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his captive city had been snatched from him by the banded demons of fire and liquor, hunger and plunder
 The conqueror, who had nestled in the feathers of the Bourbons, the Ho henzollerns and the Hapsburgs, fain would have stretched himself upon the bed of the Romanoffs to thO kremlin. But he was obliged to turn fire chief and direct the work of fighting the flames and of shooting down suspected incendiaries. The beautiful domes and towers he had admired from the hill were wrapped one after another in the whitening emb race, the church roofs of sheet iron and lead falling with loud crashes Palaces were swept away in a scorching breath, the sculptures that adorned their facades crashing amid the ruins. The pitiless flames would not spare the hospitals, where thousands, unable to drag themselves into the streets, perished in their wards. Above the roaring surges of life there rang out the groans of the dying, the shrieks of the plundered the crack of the sol diers'> musketry, the bowling of the dogs chained to the gates of the houses.
 On the third day Napoleons officers repeatedly came to warn him that the fire was roaring at the Kremlin gates and to beg him to retreat before 1t. But raging at them, he vainly com manded them to arrest It's progress. The palace in which he sat was sur rounded with powder suplies, and the air was filled with firebrands, but not until it was difficult for him to breathe and Berthier had come to report that he had been alomst swept from the bat dement's in a red whirlwind did the Emperor consent to take flight.
 Who Burned Moscow?
 At that time the hill of the kremin rose like an island in a tossing sea or fire, and Napoleon had great difficulty in finding an avenue of escape. In street after street he was turned back by a hail of flying embers, while tpe hoo1s of the horses were burned by the blister ing paving stones. With cloak over his face to protect his eyes and mouth from the !stifling breath of the flames he was wandering bewildered in the binding atmosphere, when some soldiers, recognizing the imperial party, escorted it to the PetrofslSy palace, the suburban villa of the czars But even there al distance of 10 miles, the Emperor could read in the light of the blazing city.
 As he looked down upon the inferno he exclaimed. What a people! They are the Scythians, indeed.'
 Naturally he assumed that the Russians had fired their capital and doomed 1t to ashes rather than let 1t be his prey. But whether Moscow really was immolated on the pyre of patriotism, the world never will surely know. When it was seen that it's destruction had driven out the invaders and saved the empire, the hare brained governor who at first had blamed the French for burning it, noisly avowed that he himself had ordered it burned And other Russians, hattered by the thought of such an heroic sacrifice, adopt ed his story.
 Yet it Is possible that Moscow was not destroyed by official design any more than it was abandoned by official design. Fol the Moscow that looked so fair when Napoleon saw it from Sparrow Hill was
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torn down long ago. Tn place of it the Czars have the most paiatial of all the palaces in Europe. With it's great halls of glistening marble and gleaming gold. huns in red and blue. with its noble columns of rarest stones and thousands upon thousands of electric lights glow
 ing in it's chandeliers, 1t is palace fit for the princes and princesses of fairy tales. This huge, modern pile backs upon remnant of the old palace of Napoleon time, which, with it's low Byzantine arches and ceilings and decorations, is q vertiable Arabian Nights palace, we..a it's harem-like quarters for the Czarinas recall the Asiatic origin Of the empire.
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Net even the fctions of the burning of Troy though heightened by all the powers of poetry could have quaed the reality of the destruction of Moscow.
 Napoleon the Burning of Moscow
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Next Sunday-Mr. Morgans story of his journey in "The Patch of Napoleon" on his Russian retreat-the greatest of mill tary tragedies-the Emperor's flight from his army-half a million men lost in six mo nthB-
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four and siX-horse equipages, their thousands of serfs running after them. he rich merchants left their ware ho' ses and shops filled with unguarded wealth, and joined in the exodus. The rt st of the population rushed into the co'ntry. with no thought of where they should find shelter or food. It was enough for them that they had seen in the heavens a fiery sword as a warn ms for them to leave.
 The governor was left behind to waste his appeals on the desert air Of the empty streets. He rallied at the re- trt ating Kutusof as 'one-eyed old woman" and denounced him to the Car for his refusal to protest "the city which represents the greatness and hich enshrines the ashes of your an- cstry." And Alexander himself, when he heard "the painful news" at St. Pe- tersburg, sternly censured his com mander for not defending Moscow.
 The forsaken governor in his blind rage. opened the gates of the prisons and are arsenals. and. rolling barrels Of vodka out of the liquor warehouses, he left them standing open in the streets Having thus given the city over to armed and drunken criminals and vagrants. he slipped out of his back ooor and stole away in the rear of the fugitive populace.
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The Flight of the People

