mind. One is to speak French. If you en-
ter store and ask for anything in German you
will certainly have sullen treatment. Youmay buy
whitsh metal, bearing the coat of arms of Alsace
and Lorraine linked by q chain. Some take their
wearing full mourning, and others by wearing a
peculiar elastic strip in the same colors Joined by
told me were garters. OF these he sold large
quantity, as we'll as of q small stud, representing
an sxloliating flower c9lore pred red white and blue,
derclothing. There is picture also Of a young
woman wearing the waving Alsatlan headdress, her
ss9s rGsssts mo to- s wat sss
France as an angry female scantiiy attiFed, hold
.'kevenge"-most likely. There are caes where
Frenchmen. Generally the Prussian Is ignored by
the peoples but the garrison is building up its own
and take 1t the officers are not lonely. have
seen many housing around the shops or on the
to the music, and good honest wives or sweet.
hearts on their arms, and very comfortable to all
appearances.
HOW THE CITY is REGENERATED
But the young men have gone. That Is the one
fact. Now, under the French law OF conscrption
the number OF recruits based upon the population
who reported to the French c0mmandant In 1870
was nearly two hundred. Under the Prusslan law
had double the number there were just ten who
reported. Only ten young men In all Strasbourg for
the Kaiser And the rest-all Ned over the noun.
the Paris bOulevards asking for work or helping
the winegrowers in Champagne gather their
this is the loss to Strasburg. It is very dficult
to induce an Alsatian to converse with you as a
around the corner and report him he is patriotic
But from some conversations gathered these grew
not Complain we wait. the prussian oaicers are ire
civil enough: They do US no HARM The civil
officers are the worst. See how they have changed
our streets. All the French names have been taken
down and German names painted instead. Why,
a man don't know where he lives any more, and the
cabbies do nothing but swear about It. Our schools
are all taught in German. French is not allowed
unless you pay extra See those fellows at the
You speak French and they answer in German.
girl OF nine, born In Paris, went to the office and
asked for q ticket in French II you don't speak
German I won't answer you, said the man in
the window. All the towns have changed
names. Thionville last year is now called
DiedenhOfen. Ask that railway man for ticket
to Thionville, and he viii say he never heard OF
the place, and 1t is one of the largest towns in
Lorraine. The day of the French surrender here
there was Jete, and the spire OF the cathedral
Illuminated. Was that pleasant-pleasant to
think OF the time when German shells raned
upon our city and we had to dig holes In the en-
bankments and live like moles and rats? We liked
the Germans as neighbors over the Rhine. We
think they mean to do well enough now. Perhaps
we did belong to Germany once, and should be
Germans now But that was 200 years ago. Two
hundred years Is a long time You Americans have
the same language, have the same books and the
same laws. How would you like to have New York
seized by EnglandS That Is our situation. We are
seized by Germany, and must learn a new Ian
guage, observe new laws, and go out and make
war, when the German King commands, upon men
whom we regard as brothers."
PRUssIAN FIRMNEss AND KINDNESS.