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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06

that had been RACED in night by the
explosions of the government munition
plants at Morgan, N. J.
Some had fed from the shell bonn
bardment and fattened and charred
houses, while others had come north
ward because the military authorities
had driven them out for their own
safety
All of them either knew or believed
that everything they had in the world
was gone beyond recall, but they bore
their losses brave!y and found time to
smile in the midst of their misfortune.
They seemed to merit what Joe Murv
the Battery traffic "cop," said of them;
You don't have to go to Belgium for
samples Of fortitude."
One old woman-who must have been
eighty-feeble and confused. wandered
through the motor traffic to the side
walk at South Ferry She wore a
bingham dress. and over her head and
shoulders was a green plaid shawl
Dozens of women stopped her and
asked her what she wanted. but she
remarked heroically: "Im all right
They ordered me out of Tottenville
but my son came with me, and when I
find him III be all right. Don't worry
about me. My home is gone by this
time, but I have a few dollars, and
when Henry comes along I'll 90 with
CT Ivy
her name or to accept aid, and later
boarded Broadway car accompanied
by Henry" man of fifty, scantily
clad.
Late last night it was said by mill
tary men who unofficially observed the
horde of refugees that at least 60 900
men, women and children had reached
this city from the danger zone and
would have to be cared for by friends
and charitable organizations.
representatives. of the Red Cross.
Knights of Columbus, Salvation Armv
and the Y. NJ. C. A. were on hand at
the Battery early. They stopped every
body they thought might be in need
and made provisions for the care of
ouch as expressed a desire for food and
| housing.
No injured persons came to South
Ferry yesterday. The long procession
OF destitute and injured persons that
sped northward in automobiles from
Tottenville to St George, Staten ISL
and, were cared for at the the latter
place, and only those who were able to
take care of themselves were allowed
to come to Manhattan,
Word spread over Staten Island rap
idly in the early afternoon that the
DIG magazine where an enormous guam
tity OF INT had been stored might
explode at any minute, but it had lit
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Cross first went into action. Early yes
terday it received reports from Perth
Amboy that thousand persons wore
in need of food and that the list of
injured was growing hourly. Auto
mobiles containing six physicians and
seven nurses tore out Of the city, FOL
lowed by motor canteens and trucks
containing medical supplies. clothing
and food.
Tent colonies have been erected in
Perth Amboy and there the families
of employees whose homes have been
blown away are being cared for under
the direction Of Alexander M. Wilson,
director Of civilian relief. DR.. Thomas
J. Riley, Of Brooklyn is assisting him,
and John S. Ellsworth has charge Of
the canteen service.
On the heels Of the Red Gross organ
ization came the ambulances of the
National League for Women's Service,
ten in number, each with woman
driver and two aids. These respond
ed to an emergency call from the
which found local facilities far too
few to care for the ever increasing
flow OF injured back from the plant.
These were under the command Of
Major Helen Bastada and did ye6men's
service.
Aid Proffercd by Many
Miss Lucy M. Ryder, superintendent
of the New York infrmary, organized
relief corps Of nurses yesterday
morning and accompanied them to Sc
warren, N. j., where they set up tenn
porary hospital
Brooklyn grocery concern, on
learning of the plight of refugees
from the stricken district, loaded six
trucks with thirty tons Of foodstuffs
and rushed these to Perth Amboy by
way of Staten Island for distribution
by the Red Cross.
Following the first explosion Friday
evening Miss Margaret Cristie, in
charge of the War Camp Community
Services branch at Long Branch, be-
into a hospital. She summoned nurses
structure fitted up as temporary
,, hospital with facilities FOR fifty wound
ed
The National Travellers Aid Society,
46b Lexington Avenue, ordered all its
available agents to Jersey to assist in
the care Of the refugees.