Moscow was, indeed, almost a solitude, As the Russian army. under General Kutusof retreated from Borodino the morRing after the frightful battle, Mos COW had clamored in vain for military protection. The blatant governor boasted of a great balloon Which had been bull. and which would hurl destruction upon the enemy. while he idly talked of com pleting the work of extermination by send. ing forth 100,000 citizens behind the mirac- ulous Iberian image of the Mother of God.
 When Kutusof called a council of war it voted to stand or fall for the salvation of the sacred town. But he ignored the decision and, with tears in his eyes. marched through Moscow, leaving it de- fenseless. He would not risk another battle with Napoleon even to save the Holy City. The clustering governor nevertheless continued to preach resist ance. He called upon the inha bitants to arm themselves with hatchets and pitch forks, for 'the French were not heavier than a sheff of wheat" And to prove 1t he paraded the smallest men found among the prisoners brought in from Borodino.
 The inhabitants rose. however onls to crowd the gates in a flight on the heels of the retreating army. In the in- Eti1ctive repugnance of primitive patriotism they scorned to stay and t,rathe an atmosphere polluted by the presence of an alien copqueror. For the Russians were and still are in the tribal stage of development a huge family rather than nation. They are rot the subjects but the Children of their Little Father. the Czar. He Is at once their spiritual and their temporal ruler and their nationality is equally their religion.
 Rising from their a.tars and turning their backs on their homes and their churches, bearing aloft their revered ikons and singing plaintive songs people passed out of the gates -.ssiong Irucessions. The great nobles forsoolS their splendid palaces and spacious parks and drove away fin their brilliant
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pfoNI1S over them With torches In hand, and the equinoxial winds were present to complete the havoc.
 The hurricane of fire swept the town for two days more until a rain quenched the flames. When Napoleon returned to the kremlin. which had suffered no great damage, his captive city was sorry sight. The great warehouses, the shops and bazars. the grand palaces of the nobility were gone. No less than $500 of the 5000 buildings had been destroyed and two thirds of Moscow was a heap of rubbish.
 Marooned on an Ash Pile
 Napoleon was marooned on an ash pile more than 2000 miles from Paris. His marauding soldiers found an cverabundance of wines and brandies. They arrayed themselves in costly furs and rare eastern shawls and decked out the women in their love escort, with rich gowns and blazing jewels. Neither the altars nor the graves were spared by the pillagers But they quickly exhausted the little food that tfe fleeing residents had left behind, and bread became more precious than the precious metals. Nevertheless, Ma psleon sent back bulletins of his ex- ploits that aroused the enthusiasm of Paris, while he commanded the priests of France to sing te deums and the roc to rhapsodize over his conquest of Moscow
 Meanwhile, benumbed by the terrible blow that had fallen upon him. he sat day after day in the gloom of the ori- cntal palace at the Krenlin. Bad news came to him from Spain, where his brother, Joseph, was being driven from his capital, and grave warnings were sounded of an uneasy spirit in Prussia and Austria. Sometimes hours passed without a word from his lips as he wrestled alone with his black problem At other times he idly reclined, with a novel in his hand. while he clung to delusion of his own, as baseless as anything in fiction. He had proffered peace to the Czar. under the threat of marching on St Petersburg, but though he waited and hoped. he re- cc,ved no reply. He seemed unable tc understand that the decision did not rest with the Russian monarch. but with the army and the nation. Alexan- der had made peace at Tilsit, five years before, but only when his generals pro- tested against fighting any longer fol Prussia and England, and threatened hin with assassination. Now that they were fighting for Russia those same generals would cut the Czar's throa if he surrendered to the invader.
 Like a dog mortally injured. as Coun Tolsto says, the grand army sat dowr amid the ruins of Moscow to lick it' N ounds. Daily the sun blazed redder il the dull autumnal sky September waned The nights heightened and thu long Russian winter drew on. Ffvs prs cious summer weeks had passed when the Russian army, resuming ac tive operations. aroused Napoleon ant compelled him to face the inevitable He must retreat from that desert o cinders. before the long road home wal
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Moscow in Flames

