davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
A Spanish Conception of the Big Gun

Meanwhile, it is Easter Sunday. The
horse chestnuts show their spiky whiteness
overhead Italian anemones, mimosa,
roses, daffodils, violets, lilacs-all the buoy
ant and exquisite overs of spring are
blooming along fine gray walls, and color
vistas that never looked more nobly de-
tached and immaculate. Mass was cele-
brated in the churches this morning in spite
of Good Fridays disaster, and this after
noon we had chance in the Bois, in the
Champs-Elysees, among the strolling
crowds, to note that by no means all the
children of the rich had been sent to the
country. Here they are, with their stream
looms that float above them like little red
and green souls. mocking and challenging
the forces of destruction. At decent in
sort of thunder shower and lightning often
strikes amiss. After the first day and
half of it, more than a week ago, an officer
of the Red Cross went out to get his lunch.
Paris had just traversed one rather dis
queting moment-a moment of mystery;
ordered to its cellars in broad daylight, it
could not, in spite of periodic explosions,
discern single "Gotha" in the empyrean
or hear a single French defensive shot.
But news of the longrange gun was now
abroad; already the realistic reaction had
let in; a!read; the boulevards were in
movement. and the old woman who sells
newspapers a. the kiosk opposite the Mad
eleine was in her place.
"Good morning, Madame haven't
heard that famous gun of yours for at
least half an hour-have you?"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

But these raids have had an effect.
They have had an important effect on the
outcome of the war. ! have seen un-
deniable evidence of it in three quarters.
namely, in the French army, in the
French rear and in the American army.
The first effect is this: it has elimi.
mated the last element of traditional dis
cord between the front and the rear.
Paris shares in small way some of the
perils Of the front--the poilu from the
provinces knows that the Deputies, the
munition workers, the bureau people and
society are under fire. The sympathy
tightens. And some one he knows has
lost wife or child-eighty members Of
congregation killed at worship-and
again one Frenchman holds back his
three beasts in gray, and French motor
batteries drive up within two hundred
yards Of the Boche positions and put
their guns out of action.
And in the rear-the easiest way to ig-
more the Gothas is to work to exhaus-
ton. The production of every manner
of war material increases as if by magic.
Paris glows with pride to be sharing a
trife of the daily food of those "down
there"
And the Americans-they have seen
the beasts head raised again, and they
know why they are in France. The
slaughter on Good Friday has given
them the clear vision they seemed some
times to lack. They are going down into
the Somme with righteous hate in their
hearts that will make them worthy COM
rades of the French.
The German psychologists are to be
thanked. They have made the American
army. They have given US the propa-
ganda we needed-and it was only few
brief lines Of the communique.
That is what found in the panic
stricken Heart of France" Civ.
Paris, April 4, 1913.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

apparent this player is confederate, for
the vile Apache converses with him AMIGA
bly, and stays there, it is no doubt to me,
to form league for evil further"
1t is clear, observes the Chicago news
paper, that here M. Max's attention was
diverted to something besides the
"Apache" and, incidentally, the game, be-
cause he closes Timing No. 1" by saying,
"the players reversed their positions and
a sign significant of zero was hung up
TO an accompaniment of cheers"
Discussing the spectators Max noted
their strained expressions and attributed
them to ''the practice of drinking favored
water carbonique from bottles" He
states that he was surprised to find spec
tators throwing these bottles at the "gen-
tleman in the uniform of blue" and that
he finally inquired about it. A very polite
soldier who had just hurled his bottle
told Max that the gentleman was sus-
pected of being Boche.
Concluding his account, the French
journalist assures his readers that the
hint about the gentleman being Boche
didn't get past him and that he had i'm
mediately placed the gentleman as "sus-
pect" with the nearest Office. Of the Intel
ligeAce Service.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

