The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-02-19
Scenes In, Paris
Under Water
(From the Argonaut.)

(From the Argonaut)
By the worst of the
great know what we have to dpore At
the moment of writing the end not yet in sight for here The H
Geographic Department says that the devourng will
another days. and strange how willing believe good
from the that issued its warnings only SCOT
fng For beevd that the Seine any
The ancient Romans gave the b half the
Partisan to the Seine which has been orderly for centuries and
las seemed almost be gift from the Great Architect for
Fcaon of the French capital The photographic Department told
expect Metaphoray rung the ocn in our ears day
and night but the Parans did
basement and they ocked the quay and bridges watch the oily
river below and speculate when the foc would Indeed
thousands working upon
the embankmen and when bridge watched by tong work
the debris should would
catastrophe Paris the Partisan the holy fame OF civilization and
protected by the gods from calamity Menace threat could
today with calamity accomplished fact and
goes the cafe usual when he there boat but
he sits in silence Some Of the theaters are open but the audiences
makes his from quarter best he and
silent crowds around the Place de Opea the
autonary ropes will allow for the famous Place shows signs of sub
gpe ' raises his and Bn n one l5ugbs O~ which e i s for
the Partisan always laughs when the genarme discounted Making
the Place de Concode find practically under water
and told that subdnces have already occurred here We
get into the Louvre all is isolated and the Tueries Gar
den but The of the Louvre still in high spirits He that
the long yet before vets the feet of his statute
and although the bon Deu be indifferent indeed he
but the oens are not favorable Nore Dame at least enjoys no
exemption the hosts people would willingly up
Dame surrounded and the cp flooded But large numbers
the faithful be found the other churches and the
uneasng but what prayers do long the wind blows from
the quarter and The me of the churches
Throne of
open the relief of the homeless and the hungry Other dvotees adopt
ether large the faithful has the image
St Gneveve carried through the flooded districts the left
bank of the order that the patron of Paris for
herself what has happened avor and take such remedial
her proper But whatever St Genevev
fit for r would be well for her do quickly the still
rising and even patron saints may become little drowsy when they
The ugest the the
a classes The Paris Apache we'll named for cold booded
ue apacy he resembles nothing much the of the
Western plains Paris orderly and alert hardly cope with him. and
work the Apache feels that he has last entered into his and
that rob and plumber and murder his black hearts
tent In quarters the citizens have organized themselves in self
1oeon patrols
fer the thug and the desperate The patrols make prisoners The
criminal who caught grane decto treated drub
bling and then uneemOniouy tossed into the sink
With preference for the former, and the river present
favorable natatOry Quite number of bodies evidently of
Apaches ashor When the soldiers Apache
they shoot him the spot But with the of the homeless people
there trouble whatever Martial law has been thought of
There hunting of the people about Strdent orders
no ve of brief authority shouting hecorng Parans would
themselves bayOneted
praise when every soldier policeman
needed for the physical labor of salvage.
Il AS have said the end for the riveris still rising
il the flood when the scientists that will the
three days add UNNECESSARILY the misery and the destruction
Icf which now is impossible to form estimate
ST MARTIN.
e. Paris, January 27 1910,