Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-08-19
SALESMAN TELLS.
|. Of SIGHTS IN THE
COUNTRIES IN WAR

ing. Inc letter was written At Lac
Piccadilly hotel. London, July II, lsls,
and reads as fellows:
was in Paris months. Travelling
now is difficult. You are continually
signing something, and showing pass
ports. The war is being reduced to
matter of endurance, and can only end
by the exhaustion of one Of the beii'-
gerents. will not venture an opinion az
to when (probably 1919. Paris streets
are full of wounded now. They are in
dead earnest over there, and their
beautiful Marseillaise is being sung as
never before. London is plastered
with posters calling for recruits, hut
life goes on about as usual. At night,
cafes and theatres are crowded with
London's best families, in full dress.
and they will all (men and women)
smoke cigarettes.
Going through hospitals was sad but
interesting. They lie on cots, in rows,
and are torn, broken and crushed in
every conceivable way. They lie there,
all bound and rugged up, suffering and
smoking cigarettes. The nurses have
no patience with war. Going through
trenchessand wire entanglements, you
wonder how they ever drive each other
out. The most frequently visited place
in Paris now is Napoleon's tomb. 1t ls
there all old war trophies are kept and
new ones are brought as fast as cap
tured. All his other systems have pass
ed away, but his old war one goes on
forever. saw the German 'taubea"
dropping bombs on Paris. You can see
French airship most any time you
look up. In London, searchlights play
over the city at night, and great
throngs fill the streets in the darkness.
The most inspiring sight in Paris ls
when regiment leaves for the front
Business and traffic stop, and pie
appear by thousands to cheer and pin
on flowers. 1t represents the real thing.
They are going out to kill and get kill
n ed in order that dispute might be
s settled.
a Paris is all art and beauty. Every
building is the same height, Is stories.
Il Their system of boulevards, parks,
q places, statuary, arches, sculpture and
Y bridges across the Seine is "worldfalr-
q ish" and captures all Americans. Flow
& ers and music are sold in the streets the
y same as papers and vegetables, Fine
n girls are raised and trained the same al
u Paris Missouri, raises and trains fine
81 saddle horses. London with population
81 of six million is tremendously big an<
u impressive; while Paris, with a popula
ton of three million (and Il million
q dogs) is only grown-up country town
n and insist that it is beautiful.
D A big round building in Paris caaiec
81 Bourse de Commerce is where all tn
N grain trade of France meet and do thei
IS trading. 1t is am open market and any
one can trade. There are no sample
tables or quotations. Some bring sam
81 pies in their pockets, but it is nostl
III talk and gestures. 1t will be crow
of little men, plainly dressed, and eac
one will wear sswhiskers. Barges com
ing up the Seine to Paris hold from
to 20 thousand bushels. This grain
sacked (mostly by lhand), putt on 'dray
R pulled by one horse always stallion
" and distributed, all of which was inter
esting to watch. Railroads and steam
~ boat companies have system of III
nishing'sacks and they charge more ger
M than we do.
The Governments are doing thei
a grain buying more intelligeutly now
n II. STA grain @ill be bought but nc
- overboGght, like 1T was last year. Lor
n don grain dealers call the world croE
IS big and prices high enough. Their opir
B ion of futuresprices is always based @
n the opening of the Dardanelles. To or
b crate bigfgrain business in London Q
rs Liverpool YOU must almost be raised i
n il, as nothingsis standardized. The
~ quote per quarter of 480 pounds NOR
y frequently than any, but all nation
g quote them differently and all over En-
81 gland different weights and measure
81 ments aroused This reduces compe
8 titioh (which is keen) and gives ther
u a trading basis they would not have
b if standardized and prices posted a
u with US. u. S. A. and Canada are til
M only nations that sell on inspection Gel
u tificates. All other countries sell b
n sample. This calls for lot of arbitrs
n ting andTthe London Corn Trade Asst
citation arbitrating committee is til
b busiest one in London, especially sine
war has switched all grain business o.
to new tracks.
London's wall Street. is Gale
"a 1.-The City," The bank of England
q windowless, one storied old building
cut up into courts on the inside. Arour