players have the field traversed Each of
them have with caution protected their
hands right and one has had the wisdom
superb to safeguard his anatomique with
cushion pneumatique. Again, alert! a gen
teman in uniform blue speaks with feel
ing of the artillery (in the technique of
the game it is announcing the batteries),
a player takes a posture facing him and
waves the bat
"1t is possible he conspires to kill his
Opponent No. 9-he of the cushion pneu-
matique who stands directly to the rear.
Ah, yes! that it is-for see Opponent No.
l, with thought of magnificent quickness,
hurls the ball 'madly at this would-be
Apache. Sacre! He has missed. But fast
does he of the cushion pneumatique return
the ball grenade to his savior. And the
player with the great club?
"Palerme! he is hardened and PLAYS with
his victim, saying, I'll get him on the one
next
"Once more, my friend-alert! See the
ball grenade is again the air in. What
rapidity! What certainty of aim-ah.
quake thou, Apache rascal of the club.
But no! How this is? The villain de-
graded has cunningly hit the grenade with
his club, the spectators by half are wildly
indignant shouting 'toubaggere, toubag-
gere, meaning one Of them informed me, re-
venge).
"Their clubber, his dark heart. it is no
doubt to me, palpitating, takes to his heels.
He runs with splendid quickness direct at a
player who is standing on mat. 1t is pax
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
w lille Paris
Waits

ETTERS from Horatio S. Krans.
director Of the Columbia Uni
versity Bureau in Paris, appear
in the May 10 issue of 1.-THE Co.
lumbia Alumni News" In one Of them
he writes:
"Apropos Of these matters, may tell you
of curious souvenir I obtained the morn
ing after one of the raids? Walking over
the debris of a ruined house, / picked up
a book which lay at my feet. she'll had
gone straight through it. 1t was entitled
vie des Saints That the agent, who stood
near by, might not rob me of it thrust it
under my coat and bore it safely home, and
it now rests upon my table"
Baron d'Estournelles placed an Opera
Comique box at the disposal Of the bu-
reau for a recent performance Of
"Manon." Mr.. Krans had no difficulty in
"filling it with uniforms" and the per-
formance, he says, 'was thoroughly en-
joyed by our men," Evidently the event
was in the nature of red-letter night.
for the writer goes into more detail:
"They all met here at the bureau One
man was late; so we bundled all six Of us
into taxi that we might arrive before
the curtain rose. The performance was i'm
mensely enjoyed and followed with alb
sorbed attention, not only by our men, but
by the whole audience as we'll. At first it
seems strange that soldiers-and the audi
ence was made up in good measure Of them
who for month upon month have been
plunged into this mortal fray and will short.
ly be plunged into it again, should be able
10 forget the horror and the terror Of the
drama just to the north Of us and to lose
themselves in lighter pleasures and dis
fractions But they do forget it, or seem
to. The grim background appears to give
added zest to every pleasure. They drink
the cup that Paris offers not with wild
gaycty, but still to the last drop, its SAVIOR
heightened surely by the 'arTiere pensee'
that they may never raise the same cup
to their lips again"
The war is still lurking right at the
city's gate:
paris now lives in suspense. There is
confidence, but not without a haunting anx-
,ety. How near they came to Amiens! And
the big cannon! How many more arc there
like it? Are the rumors that there are
dozen such and that We in Paris shall soon
be bombarded the grand scale true:
And in general, what will be tho event Of
this perilous second stage of the offensive
We shall see in due time; and, long before
this reaches you. these questions will, com
pletely or in theft general outlines, have
been answered"
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
MAKING Clean. q Baseball "Combat"

ASEBALL reporters who under
stand French appear to be
badly needed in France these
days, declares "The Chicago
Daily News" and if Christy Mathewson
goes over he might take a few along
with him with profit. Below will be
found an account Of a game recently
played somewhere in France between two
teams of Yankee soldier boys
The article which follows was written
by M. Adolphe Max, distinguished war
correspondent, and appeared in recent
issue of "Le Mauvais Parisien":
"This sgame, of which our beloved COM
rades in arms speak in terms grand, is of
puzzle to the uninitiated, and it is of
this reason that /, who have come at once
from one of the combats, should make all
clear Briefly, this game is performed
without the houses and long instrument
she is of wood and is jocularly denomi-
mated 'bat'-with which the players, of
which there are eighteen, divided in half,
make collision with the ball, thereby cs-
GAPING injuries serious. Stationed where
thew cannot interfere with the viewpoint of
the spectators are the players.
"Now, my dear friends, that you a clear
comnrehension Of this game have gained,
shall proceed as the sportsman writer's
American do and apporton the battle into
nine phases:
Ginning No. ALERT! Nine of these
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
Special correspondence from
France, published IN "The
OutlOOk'