William Fellowes Morgan, president
of the Merchants Association, early
yesterday morning wired to the Mayors
OIL fertn AmDOy ana SOuth AmbOy OF
fering the sympathy of his organiza-
ton and asking that he be informed
as to how best the association could
be Of practical aid
Thirty Eight Ambulances at Work
Towns surrounding the devastated
district have organized under their
local Red Cross chapters to provide
shelter for the homeless There are
accommodations for 1000 in Newark,
and Jersey City is filling up the 4th
Regiment Armory with refugees. New
Brunswick will care for 1000, and
Railway, Woodbridge and Elizabeth for
500 each.
Thirty-eight Red Cross ambulances.
under the direction of DR.. Doherty
Smiley, were at work last night. Gov
ernor Edge has been asked to reouisi
zion cots and blankets for the suf-
ferers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Black Ton, Blast,
Closer to Ne1u York.
Jared City Worse

The distant explosions at the Gill
lespie plant yesterday reminded New
York in some degree Of the shock the
city got early on Sunday morning, July
30, 1916, when the great munitions
dump at Black Tom Island, off Com
munipaw, went roaring skyward in
mighty salvo, punctuated by individual
detonations of carloads of dynamite
and other high explosives.
IN proportion as Black Tom is closer
to New York than Amboy, the damage
suffered in this city at that time was
greater, though the explosions and the
suspense were shorter lived Black
Tom was just across the upper reaches
OF the upper bay, and huge packing
cases titled with shells fell thickly
about and upon Bellows Island.
All five boroughs shivered at the
larger explosions and some of them
were felt in five states. Millions Of
dollars worth of glass was shattered in
Manhattan and Brooklyn. The streets
OF lower Manhattan were inches deem
at some places with window fragments
fallen from the many TERED BUILDINGS
which bordered them. ''' o .
Daylight found the money and lowell
sections south of Fulton Street puarJ.
ed by police and soldiers. lest pii]agers
take advanta~e of the broken windows
But Black Tom, a mighty concentra-
((O11f 5o,1J "a,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Stricken District
Like Belgium
AS Help Arrives

While the mightiest salvos of explo-
slons still were shaking and battering
Perth Amboy and surrounding towns,
sister communities out of the zone of
actual damage were rushing aid to the
thousands made homeless by the ter
rifle blasts.
The prosaic roads leading away from
the stricken towns of Perth Amboy,
South Amboy, Morgan and half dozen
other villages became for time yes
terday like highways lifted from plum
dered Belgium or Northern France.
Government authorities who arrived
at the burning plant took charge of af-
talrs and ordered the evacuation of all
habltatlons within radius of ten miles
OF the danger point There was no
difficulty in enforcing this order By
the time it reached many of the af-
1ected towns the evacuation had al
ready taken place, and the roads we're
choked with fugitives in automobiles
and carriages and afoot.
1t is estimated that more than sixty
thousand persons have deserted their
homes within the last twenty-four
EourS. Trucks and vans were pressed
INTO service. One of the latter, filled
with twenty-four persons, was tearing
along the Lincoln Highway Yesterday
when it was halted by a mlitiaman.
ere not going anywhere, 'spe-
clally,' the chauffeur responded to the
query. We're just going away"
Governor Edge of New JERSEY on
learning of the evacuation early YES
terday morning called out the militia
to protect the homes of the fugitiyes
and to prevent looting. Companies Of
infantry and machine gunners were
rushed to Morgan and the surrounding
country from Red Bank, Elizabeth and
New Brunswick. '''N'
stemming the tide that flowed along
Inc foads, sway from the still thunder
gnnlzations from Newark, JERSEY civ
and New York. ivy
The Atlantic Division of the Red
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tie or no effect upon the people or the
general activity of the island. Brave
young women in uniform. from the Ma
tional Woman's Army Motor Corps,
sped over the roads of the south shore
to Tottenville at high speed, giving no
heed to the warnings that they might
at any minute be hurled from the roads
by concussiOn.
