The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
Nv.

| There are anecdotes. Some we have
already overpassed; good ones too. AT
page III Gambetta makes his getaway
to use the pure French of the Bowery
He got away in Il balloon the famous NJ
Nadar's. This aeronaut of parts, by the
way, rendered yeoman service TO the
author OF these recollections and. nc
DOUBT. to other gentlemen OF the press
by starting stories" and pictures on
their way to the home office of the bill
footing newspaper. Correspondents of
those days suffered many inconve-
niencos, difficult to realize in these DAYS
OF submarines. motorcycles and wireless:
they had TO walk, for the cab horses had
met the fate OF Alices oysters. The
horrors OF the besieged commissariat are
told with appealing simplicity of gastric
detail. Including good I.aboucherc
story: Toto was eaten. "If he had
only been alive what a treat he would
have had!"
Gambetta left for the provinces on
october from the Place st. Pierre in
one of NJ Madras balloons. Jules Favre
had been asked to undertake the mis-
sion, but the role of Icarus was not
to his liking. Gambctta WAS glad
to go as he feared Paris was be-
ing too much thought of as the ma
tion. Granting n possible surrender
or the capital, and at the rate cab
horses were going It seemed decidedly
grantable. the rest of the country must
stand fast. Fortunately, as the SEQUEL
proves. Gambetta was young and agile:
he was born In April 1898, and was SO
In the year OF the siege.
in coat and cap OF fur. looking like a
Polish jew. Gambetta rose to the occa-
sion. Some reminiscents say he was
nervous while the gas bag was filling.
to this one he appeared TO he In a re-
markably good humor" Perhaps II was
'biun'; Leon WAS an artist. even IL he
never could attain the look OF ease i'm
evening clothes. "Lachez tout" the
cables are loosed, and up goes the in
hated pouch, to cries OF "Vive la Rcpub-
lique,' "Nive Gambctta." Leon. lean
ing over the side OF the car. waves his
cap to the cheering crowd.
Every Dutchman outside the city
walls took a pot shot at the balloon.
Touche? No! Let us descend. AT 200
rect German bullets whistle: an outpost.
Up again Gambetta's name Is clipped
Dy searching bullet. Four o'clock T.
NJ: the alrship catches in an oak near
Roye in the Somme. Business OF angry
hayseeds, installing the voyager of the
tenuous attitudes for a Prussian: this is
NJ. Gambetta come with us. then. to the
house of Monsieur le Marie dc Tricot.
Afterward the bold Leon made the COM
monplace declaration that. seen from
his cloud ship. the earth looked like n
huge carpet woven chancewise with
Inherent Colored woods" Next dav
ne reached Rouen and issued his cele-
DRAFTED call upon France To make its
compact with victory or death. Patrick
Henry beat him 10 It," VI. Vizetellv
translates. with moro "go" than literary
quality. probably quite In justice 10
tho original, some verses of Albert
Millaud. of Hebrew and perhaps lie
Petit Journal descent:
o thou more hairy than King Ciodion.
Bearer on high OF this report
Thou yeIower than a pure Cambodian
Ana far more daring than King Clodion.
Wen cast thy statue in coilodion
And mount II on a gas retor,
o thou more hairy than King Cloiion,
Bearer on high OF this report!