The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-03-03

as we could. We passed a good many odd-looking men, resembling French men and Poles, as we'll as a lot of students, who seemed to be all hurry ing in the direction of the palace. We got home without further trouble. Our house was at the corner of two streets, and a barricade was bein3 built across the corner right under my window. Just as we got in my father drew up in the "cab" (the fashionable vehicle of these days) in which he drove himself The crowd recognized him, were very civil to to be the incarnation of reaction and the military spirit. and he fled.
 Early in the morning of Sunday there was excitement in our house, and we heard when the schoolroom breakfast came up that the prince of Prussia was downstairs; he had come to our house to get a passport to England under an assumed name and to make arrangements for his jour ney. The princess and her children had taken refuge at Potsdam, and none too soon, for in the course of the day their palace was taken pos session of by the people. No dam age was done to it, but a pIacaru was hung out calling it National Eigentuul" (Nationa1 Property)- Later In the morning Prince Frederick Charles (known in 1870 as the red prince). then quito a young man, came in and cried with rage at the king having capitulated to the mob and sent the soldiers away. Things became more outwardIy quiet aE the day wore on. The barricade WIS al h still crowds about, and little process sions of students and loafers hung about with flags and singing patriotic him, and cleared a bit of the barri- cade to let his carriage through to get round to the stables. My mother. who had been out dining, had got home just before. very much alarm ed because she had heard that there was fighting in the Friedrichstrasse, and knew that I had been going there. We watched from our win dows the barricade being finished and manned by a motley set of people. After some time a battalion of sol diers marched up the street; a shot was fired from an opposite window, and they imme ediateIy replied with a volley of musketry We were hurried to the back of the house to be out of the way of stray shots. As @ matter of fact our house was not touched though the opposite one from which the first shot had come was riddled with bullets. The rest of the evenins was very noisy. Rifle-shots on all sides. shouts, the changing of the "toscin" from all church bells mada @ frightful din until well on in the night, till the kings orders for the
  | brought the fighting to an end, but 1 left the town at the mercy of the mob. The most unpopular man with them at that moment was the prince of Prussia Gater the Emperor Will liam I), who was generally suppose5 songs and a cart passed heaped UT with straw covering dead bodies ot some of the victims of the fight, or It's way to join in the procession lc the palace, where the king and queen were compelled to come ou- on the balcony and salute this funera | procession.
 1 In the afternoon, when things had quieted down, we went out, and saw l some of the damage done. In the | Brestesrasse especially near the pal | mace, many houses had been pepper 1 ed, and a cannonball had lodged ir l an old pump and was a source of cur iosity
 Although things had quilted dowr 1 outwardIy for the moment, for the next six months the town was prac- tically given over to mob law, and | a very uncomfortable time followed for ordinary people. The soldiers having gone, and there being at that time no organized street police of any kind, a National Guard was establish
 ed to keep order, but it was very lit
 tie more than a farce. It is strangS
 now to realize that in 1848 there wa. l so little military spirit implanted ir