OF all the refugees that came to
South Ferry yesterday none attracted
more attention or elected more sym
pathy than eighty little boys between
the ages Of FIVE and six who had fled
from the orphanage of the New York
Founding Asylum at Huguenot. They
ter, who had no difficulty in keeping
the little fellows in line. They had
been almost in state of panic
throughout the night of explosions,
Zone of the Sisters explained. and were
now willing to do anything they were
told to do
On the ferryboat from st. George 20
Manhattan and Mt the Battery the tiny
refugees received candies and popcorn
from passersby with whom they chat
ted. All were put on trolley cars and
taken to the New York Founding Asy-
lu in this city.
Tho work of caring for the refugees
was we'll handled, and by nightfall the
work of sogregating the homeless and
providing for them was done. More
than twenty automobiles in charge Of
patriotic owners were congregated at
South Ferry last night, and within u
few minutes seventy men, women and
children were taken away to places of
shelter. twenty went to the Hotel
Darlington, one of the centres of the
War Camp Community Organization,
and fifteen were whisked away to the
headquarters Of the Salvation Army.
The others went to private homes. The
Rcd Cross Motor Corps had twelve am
balances on hand to care for those who
were TOO i'll or infrm to travel other
wise.
Over 100 refugees from Perth AM
boy reached Jersey City early last even
ing. AS many moro were reported
to be on the way there in army motor
trucks. The refugees were taken to
the 4th Regiment Armory, Bergen Ave-
nue. and Mercer Street, which was
thrown open for their accommodation.
Cots for them to sleep on were provid-
cd by the Red Cross, and several other
organizations took charge of provid-
ing the stricken people with food and
clothing.
Christ Hospital, early in the even
sent its ambulance with three doctors
three nurses and two ministers to
Perth Amboy. During the afternoon
and evening the ambulance brought
severa! patients suffering from influ-
enza, from the Perth Amboy Hospital.
A Liberty Loan celebration in front
Of the Hebrew Sheltering and lmmi-
grant Aid Society home, 229 East
Broadway, was stilled for few mo-
mcnts last night while ]. X. Fain, gen
eral manager, made a passageway
through the crowd for some forty
shivering, ill-clad and weary men,
women and children who had just com
pleted 4 confusing and panicstricken
journey from Perth Amboy.
The homes of the refugees had been
wrecked over their heads and some of
them had escaped in their night
: clothes, making up their deficiencies
in attire as opportunity offered dur
! ing their trip. One of them, Nathan
Greenstcin, had six children; another
Abraham Cohen, nine. They were
taken in at the home, fed and put to
| bed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-10-06
Refugees in Flight;
Thousands Are
Houeds Here

Like Belgians driven. by the Hun
into exile, some Ave thousand destitute
American women and children trickled
into lower Manhattan yesterday from
the Staten Island ferries, carrying
with them trfing remnants OF homes
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-12-20
SEDAN RECosQUIs

La Specification pessimiste dun
nom Went de s'effacer. Sedan est
conquis. Lances a une allure irresis-
tible, nos amis les Annex (c'est lie nom
familier des Americains) ont gagne
Sedan, realisant ainsi IN magnilque
exploit.
Depuis lie Ter novembre, l'armee
du general Liggett a convert 40 kilo-
metres en- profondeur, malgre la puts
sance de Organisation defensive, lie
terrain Academic ct l'inondation me-
me tendue par l'ennemi.
Sedan! Ce nom a pese sur nos fronts
d'enfants. II incarnait la victoire ale
mande de 70. Sedan, c'etait la page
decisive de la defaite FRANCHISE. Nos
fills a nous pourront dire:
-Oui, Sedan. c'est la que les AL
demands ont recu une de leurs NEIL
leures "pilles".
LIE pont de la victoire totale est
soutenu par ces pilles-la!"
