Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-11

DAISING your eyes you next scan the
~ stump more or less minuey, but 1t Is the
prod from your umbrella which very prob
ably gives you the first hint Of deception,
For behold Instead of what you expected
to result from your tentative thrust lhere
comes back hollow and metalllc souho. y
closer examination leads TO the discovery
that a generous section OF the trunk on the
south side swings open on h'nge' revealing
q hollow interior 2la feet in diameter by
feet high. Fastened to the inner wall on the
side opposite the door will be ladder lead
ing to a small shelf or platform at the top
Seating yourself on this platform you VIII
next push back slide. also OF steel, reveal
ing an aperture in the shell some inches
high and 90 inches long. Reaching for your
field glasses you place them In the aperture
10 examine the vista. trying at the same time
as well as you can to imagine !ourSell d
gunner doing observation duty, But try as
you will your minds eye can never picture
what he saw there day after day, winter
and summer, for many long. weary year
AS YOU put away your glasses ana turn
n to descend your eyes are again arrested
by countless computations in countless diner
ont hands penciled upon the white walls
ohout your shoulders and from the symbols
ACCOMMODATING the figures you may gather
that the abstruse calculations had something
to do with degrees and minutes, but OF
main in ignorance They belong t9 dead
language one whose death was reobrded on
the day that peace came
I'pon emerging you again take stock OF the
exterior marveling at its likeness to us TOUR
counterparts and wondering how It came
there with its massive weight and founda-
| lion of re-enforced concrete. No amount OF
coriecturiug will ever provide you with even
| an approach to the scenes attending ITS cree
| lion and as a consequence l am going to
describe them for you, even though DO SO
| with the feeling that no pen Will ever do
Justice TO the occasion.
| ,ANOIrFLAGE Is an art that has only
| | been perfected since the outbreak OF the
| nresent war Notwithstanding the fact that 1t
| had birth with the picking of certain apple
| several thousand years ago. For months the
| gunners had striven to keep themselves ad-
/ yised of German movements In this area by
| means of observations from this ideal posi-
| lion but with doubtful success, No sooner
| would they build for themselves place
from which they might study the actions OF
| the Hun than the latter would detect their
| hiding place and with a few wen-placed
| shells eject them. At last being arrived
who, in addition to carrying the magical let
| ters 'R A." (Royal Academy after his
| name proved beyond the shadow of doubt
| that he could do things with paints. One OF
| the Ave willow stumps at the crest OF the
slope he selected for creation in oils, and
| not many days later none too respectable
l ppearing engineers dump" was further
outraged by the arrival of duplicate or the
subject of our artists brush
TT WAS a ponderous hollow affair made o.
| | steel of one-inch thickness. Without it,
| branches. which for the sake of conyenencs
had been constructed TO ht into place aftei
fhc trunk had been set up. Il weighed In IN