The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1912-02-10
New York In Insurreetion.

IN violent contrast with this scene
Of destruction, close at hand were
the huge newspaper establish
ments of Park row. They were
all alight and working; they had not
been abandoned even while the actual
bomb throwing was going on, and now
STAFF and presses were vehemently &C.
tive, getting out the story. the i'm
mense and dreadful story of the night.
Fol Bert Smallways all this was
framed in the frame of the open port
hole. 1t was a pale, dim world out
side that dark and tangible rim. All
night he had clutched at that rim,
jumped and quivered at explosions
and watched phantom events. Now
he had been high and now low, now
almost beyond hearing, now flying
close to crashings and shouts and out
cries. He had seen airships flying low
and swift over darkened and groaning
streets, watched great buildings sud
denly red lit amid the shadows crum
pie at the smashing impact Of bombs,
witnessed for the first time In his life
the grotesque, swift onset of Unsuitable
CONGREGATIONS. From it all he felt de-
tached, disembodied. The Vaterland
did not even fling a bomb; she watch
ed and ruled. Then down they had
come at last to hover over City Hall
park, and 1t had crept in upon his
mind chiliingly, t~errifyingly, that
these illuminated black masses We're
great Offices afre and that the going
to and fro of minute, dim specters of
lantern lit gray and white was a har-
vesting of the wounded and the dead.
As the light grew clearer he began to
understand more and more what these
crumpled black things signihed.
He had watched hour after hour
since first New York had risen out of
the blue indistinctness of the landfall.
With the daylight he experienced an
fntolerable fatigue.
He lifted weary eyes to the pink
flush in the sky, yawned immensely
and crawled back, whispering to him
self, across the cabin to the locker. He
did not so much lie down upon that as
fall upon It and instantly become
asleep.
There, hours after, sprawling undig-
nifed and sleeping profoundly, Kurt
found him, a very image of the demo-
cratic mind confronted with the prob
lens of a time too complex for its ap-
p~rehension. His face was pale and in
different, his mouth wide open, and he
snored. He snored disagreeably.
Kurt regarded him for a moment
with a mild distaste. Then he kicked
his ankle.
"wake up" he said to Smallways'
stare, "and lie down decent"
Bert sat up and rubbed his eyes.
ANY more fghtin' yet?" he asked.
NO." said Kurt and sat down, a
tired man.
"Gott," he cried presently, rubbing
his hands over his face. but I'd like
q cold bathi I've been looking Ior
stray bullet holes in the air chambe s
all night until now" He yawned- II
must sleep. You'd better clear out,
S~mallways. l can't stand you here
this morning. You're so Internally
ugly and useless. Have you had your
rations? No! Well. go in and get 'em.
and don't come back. Stick to the gall
lery."
So Bert. slightly refreshed by coffee
and sleep, resumed his helpless CO.
operation in the war in the air. He
went down into the little gallery as
the lieutenant had directed and chung
10 the rail at the extreme end beyond
the lookout man, trying to seem as In
conspicuous and harmless a fragment
OF life as possible.
A wind was rising rather strongly
from the southeast. 1t obliged the Va
terland to come about in that direction
and made her roll a great deal a she
went to and fro over Manhattan Island.
Away in the northwest clouds gath
cred. The Vaterland was stationed over
the temporary city hall in the Park
Row building. and every now and