New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-22
SMELLING OF RHEIMS
CATHEDRAL DESCRIBED
Continued from page l

his fingers the priest, shoulders finding silk cas,ock said
quickly in French: Pardon me- my father; l blind"
The Archbishop Rheims electng Pope
lis absence the young cure resident with the white vas charge
he guided through the wrecked his
tear Of being waged fine battle Every summer he said thou
as Of fellow visit the Cathedral They again
and They love these beautiful windows They will permit
them to be destroyed VIII you tell them what you saw
WRECKAGE IN THE CATHEDRAL.
pleasure tell what Shells had of the
windows the sash glass and framea only
pggd hole left On the floor lay broken Of
from flying bures outside that had been hurled through the
ss tangled of eaden window ashes like twisted coils Of
bed great ropes supported
away they plunged the Tagging below
g silk tasses heavy with the dust OF
s And everywhere was broken glass Not one Of the famous
windows had totally destroyed but each had been
shattered and through the apertures the bazed banty
We walked upon precious than precious 1t was
ond No replace it. Seven hundred ago the secret
the glass died Diamonds be bought anywhere pearls be
matched glass of Rheims And under feet with
blood crushed into tiny fragments When you
held piece Of between and the sun gowed with light that
land
War only waste The German Emperor thinks it thousands Of
flashing galopng him. shouting
Ho That all Of that he has have seen
40, Of his hghborn officer with his shot out his
soldiers with their sticking sfy through the straw and the
windows Rheims hat for with their beauty have sored the
Lord swept dust heap.
Outside the Cathedral found the bombardnent the city
still going spirit that the French batteries to the north
end answering How people will act under I'm
usual conditions NO on. can guess MANY OF the citizens Of Rheims
abandoning running through the streets leading west
trembling weeping ncohent with terror carrying nothing with them
Others continuing the routine of life with anxious nervous faces
the and lined the road for miles but had taken
nothing with them apparently intending nghta
They class The houses OF the rich coseo
shops few cafes and those that offered for sale
bread and medicine.
During Yesterday morning destroyed many houses
One to each block the except around the Cathedral where
Palace Of Justice had been pounded but
destroyed shops and residences facing the Cathedral had
ripped open cellar In burning brisky
and playing with hose their only audience
sight would have collected half of Rheims and
blocked traffic in the excitement bombadmen failed attract
ore Belgian radius of FIVE yards and made hole as
Dough When they hit house that house had
be rebuilt they struck possible to follow the direction
the shells by the jangng Of telegraph wires
EFFECTS OF COMMANDMENT
hundred yards north Cathedral house hit at the
ard story gray slate high and sopng, with tall
nn exploded the roof and cmneys disappeared
lou did see them sink and tumble they merely vanished They
q been Of the skyline of Rheims then she removed ne"
'a another down became the skyline
walked the northeast but at the OUT
wits all the with and paving stones ana
n wanted pass forward the French batteries the oce IN
g the permission At THIS end OF the town
@ case of the streets were packed
infantry The going from shop to shop Trying 10 n"u
me Germans had empied Tobacco what they sought
hy told ali Belgium ana oacK OUT
have them Where Germans are haggaro ana SNOW
food and Sleep the French hard and moved quickly anu
we're smiling
- one commissariat IS slow they are
- their people and when Belgium by the Allies but when
49, uans people everything eatab and bolt the doors
H. And when the German supply wagons ia to come up
e mea sarve
went in search Consul William Bardei Everybody
L know him and all spoke well OF him They hked nun
he stuck post Mayor had sent for him and could
u" him nor the Mayor.