New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-19

rent CONDITIONS III LoHuoh, may iHS'iSSS 'o''N
Of your readers. a.
New York, Nov Is, 1915.
III will interest you to know Of some OF
the alterations Of conditions the war has
brought about Principally, the prices OF
practically everything have gone up ana as
regards necessities (foodstuffs) there IS
rise all around of about 20 per cent; other
necessities q somewhat less rise. But 1t Is
IN so MANY other things that the effects OF
the war are brought home.
Women are increasing at great rate IT.
all sorts Of trades, to replace the great drain
in men who have gone to the front Ticket
;nsnectors on the S. L. R. and many other
lines. Nearly all bookstalls Many women
notice have been taken on, and great num-
her of Offices in all towns TEEN with women
At Electra House the men OF military age
are there on condition that they will be re-
nIaced nv women should the companies con-
slider their work could be efficiently carried
on by them, and these are the conditions
which obtain in many other houses.
After dark in London it is very easy 70
lose ones way, owing to the immense de-
crease of lighting of the streets. | went up
West few days ago, and in the thorough
fares where formerly all the shops were
brilliantly ablaze there are no lights visible
from the street at all-they are screened IN
such a way that no beam is thrown on the
navement or road. was on duty snort
time ago at Shooters Hill, where they nave
erected many hundred houses for the work
men in the arsenal, and we were told OIL 70
call at the houses where bare lights or IN
sufficiently screened ones were visible, ana
we knocked up quite forty people and or
dered them to put up curtains. Inc Yep
pelns did a great deal of damage to the
West End, around Chancery Lane; nearly hit
the Lycerm, where performance was on, and
the people came tearing out OF the theatre
and enc poor man received piece OF anti
aircraft shell in his tummy, which fattened
him TO pulp against a wall. could tell you
of many horrors perpetrated by these Ger
man swine with their airships. but the Amer
lean press have no doubt recounted them
with few frills, perhaps. One BUS was
completely blown to bits, killing eleven
Within 200 yards of Electra House, on the
Bank side many bombs fell, one, which did
not explode, being the biggest the police
have ever seen. Some nights after more
bombs fell about the same distance on the
north side of the house, tearing a huge hole
in the road About this time, at New Cross,
| heard from the police that great damage
was done at New Cross, so went down there
on my cycle and saw two houses completely
pulyerized- -only one or two beams left stand
ing One poor woman was cropping about the
remains for some one she missed. 1t was at
$3.50 a. m. that was there, having just come
of early morning duty.
Another time | was called out to attend at
Ethan police station at $3.50 p. m. The first
thing saw in the sky when left the house
was a Zeppelin high up in the direction OF
London, some eight miles off. A very fas-
cinating sight, with many searchlights on
il and a terrific number of bursting bombs
around it. 1t lodged and twisted and finally
belched forth an immense volume Of smoke,
amidst which she disappeared, a well known
dodge of theirs. We all witnessed this from
the house at Nottingham; then donned my
armlet and trunchion, and, turning to ad-
dress the neighbors around us, told them to
keep to their houses if the "Zep" came over,
as the falling shrapnel from our own guns
is best avoided this way, but IL is not ad-
hered to, as nearly everybody wants to see
what's going on and forgets the danger.
then cycled to Ethan, to find crowd of
specials there. and waited some time
Then, at 1l:2c, policeman cycled up to say
that an airship was coming up from the
south. We looked up, and hearing roaring
sound beheld . clgar-shaped thing stealthily
coming up and appeared to be pretty low.