~ N EASTER went to Paris on
leave. / wanted to see with
my own eyes how Paris behaved
under the Gothas and the fan
tastic cannon, with the wars crucial bat
tie raging one hundred miles to the north.
MY application for an immediate assign
ment to a battery in the Somme mad
been refused, as there was only a weeks
more work at the training camp, SO
went to the capital for Sunday.
The German psychologists justify their
murders by the announcement that they
will break down the French resistance
and will-to-fght by striking terror into
the heart of France-Paris.
was walking along broad avenue
Easter afternoon when the Partisan
world was strolling out for its after-din-
ner constitutional. The little tables on
the sidewalks in front of the cafes were
crowded, the paraders were passing lei
surely-but without the usual army Of AL
lied officers On leave, so that it seemed
almost like Paris before the war. Two
blocks away, without even a warning
whir-r-r, shell landed after its three
minute journey.
"Ca q est" heard woman announce
placidly to her elderly escort, whose noisy
sip of coffee was interrupted. neither by
the she'll nor the remark. And, so far
as / observed, that was the only atten-
tion that any one within eyeshot or ear
shot paid to the instrument that the Ger
man newspapers announce has driven
Paris trembling to her cellars.
But the she'll killed one woman. and
MANNED another in the house where il
struck.
In the Bois de Boulogne the spring
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

moment, had found its normal course again.
The murmur slightly subdued, con-
fused, but eddies of easy laughter, voices,
disputing as to where the last bomb fell,
foated up to me.
This morning l found myself before the
yawning ruins of six story house, in the
company of several thousand Parisians A
quiet, middle-aged working woman who
surged up against me suddenly broke out:
"Eh bien, moi, Madame, l was tired of the
war | had had enough of it. l wanted
peace. But now-now all I want is to be
mani"
.s March IL. The "Gothss" again. An inter-
esting progression: spent the first raid in
the street, the second in my room, the
third in the cellar. The Swiss headwaiter,
shrieking "a la cave, la cave!" had turned
out all the lights before l got downstairs,
and dived before me into subterranean
regions that date from an ancient convent.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

filled hotel where stopped; not single
step did I hear in the long dark corri-
doris. And out in the square in front
dark shapes moved and gathered in
groups, conversing animatedly and
watching the curtain fire.
Panic? 1t seems that German science
is much stronger on chemistry than psy-
chology.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

many seemed strangely untouched by
panic.
On Easter Monday night there was a
raid by the Gothas. The most appalling
feature of the average raid is the roar
of the protecting guns, which beat out a
steady accompaniment to the more SEN
sational themes of falling bombs.
But not voice was raised in the we'll
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

balloons, whose cords we understand are
to entange the tails of the swooping Ger
man planes, float in the evening sky.
Streets, subways, restaurants, shops, are
full of people. Taxis circulate, and pedes-
trians, who are learning, as citizens of the
front always do, to know the paths least
loved by shells. Nowhere-this is the ad-
mrabe thing-not even in the stations
crowded with invalids children, old people
and family pets, does one see on human
faces the shadow of fear. Tense faces, sad
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
THE BEASTS HEAD

had brought the first thin screen of leaves
and warmed the fresh grass, where were
the usual picnic parties and where the
children were rolling hoops or proudly
exhibiting their colored eggs to one an
other. A herd of tame deer scampered
through the trees near by and three stays
trotted across the wooded road ahead of
me. AL! these military menaces to Ger
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

tice and liberty? Why ask defaitiste ques-
tions? Of course everything is as usual.
And this is fact, not bravado To be
sure, the statues and fountains muffe
themselves deeper in sandbags every day.
A new art has grown up-window decora-
tions made of strips of paper pasted across
plate glass. The Rue de la Paix goes in
for diamond patterns, the neighborhood of
the 1nstitut incines to the classic, and
cubism-strangely colored-fourishes on
the Champs-Elysees. Delightful yellow
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

faces, absent faces; the liberated regions
are no more, and the poor "evacuated,"
leaving a new set of homes and sprouting
lettuces, are again crossing trainloads of
soldiers, soldiers who even now, after the
User, after Verdun, after the Somme, go
toward the battle singing; shouting to the
refugees: Don't give up, don't worry-on
les aura, on les aura!" 1t is not for them
selves that the Evacuated" weep, then.
The blood of France is again pouring out
unstinted
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

tnAC QenleC lHe
very possibility
of light, yet
through it, on
the street below,
was already trav-
elling something
warm and vibrant
and human; the
Paris crowd. 1t
was as if a river,
obStructed for a
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
From The North Rericav War Ueehv
"Well Hit, My Son-Church or Hospital?"

