El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-11
WAR WORKS CHANGES ON PARIS;
MANY FAMILIAR FACES MISSING
Ones Favorite Waiter Leav es and So Do Others; Not
All Are Soldiers; One Su spects that Hermann"
For Instance, Met Fa te of the Spy; How an
ulegitmate Son of Noted Sire
Lived and Goes to War.

dered why only one Berlin paper
seemed 10 need such Correspondent :
and that so badly he had an assls Tan
and .. secretary --. H.
mann possessed a wonderful cooe' q
system of numbers to represent horses
names. owners and jockeys names
etc, by which he said he coul9 seAu I
full days racing results ana LoIeIet9 =
in q few numbers. Now people are go-
ing round saying all this was Dllhu
and his cipher code was used LOT ollei
But perhaps these are calumnies,
and that he is doing his military GUY :,
and not lying in the ditch at Nlhcelilie s
after facing a firing squad
Other Disappearance
Sometimes a great man blows ln lo
the little community a cor g Z o-leL,- 49, :
titulaire," or chief correspondent, ~ "
ably wearing a red ribbon IN his put
tonhoIe. From time to time the Paris
reporters were greeted by the represent
tative Of the official news agency o.
a great European power An eluelLs
pleasant man he was, always anxious
TO know what we knew. and IN my
case. what America thought OF various
events. He did not leave Paris VIII
his fellow countrymen during the first
few days after the declaration OF war,
The same dread whisper went round
.sHave You heard that poor old Blitz
Ito give him a name not his own has
been shotT7 But in this case, at any
rate, rumor was lying. Old Blltz was
arrested. kept in prison some days, then
allowed to 20 TO his consuls house as
a prisoner on parole, and evenJual!S
left Paris by the train that carried ms
AMBASSADOR away
Another friend who has gone to
Avmon de Beauregard, a bright young
Freuchman who wrote two promising
novels in his early 2Os and then pre-
ferred the devious byways Of Parlslan
Journalism to Straightforward Work
There is no mystery about his dlsap-
pearance. He had to join the colors
and did so Before leaving ne san. saLo
goodby and could not restrain his tear 5
as he wondered what would become OF
his petite annie" She Is an lla4lan
he had brought back from Monte Carlo
some two years ago and he was leaV-
ing her penniiesS-
The aristocratic name he bore was
his by adoption only He was an II
legitimate son Of wealthy man VINO
died without leaving the mother on
Avnou and four others a cent In
those days inegitimacy appeared on d
mans papers and was q terrible Cd
stacIe to success in life This man
used to make a living publishing
naper called the Midday Dispatch
II was never published lie Wou4u
have a copv printed from time to time
when financial houses were issuing
loan and would receive a sum from 8
to $50 for the promise Of publicity IN
its columns, or rather for the absence
of criticism. He printed 40 such pa
pers, the only difference being in the
name. With such a paper a man lH
] France can get free railroad transpor-
tation, a police pass and various priv
ileges The days when Russia was
borrowing largely from France were
the fat days for such journals be
tween loan issues their proprietor;
vane-a1Iv nick up a few dollars by
giving information 10 the police