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Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
FOREST EIREs

Seattle, July 23.-Fires are reported
today in King, Clallam, Snohomish,
Mason and Kitzapi counties, Washing
ton, but only small damage was done,
The fires originated in logged off
land. The state fire warden and
Washington State Forest Fire asso-
citation have about IS men in the field.
The national forests have not been at
tackled
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
RAILROAD STRIKE
is INEVITABLE
TELEGRAM FROM DELEGATES
SAYS THERE is NO HOPE
OF ARBITRATION

San Bernardino, Cal, July 23.-No
hope for settlement of the dispute
between railroad managers and en-
ginemen of western railroads. nov
under mediation in Chiago. Is hels
out in telegram received here to
day from Chicago by district officials
OF the engfnemep.
Prospects settlement unfavorable,"
the telegram reads. We may leave
here any day. Mediators suggest ar
bitration We decline"
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
PLAGUE CLAIMS
FOURTH victim
AGED WOMAN ANSWERS SUM-
MONS OF GRIM REAPER IN
NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans. Jury 23.-Bubonic
plague claimed its fourth death VIC
tim here today The death occurred
al the same address from which Helen
Soell, aged 10. developed the disease
last Saturday, and the victim was the
-cbiia's grandmother REGINA Schmidt.
aged 73.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
HINpus LEAvE VANCOUVER

Vancouver, B. G., July 23-The Jap
anese steamer Komagata with her
load of 352 Hindus, who resisted the
Canadian governments oroer of de.
portation for more than three months.
left the harbor today bound for the
Orient.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
AMERICAN TO SHIP TO ST. John

New York, July 23.-After many de-
delays because of changes necessary
in the construction of the American.
1t now has practically been decided
to ship the machine to st. John. New
Foundland, by August l, according to
a letter received from Glenn Curtis
at Hammondsport by Henry Wood.
house Of the Aero Club Of America.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

New York, July 23.-Renewal of
gold export movement and filing of
the New Haven suit with a reason
for receivership. were the main fac
tors in today's markets. The closing
was heavy.
Las Vegas optic. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1908-1921, 1914-07-23
IRON WORKERS STRIKE

New York, July pa general strike
of 5000 inside iron workers has been
called to go into effect next week for
en- forcement of a new wage scale and
working conditions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-18
Mr.. Morgan at Arcole

At one end of the famous little bridge
sits the village of Arcole, several miles
from railroad or even a highroad. From
the other end stretches the marsh which
has been drained and converted into we'll
tended fields as level as the prairie farms
in the Mississippi valley. Off across the
field rose the church tower of Romeo.
from which Napoleon saw the enemy
holding the bridge, while the crags of the
bordering mountains on the north stuck
out as sharp as the barbs on a wire fence.
1t was through those rough passes up
there that the Emperor of Germany, as
the Austrian monarch then styled him
self. poured the blood of Austria and Hun
gary in torrents to ransom his rich Ital-
ian province from the French.
On this little bridge the two great ma
tions of continental Europe fought for
three days like dogs over a bone. 1t is
as rude a structure as that which arched
the flood, where. their flag to April
breeze unfurled. the embattled farmers
stood and fred the shot heard round the
world.
BY Concord bridge a people passed to
independence and greatness By Arcole
bridge, Italy, too, passed to Independence,
but, alas. she had many more rivers still
to cross
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Napoleon Retreats

After whipping two armies under Mar
shal Wurmser in the summer, and lock-
ing him up in Mantua, Napoleon found
himself in the fall, with only a worn-out
remnant of his force, facing a new army
under Alvinzi, where the mountains of
Venetia come down to the plain.
1t is beautiful and fruitful land. from
which the Lombardy populars spring up
to rival the noble bell towers of the vii
lake churches in their graceful ascent
toward the sky. Grapevines stretch in
garlands from tree to tree in the orchards.
This affords a pretty decorative effect
for tourist eyes, but the Austrian and
French scouts failed to enjoy it because
those festoons broke the view and baffled
them In their work of watching the move
ments OF troops.
There Napoleon lost the opening fight
There. for the first time, he left the en-
emy on a field of battle and for the first
time led retreat.
Prudence dictated Napoleon's retirement
toward the AIDA. But courage counseled
a bolder stroke. The night he moved in
silence out of Verona, the crestfailen
troops felt they were in retreat until by
sudden turn they found themselves
marching along the River Adige. Their
commander had determined to stake
everything on an effort to get around AL
vinzi and cut his communications.
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Napaleon in the Mud