While the French sentries. patrolling the wall of the Krenin that starry night, looked over the ghostly city and watched a comet which glared like q portent in the sky. they saw fire after fire flaming up above the roofs in many sections of the town. A foe more terrible than the Sossack was rising to challenge the invaders, who Were reused from their Sleep to beat him back and save from destruction the only prize they had won since crossing the Niemen
 When Napoleon entered the gate the next morning and went to the Kremlin.
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Moscow a Desert n while the pe0Dle were still

Even while the people were still pour ing out of the farther gates of Moscow the towers of the abandoned city rose to the view of the hungry dirty. sadly reduced army of 20 nations. Never sus- pecting the desolation that lay before them, the soldiers raised the exultant cry, Moscow, Moscow Moscow at lastv' To them the name meant food and drink and rest, and they were as impatient and eager as weary traveller who, after a long journey. comes in sight of home
 Murat's cavalry dashed into the city but only to find in all the wilderness of houses and streets a few thousand peo- pie, among them the brutish Jail birds who had rushed out of the open gates of their prisons. Except for these and the helpless sick and wounded in the hos pitals, the great city was a desert. The candles still burned on the altars which were decorated as for holy day. Not a woman was seen on the streets nor a face at the windows. Drunken men lay on the pavements tapping up the irtoxi- cants that flowed in the gutter while the more sober were wildly running about among the big mansions. stealing every thing they could carry away. But as the hungry soldiers threw themselves upon the city they beat off the native looters and Moscow became the updisputed spoil of the alien invader
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ba.ricaded with Russian bayonets or buried beneath Russian snows.
 October was far advanced when he turned back upon his trail of disaster But if Russian summer had slain half his army in the advance, how many could survive retreat in Russian winter?
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CHI above graceful bend in the
 Moskova river. rises the most
 renowned of the seven hills of the Russian Rome, On the Hill 'ilgrim or Hill of Salutation the
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I the Path Of Napoleon 100 Years After His Doau,fa1

Moscow became the torch that set Europe afire and started the con flagration which destroyed Napoleon empire.
 MT. Morgan, who went to the holy city of Muscovy in the course of his journey "In the Path of Napoleon presents today a story complete in it. self of the burning of Moscow, when the most costly prize Napoleon ever won turned to ashes in his grasp and left him marooned on heap of cin- ders 2000 miles from home.
 A portrait of the discarded favorite of fortune stunned beneath the blow of fate.
 The many strange and interesting mementos of Napoleon in the Krem- lin, that unique city within a city,
 A visit to the most imposing war monument in the world.
 DATES AND EVENTS-AGE 43
 September IA. 1s12-Napoleon at the gate Of Moscow
 September 15-ls. 1s12-The city in flames. october 19, 1S12-Napoleon began his re- treat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
FEDERAL POSITIONS OPEN.
Civil Service Commission Seeks Can
didates for Examinations in March.

Some man ''of broad training, and cN-
tensivc practical experience in phySio-
logical chemistry and medicine. as we'll
as experience as an administrative officer
10 assist i'll the research and supervisory
work uf the bureau aud the enforcement
Of the food and drugs act. Is needed at
the bureau of chemistry His title would
be assistant chief. bureau OF chemistry. -
and his salary $500. The civil service
commission now is loolSing around for
the man to fill this job. and viii conduct
examinations March . to, obtain an
eligible.
The commission, March 4. :, and g, VIII
hold examinations to obtain eligih'ts for
the position Of Inspector of mechanical!
and electrical engineering in the office Of
the supervising architect OF the Treasury
at q salary of S2.1o per anuuIn.
Other examinations just announced 20
be held by the civil service commission
March are laboratory rcchniciali. BIZ
reau OF chemistry; assistant i'll forest
management: laboratory assistant i'll
zoology: clerk qualified as INSPECTOR Of
furniture, bureau of plant industry: APP
prentice fish culturst. bureau OF fish
cries. and March =. junior iocktitter, mail
lock repair shop. in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
1.OOC. 900 ATTEND CHURCH
IN CHICAGO YESTERDAY
Only Sl0o Expended in six-Week
Campaign to Reach Half Popu-
lation of Metropolis.