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-12-20
Feuilleton de PEcho de l'Ouest
Do Oa@h@tte
M VSteP19Mse
GRAND ROMAN EMOUVANT
GRAND M EMOUVANT5

.dain.
-C'est tot, Gaby?
II ouvrit ses bras q Tenfant, une
ravissante fllette de six a sept ans
qui sc jeta sur lui a corps perdu.
II lassit sur SEES genoux ct l'ayant
embrassee longuement:
On a etc bien sage, mademoiselle /?
oh! oui, petit pere.
-Bien vrai? interrogea-t-il, fei-
gnant l'incredulite ct s~'adressant a
la gouvernante.
-Oui, M. lie baron, Gaby etc tres
sage.
AUST, s'empressa d~intervenir Ia
petite, Gaby a quelque chose a tie de-
mander.
-Quelque chose?
-Oui, quelque chose, don't ellie a
tout a fait envie.
Comment! Encore? Je tai deja
dome hier une belle poupee de quin-
re louis!
-Justement, petit pere, je YOU
drais, jc voudrais. -.
Eth bien! ~qu'est-ce que tn YOU
dris?
-Je voudrais une voiture.. 80. ct
puts une chevre blanche pour me pro-
mener au bois avec ma file.
-Fichtre! CONNIE vous Y allez, ma
demoiselle!
oh! petit pere!... je serais 81
heureuse?..
II plongea ses yeux dams les beaux
yeux d'enfant brillants de desir, pleins
d'eloquentes supplications, ct son froid
visage s'eclaira dun bon sourire.
Celia tie ferait done tant plaisir,
Gaby?
L'enfant ne repondit pas, mails SEN
tant sa cause desormais gagnee, lui
fit calinement I'm collier de ses bras.
Soft! mademoiselle, vous aurez
votre. voiture.
Domain?
-Demain! Allons, laisse-moi ira
WALLER ct continue a etre sage.
Folle de joie, la fllette lembras-
salt sur les deux joues, lorsque lie va
let de chambre %introduisit I'm person
mage qui devait etre I'm familier de Ia
maison, pour qu'on l'admit ,ainsi sans
l'annoncer au prealable.
Pardon, fit ce dernier i~roniquement.
je ne vous derange pas?
LIE son desagreable de cette voix de-
plut sans doute a la canine, veritable
enfant terrible. Ellie Sc detourna dun
air dimperatrice, toisa lintrus de Ia
tete aux pieds, puts avec I'M moue
moqueuse:
oh! petit pere, regarde done lie
monsieur! II RESEMBLE a l'autruche
du Jardin des Plantes!
-Chut! ~vilaine, souffla lie banquier,
qui toutefois ne put reprimer un SOU
rire, tant la comparison lui parut
originate.
LIE comte Georges de Trefontaine
que mademoiselle Gaby venanit de
presenter de cette facon desobligean-
te, constituait un assez deplaisant por-
trait. II await depuis peu depasse la
trentaine; avec son grandr corps os-
seux, sec CONNIE un coup de trique, sa
crosse tete emmanchee dun long cou,
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-12-20
LIE COMMERCE EXTERIEUR DES
ETATS-UNIS
II a Double Pendant la Guerre

Pendant les q premieres annees
de la guerre, les expectations ameri-
Gaines de produits fabriques ont re-
presente une valeur egale a celle des
expectations des II annees qui ont
precede la guerre. Les expectations
americaines de produits alimentaires
pendant la guerre ont represents une
valeur egale a celle des expectations
des 10 annees qui ont precede la guer-
re. Au contraire, les expectations anne
~ricaines de matieres premieres desti-
nees a lindustrie sont actuellement
en- baisse.
