The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-09-23
FRUITS Of WAR
SHOWN IN PARIS
Gardens Are Going To
Ruin While
WORKMEN ARE At THE FRONT
Everywhere Is Dust and Des'
olation, While the Spirit
Of Sadness Prevails.
NEWSPAPERS RATHER SCARCE
CBy George Dufresne.D

Paris Sept. 19.-How war strips
rae 80 all but its essentials and how
n brings home the relative value OIL
things. is being demonstrated mere
;, paris to-day. Take one smaii
Instance the kiosks, which are the
news stands of Paris. They arc
omen of course, for news is as nee
.ssarv to the people as their daily
bread. Like food, the news Is peihs
served out in it's simplest ana least
fantastic form.
Small sheets convey the measer
news of the war that the war oiii'e
allows to be disseminated. for 'he
,aest part all other publications are
,,ona The weeklies have entirety
disappeared Also the comic week
lies The comic weeklies dled IKE
december flies from the first day Oh
rnobilization. II was not only that
there was no demand for them'
though that was true, but they uleu
mainly because their STAINS WERE
composed mainly of young men VINO
were called to the front. A lew OIL
Inc serious illustrated week.-Mrs. sur
,ive. and they are in great demand
For some deep reason of hlsh
policy. no doubt, the English papers
have been cut off from Paris. In re-
xongo one sees everywhere hero
ylynhics strange to the eye of West
ern Europe-Turkish and Russia iet-
tering. Roumanian papers, too, now
are sold in the streets of Paris.
The cafes close at O'Clock.
Their place has to be taken by some
thing. for it was unthinkabie that
Parisians. with all the excitement
of war. the prospect of siege ana
bombardment, could go to bed win
the curfew. SO the Champs Elysees
have come into their own, and from
10 IN midnight from Rond Point to
the Place de la ConcOrde, they are
one vast salon, where the people OF
Paris gather TO gossip and discuss
the war. There is little laughter
and the voices seldom rise above
purmur. Soft drinks are sold from
,ushcarts. which have their stations
along the curb.
The Luxembourg Gardens remain,
as always, the playground OF the
children. But in the six weeks
since mobilization they have gone
10 rack and ruin. The falling
leaves cover the paths, there being
10 gardeners, because all the men
have gone to war. Everywhere is
dust and desolation.
A strange sight. typical OF the
times, are the herds of sheep ana
cattle pasturing in the Bots de
Boulogne. which has returned to
the pastoral age. Hundreds OF
animals are CHARTERED there and on
the race course at Longchamps. The
grass plots have been fenced off to
afford grazing places for the cattle
which have been driven into the
city from the surrounding country
to be slaughtered for food.
The MOntmarte of the artists and
the tourists is dead. or, at least, in
a state of suspended animation. II
never was very integral or vita
sart of Paris, and it was the first tC
20. The Clearing House of cos
mopolitan pleasure has closed III
doors and quenched its lights. There
is sterner business on hand.
A little deserter from the from
was found by a policeman wander
ing iisheveled and enfeebled in ont
Of the bouleyards. II was a long
haired spaniel with, on its collar
the name OF its regiment, "Th'
Twenty-sixth Cyclist Chasseurs."