Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19
RICE1MONDER DESCRIBES
COMPARTMENT OF PARIS
Lawrence p. Anott Gives Graphic Account of Smelling
Of French Capital by Day and Bombing by Night.
sa Succession of Noises Passes Over City

q Lswrcnce f. Arno,, OF tho IVES, Virginia
VIM a. R ss nsa H G:o. sSs Snis
Il early last year. writing In reply to re-
shsed by the Geran S' !l Wa 's sms
4 i ana the numerous air raids; gives the fol
II is The nrst dct"iisd account to zach
= on such news:
re BY LAWRENCE T.. ARNoTT.
Paris. December -.
Y ..~ II may be all right 70 poke fun at the
less II was the existence OF ;hat very
considerable. company OF American
@ STATES ID, '59T After Ate, all ,ns United
that has been the weightiest argument
in c3nvincing the boohes chat the firm
the count. 1; Is only their misfortune
that they may never reach France.
but Their everlasting credit Ina, they
were in training 10 continue the good
Work until Il should be completed
Now We have armtstice; tomorrow
retoices
Tou ask ms to give you something
OF ones pcrsona! experience in n city
that IS. being Shell,d by q seventv-two-
mile gun by day and raidcd from the
air by might.
PEN OF EDGAR ALLAN
FOE NEEDED TO DO JUSTICE
The day-or rather The nigh;--of air
Z and we may assume that the eagle
eyed censor viii not allow the subject
~ bt IhtIA cltu ''NG NOull WISH that
Edgar Allan. Poe might revisit us for
season and give us an adequate de-
seription. withol, his incomparabic
haustinle supply OF adjcc,ives no one
can paint IN words even a faint re-
FICTION of the picture.
Any description must commence
aoout clock in ;he afternoon: must
relate h9w Big Rertha's shells have
every twenty minutes since o'cioclS
IN the morning: never two in the same
place; hardly one within 100 yards OF
another. IN spite OF the fac: that the
emplaceIn ent, the elevation ana d!rec-
ton are nNed-variat.cns in the ex-
plosive power of the charge. and the
sufficient to scatter the landing places
OF the shells from one corner Of the
city TO. another
ALMOST NO FEAR
AMONG PEOPLE or PARIS
The people are stecled agains; fear
or even disquietude, and one hardly .
notices the successive explosions which
occur as reguiarly as the Ginning of |
current of recognition n certain un-
conscious or subconscious anticipation
mechanical regular hammering has en-
dured and has heen endured not for
b nn past 50 ten hours ,, only but for ten
weeks or more. Day after day three
times an hour through every hour
comes the sound of the bursting she'll,
n
and maybe skaters the windows close
at hand; sometimes only muttcred
mud from distant part of the city. |
scar! Iherc is none. or almost none !
AS the first shell OF the day reaches
It's marx the men and women on the
stree. smile, and our ncighbor grects
II: All! c'est Ia Erandc Berthe Qui Sc
reVeille Bon jour, Madame Berthe"
NO iear, but still L subconscious fatal
isIlc ANTICIPATION, always present al
WAYS ora ming something, from ones
vitality. Il is, any wonder that the
>MelcoMe, bringing darkness and quiet
nesS ana surceasc from the pitiless
pounding or the sunlit hours.
indeed the night is welcome. But
what 1t brings is not full darkness or
complete quiet. Most OF the si1eet
lamps are unlu but at each street
Sorher Is a diminutiye painted electric
r Pup which creates. for a space of five |
Ghastly blue will-o'- the Wisp-like |
pali mat is not either light or darkness
"a i'iutonlan darkness visible" in |
very truth The occa sionaI wavfarer
STUN s, PIES along the streets. familiar to |
MIN through many years and hardly
recognizes his own so discussed i. IL
N tnat gloomy cloak of painted night.
livery street chasm, a CANYON with
us walls or brick anG stone. whose
yer! outlines against the lin sky have
-. st,ahse uE !keness 70 their familiar
PRONE His footsteps echo down rho
empty street till he Is ra!n 10 stem
Softly, lest he AWAKE from tho dead ,
city that shows 20 little sign % r;Ta
5o lne stranger N ne strsat this CON
torted in the dim dea,h..E+ er7aus-tons
rom the l@E!ps, or rather their sur
stitutes-buNeS. Even Ms shadow 20