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gowns and hats from Paris, and the
men of the same class look as though
they had just come out of a bandbox.
There are fine gents furnishing stores
the latest models from Paris. The SOL
diers wear fine uniforms and the po-
licemen have suits of white duck with
white helmets. Altogether the people
are as well clad as those of similar
classes in the United States. and the
business and professional men are
more particular as to their dress than
we are.
Santiago is not cheap city in which
to live. 1t is a town of the very rich
and the very poor. Many of the citi-
zens own large estates out in the coun-
try and live at the capital, where they
have magnificent houses and entertain
in grand style. The city has munich
pal theater subsidized by the govern
ment. This gives a season of Italian
opera which lasts for eighty nights.
The companies are brought from Italy
and nearly every person of prominence
has his own box that costs $400 or $500
in gold. On such fashionable occasions
full dress Is always worn and the
ladies are resplendent with diamonds
The men keep their heads bare during
falls every man puts on his hat. He
may stand up in his seat and sweep the
house with his opera glass, staring at
such of the ladies as interest him.
There is a great deal of visiting among
the friends in the boxes during the in
termissions and the opera is more of
a social occasion than a musical one.
Another social feature is the races,
which are usually held upon Sundays.
Santiago has one of the finest race
tracks of the world. 1t is outside the
city on plain surrounded by noun
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and not a few have each cost 100000
and upward. Nearly every great house
has some legend connected with it.
There is magnificent one on the Ala
media whose plans were drawn in Paris
and sent out to the builders. In some
way they got the plans mixed and put
the back of the house to the street, and
SO it is to this day.
Now we are in the business part OF
Santiago. Here there are many fine
buildings that have grown up within
the past few years. There are mag
nificent stores with the goods of the
latest patterns from Europe. The town
is noted for it's fine window displays
and it's many arcades The business
they are not skyscrapers makes it
possible TO cut these covered passage
ways through them. roofing the ar
cades with glass. Often a block con-
tanning several acres will have ar
cades that cross one another at right
angles. Each Is a favorite prone
made. for the Opaque roof shuts out the
heat of the sun and at the same time
gives plenty of light The stores in
the arcades bring good rents.
l find great difference in the
stores of Santiago over those that I
saw here about fifteen years ago. At
that time there was no attempt at dis
play. The prices were not marked on
the goods. and nearly all dealing was
a matter of bargain and sale. Now
every large store has it's plate glass
changed from day to day. This revolu-
tion was caused about four years ago
by the Inauguration of a department
store. This was branch of a big
Buenos Ayres establishment. 1t sold
goods at fixed prices and had expert
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buildings of all South America. The
capitol building is surrounded by gar
dens filled with tropical trees. includ-
ing great palms, the trunks OF which
are as large around as a hogshead. al
though they are not more than thirty
feet high.
Now look down over your feeti
Right under you begins the Alameda.
the Pennsylvania avenue or Common
wealth avenue of Santiago 1t is lined
with magnificent buildings and here
and there over the whole city you can
see the spires of churches rising above
the roofs of the buildings. You can
also see trees apparently growing
right out of the houses. Those trees
are in the patios. Many of the build
about gardens, filled with roses and
palms and other tropical trees.
But let us go down from Santa Lucia
and take a ride through the city. There
are plenty of street cars with woman
conductors. who will give us a seat on
the roof for five or six cents. or we
can get an automobile quite as cheap
choose the motor car. and fly this way
and that through the town. How big
the houses are and how low! The
older ones cover acres and but few OF
them have more than two stories. They
are made Of brick. plastered with stuc-
CO and painted in the brightest Of col
ors. In the best parts Of the city the
architecture is Greek The doors are
upheld by pillars and venture there
are more Corinthian and Doric columns
in Santiago than in Athens. Others of
the residences are like Italian palaces,
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woman can come into a religious SerV-
ice wearing a bonnet, and the only ac-
ceptable costume is dead black with a
manta of black crepe wrapped around
the face close under the chin and fas-
tened there with a brooch. Or it may
be pinned at the back of the neck with
a black pin. Some of the young women
are now wearing black wells instead OF
these mantas and not few OF them
have black dresses that are cut rather
low at the neck. have seen girls IN
mantas wearing shoes of white kid and
iight-colored gowns. but this is not
considered good taste.