CHICAGO. February Only $l"9
was expended in the six-veck ''%e-to-
church Sunday" campaign. which reached
Il rlimaE yesterday. when appro>imatclE
oue million persons. nearly half TIL"
population of Chicago. went Ia church.
Church m"nbciS today considered tho
small church outlay Tor advertising one
Of the features of the campaign, which
resulted in fully half Il million persons
renewing Their acquaintance with tae
ehurei,--sofne uf them for the first time
ill twenty years,
such cooperation never before Was
seen i'll Chicago sand Il statement Is
sued today by the campaign commit
tec. Milk mc,1. delivery wagon drivers,
the spaper. churcEgoers and Ine,l
and women Who seldom see the inside
of Il church, a.! worked together and
made a complete success OF the cam
paign
when one realizes that practically
every mar, woman and child in the city
was reached at an actual cash outlay
of only 500, H.. understands the amount
OF individual work that was necessary
20 accomplish these results
The church attendance We witnessed
yesterday Will not be duplicated each
sunday, hut we will, see the result OF
this campaign for years.
The organization methods will be con
tinued throughout the city and its
suburbs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
Appellate Courts Opinion.

The question here" Justice Robb says.
as not whether the Police Court is Il
court of the United States in the conSti-
'tutiunal sense. but whether ii is u proper
court of the United States. within the
meaning of the food and drugs act Ali
other petty offeHses against the United
States except those expressly reserved
from its jurisdiction are triahle in that
court and no reason is perceived why one
accused OF sdulterating food III this Dis
trict is entitled TO treatment different
than would be accorded him if accused Of
soma other petty o(fense against the
laws Of tire United States.
When. therefore Congress used the
words lin the proper courts of the United
states We think il clear that il meant
in the courts having jurisdiction OF simi-
lar offeIIses
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
Marriage Licenses in January.

During the month OF Januarr \. :
GrenaWay. clerk of the corporation
court, issued a total of hfty-six mar
riage licenses, Of which number forty
eight We're To white and seven to col
cEsd couples He also recorded forty
si.- deeds
i-euuel Dodson. coIored. for the past
tA}cty -oue wears AN empieye al Mount
N"raon. died yesterday at an advanced
az.
The funeral of John Dix took place
this afternoon from Wh-at1e.'s under
taking chapel. Services We're conducted
b. Rev. Or. John lie" Allison. pastor
OF tin. Second Presbyterian Church.
and burial was in the Methodist
Protestant cemetery.
40 important business meeting II
X T. L.. Camp, Confederate Veterans.
VIII be held at $50 o'clock tomorrow
I.4-hL ~ Lee camp Hall.
Officers viii be nominated tonight
h Ni.xandria Lcdgt. of ElkS.
Tu@r. will bc a meeting of the Lady
-I&cea5e,s ~ odd Fellows Han tomor-
row night
sgarI.y E.ucainpment Of odd Fellows
VII hold "a meeting tonight at odd
Ecl!0v,sT Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
POLICE COURT MAY TRY
FOOD AND DRUGS CASES
Appellate Court Affirms Decision as
to Jurisdiction and Meaning
of the Law.

The District Court of Appeals in Il
decision by Justice Eobb reaf1irmed to-
day its finding that the Police Court
is a proper court of the United States
within the meaning of the pure food
and drugs act. The court upheld the
action of the District Supreme Court
which declined to grant an injunction
against the Secretary of Agriculture
asked by Huyler's, corporation. Huy-
ler's sought TO prevent the department
from publishing notice of a judgment
of the local Police Court imposing 4
fine of $500 for violation of the pure
food law
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
AIR RACE AROUND WORLD
$500. coo in Prizes to Be Offered by
Panama-Pacifc Ex-
position.

