Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-30

vera House seen over the tops VI inc
have been officially prorogued thirty days.
days.
All empty barrels have been requisition-
d by the municipality for building Dafrl-
cades.
Project of Police Lepine has reauisi-
| toned all boats belonging to Lanu Park
Several boats have been placed at the
disposal of the American embassy.
Women Go Calling in Boats.
Parisians are recovering from their ap-
prehensions of Friday and are taking life
| somewhat less gloomily. Ladies insist
upon embarking in small boats and call
| ing on friends whose houses are in flooded
streets.
1t is drolI to watch ladies clad in all
the vagaries of present fashions awk-
wardly stepping in and out of clumsy
boats while attendant cavaliers assist
them to the best of their ability. Crowds
watch the performance with tremendous
interest.
Entrance to many houses is through the
windows. Calling is certainly done under
difficulties in such instances.
Tive remarkable circumstances in con-
nection with the flood are the lack of
casualties and the absence of footing
Only tn ee lives have been lost through
subsidences. Plundering In the city is
pract cally non-existent.
To be sure, the military authorities have
taken the matter OF salvage in hand and
have ordered the soldiers to fire on any
suspicious persons. But the apaches are
not usually dete. red even by such pre-
cautions.
Some money has been made by loafers
getting small boats and going TO houses in
habited by old people and insisting that
immediate rescue Is necessary. They de-
mand money and, when they receive 1t,
disappear, excited residents screaming
after them until officers arrive and tell
them their homes a.e safe and there is
no need to leave the premises.
Apaches Worry Suburbs.
News comes from the suburbs that the
Apaches, despite the threat that they will
be given no quarter by the soldiers, are
trying TO loot where there are signs OF
the greatest desolation.
At Ivry a young Apache was found
hanging to the doorpost of house. NO
attempt is being made to find his muir
derer, nobody caring, apparently, whether
he is caught or not. AS a matter OF fact.
everybody is relieved by the death of one
of these hooligans. who are causing trou-
bic even in the hour of greatest distress.
At st. Maurice IA band of apaches in
vaded first aid post where several res
cued persons were lying injured. After
doing all possible damage to the articles
in the place, apparently out of pure
deviltry, they left. taking with them the
clothing of the refugees. AS soon as
this was known at Vincennes a crowd
Courage and Self-Sacrifice.
As against this many acts of courage
rta1 doll
Frenchmen are showing great tran
uuillity and decency in this time of trial
Poor people are helping one another to
move or are taking in distressed neigh
bors. The rich are offering their houses
as shelters to homeless friends who find
difficulty in finding accommodations at
hotels
erywhere. The Archbishop of Paris goes
around every night visiting the suburbs
and dangerous quarters, helping the VIC
tins with money and food.
Many provincial and suburban sufferers
are housed in various public buildings.
Curiously enough the wish OF the ma
jority of these is to return Immediately
to their villages.
Sanitary authorities are anxious that
they should not go into their houses, even
after. the water is pumped out, until pre-
cautions are taken against disease.
Traders Are Mobbed.
Traders who are trying to raise the
prices of the necessities of life are hav-
ing a bad time. A crowd collected out
side a grocery store in Faubourg du Tenn
pie, smashed the windows and attacked
the shop assistants.
Five revolver shots were fired from a
| window above the shop. A woman was
| wounded.
The crowd then raided the shop. They
then rushed to another shop and wound
ed the manager.
A serious incident occurred at the
commissariat of police, which has been
! removed to the Quail de LHorloge. Last
night a legion of rats invaded the
premises. The super ntendent. believing
the offices were attacked by hooligans,
| rushed to the rescue armed with re-
yolyer.
He had terrible time saving himself
| from the hungry horse. After emptying
his revolver he fought desperately with
| stick and with his fists. He was
badly bitten.
American Relief Subscriptions.
| Subscriptions for relief of sufferers are
increasing every hour. The fund now
amounts to $4,000.
! The principal contributors are Morgan
| Harjes & Co.. 5000; Ambassador bacon,
$1,000: F. w. Sharon, 5000; Altman &
! Co, $1,000; c. Miller $1,000; Tiffany &
| Co., $1,000. Others have given amounts
ranging from $500 to 5000.
| Ambassador Bacon pr~sloed this after
noon at a meeting of the chamber OF
| commerce A number of prominent
| American men and women We're present.
| Mr.. Bacon depicted the sorrowful posi-
| ton of the sufferers. He said the French
government has declared it would be
glad to receive help from the United
States. 1t was greatly touched by the
| sympathy exhibited by Americans.
I Mr.. Bacon exhorted those present to
| subscribe freely to the relief fund. He
wished it to be the largest ever sub
scribed by American residents in Paris
/ for any cause.
"aNled disr atches were read by Mr.
Bacon from all parts of the United States
/ inquiring for many American residents
! in Paris. especially students living in
the Latin quarter. Mr.. Bacon said he
| was glad to state that the Americans
| were not greatly Inconvenience so far