city of the front. By night the silence is
intense-more profound than one supposed
1T ever could be in great city. 1t is this
breathlcss hush--not the shells-that
brings the dreadful battle close to millions
of angushed hearts
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19

"Que voulez-vous, Monsieur! Tout
quill dejeune!-It has to have its lunch!"
In this spirit does the ancient people of
Paris, which has known many another en-
battled hour, hold its section of the line
of fire.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-19
By Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
From The NeaU Republic

TTUTI TIC 1VttC 1ttPUOttC
March g. 1918.
r Asst night we had our second big
air raid. As soon as the sharp
4 sound of the explosions had died
away-before the French cannon
aiding had stopped and we'll before
the berloque announced the end-I stuck
nv head out of my window Utter black
ness, blackness impenetrable, blackness
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
Begin to Read Here.

Countess Gisela Niebuhr II one Of three
daughters OF q well-known Junker IAN
lily OF Prussia. From long observation OF
the autocratic bearing OF their father IN
never TO marry. On the death OF her
father. Gisela, free. enters German uni
versity. gets a degree In letters. and goes
10 America as companion TO the chiidren
Of rich American. There she meets
Franz Won Eettelbeck. attache at the
German legation. with whom she forms
a close friendship. Won Nettelbeck has
been paying court TO a wealthy Ameri-
can gtrl. Gisela does not reveal TO Won
Nettelbeck that she 10 Of his class, and
ne continues to regard her as OF The treat
German middle class. Their attachment
continues two years. after which Won
Nettelbeck Is recalled to Germany TO
marry titled woman. and Gisela ae-
companies her employer on a Tour OF the
United States. She Is vastly impressed
with the extent and resources OF the
country.
Gisela returns TO her native land and re-
suines her studies. she meets Won Net
teibeck at q court function. but he does
not betrey that she had been working In
cognita In America. She receives a pro-
posal OF marriage from a fellow student.
but 10 spruned when he hnds her one OF
the detested Junker class. She writes q
luccessful play depicting the difference IN
the social position OF German and Amsri-
can women.
Then comes the war and Gissia goes
into hospital work behind ths German
lines. The nrst exultation over the VIC
tories OF the army OF the Fatherland Is
followed by revulsion OF feeling over the
needless outrages of the conduerors.
is not as the war lords would have II
appear. IL becomes common talk that
Nerdun Is a defeat and the failacy OF
strategic retreats' from the Marne and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20


CAMP MEADE. Nd. 1tarch 2o.--
IAN 1 want now is q wife, said
Private William J. Compiler, OF Rock
VILE, Nd. member OF the 3l2th Ma
chime Gun Battalion. the District OF
Columbia unit. when he received
further information confirming tias
legacy of 100000 left him by an
uncle In California.
What will / do with my money!
We'll, II I get a wife, and that
Is all I want now before / 90 with
my battalion to France" he said.
+she Will take care OF the money.
If don't get back. then she win
have the money. and she won't have
me around. II I do get back and
get in civilian toys again III have
a great time OF II.
when get back in washfngton
won't forget that I was once .
bellhop."
Message To BeHhep&
Compiler sent that message to the
boys in the big hotels. They may
find It worth while to be on the
look out for Private Compiler, the
man with the ready money. who has
stopped looking at the calendar be-
cause he does not worry any more
about ''the day when the white horse
comes down the road" soldier Ian
guage for pay day.
At present Compiler Is working on
troublesome, but necessary, Job OF ,
pounding down red clay to make =
hard surface for mules to stand upon
while they are having their first Of
fetal haircut. He has invented q
device for the purpose that consists
OF huge chunk OF wood with q long
handle attached to IL.
2 Il don't need the money now" he
said, because the one important thing
for me Is to get this clay down hard,
and money would not help me q bit.
Nothing but muscle will do that.
"All want now Is a wife. There
is mother at home, but now I think
would like to have a WIFE,"
Compiler Is twenty-five years old.
Seventeen OF these years he spent in
California. He was an Industrious
lad. and the uncle who has remember
ed him so generously in his will ap-
preciated his steadines4 What took
Compiler away from the State of his
boyhood' was a yearning to wear the
pretty, nifty uniform. of a belIhop.
did you dream last night OF spend
ing that 100000
Dream? I slept same as usual"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
PROPOSALS