SAN FRANCISCO. February 1.-The
glory of first girdling the world in Il
flying machine and cash prizes amount
dangled today before aviators of the
world by the Panama Pacific internation-
al exposition. May /. 1915, is the time
set and the race is to be over AN east
erly route from the exposition grounds
on the shore Of san Francisco bay
Ninety days actual time is the limit. and
the distanc. is estimated at .2,osn miles.
Arnold l<ruckmap. manager of the blu
reau of ;trro1autics OF the exposition, said
TO-DAY that at present there are no other
limitations on the race. and these. he
holds. are reasonable In fact, he said,
every condition already has been met,
somewhere or other. by aviatcrs-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
ALEXANDRIA, AIRS
Fire Destroys Fertilizer Plant
of Herbert Bryant's Son.
ESTIMATED LOSS. $4,000
Frank Johnson Chosen to Declalm
at Literary Society Contest
at Richmond College.


ALEXANDRIA, Va. February :, 1914.
oiitts OF The most Spectacular fires on
tfts rlvcl. freglt iu recent years was that
v.sjc5t Yesterday afternoon completely
,itsfros ud the big fertilizer plant of
Herbert Bryant son, owned by Arthur
Bryant. sit5Jate,i in the cove near Lee
adj MONTGOMERY streets. In one and
l.t5 i33.r- the pulldius was destroyed
7 flre Department Was unable TO give
s4 material aid owing to IT'S inability
l. Set SufscIef.t water pressure.
The fertilizer fasy was Opposite
~ pia,,5 of ,to ~ Dominion CLASS
niTstn9. bat fortunately the wind was
-s.s, tte southwest. otherwise the latter
I,z@tarz vouid probably have taken lire,
4.f5sfs-o5es of lice glass plant kept several
streams On the building
Tt fertilizer factory * It complete
ts@@- 1jt" damage being estimated at
t'ssn. wh}ch j. covered by insurance.
t., u.aut v@il he rebuilt
s. southern railway box c;tr filled with
- ste al soda. consigned to The FER
ttiz.r f,tstIlt, was 5tso destroyed
- tunes there were loud GetonatiorlS.
ceased bN tine water being thrown.
~ tifi" the origin IF tn. fire is unknown
i belle Ell Icy many To nave been
tssIsed ly sparks from a passing loco
1t}"tIve.
Fer the second time within z, week
1iEr NJ $50 O'Clock last night DESTROYED
IL. paI,,r Storohouse of TN, Alexandria
Glass Company. which ad joins its fac
tori in the northern part of this city The
diary origin The loss, which is small
Is ,.tf[r.. s..ti nv insurance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02

Now showing at the new Floating
22-inch DOLLY WARDEN ACCOI
test OF exquisite colorings. A yard. :.
NEW ORGANIZE PLEATINGS.
with hemstitched. Picot finish or en-
broidered col ored 2Sc TO DOC
edges \ yard. $50. SO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02

Tie mayor and council Of Homecoming
Md, will ask the legislature TO grant the
town power to vote on proposed bond
issue of 5000 to erect a concrete bridge
to take the place of the present iron
structure over Georges creek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-02
Will Consult Experts.

Mr. Kruckman Will start east soon With
the double purpose Of checking up on the
outline of the tour and taking counsel
with all the aviation experts he can find
as 10 general conditions surrounding the
race.
The exposition viii give cash prizes 81
Sit-to1y. 10000 and $1,000 and contribu-
tions from individuals and cities ell route
will doubt. this sum. il is said.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1914-08-08

In the School District Election at
Rockville Center, L. l.. SIT voters pro-
duced 625 votes. While the election
puzzle was being solved someone tried
to carry away the cement pillars in
front OF the house of the village bank
er. John W. Demott. Half of the
towns police force are in jail charg I'd
with burglary