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VI -V TW io A SATURDAY. APRIL 27, 1918 I gtttfS tana: IF New York Were Shelled By a 7 5 -Mile-Range Gun, How Would People Act? Martin Green, Evening World Staff Correspondent, Describes the Uncanny Bombardment of Paris and, in Imagination, Gives the Awful Scenes a Mew York Setting. By Martin Green (peotal Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) OoTTi'r" 111 Tfet Hna PueilMiias Ok Tort C-ankii Wofktl. PARIS, April 1. As I write this afternoon 1 look out from The World Bureau In the Avenue de l'Opera, a block from the Paris Opera House and the Grand Boulevard, upon long lines of shuttered shop vftidows on the street level, at hundreds of closed and locked windows en the floors above the street level windows behind which are the work rooms of tailors, milliners, artificial flower manufacturers and fashioners' 01 ugm mercnanoise sucn as is turned out from the skyscrapers In Lower Fifth Avenue, New York.

This Is a holiday In Paris Easter Monday and the holiday accounts for the shuttered and locked win-i dows. A corresponding neighborhood in New York might be the comer of 1 Street and Fifth Avenue, with 14th Street, carrying Its teeming crosstown current of Sunday afternoon promenading humanity, an swering for the boulevard a block awnv. Make Fitth Avenue the Ave nue de l'Opera, 14th Street the bou levard, the time Sunday afternoon, March 30 for this holiday after noon Is like a Sunday afternoon in New York In normal time. All! business In Paris Is suspended to day just as all business In New York 1 was suspended on Easter Sunday. Carrying myself to New York by a process of mental transportation, 1 And myself wondering if, were I sitting in -n office at 13th Street and Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday atternoon, 1 no there would re, moving up and down the avenue; and across I4tfl Street, endless 1 streams of laughing, chatting people, Aidless lines of honking taxlcabs.

and if there would come to me through my open window i unds Indicating the celebration of a fete by a populace unafraid and happy; 1 find myself wondering if this would be the use had New York been subjected for nine days with two days of intermission no less momentous because of the suspense to a systematic bombardment of the city by great explosive shells fired from a cannon ftttloned seventy-live miles away. As I write this line a bomb bu fallen somovehere in The w.borB of the explosion are itlll reverberating. Not a perion on the street lias stopped: not one has looked toward the sky. WHAT EFFECT WOULD BOMBARDMENT HAVE ON NEW YORK I And myself wondering If, under similar conditions In New Yoik. 1 would be looking out upon placidly promenading men, women and children, upon long linen of shuttered shop windows and at hundreds of closed and locked windows of workroom or lofts.

I find myself wondering If, Instead, Klfth Avenuo and 14th would not be Jammed with rucks and moving vans, If the stntps and shops would not be Wide, open nd If thousands of sweating, swearing workers would not be striving In nil tile disorder of panicky haste to Mart bales, boxes and barrels of merchandise to points outside the bombardment rone; If Lower Manhattan vould not be conge? tod with citizens carrying personal effects en route 'o railroad stations; if there would not be ohaos whore, her In Paris, Mthln sound of the bombardment area, there la peace and seeming indifference. Not that Paris is totally unconscious of the fact that the city la be-tdeged, for Parla Is aa truly besieged to-day aa ehe was In 1870-71 when ibe Germane were battering at the walls. In those days there were no rungi guns, no aeroplanes The only difference it, that It to poaslble to get out of Paris under the condition prevalent In 1918, while the population was ahut in forty-eight years ago, and 1t la possible to get food and other necessary aiippllea Into Paris to-day, while I'arla teas starring In the siege In the Cranco-Prussian War. So too would Now York be besieged were the Germans able to ahoot shelli Into the olty from a point seventy-tire miles distant to the east or northeast or from a ship orolstng or stationary seventy-five miles out on the Atlantic Ocean. Thousands have fled from Paris, but hundreds of thousands remain and go about their tiuftnejs, and when the sli.

explode, those who hear he eound and are nearly or distantly remote from the area of destruction shrug their shoulders, ejaculate "Doom:" and, apparently, forget It Two months of night hombardmei. ts from aeroplanes and nine days of shelling from a long gUtanCf gun haw made of tho Parisian left behind a brother la Indifference to the Midler at tli" front. Nevertheless 1 tlnd myself wondering toll afternoon if New York or Chicago or St. Louts or any other city of the United ales would be tho same as Parts under bombar.lm, nt I find myself wondering if. for ln-etance, the gregt east side of New York, which hur ts out with volcanic force Into chaotic diaordei under the pressure of trivial unusual events, would hold fr.st If shells from a gun seventy-five miles away were dropped four days In succession Into the plaza of Williamsburg llrtdge.

