The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-24
WORD WAR BITTER
IN SWISS HOTEL
Ex-Manager Says American
Guests EmbrOiI Allies
and Germans.
PARIS BARS T~EUTON'SrGNs
NJ WILSON.

~ f'l's ''s"' 'lit nav ~ a. 10
hotel TO SEQ a rAtcd French feminist who
IL o in town and at TIM, desk ] recog.
nized the head of the swiss hotel where
] had stayed at Nontreux. I asked him
az he were now in charge Of the Paris
hotel and with o satisfied sigh ne nodded
his head.
"No one can have any idea OF the din
cultiee of running a Swiss hotel during
the war. particularly in II summer resort,
where the visitors have more time or
their hands than IN the big centres.
where the clients are usually business
men. You can't imagine what IL is to
have q miNture of 4o0 French. Germans,
Austriars and Italians in your house,
with just enough firmly opinioned Amer
scans TO start troubl. with whatever
group they happen to he.
AT best the Germans aren't noted for
their tact. and ln that section OF Switzer-
land the ~ mps;hIcS are almost entirely
for tae French. Consequently there were
Quarrels and high words every moment
Of the day. I'm sure cant under
stand why they didn't stay over on the
other side near Zurich. for there the
people speak German and are To "a large
degree friendly TO the German cause,
"~InsuIts'' ON All sides.
CHILDREN got into the most terrific
nghts. and even grown people playing
tennis. for instance, would end UP In in
suits and injuries. You may ina CINE
how pleasant IL was for me 20 hear
some Germans addressing a refugee
family from Lille az my lear fellow
a,tt ~ nc ' nr .. Want IA vsfhA- snIltnur "a
lady who was returning TO Versailles
hat y envy You so. my dear; you will
probably see our dear Kaise in such a
short time
People bring up foolish enough com
plants and insults separated by several
hundred miles. We see OF course French.
English and German papers. and some
of the; discussions and hatreds are anus
.ngly t~nfantile, especially that English
hobby against German music as lewd
Well. all those things were condensed
into the space of one hotel veranda. and
fifty times a day ] had clients coming
10 NE from one side or the other
saying that Nine. So and So or Signor
THIS or Fran That had insulted them
and they desired their bill AT once, as
they refused to stay in n hotel which
harbored such vile specimens OF the
human race as the French or the Italian
or inc f.lRllsn OF the herman, whenever
the cfse might be.
"Oh. no. II Is not amusing. And I feel
as II a huge weight had been lifted
on nv back now that | have charge OF
this hotel. Here AT least you only
hear one sort of Conversation
70 many months every trace Of hin
Gerna here in Paris has b.-n wlped
out w business and business signs. all
the streets named after German towns
have been replaced 10y patriotic sugges-
tons and now comes the turn OF the
statues. The four statues of Vienna,
Berlin, Frankfort and Cologne which for
merly decorated the front OF the Care
du Nc d have had their names scratched
out, and "A committee OF painters has
gone Al through this and all the other
large stations painting out signs writ
ten II German.
Thtr" Is. | understand, 10 be n new
statu, erected to- the little baker girl
OF E>pudur. She has already received
Il medal aud Il Kiss from the President of
the r. public. 80 that she is in a fair
way /" b" a second Ieanne d'Arc Since
the L. ginning OF the war. when the
mobilization called out all the men from
her village and when her father. the
baker, eft with the others, she. has
taken 'utirc charge OF the bakery. al
though she Is only / { years old, and with
her liiile brother Of 10 has mixed TN.
breads, ~toked IN. fires. tended the conn
ter IN fact. done everything 10 keen the
r'lloc" IN bread Jnd uravide for III.
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