Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-08-23
HARDWARE

WUHh|1 hAhUWAht
is always here and at your SER
vice.
removing the debris were trying to
get down one of the large cross tim
bers which was merely hanging by
one end AS we moved along to the
Grand Place (big square, a large
hole in a building had been mended
temporarily by filling it with sacks
of earth. In this square, some of
the houses had been rebuilt; some
were boxed in with building paper;
one was seen specially propped; and
some were being rebuilt. They use
soft sandstone which is brought to
the site in large blocks, and men
with cross-cut saws reduce it to sizes
suitable for the places needed.
Here in the Petite Place (the little
sQuare) one house has the window
openings filled with props awaiting
the day when the whole thing shall
be pulled down or made habitable.
1.-The Belfry" seems to have been a
church with very lofty spire over
the bell house, but the whole struc-
ture is an utter ruin. All the upper
part has been shot away and the
ruined stones lie around in profu-
sion, though good lot of the
carved, decorative pieces have been
gathered and piled beneath tenn
porary shelter close at hand. This
ruin is being preserved as a memoir
ial of the war. We also went to the
Cathedral, vast edifice, now class
ed as ''irreparably damaged"
In another section of the city We
saw a number of strongly arched
cellars from which the houses had
been entirely removed. Rubbish has
been dumped in some of these and
human filth deposlled In some till
it doesn't seem like a sanitary place
to reside. Some reconstruction work
had been begun in one part wheGe
noticed a stairway descendinaN aNtrom
the cellar by about 80 steps to a
subcellar, or rather to passages lead
ing somewhere in the dark | didn't
care to go. There are open wells
here and Britisher who had settled
down to little fruit and vegetable
business told of rescuing cats and
dogs so unfortunate as to tumble in
The walk to Blangy cemetery
which appears to be to a considera
BILE extent filled with men from Que
bee province in Canada, occupies
but short time. The dead are lait
close together in rows with the in
tervening space in well-kept sod
Those who wanted their deat
brought home wanted just thai
thing, but was it not a big piece o.
vanity to put the government to the
expense of exhuming and transport
. ing all the Americans who have beer
brought back for Ie-lnterment a
home? German woman came
over to France with a coffin to eal
her sons body back to its father
land, but the corpse eXhumed, sh'
; said, was not her son. Another wa
, taken up and this also was not thu
! right one. UDon being informed
that they could not have resurrec
! ton for her, she had to return dis
appointed. 1t may be that many al
American family has received th
, wrong body, for if everything els
worked properly, the mistake of
single figure in the large number
! applied to the identification tag
, would throw things out of line
These burial places are we'll KEEP
: and will continue to be the object
of national attention, which is NOR
;. than can be said lur the variou
grave yards at home to which thes
O boys have been re-consigned. Th
cost of the undertaking would hav
6 founded some splendid philanthropy
!. institutions; fed multitudes of tn
V starving in various places; or Other
: wise blessed mankind far more tha
: the unnecessary expenditure whic
it made, has done. But sentimen
Il like other things, sometimes come
q high.
! Farther out is the little place, s
- Laurent. where we ramble amid
q the fighting trenches and obsery
. the dug-outs and shell holes, the el
: tire place now being covered with
profuse growth of grass. Many roc
of iron, about an inch in diamete
81 project from the trenches. / sul
j.. pose they were used in the constru
ton as the soldiers found them, II
surplus length being allowed
stick above the WORKS. Brick wal
have been built, portions of whit
; are yet intact and visible. The du
outs have all filled at the entran'
) more or less in these years that ha'
passed since they were so glad
evacuated. A lot of barbed wi
and the metal frames on which
) was stretched are lying about. He
is an cid gun, bent and rusted-tl
= stock nearly gone. Where ie II
man who bore it? Down at tt
- canal, some kind of extensive ne
4 works is under construction and q
st trenches on the other side seem le
interesting. But it is time to retul
to Arras and more than time, for
& rain comes up and we find shelf
lin new house where the plastere