The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04

= being homhardci by German
long range cannon which shoot
over the Lorraine Mountains held by
the French Civilian visitors are safer
Just behind the trenches THAI 1T -.
Die. although the men in the trenches
look on Il a n town If the rear
whore ther" arc shops, restaurants and
beds to sleep IL.
The special interest Of Americans in
the bcmha.dm-at les IN the fac; that
s.. Die has been C,'cd the hap;,smal
font Of America. Th.s name was given
10 the tuNa IN 1881 10y Frank Mason,
atterward United states Corsul-Gencral
in Paris. in n monograph which enjoyed
ce.ebrty. TIE hnm.ari,nol: x cauS-
ing great injury t. the Gown W..Auut
gaining obvious military results for
tho Cermaas.
on one sunday a~fte~roen just - III"
children We're returning from veci,rs,
six great shells fc.l on the town aaI
smashed two houses. On Mo- day
morning fifteen sic.s ro.l. OF which
three damaged 'he cathedral. on Tues
day, between $50 \. NJ. and noon,
torty-e.ght Shells fell. SIX crashing
into the cathedral or IS c,-.sters. Again
a, c T. NJ. Eve more she's Eel, well
elmcd BY German mathcml:.ts. The
cathedral tlo!ster of ~. De BIDS fair
to he Il co.l?,cte wreck.
Thus, without, apparent reason the
Germans are destroying ;hc most We =
crahic spo, in France fo: Americans.
-. Die l!es In Il valley. twenty miles
n tho interior. un.mac!rah.c - . point
for observations Of anything. Yet at
long range !ro.a over the border the
Germans are blowing rp the cathedral
c~,oiSters where the word ".Ame".ca''
Wa first pronounced and Printed.
II was hero that on Jure !. 1911. in
presence Of tn" American Ambassador
and 1 croWd OF prominent Americans
W. fE'N4Gt. q TIE fItltl IS''uo4-'
unveiled II commemorative taalet. II
Wa ~furrv"" t. honor The ,anors Of 81.
De Cathedral who on .Ap.il -. 1907.
l..at5d these words in "a little bool;
,a!lei "Ccsmograph.r lntroductio';
There * IA fourth quarter % the
word which America Nespucei has dis
covered. and which for this reason We
cal America
~ the Chicago Exposition there was
n special hall for ST. Die. In it II copy
~ the little book-for which the COL
loctor I;ah.r had recently pad $3.50 =
was exposed in a glass case, open at
page 80, where America" first appears.
Cloister wall and commemorative
tablet have now been destroyed. In
this cloistcr, at the time of the dis
opvery OF America, learned men
tirolled, talking of geography and
every science. The cathedral authori-
ties ran an academy for full hedged
- ~ Aoc' Nv pcbeht "a
printing press and began to set UP
their "Cosmography"-a bringing up
to date OF old geography. Then they
received a manuscript In French en-
titled "Quatre Navigations d'Amerique
Ncspuce." II came In handy.
Here is up to date geography" ex-
Gained the learnd Hylacomylus.
"A fourth quarter Of the world to put
in our Cosmography'!" rejoiced Mat
tin. Ringrann.
Canon Jean Balm translated II into
pain Latin. And so the little book
Vas printed -- and America baptized
In the cloister OF st. Die!
When ! was at St. Die no damage
mad been done to the cathedral. The
photograph herewith shows the clois-
Ter as 1t viii never he seen again. A
year ago the Germans made a frst at
tempt to get the range. but only
smAshed q suburb. Yet Il was . Close