The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1919-05-16
A LETTER FROM
DUDLEY NEWTON

DUDLEY NEWTON
Following is letter written by
Dudley Newton, son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
= 81 Newton Of Medina, ia his
mother. The letter bears date of
April 10 and is written from lie Theil:
Ny Dear Mother:
I have received my furlough and
have just returned from Paris. We
are having some rainy weather again
and, in fact it was rainy about all
the time / was in Paris, but I sure
had most wonderful time.
Am glad to hear you mailed my
kodak and am anxious to get it.
~ am glad to hear that Clarence
is home, as he should have been
there sooner, owing to the condition
hewas in.
II have seen the most important
part of Paris and now I am ready
TO come home asss0onI IS i can. But
DO not know just when I can, as
have not heard anything.
Will try and tell you few thinga
about Paris but will have to tell
you more when I get there. Il
Went to the Y. M. C. "a. and took
the 8 o'clock trip for q general run
around Paris in motor trucks, hut as
it., was rainy, we did not have &c
gc0d a time as If it had been sunshine,
We saw the church that was hit
BY q bomb OF Good Friday Of last
year, and the hole Is still IN the roof,
We then went to- the NOtre Dams
cathedral, one Of the largest II think
that the man told us .secondl IN the
world. And q most wonderful build
/ ing too. Itwas started In the eleventh
z century and finished in the twelfth
The building at the front where The
I large doors are, was opened ito allow
Joan d Arc, Napoleon and other kings
and queens entrance, and they were
the only ones that were allowed tC
ride through the church on horseback
This wonderful cathedral at the front
has the wonderful rose window al
the entrance, the very finest Of colors
and can never be produced again, al.
though it has been tried several times
The cathedral is built Of compost
tiOn Of stone, and the older it gets
the harder. this composition gets ant
viii probably last for hundreds d
I years yet. NJ
The architecture is all Gothic. ant
is the very best in the world. People
come from all over the world to Sc,
thu wonderful cathedral and see hs
rose window. Easter week is exhibitet
/ the original crown of thorns worn b,
Christ, and some very precious jewell
I Of very old age, and rare too, ant
then on Easter week the large pip,
organ plays, but only on Easter Sun
day. This organ has 5000 pipes AMI
they are 40 and so feet tall, SO 70,
can imagine what an immense thini
I it really is.
We next visited the Court Of Jus
tice, and the corridors are about thre,
4 hundred feet long, all Of white gran
\ ite and marble. We went into th,
hall Of Lost Footsters." It is calle,
this as the young lawyers who hav'
n passed the bar, come here to thi
hall and walk up and down the cor
ridors dickering with clients, as th'
lawyers do not have Offices here a
they have in the states. So these mel
with black frocks parade these hall
\ and corridors months at time befor
4 finding a job. Then we visited th
\. supreme court Of France, the highes
n court of this country. The ceiling
and'wall are very artistically designe,
I'M wood and leafed in gold 1-8 incl
\ thick, and some very wonderful paint
ings on the ceiling Of some of tn,
notable men Of France during Ma
poleon and Louis the XIV and XIV.
From here we went to visit the toni
of Napoleon a most wonderful place
y the chapel in which he is buried ha
Sa wonderful altar of four marble pil
lars and two windows which have
constant stream of light on NapOl leon
4 tomb. The chapel is a wonderful
thing.
From here we went to the "Pan
4 theon de la Guerre," (painting Of tn
war;; painting that is in the form
OF y circle which is 375 feet in cir
n cunaference, and took four years i
paint AS You enter the Pantheon
n the figures look AS though they ar
standing there onsthe steps; the face
h and horses are very realistic. The
@ To see the Eiffel tower, a most won
derful form Of construction, 984 fee
high and flag pole on the top tina
makes it an even 1000 feet high. i
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