The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-02-01
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 HOMELESS Seine Receding Slowly Ow- ing to Clogging of Trib- Human Vandals Continue Their Reign of Plunder
 and Pillage
Worst Is Over In Paris and Frenchmen Again Become
 Gay and Festive
Special from United Press.)

Special from United Press) ], Paris, Feb. -Four Apaches wer 1ynched this afternoon at Issy. The! were caught footing an abandoned house and captured by a posse of in furiated citizens.
 Two robbers were fatally shot a Boulogne- sur-Seine in running fgh between a band of pillagers and thu police. The robbers were surprised while robbing a house. The remain der of the gang escaped in thei boats.
 Paris, Feb. 1.-Citizens of a dozer suburbs of Paris are organizing them selves into militia companies to wal against the thieves and Apaches whose depredations are still carried -or in a high handed manner despite the summary punishment that has been in flicted on a dozen or more.
 Billancourt, Neuilly, Asnieres, Sevres Argenteuil and Issy all report running battles between the looters and the cit izens and police. Several of the thieves have been captured and there are un- confirmed reports that hangings have occurred.
 Choisy-Le-Roi and Crysmarne are two other towns that are overrun with thieves. Two desperadoes in the form CT town were shot by the authorities.
 The Pont De L'Alma, the Place De L'Alma and the Avenue Versailles were lighted tonight with tar torches several of the flooded sections were 1ce-bound The change is welcomed twithstanding the suffering on the poor that it entails for it means con- tinuation of theeSeine's decline.
 Flooded streets and parks in parts of Paris and the suburbs have been turned into skating rinks by the joy loving Frenchmen who refuse to let their loss stand in the way of their pleasure.
 Paris, Feb. From o'clock yester' day morning to o'clock today the Seine fell but two inches at Pont Du Austerlitz. measuring 25 feet and inches today.
 The slow fall is attributed to tht fact that there has been slight rise in the river Yonne a tributary of the Seine The rise in the Tonne is no expected seriously to affect the Seine No rapid falling of the Seine is eX- pected until the tributaries and upper reaches of the Seine are relieved:
 An urgent appeal was made today bJ O1IlC1alS or -NICHii6Vlll6ISS, <AIIOl W iiO livery. Issy. Putux and other suburbs for the government to pay more at tention to their needs, which are con sidered proportionately greater thar those of Paris itself
 Aside from rescuing people in the suburbs the authorities have giver them little attention with the result that there is the most acute suffering in the suburbs and a more imminent of fhara is iT Paris. Everything has been sacrificed so far to save Paris and now that the danger is practically over here. the towns are demanding attention.
 Disinfecting crews and lime carts are now seen in .all parts of Paris. As q sample of the needs of the city ir the way of disinfectioe orders were is- This will be spread over the city and scattered in basements as fast as il arrives All over the city there are blazing piles of rubbish and flood ref use. Bed mattresses are a favorite item in the menu of the flames.
 Other signs of the gigantic cleaning up that Paris must pass through IT the next two weeks are painters ano scrubbers and puffng engines that are bravely trying to empty basements ir sections that are now above the gen. era1 spread of water.
 The reaction has set in and Paris ians are going at the work of read justment with light hearts.
 There were fewer serious after-ef- fccts of the flood today than on any day since the river began to recede A few more sidewalks caVed in and one small building collapsed.
 Engineers today made a careful ex- animation of all the Seine bridges ano declared that none of them had been seriously damaged and all were again thrown open to the public. A pro- posal today to send thousands of the homeless to the unaffected country dis tricts until conditions have improved here is not meeting with much suc- cess. The government offers to de- fray the, expenses of any thus deport- cd but the poor themselves are those who are objecting. They do not want to quit their hCmes for any length of time and so remain charge on the city. There are still between 150 00t and 200 900 homeless to provide for and while the work of caring for them has been syste matized to an appre- ciabIe extent over the haphazard ear Iy relief. the task is still testing the authorities to the limit.
 A further examination of the city mains today brought the statement from the engineers today that they are not damaged to the extent al first supposed. Many of them, they believe, will have to be shut off from the general sewage system until re- paired.
 The receding waters are constantly revealing huge washouts under the streets which will have to be filled in before traffic will be safe upon the streets.
 The work of restoring gas and cleo tric connections is proceeding slowly and it will be weeks before normal heating and lighting facilities are re- stored.
 It is feared that the electrical work CTS will take advantage of the oppor- tunity to declare another strike in which event the government an- nounces it's intention of calling on it's army electricians and protecting them with the full strength of the military. The declaration of a strike now would meet with such public disapproval that it is believed the counsels of those opposed to a strike would be hoe0p0