High banks had been thrown up
along the Alpone to confine Its waters
and the road reaches the bridge at
either end by steep grade The
French officers rushed at the head of
their columns when it wavered before
a detachment of Austrian troops who
defended the bridge. They hoped to
repeat the dash at Lodi. But their show
Of bravery was lost and lannes and
several other generals were wounded.
Augureau, seizing a flag, leaped upon
the bridge and taunted his men as they
bent under the storm of the enemys
guns, "Cowards. do you fear death too
much?' Alas, they loved life too we'll.
Then Napoleon himself took the lead.
Lannes, seeing him from his hospital
cot. forgot his wounds and rose and
followed him, shouting at the soldiers
as they fell back. Napoleon sprang
upon the bridge, but only to be caught
In furious swirl of fighting French
and Slavs. Brave Muiron threw him.
self before him. and covering him with
his body, received a murderous stroke
aimed at his chief. His blood spurted
In Napoleon's face as he fell dead at
his feet
The general in chief was hurled back
with his men and pushed off the steep
grade of the road into what was then
a quagmire. The Little Corporal liter
ely was stuck In the mud, close by
where stone shaft. Q piece OF grave
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Verona

Ihe genius of Napoleon budded on the
Alpine slopes of Piedmont, in the spring
OF 1886; 1t ripened in the summer on the
plains of Lombardy and Venetia
The traveller from Milan to Verona and
Venice looks from his car. window upon
the still war furrowed fields, where a
young man of 26 and 27 reaped such a
harvest of military glory as had not fallen
before another's sword in many centuries
1t must have astonished the youth no less
than the world. No doubt a presentiment
OF great fortunes had visited his dreams
as 1t visits the imaginations of all ambi-
uous boys. But he never could have
dreamed of success so rapid, SO amaz-
ing and so complete as he had won since
ne left his bride in Paris to enter upon
MS first campaign. Il saw the world. fly
ing beneath me-" he said, "as if | were
being carried through the air.
lie vanquished two armies and con-
quered Italy in 80 days. Then taking his
stand at the foot of Lake Garda, he beat
off the Austrian armies, which hurled
themselves upon him from the moutains
of the Tyrol two at a time, while taking
care all the while that the Austrian gar
rison in the fortress of Mantua did not
sally forth and leap upon his back.
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When Napoleon came down from We
roma, he put this marsh between him and
Alvinzi, where the enemy would lose the
advantage of greater numbers, for no
more Austrians than Frenchmen could
advance abreast on those two narrow
roads. 1t was a clever choice of ground,
and the only means of averting a disas-
ter
The French marched out of Romeo by
both causeways, but to accomplish their
main purpose and get in the rear of the
Austrians they struggled for three days
to cross the 50-foot bridge over the Alpone
at The village of Arcole, not Arcola, for
that place is on the other side of Italy.
I stood in that renowned, hard-fought
Path of Napoleon" at the Arcole bridge
in May time when the trout were run
ming. All the sturdy women and pretty
girls in their knee-high skirts of brilliant
red and their bare brown legs were abroad
with their fish nets at the end of long
poles over their shoulders.
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garrison, and of its rich stores, suf-
ficient bountifully to supply the men for
three months more.
young French officer, wrapped IN
his cloak, was sitting in dark corner
of the tent, scribbling on a sheet Of
paper. He now rose and, walking to
the table, threw the paper upon it,
There said Napoleon ARE the con-
ditions which 1 will grant. If your
marshal had provisions only for three
weeks and talked of surrender he would
deserve my contempt. l know the ex-
tremities to which he is reduced, and
respect his valor, his misfortune and
his age. Whether he surrenders tomor-
row, in month or in three months, he
shall have neither better nor harder
conditions He may stay as long as his
sense of honor prompts him to hold
out"
When the Austrians army hobbled
out of the Verona gate of Mantua the
next morning, expecting to see their
venerable commander humbled before
his youthful conqueror. Naponleon had
left the scene, and the aged. Wurmser
was spared that humiliation. The sc, 900
French now had 10000 captives to their
credit within less than a month.
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Hairbreadth Escapes