find myself wondering what would happen In Harlem If a few shells from a jource shrouded In mys'cry and unbelief were dropped In th northern end of Central Park; what would happen In the Bronx If even a coming from a point none could determine ahonld fall of a calm spring miming at Stn et and Third Avenuo; what ould happen on the lower WMt (U were mystery shells to tear up Union Square; what would happen In Brooklyn were shells to fall at regular Intervals about the Long Island Railroad Itation and It was known to the people that came from 1 1 in pr iteeti inside Qennaa positions at a point levonty- lire miles away on Long Maud. BRINGING THE BOMBARDMENT HOME TO NEW YORK Tc bring home to New York what Pa til bus gono through since March 2.1 It Is necessary to put New York, rs In the place of Parisians. Por that purpose I fhnil mentally transport myself to New York once nacre; I shall ir. In that at 1.18 oVlock vn the mornli.g of March 23 4 hj readln PP" mi room the Algonquin Hotel In If New York, Like Paris, Were Under Shell Fire ARTIST DIEDERMAN DRAWS, UNDER INSPIRATION OF MARTIN GREEN'S ARTICLE, AN IMAGINARY RESULT OF BOMBARDMENT BY A 75-MILE-RANGE GUN. I 1 Isshae gglal gfc teaaaaaaaaaiaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

i t- iw- v- i i fv'T. aw.i'rz i to iSiv.lU'aaaT 1', gxalkW ie. jf Wi tin ii 1 i it i i iiiii psar- -v I IMAGINE City Hall Struck, Brooklyn and the Bronx Hit, in PnirO a i a a ta a aa a A mi aavt But Paris Boulevards Crowded Like Fifth Avenue on Easter, Although Shells ere Falling Every Few Minutes and Many Persons Were Being Killed and Injured. Weat 44th titreet Actually I was reading the morning papers In my room I In the Motel Lottl In the Hue de Coallgllone In Paris. 1 was reading tin I morning papers In my room when an American friend knocked ihi and walked In and began talking about golug to breakfast.

Then i ra I eooouealon uulcb waved the ourialna. then tbe sound of a great eipl n. "A German aviator," said my American frlond- we are proceed! with the Imaglnattve happening "has Juat dropped a bomb gb ahould say. the Orand Central Station." "No," I objected. "That bomb landed at about the Pennsytrat Station." NEW YORKERS BEWILDERED A8 FIRST SHELL STRIKES.

Wticrcuiion wa had an arguiuat about where tbe bomb landed Jn twelve rutuutes hater, aa we were leaving the room, we heard gnotb i plosion and the eound came from tbe general direction of the fits' Th second exploalon told onr aare trained, by this time, to dlMtlngu'sh In a meu3ure by the eound the alee and effect of a bursting bomb -that tbe i. rmana were giving New Yorli something new lu the wny of di-stnictlva The two explosions had lacked the deep, i. iiolng reaonanee vhich accompanies the sliutterlng from wlthtn of one of tho aerial tor- sloes which are dropped from Ilix-he Oothae. The sun vaa ihlatng, but A.m Am Iflaara i too nin in minutes after the Initial shock. We proceeded to revise our opinion a to the origin of the OgplootOBi Tho twelve mlnuto Interval was lending an uncanny effect to the bombardment.

SHELL BURSTS IN WAITING ROOM IN PENNSYLVANIA STATION. on the way down Sixth Avenue we had noted that no bualnnee wa being done In the stores. The sidewalks were crowded with salespeople. proprietors and clerks looking at the misty, partially clouded aky. In the hotel the waiters were nervous and the breakfast was badly served.

At It. 15 o'clock, one hour to the second after the first explosion, we heard the sixth The dining room waa deserted and there remained bnt one waller, who was nervously fingering our breakfast check, and one white-faced hatboy, ho was Instating that wo should tak. OUI hats and de part-Fro the MeAlpIn we crossed 34th Street to Seventh Avenue and walked south to 'he Pennsylvania Station, where there was a great crowd of policemen end firemen. The first shell had landed In the restaurant off the great waiting room, after tearing through the roof, and bad killed or wounded every ono within a rudius of 100 feet. The bead of a soldier had been blown off and plastered against the wall.

There were pools of blood on the floor. PollceVM anil soldiers were hunting for fragments of shell to be turnd over to the artillery experts, who ware to analyse thim In an effort to ditennlne their naturo and the probable power which had propelled the mtsslle. SHELL KILLS SCHOOLBOYS AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE. Leaving the Pennsylvania station wn walked over to liroadway. The I street was Jammed nlth hurrying, gossiping men and women.