The manta is often used for shopping
during the morning. the better clothes
being reserved for the promenade be-
tween and in the afternoon. the
hours when every one goes along the
chief business streets to see and be
seen. The manta has the advantage
that it can be thrown on quickly, and
also that il hides any Slovenly dress
ing beneath. To my mind 1t is far bet
ter than the headgear of our women
and it makes many a homely face al
most beautiful, throwing it out. as it
were, against the black crepe. 1t has
the disadvantage. however. that it is
the common street garb of the Santl-
ago girls who are not so good as they
should be. So dressed these little sim
ners have the appearance of saints, and
no stranger would imagine the class TO
which they belong until a look from
the tail Of their eyes gave him the
wink.
I would say, however. that the Chill
cans are usually well dressed. The
richer women import many of their
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from the continent and relying on the
official bulletins altogether for the
news of the war. AS things are at
present thousands of dollars are being
absolutely wasted on telegraph tolls,
for no one can tell when he is te1e-
graphing whether or not the censor
ship will have issued some new regula-
tion that makes all that he has tele-
graphed useless.
The latest order. issued the other
week. decreed that nothing must be
printed from the seat of war referring
to anything that has happened within
five days previously or within twenty
miles of the front. Accompanying this
was an order that any analysis of the
official reports or speculations on the
military situation must be submitted
to the censor before publication.
This order was aimed at the military
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the correspondents who have been work
ing in the rear of the allied armies in
France. and they are being rounded up
and sent home under parole not to reveal
anything that they have heard or seen
One of these men. who returned couple
of days ago, had stumbled quite by acci
dent into the French headquarters. and
he had an exciting time. He was taken
at first for German spy and was for
some time in danger of being shot. Final
ly he convinced the French general that
he was a newspaper correspondent and
he was ordered to be detained. He was
)kept in hotel for two days and very
well treated, but closely guarded until a
British officer arrived to take charge of
him. He was then allowed to return
home on giving his pledge to keep his
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even go near the office to explain or
apologize, but he went straight to the
depot of a famous regiment that is now
fighting on the Aisne. and enlisted as a
private He is now working night and
day to make himself fit. and he expects
to go to the front in a few weeks and
wipe out the stain resulting from a
moment of alteration.
The writer witnessed AN interesting
little scene yesterday when man
asked soldier in uniform to have a
drink The soldier refused. kitch-
ener has told us to cut out wine, he
said land most of our fellows have
taken the pledge until the war is over.
But Bod help those Germans when
we get at them. All our chaps blame
them for the fun we're missing.
Generations yet unborn will curse
this war. and there are 4 lot of babies
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his bayonet into the hilt and dis
charged his rife. Il couldn't have
prevented 1t II I had tried" said the
young officer.
Among those who are doing very
well out of the war is the British
branch of the Standard Oil Company.
The British army and navy are using
immense quantities of oil and petrol
and the Anglo-American is supplying
nearly all of IT. This is due to it's de-
termination to take no undue advan-
tage Of the situation. Its great com
petitor. which boasts of being an all
British company, although it is closely
connected with the great German oil
combine. tried to screw up prices and
its directors were contemptuously re-
ferred to by Winston Churchill, first
lord of the admiralty, as patriots at
a price" high official OF the Anglo
American tells me that his company's
sale sales since since the the. beginning of the war
corresponding period last year.
enlistment in the new army goes on
at an astonishing rate, and includes
men of all ranks and every class Over
6o0 British newspaper men alone have
Joined the colors. and about half of
them come from London. In one news
paper office eight out of the staff of ten
reporters have joined. while the com
posing room and circulation department
stats are seriously depleted. One OF
the most popular units is the naval
brigade which Winston Churchill is or
ganizing for land service. Churchill
was a newspaper man himself once.
and, anyway. there is always special
glamour about the senior service" as
the navy is called in this country.
Fully half the newspaper men who
have Joined are in the naval brigade.
and they say that they hope to be
ready for active service by Christmas,
while kitchener's troops are not sched-
uled for the front until the spring:
But, then, you see. were the navy,
they say. in explanation of this raoid-
ity in training.