le RACED about the lower
for five days without a
Napoleon did not take
I'd he rods five horses to
'ped to and fro night and
urse of the summer cam
paigning, Napoleon was nearly captured
He was far from we'll His health having
been undermined by poverty IN his youth
and more lately by exposure in the earth
works at Toulon, he was still suffering
from the blood poisoning which he con-
tracted by handling an infected artillery
sponge in the siege of that city. Synp-
toms of tuberculosis also had developed.
ed the loathsome drugs in the
opia of that day, and refused
e stubborn child. The only
physician could do to relieve
ltful headaches was to plunge
a tub or barrel of hot water.
had taken off a shoe prepara-
ndressing for such bath in a
ar Verona after a hard day on
<, he was almost taken captive
himself by fleeing through
n of the palace with only one
Sperience led him to form
guides for his personal pro-
corps which eventually de-
ito the famous Guard. Bes-
their leader. and every man
I'm must have seen at least 10
Iervce.
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fame and to the memory of the man
who made it famous.
l had supposed there was at least
battle monument in the town. But when
I inquired for it the 100 or more citizens
who had gathered about my car all in
sisted with one voice that it was at
Solferino. 1 demonstrated that the Sol
ferino monument commenorated bat
tie fought by Napoleon III, not Napo-
leon L. Blank stares and puzzled mur-
murs At last the town meeting arrived
at a census of opinion and shouted:
"Ah, yes! AT the cimetario."
TO the cemetery 1 was whrled, only
to be led to the tomb of a French gem
eral. killed at Solferno in 1859. Then
the chauffeur appealed to a group of
aged danes, who had curiously followed
us. Their decision was unanimous The
monument was at Solferino! Finally the
one white man of the town came up and
told us 1t was at Montechiari on the
road to Brescia.
against the wall of hospital and beside
it a chart of the field where an engage
ment was fought on the plains between
Montechiari and Castilglione, the French
being commanded by Augureau and not
by Napoleon. The votive stone had trav-
eled as well as i before finding its rest
ing place. Originally erected on the field.
the Austrians overturned it when they
re-entered Lombardy in 1914, but the Ital-
1ans dug 1t up and brought it into the
town on the centenary of the battle.
1t is a most interesting coincidence that
the real battle of Castglione in which
Napoleon l whipped the Austrians in 1796,
was fought on the same hills as the bat
tie of Solferino, where Napoleon III and
Victor Emanuel II of Italy with their
allied armies whipped the Austrians again
63 years afterward There was not a gun
fired at Castiglione proper on the day
Napoleon l beat Wurmser.
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A Classic Field

In the depth of the following winter
Alvinzi with another army of 10000 Aus
trians started down the mountain defiles
once more.
Napoleon was in doubt where to find
ana meet the main column of the enemy
until late of a January night when he
OWNED that Alvinzi's own command was
headed straight for Verona along the
banks of the Adige.
Ordering reinforcemen-s to follow him
at full speed he raced to Rivoli, II miles
north, where only 10000 French were re-
coi,ing in the presence Of 2S,000 Austrians.
Fairly flying on his horse through a cold,
white night he arrived at the French posi-
tion at o'clock in the morning. just in
time to avert retreat with his cheering
assurance that 1900 men were coming to
the support of the sorely beset 10000.
The battlefield of Rivoli is a classic in
military topography. 1t is a broad, fairly
level plateau, with mountains rising be-
fore and behind 1t and the Adige rushing
along one side, while a range of hills OH
the west runs down to Lake Garda, six
miles away.
On that drill ground Napoleon found
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The 25 Trumpets

The third day of hard fighting about
Arcole was drawing to close with botn
armies unnerved and sick of battle, each
only waiting for the other to quit from
exhaustion. Then Napoleon, who had
been unable to win with blood and pow
der, gained the victory by an absurd ruse.
Placing trumpets in the hands of IS
horsemen he sent them across the river
farther down and they galloped around
behind Arcole in the waning of the No
vember day.
The noise of these trumpets struck
terror to the fainting hearts of the Aus
tlians. At the thought of their left wing
and rear being ambusned by what they
imagined must be a column of cavalry,
theii last drop of courage left them, and
soon Alvinzi's entire army was in fun
retreat on the mountains. Italy had been
saved by the blare of 25 trumpets
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Frivolous Josephine

