Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-17
ENDS MANY CR|PPLEs
IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES
Hands Not Flesh and Blood, but IA
Wooden Substitute Instead,
Anderson Learns.
ALL HORSES ARE EMACIATED
Rubber Tires Cannot Re Found.
Automobiles Operating on Iron
Ones, With Springs Fixed Sc
tween Rims to Easo Jolt.
ALL HORSES ARE EMACIATED
by ALFRED G. ANDERSON.
coUyrrh,,.Isis. by Star Company.

b1 ALftED e.. ANDERSON.
tCopyrEht.. 1913. BY Star Company
den Linden in Berisn nothing ;" aston s",
H ,smHa me SO T., much as tie hundreds Of
srdy s n ea" p ilSshss whn ,n Has
"hhy weren't they at ne front?
corner at Friederichsstrasse and tnttr
den Linden. lie touched his hat and
s,itute. After that / snsjee te ali
and ouma hat Il sl2yee every ONE
vas camonhaged cripple from, the
stored 20 %nom surgical skin had re-
ieai sound ness. Iia ppFs and IL legs p"' Of
wood and rubber were in evidence
!, E p Ike p for general scarcity Of
outward indications Of war-time wear
ana sssT tSe rue ey asheG by
washed. such automobiles as could
be found piled chiefly between the big
entire lot ooP Every .Fe o1 ssa had dee iron
TO ease IL, ot Nes as eS s eS
Crossing Uh!er den Linden I observed
tail building Oh Friede riehstrasse. :
I
J did not I, was simply a great
atole Of at 2sSsse
the government weekly allowance of
t I've, eissrs Cigars are SO scarce that
until nishtfau.
During ms first day in Berlin en-
conntered al, least a dozen such queues.
but they weren't all lines OF desperate
smokers. One was OF women attracted
Inv l,, q, tr.,r.yr ~
that some caobaEes mad been received.
Others were. pleasure seekers lined up
| waitng to obtain tickets FOR for next
weeks performance al exorhitant
S habit hd has
pesnie. ali with noses buried in cheap
book peddlers at 80 pfennsngs tabout
cents) each.
FINDS Long ROWS OF
MILITARY HOSPITALS
On the west side Of Berlin, found
fully three -foyrths of the buildings in
Ssa The Berner hmxs unas she he
s saeh hosp,a 9r de S.r list sYf he's
s Sss e Esss is;s inisa OF the war as
Fol. that reason the Berliner goes in
heavily Tor sheaters and moving pic;
piayhouse.Nsom pay as high as ;15
practically every ihenter was doing a
Attracted BY a poster that nearly
my eT az hpaa Sns marx p
ture on Observation-Disclosures. The poster
presented Mutt and Jer practising
hss antss in 81 OF
thought II was some Tcutonic version
Of Bud Fishers famous pets Imagine
many from some neutral country.
of h tt ana iny 1n jeH me bFoash
II is probable that the audience did
had esa 9 s5a' n, sa enc
would not have cared, us i found that
sente4 in Berline were English OF
jimmy Valentine, IL famous American
dramatic film. waa having 9. record
stem Damn. The Voiks Buhne was nd-
Tnrl,sE kinE Lear and The Iessn a
ing sung az the Royal Opera waS and md
Martha" an English opera. held the
boards ct the Chnrlotensburs Opera
Wdes was of
at the Tauen2ken Palast
CALL IN VAR PRISONERS
TO OPERATE SHOW HOUSES
Berlin is. even turning TO her enc
mics. not only for creative dramatic
and operative genius. bur 'ven for tho
more mechanical requiiements or their
productions. The cashier at the Deu-
tschc Theater told inc that but for the
stage help and mechanics drawn from
the ranks of French and British pris-
oners. all the. playhouses in Berlin
would be closed.
into Cafe Bauer on Inter den Linden
for drink. The place was crowded,
but. the clothes of neither men
women suggested the dearth OF textiles
which I learned later actually exists in
Berlin. Somehow everybody appeared
to still have one preSentab!e garment
left for visits to cafes and for festive
occas ions although stout man across
the table told me sorrowfuuy that
prices were "eutaetlich.' lie said the