Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-14
By HENRI BAZIN

Population. including rats. rabbits and three
dogs. 1000.
~ One Well Paved Street.
wster IPlain, Fancy. River i,nl ana RAM R1nHI
police Dep3rtmsnt ana nd SaniIsTg IesnTmgmodious Sai
Sewer Without System.
rfee Transportation to the Front-None
xstrsetve Forest t& % Six ,Hsautiful Tree, and
N One Bush Covered with Leaves OF
Absence 'pSr WITH n,t.sInS gna Without
Unparalleled Mud baths. Magnificent. View
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For Sale on Allotment Plan.
chees sSB BunssoRs AS@s for Rent Vim N al the
Modern conyenienGes EXCEPT Mater
room. Large Knot Holes
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ID Hospital on the Ground, A Pill for
n you wish TO live 'S wEere 1' things are pretty
Just make your home in the Windy city.
WRITING DURING AN AIR RAID
8 One becomes caltoused TO that which
at first one might become excited about.
As began copying these Windy City
Notes from my memorandum book
OuEle SDu1lueu utlutT NY W LluOW, lIlt
alarm for Boche airpane raid.
Immediately closed my shutters as is
the custom and kept on writing. In
few minutes the bugle sounded again,
and, in the next iItervaI of twenty min
.utes four times additional. AS only
ray of light could be possibly visible
through the slat of my shutters l con-
ciuded that | had done all I could.
despite the raid seemed more thoroughly
announced than ever before in this
camp. r'-- ..-.' pc,
Presently there came a knock on my
door. "Entree :" l said. keeping right
ON with my tipping, As the door opened
there entered a big Sammee NJ 7, or
of the military police, and French
gendarme with him,
!. Excuse me. sir said the Sammee.
with the billy" in his hand, you'll have
to put out your light. There's a raid
on, and we can see the glare of your
lamp through the chinks of the shut
ters."
= "Listen." replied in true American
fashion, 81 want TO work. Give me a
hand while | thumhtack these two
blankets over the Windows
y, The Sammee laid down his billy" and
held one end of each blanket while |
FImounted a chair and tackled them over
the easement. And then he went away
with the gendarme, who had looked on
without a word. In a minutes the Sam
snee sang out from the street:
Il "All right, sir. No light visible
g "Right-O." l answered And I kept
on with my tipping. If ! finish this
story and get in the post it'll be because
s1othing in the way Of n bomb from
.Bocheland dropped through my ceiling
These Boches with tnefr. airplane
yaids are a plagued nuisance. My room
"a as hot as an oven without the usual
lit of fresh air. They are a nuisance,
+ say The other night at certain
s,oint a hundred kiiometers from here
= was compelled to take refuge in Il
3hirty-foot abri just because the bar
-,arian was out on his barbarian errand.
sqe and all his evil kind from over the
-,,hine are a plagued nuisance.
x BOMB AIMED AT HOSPITAL
"a few evenings ago a Boche plane
dropped an incendiary bomb in Windy
city. He aimed at the hospital there,
sAyhere some hundreds OF French
,vounded lie, missing it by a mile and
Handing upon building occupied by
z,ermissionaires en- route for ten days
cave at home. Immediately there was
<. 6re. A certain American battalion Of
/ construction engineers We're quartered
I'm the town. What they did is more
sienuinely reported in IL citation from
The Armee du Nord ct Nord-Est Of
tssrance, which here translate
.,ro Colonel -, Of the -th Engi-
<neers, American army:
M .But for the quick and efficient inter-
,yention Of the troops under your COM
;nand the fire caused by German in
lend 'ary bomb at - on the night of
7cecember 90. 1917, would have extended
neatly. / desire to thank you, sir. and
he men under you. individually and
esolIectively for their courageous atti-
xa,de, many Of them not hesitating at
r.isking their ives to aid sleeping men
& trom the burning building l should be
grateful for the names and rank of. par
.ncularly six whom it would be my pleas
ure to recommend for meritorious dec
.oration, and It VIII be my pleasure as
syeIl to recommend your entire battalion
for the general service rendered as en-
titled to a joint acknowledgment or
thanks from the French army.
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