"One must make for the flying foe,
Napoleon said "a bridge of gold or op'
pc Sc to him a barrier OF STEEL" He glad
~ gave the fleeing Alvinzi a COLDER
bridge, while he himself flew to MilaI
on the wings of love and burst oper
Josephine's door only to find she hat
gone on a merry excursion to Genoa.
Sitting down in the lonely palace hs
wrote her as IL his heart were breaking
quote from a series of letters:
Il had left all to see you, to press
you to my heart-you We're not here.
For me. to love you alone. to
make you happy, 10 &c nothing that
can annoy you, that is the lot and
aim of my life. When L ask
you for a love like mine, l am wrong:
why expect lace to weigh as much as
gold? 4. 1t is my misfortune that
nature has denied me qualities that
might fascinate you.s ..l open
my letter to send you a kiss. All,
Josephine, Josephine"
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Mr.. Morgan sketches today his
journey along The Path of Napo-
leon," through the beautiful fields of
Northern Italy and the wildly pic
turesque passes of the eastern Alps.
II is a stirring tale of the ripening
of Napoleons military genius in
brilliant campaign, when a youth of
81 astonished the world by beating five
Austrian armies, although often out
sumDered two to one, and by making
MI eagle flight of 400 miles over an
icy, snowy Alpine road toward vi
enna.
The abandonment of their capital
by the panic-stricken Hapsburgs, in
cuding little Marie Louise, at the ap-
proach of the Corsican ogre of royalty
and the complete surrender of the en-
pire Of Austria form the climax of
this story, which is complete in itself.
DATES AND EVENTS-AGE 26-27.
July 81 179e-Raised siege at Mantua.
August 3, 1796-Victory at Tomato.
August 4. 1796-Escaped capture Tomato
August 5, 17s6-Victory at Castiglione.
Scptember 5, 1796-Victory at Roveredo.
September 8, 1796-Victory at Bassano.
November 12, 1796-Defeated at Caldiero.
November IA, 1796-Advanced from We
roma.
November 10 IS. II, 17es-Battle of Arcole
January "A. 1797-victory at Rivoli.
January 16, 17s7-Victory at La Fa-
vorita.
February ., 1797-Took Mantua-
March 10, 17s7-On to Vienna.
March "a, 1797-Victory at Jarvis.
March 20, 1797-Took Klagenfurt
April II, 1797-Armistice at Leoben.
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The Battle of RiyOli

Without waiting for the Austrians to
open the attack or for the French REIN
forcements to arrive, Napoleon at once
TOOK the aggressive and before daylight
he had driven the enemy from their lodg-
ment at st. Marks chapel. the nearest
elevation. But in the earlier hours that
followed the sunrise the Austrians drove
in the French at every point of contact
and threatened to catch them in the rear
as well as to climb up on the plateau
and break through their front.
Napoleon sat on his horse as calmly
as at review while his lines wavered
and with anxious eyes his generals
watched his face. He was only waiting
fer the Austrians in front to climb up
and show their white coats above the
eGge of the plateau FOR his artillery to
catch them on either side while his in
fantry dashed at the mead of their column
and tumbled them down the slope. AS
lor the white coats in mis- rear they. too.
were Just where he wanted them, ready
to be caught in their own rear by the
French reinforcement coming up from
Verona.
When he heard the gloating shouts of
the Austrians behind him, where thev
fondly believed they had him and his
army enclosed within a wall of steel. he
cnuckled softly, Now we have them!"
Every man of that fianlking column was
captured. while the artillery smashed and
the cavalry dashed to pieces the columns
that scrambled up the northern sleeps of
the heights of Rivoli.
Alvinzi took flight from the scene
with much less than half the men he
had led down from Trent, Napoleon
had vanquished the fifth army which
Austria had sent against him in less
than 10 months
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How Battles Are W0n-By Napoleon