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONERS, II. C.,
Washington. ID. g.. March /. 1915 sealed
proposals will be received al This cfhce
Room 200, District Building. until two O'Clock
p. NJ. Tuesday. April >. 1878. for furnishing
and delivering during the fiscal year begin
ming July !. 1915 and ending June %. 1913
for use Of the various branches Of the Gov
eminent Of the District Of Columbia. supplies
a. follows: Stationery: printing: school
books: furniture and house furnishings; hard
ware and tinwRre: rubber stamps: plumbing
supplies: groceries and provisions: boots and
shoes. drugs, chemicals, laboratory supplies.
etc: paints and brTIshez: lumber and mill
work; meats. nsh and poultry: dry goods;
ice; electrical supplies. SaddleTy and wheel
wright supplies: kindergarten supplies:
laundry work: Rutomo biic supplies: oils and
lubricants: photograph supplies. flags; Ath-
letic goods ard playground equipment.
Form ~ proposal. Epecidoa; lions and neceS-
saTy Information may he obtained from the
Purchasing Ofhcer. -. g., Room so. District
Building. In applying, specify the class OF
supplies for which forms are desired LOUIS
RROwNI.Ow. W. GWGNS GARDINER.
J. J. LOVING (Acig.l. Commissioned. u. :.
n
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
THE WHITE MORNING
By GERTRUDE ATHERTON

somme ara subjects OF discussion:
Gisela and her girl friends are hoTined
at existing conditions EXHAUSTED nom
ovsrwork IN crowded hospitals Gisela.
Mini and Helyfse obtain leave to 90 to
Switzerland to recuperate. There Gisela
meets two women she had known IN
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
INSURANCE STATEMENTS
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF the
John Hancock Mutual Life
Insurance Company of
Boston, Massachusetts,

On the list day OF December 1871 as redrtr.a
under the District Of Columbia Code AMENDED
June 90. lsoe. and August IS lSzi.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
AUCTION SALES
mum GOTEg Irc,Io,---

DAVID NOTES. Auctioneer.
on FRIDAY, MARCH -, 1915 AT I
O'CLOCK y. NJ. ] Will sell at public auction
at the wORHHoTsE, LORTON. VIRGINIA.
81 District horses and mules. TERMS: CASH
AT TINE OF SALE. Trains leave Uuion
Sta ton at Is and lo:f5 A. NJ. returning leave
i>ortnn at 5:3s p. n. BY order Of the COM
niissloners, u. c. A. TwEEDALE. Auditor,
u. c. III
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-03-20
War Their Profession.

OF course I knew that the military
party to which my father belonged
would have welcomed a war, for war
was their profession. their game. their
excuse for being. and I heard more
or less talk among my brothers of
Pan-Germanism; but still I imagined
that Il was merely a defensive Teu-
tonic ideal. just rs our oppressive
standing army was a necessity owing
to our geographical. position
My brother Karl said once-it
comes back to me, although / had
quite forgotten it-that IL was futile
for the military caste to try to work
up a war. because every moneyed man
in the empire-nnanciers, merchants
manufacturers, all the rest-neVer
would hear Of IL.
The country was too prosperous.
Our wealth was growing At q pace
which even the United States could
not rival. and poverty was practically
hint made any impression on me.
1T seemed to me that We were
the most fortunate and advanced ma
ton in Europe and had only TO walt
for our ku'trr to pervade the earth.
"But- afscr sgadir--i seem to look
back upon n SlOv''.- rising tide. NUT
tering. su'lsu. de. eTiu'ned-even in
Bavaria the Old 81 :rG.jy. thr settled
feeling. was gonr--wsr was di- cUssed
as a possibility less casually ihan OF
old"