The evening world., 1914-09-15
UDlle Lewis Glad to Get Home
From France and Declares He
b Going to Fight Here Again.

" Shrlo. WHO Chmo In 70 see
: US accompanied by his AVE-
SoAr-old boy. who talks French as
uosntiy as any French youngster of
a. oame age.
n Just got out OF Franco with what
oave on and few things In a bag"
~ Willie. Couldn't get a trunk.
80 al Of our other clothes and things
verU left la our home at Chant.
he DAY after we left the GermL
voro there. They blew UP tho bridge
~ the butcher shop and other
: oooeee. So perhaps we haven't ~
eo1ng left except what we're going
ogound In now. But we're thankful
0at We got out at all. went up TO
torio' from Chantilly and CO dat
~ back again. had 10 have pass
~ &om Chantilly to Paris, and an-
ooa3r from Paris to Chantilly, and
oent allowed to take nytninE along
~ one grip. The whole country was
0woed with wounaed soldiers being
uyought back from the front. II was
e1r1ble. Some Of the fellows hit by
etenery fire were awful sights. The
nelgisns and the French are as game
- tney make them. ] was talk
~ with one poor Belgian whose
g arm had Just been shot or at the
S!oow: See this brass button. l asked
- TOR one and he took II of his
Sksl ! want 70 remember that fellow.
~ eyes We're shining when he talked
0os the hghting, and he said n.
- - tho stump OF his arm he,,lsG
* 9pt back to the front and frt,,-
1so his one hand. He was only
3ng 70 get at the Germans again
W.en war started I had Just in
y91ese all my money. with a partner.
y 2 one gymnasium In Paris. / wa:
sinx eood money boxing and tAh-
y. We put In about 5000. A wcsk
l41sr along came tho war ana o v,a
- up. There won't DO any nora
aang In France for long time.
1oeetres. cafes. all sorts OF amuse-
ut places are closed up.
I'll nfvsf forget the night war was
04osAfed. The streets were crowded
IN people. all singing and shouting
- sceang' - II they were half crazy
- Joy. There was q big German
- called Appenroth's.' I used 10
Gown there In the evening ana
oavo q bite now and then. This nioht
= friend and I went down 10 have
. Illsncr and n sandwich. When wa
- there the place was a wreck. The
ped had Just rushed II and smashed
81 tne mirrors and furniture and
Upe9ed out the German walters. One
or walter was trampied to death.
I'm they shut down on the rioting.
HETHosE Frenchmen are brave
II The streets were crowded
with men going 10 report for
MMDwl0A- ThQv rriaA listla ka -. =
IN bread and meat and wine to use
- the start, and they were all sing
-. They knew that many would
uyser come back, but they were as
4perfw ~ II they were going to q
AFTER ! got my wife and the boy
- nom Cnantilly I saw a German
l3oplane dropping bombs on Paris.
Z - my wife near the Opera and
20 Henry's Bar. While I was
- ] heard an aeroplano humming
nea0 and rushed out to look Mt II,
- Tying only a couple Of thou.
- teet high and dropping bombs.
~ headed straight over the
49, where I'd left my family, and
- scared half to death. II went over
- and dropped a bomb In tho
O1pe bvf II didn't 20 on. A woman
go 10 me. You couldn't block thai
- Wllliei'
e1he. last thing he dropped was n
- BAG 18th a note tied TO II telling
04oD to surrender. as the Germans
Ul2A - there In week.
We didn't get much to eat In Paris.
wont sell you more than lust
DUep FOOD for your family, and
Know all about everyone. Mrs.
TOO Henry rented an eight room
1rtment when she reached Paris
- Chantilly. and had cots put In
ehe rooms and took In q lot of
U(Deed Americans. She got W. a
- dinner for them every day and
~ out everybody she could. She
- have given away six or eight
Qu4and dollars. She gave her autos
~ Uorsss and house at Chantilly 40
40overnment TO use during the war.
~ Henry and Mrs. Henry and
- kennedy and Johnny LOTUS and
Garner and my wife and boy
444e over with me when we all had
~ save Paris at last. All tho women
voee put into the cabins on La Tour
49, ana the men In the Storage. The
oeot hight out we were held up by a
oru)ger and everybody was scared half
70 eeath. Women were crying and
ta>uttng all over the place, and we
eEpected TO be sunk. We thought II
49, . German sure. Ny wife was
u9ye!ng tho boy and crying over him
I'D then We found out II was a
Stonch cruiser and we were all r yht.
: xCsRPENrTER has n snap In
the French army. Probably
he won't be killed. They're
ming good care OF him. He drives
!, - o0cer's automobile. Carpen;le Ter Ia
- greatest fighter ] ever saw. He
- efain down to iG5 pounds. 80 ne
( ~ . big fellow. lie Isn't afraid OF
AWNING and he ran box or slug with
Vbody. He's signed up now for
ots when the war Is over, but i'm
q long time before anybody In
|. yeoe can afford to pay to see q
y: ~ trained Moran Ave weeks for the
lRty neoa n6ht johnson baked at the
|1 ooss-st and wouldn't 70 on
= egssmsat that neraa