New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-04

batteries-are within the range Of
vision as you stand in front of the
cottage.
The Prince Of Wied comes out of the
cottage. takes his stand on the en-
bsnkment on the opposite side of the
road. and proceeds to lecture crisply
on the nature and extent of the opera
tions of the last few days.
He is clear and emphatic and he
seems 10 enjoy his task-a sharp
speaking, swift speaking man of per-
haps forty. who stands erect and makes
the period to every one of his short
sentences as definite as a pistol shot.
The only fault to be found with his
discourse is that whenever he makes
a point that appears to the famished
correspondents TO have real news value
they are politely requested to make no
mention Of that matter in their dis
patches at present.
The great trouble is that they put
you on your honor as to these matters
and do it in so courtly way that only
a hlsckguard would try to wriggle out
of the agreement.
Otherwise the Prince Of Wied is a
most informing man.
At Wsyside Shrine.
A hundred feet down the road from
the cottage is n wayside shrine, the
most elaborate ] have seen in these
parts. In its peaked recess is glazed
copy of that wonder working black Ma
donna, original of which before the war
they used to unveil twice a day in the
ancient church at Czenstochsu.
A few withered flowers are strewn
laAn ha Lac
shrine, and peacock feathers and bits
of tinsel jewelry have been hung
around the picture.
From the base Of the cross you get
an excellent view of the puff and flash
Of the five miles of batteries which
thunder in an outward curve on the
edge of the plain before you.
From Lowicz to the town of Bolimow.
where this curving line is especially
heavy, great road cuts straight across
the triangle Of death little south of
its centre.
That road is never empty. Some
times-most of the time, indeed-it IS
an almost unbroken ten miles Of
marching troops. ammunition wagons,
provision wagons and loads OF nay
and straw.
Endlessly this pageant of invasion
moves along between the white, un-
fenced fields, the crows wheeling above
it and the slightly wounded soldiers
who will not wait for transportation
back to Lowicz but are making the ten
miles on foot, threading their way IN
and out amid the crush.
The first time ! rode along this high
way il carried single column OF trathc.
Two days later. when | made another
trip, the traffic had overlooked to each
side of the original highway and the
Bolimow road had become triple road.
The marching columns had taken TO
the fields on the left and had stamped
the ground almost as hard and fiat as
the main rosdbed was.
Wagons Take to Fields.
Provision and hay wagons still held
the centre, but the empty ammunition
wagons going back to Lowicz to be re-
loaded had taken TO the fields on the
right and made new route for them
selves there.
SO there were three columns sweep
ing along simultaneously, and l don't
suppose that throughout the ten miles
there was ever much more than quar-
ter of mile break in the lines.
That made motoring very difficult
unless one went at the slow pace the
wagon trains made. The soldier-chsuf
feur assigned to the correspondents did
rot at all care for that pace, and so
he would put the shrieker of the auto
mobile into commission and scare the
drivers of three provision wagons into
edging one side to make room for him.
With that advantage gained, he would
r.anRuvre a quarter of mile or so
at terrific clip.
Usually We got into trouble for doing
this, for the commander of column
takes it very i'll to have his advance
thus thrown askew by mere civilians.
In the name of several kinds of thun-
DER weather he roars at us from his
horse, as. ng us who We are and what
we mean by breaking in upon a war
that he appears to regard Is personal
and private to himself.
If locomobile that acts like rail-
way engine that has run off the track
prevents fight from this blast, the
commander Of the column, who looks
like Prince Bismarck in a state of
apoplexy, has freed his mind Of all
his opinions about civilians.
When the storm has passed Prince
Bismarck is very like TO wheel on his
horse and give hoarse cries of COM
mand that much facilitate the advance
of the car. But while his wrath lasts
he is a superb sight-eyes blazing,
mustache bristling and voice shaking.
The moral is: ado not get in the
track of the system"
Alternate Frost and Rain. f
In the first part of January the Bon-
NOW road was in shocking condition,
as q result of alternate frosts and
rains. One day il gave four horses all
they wanted to do TO pull our car
not q large one-out of the ruts when
il skdded into bad place just on the
outskirts of Lowicz. Two men had TO
mount the first span of horses and ply
the lash before the beasts could do the
work.
In a few days the Russian prisoners
were set to repairing the road, and
two days later it was in capital shape.
The prisoners had done their work
well. They are good diggers and
patchers.
Each of the huge provision wagons
carries at its side bundles of switches
for road mending. These are laid in
the holes and covered with earth. Their
purpose is TO keep the earth from being
ground out of the hole imme diRtely the
wagons pass over the patched piece or
road. They also serve to keep the
wheels from cutting into the soft
ground.
Most of the horses that do the terrif-
&c hauling which this advance involves
are in good shape. In the first five miles
on nv first trip out of Lowicz saw
only five lying dead by the roadside.
But two days later there were three
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