El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-14
WAR ENLIVENS
LIVERPOOL No
DULLNESS FELT.
Presents Striking Contrast
to London Dizziness
and Fear.
WAREHOUSES; ARE
ALL WE'LL FILLED

liverpool. Eng, Nov. 14.-If Lon
doners. enshrouded in Stygian
~ darkness from nighFall to day
break and ousted from clubs and public
houses al 10 o'clock each evening, could
spend "a hours in this city they woulo
find it difficult to believe they were
still in England. For while the war
has meant ever increasing deadly dull
ness for London it has served as a whip
in stimulating business and social actlV-
tiles in Liverpool -...4..,zo
London's characteristic bldse attltuue1
its refusal to show enIh u I,ls 80 49,
anything. may account Tor the IdCt ma
regiments of troops daily march
through the streets and even entralh
at the big railway staJlonS IoT me
front-withOut evoking so much as
single cheer or the waving OF an
ieoiated handkerchief Whatever the
reason, London refuses to lift itself out
of what seems to the casual observer a
bOttomless slough of dependence put
which perhaps is more accurately de-
scribed as its habitual refusal TO eA-
press any emotion.
Liverpool Very Different
In Liverpool things are very different
On all sides, in every quarter, there
is animation, enthusiasm, the HVehest
of scenes Arriving at the Northwest
ern station last night Americans plan
ming to take passage today for New
York found the huge shed filled with
crowd of men and women, old ana
young, all with flags and all working
themselves into as near a frenzy rs the
British temperament permits Several
hundred boy scouts and half as many
policemen acted as guards to keep the
populace within limits. Three bands
in different parts of the station played
nuOusly-different tunes that
hnd a GA r1c
full assault on harmony.
Is Repeated Nightly.
This scene, it seems, is repeated al
most every night, the occasion being the
dispatch to France of newly formed
COMMUNICATIVE six months encamp-
ment on the east coast between them
and the firing line. This fact doesn't
seem TO matter to Liverpool, however.
The sendOff accorded these additions to
k1tchenerS new army might be the re-
ception to returning cOnqueTers
Outside the station LOndOners' eyes
are fairly blinded by the brilliant il
Illumination of streets and shop fronts.
Crowds swing along the sidewalks. The
theaters disgOrge big crowds crowds
with dancing eyes and happy faces. The
pubs" are doing a land office bust
ness at midnight, the hotels show
brave arrays of men and women in
don this commercial city which Eng
land chooses to call its Pittsburg in
ordinary times, has become a super
Paris.
By day along the river front, Liver
pool offers emphatic evidence that her
navy liverpool proudly insists it is
her navy is keeping the seas open for
her shipping. Scores of steamships
many Of them big passenger steamships
Of the greyhound class are unloading
cargoes heretofore carried only by
freighters.
Warehouses Are Filled.
A walk along the Mersey docks re-
veals the fact that at this moment
there is hardly one warehouse left that
is not bursting with newly arrived
necessaries of life Literally mountains
Of wheat and oats and sugar and corn
are heaped in the big warehouses. And
all day long the streets are crowded
with drays transferring tons Of these
raw materials to the various railway
stations for transhipment to EngIand's
mills. The traffic congestion in these
streets today makes New York's busiest
street look like a country lane
OF course Liverpool can afford TO
laugh at talk of Zeppelins-it's as far
from London as Boston is from New
York-but the impression Liverpool is
giving to the least observant visitor is
that she would continue to be busy ana
enthusiastic and altogether cheerful
even though this airship raid bogev
were as real as it is in London.