Banks bad 'I he curtain were drawn on the displays In the show windows of the great department stores. Traffic policemen had been withdrawn from the comers, and taxlcabs and motorbuses were violating all rules of speed and right of way. Saloons and restaurants were deserted and white gproned bartenders and waiters were stsndlng In doorway, kaoklna et the sky. All the shops along liroadway and 42d Street were I dosed The SUbWSyi and street cars were Jammed. The crowds In the streets were thinning out as citizens, fearing the worst, were nurryinc home to their families, Crossing Street to the Orand Central Station, we found that a jlmmh had land, at the corner of Islington Avenue, tearing out a section of the corner of the new Commodore Hotel.

Two persons had been killed there, one a poll. man. slid crosstown car hsd been blown from the track We telephoned The Evening World office and found that a bomb bad In Columbus Circle and that several schoolboys en their way from tho subway to the High School of Commerce hsd beem I.MI...I nr.nihf.r houih. falllnK on a house In Bast 57th Street, III I'M, SB rryj i had killed a mother and hot nursing nauj. CITY A HOTBED OF WILD RUMORS.

M.t. ii mmm noon The cltv as a hotbed of rumors. gnttS plain that the bombing had not been com pushed by aor" dimes, for sore of our planes hsd ecoureo mo It was report.il that the (lennans had maun a wnuing at lolel and had s. up cannon wl-h which they wore bombarding Oreatwr New a 1 II- .0 gallon nyfl k. frVVl lloboken and Jersey i iiy.

ror n-n The noei persletenl report was that German Zeppelins, flying nva or aU nill.tt high, out of sight, were hurling progenies on me city, vmm o'clock in the afternoon found all business ebandoned. shops, storea, factories offioes nil eloeed and everybody hurrying homeward. And all througb the morning Mid into the early afternoon there had been explosions at twelve-minute Intervals. After 1 o'eioeg the time between the eiploelons lengrhomM to twesity-to ntnutai and half sn hour. At 4 o'clock the bombardment ovased and at the same time there appeared on the streets an extra of The Evening World giving aetailsd etatsmentj of the damage inflicted, amd Stating on the authority ol the War Department, that tho abells had been rir.d by a gun Stationed In a vtrlp of woods in the vicinity of lying Hraach.

MOBS BKSIEGE THE RAILROAD STATIONS TO FLEE CITY. The Streets St ttn points where tho liombs had dropped were ankle deep wl' i Mobs were besieging the railroad stations. Tba statement thai rn nasi been built which would hurl a projectile seventy, five mll. a was re-lived "Hh Incredulity on all lidsa IMt trte shells had ansae from somewhere! Into the situation ha I entered the dramatlo eta ment of mystery and New York went to bd late Saturday ntght half la DM belief thai the ag of miracles had returned. That night there waa same air raid and promptly at 8 o'clock the next morning, aundity.

shell dropped InUi the city In the vicinity of the Pennsylvania 8ttlon. and until the oarly afternoon the boiu Da anient conunuea. upiuaions at twont flM' minute Intervals. On Monday morning the first shafl dropped at 7 o'clock and the bombardment proceeded Irregularly all day h. ro I mentally transport myself back to Paris and the offlea et i tve to New Yorkers to Imagine It York.

Hlver an a How Our Destroyers Got Their Names ,1 Ingram Named for Gunner's Mate, 'Tannin" Uro, Who Guve Bit lire to Save BU ShtpCaHin Was Named For Urate Naral Lieutenant in War ol 1S12. By Henry Collins Brown -NT of the great chnnxNi pro- of lb enlls'ivl man, has snnnon' I SUOSa i' wwr wm uepanure in ui.s prami, UreeUy for the Vessel uuike democi-ttcy tt real tanglbls by ruling that In future all men ol Id hlpi when It wn slifMod by f.it. Partleularly hns this buenrue the navy, regardless of position, will Commander VarnoU, who rang for of ths navy No matter what he hereafter be recognized In 'h a sky was cloudy and heavy frost of ths ntght before was helnn drawn what jppoued In the city Sunday aril Monday and on the succeeding days iito the air In the form of a light mist. We decided, sfter talking with I nav(f a York wh it 1 experienced In I'arls. I rsons In tho hotel office, that we bed beard In all probability shots I Al giejoali Ir the morning of March 25 I left I'arls for the Preach rod by antl slrersft guns In the suburbs This supposition was Strength- front tn(j wu, BOon In the battlo zone, forgetting all about Paris and the nod by tho fact that as yet the fire engine and slreus had SOOBdsd gialSBOS ml.arlment.

