Evening journal., 1914-09-16
EVEN bombs FAIL
TO Disturb PARIS
Populace Makes Merry
While Enemy Drops Death
From Sky
AEROPLANES NOW
FAMILIAR SIGHT
BY W1ILIAM PHILLIp snTs.

BY WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS.
Omitted Press stan Correspondentl
PARIS. Sept (by mail to New
York; Paris is the city without
nerves. Paris refuses absolutely TO
be frightened Drinking grena-
dine syrups. diluted with water and
watching, quite nonchalantly the
dropping OF German bombs upon the
city is now the favorita pastimo.
This afternoon ] was sitting on
the terrace fronting The Cafe Car
dinal. It was quite warm, brilliant
sunshine having poured down upon
the city all day. Scores Of men and
women-mostly women with a SCAT
tering Of youths and old men--were
sitting about me imbibinf iavorite
( syrups and water Waters hustled
10 and fro-if the amble OF the aged
and crippled walters, the only sort
available at present. can be termed
a bustle-and everything was quite
/ peaceful and serene.
Presently a passerby stopped. ana
shading his eyes. gazed into the sky.
Another German aeroplane,' he
said. quite as If accustomed TO watch
them fly over his head many times a
day.
The people on the terrace looked
up too. Sure right there, high over
head was a "taube," meaning 'pi-
| econ" German monoplane. A
pretty young Frenchwoman near
me, slipping her pomegranate mix
ture. remarked. "What galli'
She did not move. Her face did
not pale. Her voice was as steady
as II she were asking the waiter
for a carafe of fresh water. She
looked up now and thon, alternating
Ler upward glances with sips Of ros,
grenadine
Suddenly there was a boom.
bomb exploded Just around the cor
ner. The German aviator had let ]
fall from his "raube." Two Englisl
troopers in khaki. seeing all eye
gazing upward. stopped in front o
my table, fred seven times each "a
the passing aircraft and grinne'
i sheepishly when they saw 1t did no
! falter but went impudently on.
, The people on the restaurant ter
d race kept their seats. They wen
, right on drinking and gazing up
{ wards alternately. The little Freuc
beauty said "Such poor bomb. No
nearly 80 loud as a cannon"
Then another bomb exploded. an
n third The aeroplane turned dc
{ liberately over the Eificl Tower froi
a the top of this tall structure ms
o Cbine gun ratified away. Then
r cannon roared from somewhere nef
II the Champ DO Mars-again an
I. agaiu. The German pilot turne
now and began 70 back track. Net
n the Sacre- Coeur, the church on 4
m of the Montmartre hill, the aeroplal
O. steered again and presently the pa
III ter of a machine gun, working fro
- the dome of this house Of G.,
reached our ears.
''They can't get him" said Il
pretty little Frenchwoman, dabblii
her straw IN her grenadine.
"Armorod," said her companion
n q bored sort of way. Hes lying
Y armored aeroplane.'
"Why doesn't a French pilot go +
him?" asked the woman.
"a search me-" replied the man.
et The aeroplane disappeared, and &
ri crowd on the terrace went right
nj with its drinks.
IA While writing the above, the sou
ia Of gunfring reached me through {
u omen window. Looking out 50
is everyone below me gazing up. Abe
p 1000 feet over the Rue Mont Mart
directly over my head. "tauhe' w
nj fHr
I, wards Eifiel Tower. From the rot
men were firing by the dczens. S
~ 6iers IN the streets blazed away
~ the speck in the sky, but throu
,Io glasses 7 could see that the mach
'' was an armored one and that
-. bullets we're doing no harm.
h The people we're not excited. III
~ were only curious. Those who hi
~ watched q crowd at an ordn'
y aviation meet, can picture the Pa
ei- throngs mentally and perfectly
IN they watch a bomb-throwing avia
'%as % from the enemy's lines sail over th
me heads.
ere After circling the great 81
tower, receiving a baptism of
from the top of u, the "taube"
turned. passing over the Bourse.
number OF people collected under
terrace roof there as a matter
nv precaution. One man expressed
0n sentiments Of all the others:
German bombs don't always
plode." he said. but I'll bet
by would hurt a mans head II It fell
ms t."
etc. Everybody laughed. The GER
{ a seroplane over the city didn't VIZ
lon them a bit They we're not in
ven least panic-stricken. They tool
as a new sort of an exhibition.
fer viding a new thrill They wat'
win the Gernsm pilot disappear, il
80 hail of bullets, quite as If acoustic
s '.t,, to such things all their lives.
- - Paris is still smiling. She is
anu most deserted but she is gay
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