The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-02-02

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everybodv eise Everybody cheered,
ana new wyaafha and new streamers
were brought out and arranged ON
our engine ana coaches.
| AZ budapest.
Budapest is the one city in all Of
| war-torn Europe where one can still
tango and fox-trot, and the cafes were
emptied for an hour that the beauty
and chivslry of gay Budapest might
bid us welcome and speed us on.
No HUNGARIAN hamlet, however
small, failed to acuuaint us with the
Hungarian delight over the Balkan
outcome. Hungarian playfulness in
all things ifs delightful. AT three
towns, whose names we could not
catch. great open-air festivals were
being held In our honor, and we caught
glimpses of pretty rnaidens In nativs
garb pioretting to the strains of Hun.
garian music, which came to the traiI
in sufficient volume to make US wish
we might linger.
From the flat snow covered plains
of Southern Hungary we now began
to thread new steel way amoun
the foothills of the Southern palkau
range Poor Serbia We entered In
the middle of the night. Belgrade,
once the capital of a spirited ration
we passed long before the dawr.
All the country had been conquer.
ed to the point of extinction. A few
peasants were to be seen trudging be-
hind oxen or carrying huge loads on
their backs, but the principal sigma
of work were German and Bulgarian
soldiers at work with Serbian prison
ers on the railroad that Is the new
hope Of Central Europe.
Nish. to which the Serbian govern.
ment fled from Belgrade and where's
II fled later to the four winds, showed
us a veritable congress of nations.
High German officers and chiefs of
the government In the Bulgarian &C.
cupation saluted and were saluted by
gaily- ca parisoned Austrians and Hun
garians Solid, stalwart Bulgarians
trod their posts, while downcast Ser
bian prisoners went ruefuily about
their tasks.
Here and there a Turkish fez added
a welcome dash of color to the scene.
In Conauerine Bulgaria.
We are soon In Bulgaria. where the
spirit of the conqueror. inspired by
the crushing humiliation of an an
Client enemy, is more In evidence than
in either Germany or Austria Hun
gary. Still there are Germans and
Austrians. but the many are Butgn-
rians.
We mount higher snd higher The
sun sinks away behind the Balkan
hills and finally. at 10 o'clock, we
come to Sofia, the Bulgarian capital.
IT seems that not only King Fed
lerdiand, but all his kingdom. had come
out to see us. Bulgarian officials
take charge of the Orient express, and
new engine, already hung with
flags and greens, becomes the pilot.
We stay here forty minutes. tbs
longest stop OF the trip. THIS time
mere are AinerAeahs aiiio"s 1nose "io
greet me IN iaet' ouF ihst Sa'"
non 40 tue !. uisih ''ies - 81 '""s
way 10 or
from S"i,a We osehi " rlhs "inos
nloul'A1i1s 'l'a' ~ ..S iaa1
aoF OF ihoohI'shl hishs inase w
! tnIhh ueepis anu patrlotseaiiy vi LIZ,
to"s'ohe iark- we creep aions c'it1s
9Ia' 4iss ieus VI aooNe .ne
sTeat pains "heFe the rlFeFS ar.
plach riooohs agalhst the PACK srouhu
OF whlte' ana "he1e ohiy trees aot
'he.i Pecuthaf pattern.
lhese mountains are niSaess sA-
sept ioF rev ION" sehtrlss' VINO.
nearing ene rattle Oh our Train coHis
out OF tneif nuts ana stand ~ arms
ootliiieu III tHe gio" OF th"tF fifes
"itlie We pass
curing ine early hou.s o. MONDAY
We ore ie"Nihs Nhese mountains SURE
- our Sneihesf once laI = 'obossan
9iiae at Cuney ista,tu' io' NJ 'cSps US
III, '. 49, " "o''"ei - NO
s.Ih IN tns rnsase.
Souh hno"' io' aS1A' We are
. rut,lhe me plains We NeH ~.
n Aes' We nave le'. we "Hi.er "i
nu1s"i IA Iot t'ie sp.hs "a s'io fich,.
.iers S,eP,ie.us Ieao 'He'r ,inchs over
iief"S ii"oaeo III WAL IN SUNSHINE
The battle-ground OF Ages.
We pass here sentry huts OF per-