I did not return to Paris until 3 o'clock in nlaim lw of Saturday. March SO, and at the hotel I learned that ths Wa walked from the Algomiuhi down Sixth Avenue to the MeAlplB dlstancs gun had killed seventy-five people In an old I'arls ohurob for breakfast At Sixth Avenue and 42d Street. Just twenty-four minutes ft sarVlOS r.ood Friday sftemoon. tho first eiplosion. we heurd a third.

This appeared to have no I i vl liel the ehufeh Suntlny morning If the Ocrmsn marKenaan Bad nrred at some point a considerable distance to the aouthsat ssy In ightlng distance snd had deliberately aimed his shell he Ity Hall Park. And Just as we had seated oureelve at the 'able tn the no( Mr nil structure nt a more vltnl spot. The missile. WAIpIn we heard a fourth explosion, this occurring exsctly the r.o'. shuttered a pillar supporting Ust roof arches, sad isrt of tha roor ana we ion sunwueai WOULD OUR NERVES STAND STRAIN LIKE PARISIANS'? Prom the devastatid cliur' ii I walktd to the Cath.lrsl of Notre Dame, where Master high mosn was being celebrated.

The beautiful front Of the athedral af banked With sandbags and entrance was effected through a long ooncretl tnnnal built late one Of the doorways. The spacious bodry of the Cathedral wat Jaiiiined and the mas wai sung with all the solemnity and plel ir "i I 1,1 of an Hester morning celebration--slthougb wtth I. mnaS of thl lu lls of Notre Harne there was another historic stone pile. 1 Ingram, gttBnef'a mate, first the torpedo hit and Ingram killed, SM who gav his life to aava tAellilow-n Into the water But Bla slilp i -sin. land his ooearades wera saved.

At work on patrol, the Cnisln We will lie naming SOOrsg it gbted I SUbmarln, flvK niil ti.t d'Hiroyera In the next few weeks and etiu td ut full p.d toward the I Other heroes of thlg rai 11 bs Hi is uhmerged and a I honored, and syhen oe ii bsl eonaecrated to the worship of God, hsd been shattered by a OenMsk I i al 'he srjproaohlng ilrtroyer tsM coma. shall have other mil Th. rgeucy speed as lha Cgl leaped P. ii, fit. Iiti.jr ft u.

i reason, the navy ha. always arro- Hon of names of new tg the auprams guteJ to Itself a certain exrluslvensss eual fooilag with superior that the torpe 1o and a certain air of superiority. That In an address In Dalllrr) re, April Uld Strike near the part of the ship ihua been agempllted to on extent in n. eoretarjr paniels ft i it tn whors hi erpi, svss niiu-insnd ships. All of the name, ware "mrlal to wM 1 pendd Ms slnatufe b.

f. re laavlna those of officers of some rank shove ordlnarj seaman. Secretary Daniels, rt, naming the latest do- who has always beeo a warm friend etriyer Ingram, in man rjf a deadl) ml-, wiisatio.it 400 yaids and men Sfhoas In battls Will stva us other worthy names sss meat sffeetlvo flghters of the 1 boats The 'Ussln, Whieh WSN di Hi this a -tlun, was nan I after i who foiisTht wli i rent bravery realising thai if Ihees ssplodsd tbi I might bs tilown to bits, hs ran 'danger i -k to certain death and threw th'-i though some gpproaehed wl'liln arges into ths ssa the Instant isfors i boat's iength of his shir, mil in torpedo sir'iek A moment Ittter eeed In saving his VSOSSL aha nly a tOW hours t.efore. 't is a striking coincidence that there are exhibited to the derout ood Prlday la the Cathedral of Notre lumt a part of the crown of thong wan pressed on the brow of Jests Christ as he waa led out bo be i poi i ol the rr as to which lie was hangrai. aji.l one of the aatks uged In bis oiecutloa.

The ai'ctlon of the crown of thorns was presented with Maedonough a Ul implain Notre Dame by uouis i. wno reosiveu it rrom me r.miie.or oi In the war of 1112 tantlnopto, and the pleco of the cress and the nail are eoclesleattealt ment his ship. tti 'I deroga, rsrtfled so genuine, T-u8 of thousands visit the (Cathedral on Uood FTsdeg left without supp.irt gnd mi itts kad thm relics 'y Hrltlsh funl oati Heedless of jarH. ss. ni1iifly accustomed to a siege such aa tbe Casein drov them I ft nA wnauirin utls imtlK Will OUI HVTV.

wihwiwi would h.ipp'iilng this aftrnoon In New or. under parallel UlTIN OREOM,.