The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-31

ried workmen left their factories. The
one thought was to get home to the
'missus and the kids They were in
action; they had an easier time OF it
than the women, who remained indoors
or stood in front of thcir houses. Mostly
the people went into the streets near
their homes. The gregarious instinct
nowhere asserts itself so completely as
in calamity.
As proof that the Germans had in
mind something more than putting the
gas works out Of commission. which
they did for day or Gripping the
battery on the hill. they used shrapnel
SHE'LL which eXplodes by fuse in the
air.
Shrapnel bullets and fragments got
many of the victims who were out of
doors. The groups in the streets called
out bootless. questions between eXplo-
sions to the men rushing by. They
| "screuched' when a shell hurtled over
head. They drew away in another di-
rcct!on when one b;rst near ~.
heard of no woman who tainted.
Occasionally one became screamingly
| hyster.Cal, which was, in a sense a
| service to their neighbors, who then
had preocCupation which Gained their
| own nerves in calming their weaker
sisters. When a husband arrived. how
that helped with the children all
counted and around her, and her man"
standing 10y looking more unconcerned
than he felt with his hands in his
pockets, she felt safe from the Germans
The Smelling has stopped family quar-
rels in Hartlepool for several weeks
Every one remarked the attitude of the
children, who were not as panicky as
the grownups. They were possessed by
the supernatural wonder of the thing
perhaps.
As suddenly as 1t had begun-wher
a commander signalled to fire Contro
officers who signalled TO the guns
Hartepoors shower bath of destruction
ceased and the cruisers disappeared in
the covering mist which had made Their
brilliant and devilish feat possible. The
Kaiser had singed his cousin Georges
beard little; the German navy hat
said Tag" to the British.
War is war, we are told. Some rea
son. why wait till the children ar,
grown up and wear uniforms? BE tina
as it may, the stubborn, imperturbab l,
Iorkshreman refused to Zoe terrorizeC
after the cruisers We're gone. Witt
such big orders from the Government
the shops are busy, and he went bacl
to work, unless he put a special con
stables band around his arm and dix
guard duty, trying TO appear sodierl,
as he assisted in the gloomy business
of digging in the debris for human
forms, which We're wrapped in sheets
and overlooked from the morgue into
vacant shop.
On the third morning word was sen
out from the Mayors office that tn
people We're to remain home, on tn
report that the Germans were making
an air raid. Nalises appeared here an,
there in trembling hands on the way T.
the railroad sta ions and the back dis
trIcts. They were the type of persol
for whom once was enough.
But the workmen were veterans b.
this time, no less than the regulars q
Sir John French's army. They wer
watching for the Zeppelns. Meanwhil
they told one another how close zone
had come to them, or how a mate
had been hit. Toward noon, when wor
= had come that the alarm was falls,
they began to cuss out the rumo
mongers who had robbed them Of
days work
! English refugees flying from an Eng
fish coast town! There was somethn
startling to old conceptions in tina
For women and children and the oil
sent by their men folk crowded III
train by which | left Hartlepool. Other
who had walked out of town tried I
get on at nearby stations.
Once they were safely beyond tn
reach of those German shells converse
ton livened A familiar discussion to
correspondent in Europe these days q
refugee fashions sprang up. 1t wa
i agreed that the people who had packe
household utensils in sheets and wi
had brought blankets We're making
e mistake.
II left my house just as It was" saI
one woman.
h 80 did 7. As for blankets, you ca
2 get them anywhere. was thinking
d the kids I'm going to Leeds. I've e
g a sister there"
n "Do you think he will remember II
n smother asked, alludng to her hit
boy. 81 hate to think he'd forget 1t, (,
- It's like history, II is. He's g.