Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-26

| when we returned. And yet-we had
! seen but little.
! At Koenigsberg we crawled out of
{ the train. stiff from our first night on
the road. 1t is interesting, no doubt, TO
sit up all night long. But it gives one
/ heated feeling about the eyes. The
| waiting room at koenigsberg was
filed with soldiers. Outside the station
| stacked rifles. The men nodded in the
| frosty air The officer who chaperoned
ius ordered butter-bread init wurst.
| that being the standard meal in all
| these war-torn places.
Don't move about too much. he ad-
vised. as he left US. You might be ar
rested"
| So we silently regarded the soldiers
| between bites of wurst. The possession
/ of the English language, and nothing
else. is almost a debi. item here now
adays. Once during the night a man in
! the next compartment had called our
officer out
! You ought not to speak English
! he had said reproa chfully. We hate
| the tongue
New Jersey Man at Front.
Korschen was our next stop The Russ
had been driven out but little time be
fore The hlackened walls of the burned
station, a substantial structure of brick
and stone. told US this When we got on
he military tram WHICH we were 10 lolu
for time a man wearing an unfamiliar
/ ia nd about his arm hailed us,
Haven't seen YOU in New York ne
| asked
He was an employe OF the r 5. {. AT
!, Newark. y ] An architect by profess
sion. he was in Germany when the war
broke out on a vacation He at once vol
unteered and put to the work OF
rebuilding after III. fleeing Russ.
| 1T my ,luty--but ! like New .Ier-
| Sey better. said he
! We noted for the thousa ndth time here
! n fact which had become familiar to us.
! The American is not liked by the upper
! classes. either in Germany England
! The American attitude is resented by both
countries But the smaller man is apt
] 10 be full of smiles when he meets an
| American Perhaps he has relatives in
J America. often he has spent months or
! wears there SoGetinles. possibly. he finds
! in America Something he misses under
| his own form of governments form
! which is an hundredfold more efficient
| than ours. but which might grow wearing
| to the man who has had taste of greater
! liberty.
| War Now Grim Business.
| Troop trains began to hammer by on
+, the way to tie front. In the earlier,
careless days of the war these cars would
| be covered by cheerful legends to the eff
| feet that the inmates were on their way
to St Petersburg, or chalked caricatures
of the car and King George of England,
| There is none of that now. Four months
ago the men sang happily and waved
! their hands out Of the windows when they
passed station. That phase has passed,
in England and France as we'll as in
| Germany. War is no longer summer s
| outing 1t has become an Internally grim
business But the soldiers seem quite
| confident and serene
| More wurst at Starlaek, where the
| Mazurian lakes began to stretch out,
gray and shallow. at the left of the
| road At 7 o'clock we reached Lotzen,
from which place we are to ride to
Lyck on military freight train. Moth
| ing but martial law prevails here
! abouts The man who would ride on
, a train rides only by virtue Of military
business or military pass. We saw
| an officer try to thrust by sentry
| posted at one door of the waiting room.
| The sentry threw his rifle across the
| door.
You are a fool" said the officer
angrily.
You cannot enter without the proper
pass. said the sentry.
Discipline Maintained.
He meant business, that sentry. II
! is all very we'll to talk of the manner
| in which German officers treat Ger
man privates l haven't seen as vet
any example of overrough discipline
but l have seen plenty Of examples OF
the discipline that counts. In Berlin
a few days ago a general officer rode
to a restaurant in his military car
driven by soldier chauffeur. On his
departure he met a party Of friends on
| their way home. He asked them to
| enter his automobile.
Il beg pardon, sir said the chauf-