D'apres les statistiques de la "Na-
tional City Bank" de New-York, Pen
semble du commerce exterieur des
Etats- Unis, pendant les quatre pre-
.mieres annees de la guerre, a atteint
une valeur de 29,232 millions de dol
lars, contre 1922 millions de dollars
pendant les quatre annees qui ont
immediatement precede la guerre. Les
importations ont passe de 6,887 mil
lions de dollars a 1858 millions de
dollars, tandis que les expectations Sc
sont elevees de 9,O84 millions de dol
lars a 1854 millions de dollars. Lac
croissement du chiffre des importa-
tions est done pratiquement de 40 pc.
ct celui des expectations de III pc.
Les chiffres qui precedent sont cal
cules pour la periodic de 48 mois allant
du Ter ao1t 1914 au Ter ao1t 1918. La
periodic d'avant-guerre comprend les
a annees fnissant lie 80 JUN 1914.
Nous avons dit que les expectations
a~mericaines de matieres spremieres
destinees a lindustrie subissaient ac-
tuellcment une baisse. C'est ainsi
gu la valeur de ces expectations ma
etc que de 2.7323 millions de dollars
penaant les a annees de guerre, con-
tire 1851 millions de dollars pendant
les 4 annees qui ont pre- :edf la guerre.
Cette baisse dams la va!cu: des expor-
tatlons america;nes de matieres pre-
mieres est due principalement a une
diminution de 33 p. c. environ dams Ia
quantite du cotton e%xporte, PA]lema-
gne,. I'Autriche- Hongrie, la Belgique
ct la Russie, qui sont en- temps normal
de grands e%xportateurs de cotton ame-
ricain, ayant etc pratiquement tenues
hors du marche.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1918-12-20
La CHINE EFT LIE Ro1 ALBERT
China Daily News:

China Daily News:
De tous les pays civilises, des HON.
mes front a &c Roi courageux ct 6 sor
peuple devoue. Quels que soient les he.
ros produits par Ia guerre, lily en- a VI
qui lse domino tous. Son nom est Al.
bert de Belgique. Et quels que soient
les actions courageuses ct les hauts
fats accomplis au cours de Ia resis-
lance .opur sauver la liberte du monde
de la tyrannie a1lemande, aucun nest
plus hero1que, aucun ma etc plus SUI
premement vital que la resistance des
petites forces de Ia Belgique . Pogre
prussien, fasiant ainsi gagner aux Al
lies un temps inestimable.
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ct, parmi les affections les plus
pernicieuses auxquelles s'appliQue
les Pilules Rouges, IL men est guere
de plus frequentes que la faiblesse,
pepuisement ct l'anemie don't sc
PLACEMENT tant de jeunes femmes
Les fatigues, lie surmenage, ct Quel-
quefois des touches frequentes ct
NAL soignees, reduisent Ia pauvre
femme a Inc fmpuissance pressure
complete ct lui font endurer des
souffrances morales gu p~hysiques
%satroces. Files ne sont plus capables
de vaquer aux travaux du menage:
q peine parviennent-el1es q Sc traf-
ner, ans force ct sans courage pour
clever 1eurs enfants. Leur sang q
besoin d'etre renouvele ct filtre GU
debarrass6 des poisons ~toxiques qui
s'y .sont meles, ct Giles ne savent
que faire. Mais, ST par bonheur, Giles
rencontrent une bonnie voisine, IL
sent I'm journal ami ct ecoutent les
conseils de celles qui ont souffert
CONNIE Giles, ct prennent des Pilu-
les Rouges, .alors c'est le salut, lie
retour q Ia vie, a la sante, au bon
heur, a la joie de vivre. -C'est la
prosp6rite ct la paix au foyer.
