The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-18


Z community, large and small, for funds.
He paid ont nothing OF his own except
written scrip. At one blow tho whole
financial system OF the conquered coun-
try was converted into ono great
source OF tribute.
Suddenly there came storm OF news
to the Boston papers. It cnue from
the country to the south Of the sharbor
from Cohasset. and bingham. Wey-
mouth and Quincy. Heavy artillery
was being unloaded all along the line
of the south shore branch of the Old
Colony railroad. Horses and hmbers
were moving along all the roads to tho
shore. Soldiers were advancing into
all the towns.
sBoston,s popnIace, listening to tho
clannor from the sea, scarcely noted
that the bulletins were announcing
that all the railroad lines OF the Boston
and Maine railroad leading north aid
northwest to Portsmouth. Hayerhtll,
Lawrence and Lowell had been seized
and that Boston was completely cut
of.
Silent policemen appeared all at once,
followed by men with posters and
paste pals. The crowds saw posters
go up on their walls signed by the
Boston citizens committee.
There was poster in great red let
tiers warning the Inhabitants to de-
liver any firearms that they possessed
in the. city hall within six hours.
.Attentionr' said a6other placard
.Inscase of military occupation OF the
city q single dfsorderly act may mean
-the ruin OF all. 1t is the duty Of all
citizens to offer no resistance and to
report to the authorities any. plan to-
ward resistance"
There was "a great stir in the crowd.
A cab was pushing its way through
Washington street to the Globe build
ing. Two disheveled md blood STAIN
ed artillerymen and mn equally dis
heveled civilian were in It. While the
soldiers went on to the city hall the
civilian got out and entered the news
paper Office. He WIS a Globe reporter.
The cab hardly had stopped Mt the
city hall before bulletin went up:
FORT ANDREWS GARRISON J.
DIES AT ITS POST.
IGNORES SUMMONS TO SURREN-
DER
ONLY THREE MEN ESCAPE FROM
RUINS.
Ten minutes later the "extras" APP
peared and were whirled through the
town. They passed with the speed al
most of the wind, for men passed them
from hand to hand. They shouted the
news to people looking from windows
in a delirfum half OF dismay, half OF
exultation. The newspaper man had
brought in such tale as would live
in American history.
At quarter past 3 the hostile general
sent message to the American COM
mander at Fort Warren apprising him
OF the disposition of his field guns.
'In one-quarter of. an hour" said be,
"the bombardment will begin. We
shall fire at Brookline first"
Until then no soldiers had appeared
in the city of Boston itself. The arm
ed ring had contented itself with en-
circling all the suburbs. Now the
telephone bell rang in the city hall.
and a voice asked for the mayor.
The voice was that OF the hostile
commander, speaking from Brookline.
your defenses are in our hands," he
said. "our guns command every part
of your city. have the honor to de-
mand unconditional and peAceable sur
render at once, with all property OF ey-.
cry kind"
The mayor knew that disaster was
at hand. I'VE surrender" he said.
every we'll" was the response. "a
body of troops under general officer
win enter the city at once They Will
have orders to punish any disturbance
severely"