1t is only fair to say however, that
some of the units of Kitchener's army
are making tremendous progress In
fact. so rapidly have some of the men
got on that they will run the navy very
close. and the training officers have re-
ceived instructions to pick out the keen
and efficient men and form them into
companies of their own, leaving the
slackers and slow coaches behind. In
this way it is likely that a good many
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experts on the various newspaper
staffs. who have been explaining the
campaign from day to day to their
readers There is no doubt that this
order, at least. is fully justified. as some
of the experts have been drawing on
their private knowledge of British
strategy in a way that might have
made their articles very useful to the
Germans if they had reached them.
This is particularly true, the writer is
told, in the case of one expert who
has been for years in the confidence of
the war office and whose articles bear
the stamp of authority Some of them
recently have been amazingly inform
ative and some time ago he was
warned by the authorities to be more
careful.
The net is being tightened. too. around
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regiments will be ready long before
the scheduled time.
X
Here is a little story of newspaper
man who is redeeming a lost reputa-
tion: He represented a British paper in
Paris, a post which any man in Fleet
street would have given his ears to
possess. but when the Germans. three
weeks ago, began to approach danger
ously close, he lost his nerve and de-
serted. 1t is only fair to say that he
had been overworking and his health
was bad. and when he arrived in Lon
don after his hurried flight he had to
go to bed for several days. When he
realized what he had done he didn't
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RADUALLY the
press censorship
in England is be-
C o m j ng m or e
stringent. and now
it has reached such
a point that many
of the newspaper
editors and pro-
prietors are seri-
ously considering
recalling all their
corr g pOndentS
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sian army which passed through Eng
land, which dots the is and crosses the
t's of Kitchener's explanation that Gae-
lie speaking troops from the north OF
Scotland were mistaken for the cars
legions
This story. too, says that the reserve
battalion of the Seaforth Highlanders
was being moved south. These mel
are Gaelic speakers and they got out
at an English station to stretch their
legs. An English railwayman asked
one of them where they came from
and he replied. ''Rosshire." Any one
who Is familiar with the Seaforths'
dialect will easily understand how
"Ross-shire" translated itself into
Russia" in English ears.
No part of the empire is doing better
in the way of recruiting. both in quail
ity and quantity, than the Highlands.
and this is due largely to the way
in which the clan chieftains have
thrown themselves into the work OF
rallying the clanmen- Cameron OF
Lochiel, chief of the famous Clan Cam
eron, and, although without an Eng
lish title, one of the greatest noble
men in Scotland, has accepted the COM
mand of the Cameron HiShlanders, and
declares that he will raise enough new
battalions to make the famous old regi-
ment a brigade.
This is the first time ia the history
of the regiment that Lochiel. the cnlel
Of the clan. has comma ndcd il. or who
has engaged actively in recruiting for
it, It was raised originally in 1905 by
Cameron of Erracht. the head OF
cadet branch of the house, and II Is
often referred to still in the Cameron
country as Errachts Regiment
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the front is one, that in some of the
British trenches on the Aisne the SOL
diers are fighting stark naked. They
have been UP to their waists In water
for days and in many cases the men
preferred nothing on to wearing
soaked clothing, and threw their uni
forms away.
Another story concerns the death OF
Geofrrey Pearson, the son of LORD
Cowdray of Mexican oil fame his
name has not yet appeared IN tn9
casualty lists. but one OF the omciaI
dispatches contained an account OF the
gaIlantry of a motor cyclist scout VINO
dashed right into the zone OF fire SIX
times in one day to observe the ac-
curacy of the range OF the briasn
guns. The Germans did their best to
hit him and on one occasion his ma
chine was blown from under him, but
he escaped injury and regalned the
British lines. The last time, now
ever, a German shell blew both man
and machine to bits. The brave motor
cyclist was young Pearson, who vol
unteered for the dangerous work at
the outbreak of the war.
The writer heard terrible story
the other night from a young ofhcer
in a Scottish regiment, who has come
home slightly wounded. His company
entered a French village just as a
company of uhlans were leaving 1t
and had a sharp fight with the re-
treating Germans.
When it was all over a weeping
woman rushed out of house. carry
ing the corpse of a little boy who.
she said. had been sabered by a Ger
man officer who was hiding in a house
opposite. The sergeant of my in
formant's company saluted and said:
Leave the job to me. SIR. With two
men he entered the house and dragged
out man In the uniform of a uhlan
officer, who was identified by the vii
layers al, the criminal. The sergeant
threw the man on the ground, pushed
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mouth shut and not to return to France
for six months

for six months.