Nine Joseph Bellerose, 105 rue
Phipps, Sorel, nous ecrit en- effet:
~Avant de me marier, je souffrais
@d'une tres grande pauvret6 de sang,
Get celia me condufsaft vers Ia de-
''bilft6 generate. Je me sentais
sd'une faiblesse extreme, ct dams
epespace de quelques semaines, je
.me voyais d6cliner chaque Jour. 81
.te montais I'm escalier, on 81 3e
smarchais le m0fndrement, je me
@sentafs %oppress6e, yendurais des
~palpitations de occur; j'avais des
apoints dams lie dos. J'avais aussi
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son crane .deplume surrnonte dune
maigre toufe de cheveux, son nez
prominent en- lame de couteau, sa;
moustache herissee, sa.barbiche raide,
e gros yeux saillants sillonnes4d de- f.
brilles sanguines, il offrait quaint q
son physique disgracieux, une certai-
ne parente avec Ioiseau sus-vise.
Dur ct grossier profit de retire, tout
en- lui denotait Ia b~rutalite, ct Pom
Sc prenait involontaireinent q cher
cher une rapiere a sa ceinture, sa-
1ade de fer d son chef. degarni, une
casaque en- peau de buffle u son tho
rax, I'M paire de jambieres u ses
[eckalas demesures.
.Tous deux ainsi mis- en- presence le
baron ct lui, avec lie c~ontraste de leur
anatomis, 6veillaient I'm rapproche-
ment avec ce cople fameux, Chicot ct
Girenflot, issu de la truculente ina
gination du pere Dumas.
LIE comte await accueilli par une lai-
de grimace la boutade dc lirreveren-
cieuse CANINE, ct il la suivit dun res
gard charge de rancune lorsque ce
trait de Parthe decoche, ellie battit f.
erement en- retraite, accompagnee de
sa g~ouvernante.
-Grapat, mon ami, dit-il. avec une
impotence voulue, vous avez Ia une
petite file NAL elevee!
~(Grapat)!-Graapat tout COURT
depouiller lie baron dune particule 81
ADVERTISEMENT conquise! Et, pardes-
sus lie marche oser TOUGHER a Gaby!
Foudroyant du regard l'imprudent:
-Vous savez, groda-t- il que je ne
go1te que mediterranean vos familia-
rites.
-Tudieu! mon cher, CONNIE vous
etes devenu susceptible depuis quill
vous a plu de vous bonner du monsieur
le baron.
-Chacun a ses travers, il en- est de
pires. I'm plebeien vault un gentil-
homme surtout quand on peut ajouter
aux titres usurpes. par parenthese
ceux de voleur, d'assassin. Vous men
tendez M. lie comte Georges de Ire
fontaine !? 80.
A cete sanglante riposte bien mala-
droitement %provoquee, lie comte SEN
tit une poussee de sang lui monter au
visage; il Sierra les poings en- un geste
instinctf de menace mails il se contint
ct ne souffla mot.
L'autre %poursuivit, abusant de son
avantage:
-Faut-il vous rappeler, noble sire,
quill existe au bagne un pauvre diable
qui, depuis bientot huit ans, expie vos
hauts fats d'escarpe blasonne?
Lecomte await reussi a Sc remettre
de cette rude attaque.
-Peuh! ft-il dun ton degage, We'll
lie historic que tout cela!... Eft apres
tout, vous participates bien dams une
large mesure a cette a~ffaire, quill etait
pour fe moins oiseux d'evoquer entire
nous.
-Vous me rendez cette justice que
ce nest pas moi, au moins, qui ait
commence, ct laissez-moi vous dire,
une fois pour toutes, quill nest pas
bon, par vos insolences qui mont me-
me pas lexcuse de l'utilite, de me fai-
re souvenir que je possede des armes
terribles cOntre vOus.
-Heu! mon cher, ce sont Ia des ar
mes a deux tranchants, ct qui Sc re-
t~ourneraient contre celui qui oserait
sen servir.
-Vous croyez!
-D'ailleurs, la prescription ma pas
cite inv entee pour les chiens.
&c qui tendrait a signifier qu'une
fois convert par la prescription, ct
limpunite assuree, YOU former lie
projet de vous degager de toute obi
cation de reconnaissance vis-a-vis de
votre bon ami Grapat?
Baron .du Maine ct autres lieur....
Us ~ z