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the French encamped. Off toward Monte
Baido, on whose shows the moon glisten-
ee' ne saw the wide-flung line of camp
hre OF the sleeping Austrians. "The air
was afiame with Them" he said. But
the enemy to gain footing on the pla-
teeu must climb up steep, crooked and
Icy roads, and those zigzag paths were to
determine the result of the battle.
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A Strange Battlefield

Following 'The Path of Napoleon by
the Adige, found as strange a battlefield
as a general ever chose. Where the little
River Alpone flows down to join the
Adige, near the village of Romeo, there is
big marsh lying between the two
streams, across which there are only two
diked causeways. and an army cannot
move except by those roads.
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other and later struggle with France u
years afterward
For Jarvis, in spite of its command
ing position, could not check Napoleon's
advance. The pass here is at its deep
est and narrowest measure, with barely
room for the swift f,owink, silvery aKnal
and the highroad beside 1t.
Through all the valley above Jarvis,
the most beautiful I ever saw, the peo-
pie have taken flight from savage man
to savage nature on the mountain sides
and even on the mountain tops, where
on seemingly inaccessible crags of the
Jagged Alpine nights they have pitched
their towns. An army must have to
crowd closely together to keep from rub
bing against the stony walls that shut
them in. And at every angle there Is
an old castle to threaten the invaders
of those wild Businesses.
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yard art, now commentaries his des
perate battle for the bridge. His brother
Louis and Marmont helped to pull him
out and rescue him from the enemy.
Lannes was wounded again and Napo-
leon lamented all his life the death or
the devoted Muiron.
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On to Vienna

Austria, victorious against the army of
the Rhine. if SO often overwhelmed by
the army of Italy, called the young,
royal commander, the Archduke Charles,
from his field of victory in the west to
try his lance with the young republican
commander and save the capital of the
Hapsburgs.
Age had not proved to be a match for
youth. Beaulieu was Il and Wurmser
70. But Charles was even younger than
Napoleon, only %, and the new campaign
was to be a competition between gen.
erals who had no more than entered
manhood.
1t is 50 miles, as the railroad runs
from Verona to Vienna. But there were
no Jenna expresses, no trains de luxe,
along THE Path of Napoleon through
the wildly picturesque passages of the
eastern Alps.
Part of the way over which he led his
troops, with their cannon and supplies,
was no more than mule track, where
cart never had been. They climbed
and stumbled and pulled and hauled up
the sleety mountain sides. They laborel
over the heights through three feet Of
snow, where there was not guiding
footprint before them. They waded and
leaped the torrents in the valleys.
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The Story of a Dog

The retreating Austrians were speed
lily melting away under the hot on
slaughts of Napoleon and he found the
road strewn with their sick and wound
ed. whom they abandoned in their
fight to the mercies of the elements
and the foe
OF one of his experiences at that
period he drew a simple and pathetic
picture. In the moonlight and the un-
broken quiet, suddenly there sprang out
from under the cloak of corpse dog
which ran toward me and then re-
turned at once, uttering doleful cries.
He licked his masters cold face a few
times and then sprang at me again.
He was asking aid and seeking VEN
geance.
Never has anything on the battle-
field made such an impression on me-
This man. though, had friends and
here he lies abandoned by all except
his dog"
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Mantua Falls


Like circus showing in one-day
towns the main body of the French
broke camp as soon as the battle was
won. Not long after midnight they
We're on the march southward, to pre-
vent the Austrian division which had
moved down the other side of Lake
Garda, from relieving Mantua. The re-
inforcements at Rivoli had marched IA
miles the night before the battle. After
nghting all day they were now. on 90
y -rh toward Mantua, most of
them without lying down. They arrived
..s neld OF conflict in time not
only to avert the junction of the march,
ing Austrians with the Mantuan gar
rison, but to catch all the 5000 OF them
in a net
Mantua was tottering to its fall. The
men hemmed within its walls could no
longer receive even their half rations
OF salted horse meat. Disease as we'll
as famine threatened their extermina-
tlon Wurmser sent an officer to the
tent of General Seurrier, the comman-
der of the besieging force. to find ont
what kind of bargain could be made.
The messenger boasted, as usual, of the
strength and endurance left in the