In the meantime the vagaries of the
censorship are as amusing and annoying
as ever. Absolutely the prize story. how
ever, came the other day. from a source
which is usually reliable.
One of the greatest British shipowners
has been working night and day since the
beginning Of the war as a volunteer at
the war office in connection with the
transport of troops. A few days ago
Kitchener sent for him and asked him il
he could send at once two OF his SHIPS
which were at Vigo to st. NaZatre. he
replied at once that he could and tele-
graphed within five minutes to his cap
tains to place themselves at the disposal
of the military authorities The next day
a much f1ustered officer Of the transporta :
ton branch burst in on him and wanted
to. know why. in the name Of many things.
his captains refused to move until they
received his instructions. An invest1ga-
tion followed and revealed the fact that
the owners cables to his captains had
been stopped by the cable censor
Another story, for the truth OF Whlch
the writer can vouch, concerns one of the
great Lcndon papers which a lew Gays
ago printed.a map of the North sea, with
the distances from various points marked
on it. This map had been passed py tne
censor without alteration. The next day
the papers naval expert. to illustrate his
argument took from the map these dis
tances and set them out in table form.
The table was cut out by the censor
Here is a pleasa nter story showing tine
human side of the censorship. One of the
chiefs of the bureau is a former news
paper proprietor and editor, although he
is not now connected with the press. To
him came a newspaper representative
x~f rsivoe n
the front, which clearly contravened near
ly all the rules.
What is the use of bringing me this?'
he asked ''you know l can't pass 1t.
~ know" was the reply, ''but it is a
good story
Yes. said the censor. lit is too good
a story to kill. But don't take this as a
precedent
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A in France view of

now being born in England who Will
surely curse it. These war babies VIII
curse it when they grow up and realize
the absurd names which their over
patriotic parents have bestowed on
them. Among the names added to the
registrar generals list within the last
week or two are Alsace Lorraine Jones.
Kitchener Howard. John Jellicoe John
son. Louvain Huggins. French Moreton
and, worst of all. Joffre Jenkins. One
wonders what Joffre Jenkins pet name
will be.
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Laughable Stu
ations Brought About
by Rules Troubles
of Correspondents and
Editors-Stirring Sto-
ries From the Front.
Naming the English
Babies-Little Stories
of London in War
Time.
ecial Correspondence Of The Star

LONDON, October Is, 914
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WANT to give
you some pictures
of Santiago. It is
the social. polfti-
cal and business
h e a rt of this
country. 1t Is the
pulse of the ma
tion and the peo-
pie move as it
beats fast or slow.
1t contains all Of
the statesmen and
1t is the center of
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surgeon, Market block, Elliot st. Office
hours: $50 to $50 a. n , 100 to 2.30 and
U D. m. ToLonh.no. 7AA-M.
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". p. MOVES. NJ. D., Eye. Ear. Nose and
Throat. 10 u, J 20 8, Wednesday, and
Saturday evenings. Other hours and Sundays
by appointment. Appointments for glasses fit
ting made by mail or phone. American Bldg.
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B. Z. WHITE, NJ. D. General Practtiouer)
ofce rooms 4 and g. Crosby block. Hours
- a. N. TO 3 and z to p. Resi-
dence 90 Grove ST Telephone. III.
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pI HENRY TUCKER. Residence. 12 Grove
81 telephone, 255 Office Leonard block
Hrs, 100 20 3. and to 8. Telephone,
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DE. @. b. HUNTER. Wiluston Block. over
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$50 10 D. m. Residence West Brattleboro
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Or. Q. G. WHEELER. osteopathic Physician
10 Crosby block. Office hours: 10 to Il a.
M, to p. n. Other hours by appoint
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III. W -. LANE. ONCE and residence, 81
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,: afternoons until ESQ; evenings until s.
Teleph one, 43O.
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JORDAN & SON. Optometrists, l Elliot St.
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,. N. Evenings, Monday and Saturday, to 9.
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5ids ROOFS AZ s@d g. 1t 5io once hours aFA
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residence 14I Canal St, tel. III; Sunday
by appointment only.
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1 30 and TO p. III. Residence. So Green
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JOHN 4. GALE, Attorney at Law, GuiIford.
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e. Il. ANDERSON Surgeon and Physician
surgery specially. Once and residence
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~; 60 2.3G aud TO p. m. Phone. 246
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