New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 4

Press Assoclation. outakker, Antwerp, ans. 2.—Effect of | at Fort Erbrandt. | Meuse river blown impede advance of uliar effect of Ger- in Antwerp. 5.— nbardment by Bel- Germans. 6.—Rail- ut wild to prevent artillery to Ant- Germans. BUYOT, the French hist, gives some g flgures in the enth Century re- pf war not only in in property dam- guns. he most appalling e declares. “No invented so effica- destroying wealth, alue of Cleopatra’s with the waste avy guns? Stand- destroyed; it must capital has been only been repro- purchasing power pcreased. War al- excess of con- pntly every war is is. However, the as crushing nor as orehand. Many of e destroyed served go. They required done away with. d their disappear- NDOUS PRO ance. The real Joss is much less im- | portant than would appear.” Describing the destruction of the art treasures of Louvain, Professor E. Gil- son of the University of Louvain, writes: “In the center stand the walls of St. Peter, now a grinning siJhouette, roof and belfry gone, the walls blackened land caved in. In front stands the Hotel de Ville, dominating everything and almost intact. Further on the re- mains of Les Halles, entirely destroyed, except for the arcade of big pillars of the Salle des Pas Perdus. The library and its treasures are entirely gone. “Entering St. Peter's by the Rue de Malines I find what was the big bell among the ruins. The vaults are for the most part caved in, there is a con- tinuous stream of stones falling, so that we could not enter it without danger. Everything is burned. If the paint- ings by Bouts and Van der Weyden had not been saved in time they must have perished. The jubilee in the choir is standing. “I walk all over the open space where the city used to stand. At the.Sept Coins everything Is lying on the e eva———— e L), URDAY The Rue des umeurs Is burned; to the right the Audience is burned; the upper part of the Rue du Canal is burned, including the house of the dean and the students’ house. Rue de Diest up to St. Peter's is a heap of ruins, bricks, scrap iron and char- red beams. No trace of a sidewalk Is visible, and from the ruins the most disgusting odors ‘e rising and envel- oping everything. Art Treasures Damaged. Elsewhere in the path tling armies irretrie ble damage has been done to priceless art treasures. It is now realized that much of this might have been avoided if the authorities had hidden the various objects. There is another “Descent From the Cross,” by Rubens, at Arras, and this is said to have been destroyed by shell fire. Another work that suffered there was Van Dyck Christ In the Tomb.” Many art works in the cathedral at Rheims were damaged or destroyed. Among the pictures thought to have been lost are ‘‘Nativity,” by Tintoretto; “Christ Appearing to Mary Magda- len,” by Titian; “Christ and Angels,” by ground. of the bat- PERT The | Y O i Zuccaro, and the “Crucifixion,” by | Germain. The treasury of the tained many costly rellquaries and priceless church plate, among them a chalice and monstrances of the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, vessels and ornaments used at the coronations of different kings of I‘rance and the Saint Ampoule The last is cathed con- a dove is said to have brought from heaven. With the holy oil which this flask contained all the kings of France were anointed down to Louis XIV., Alarmed by the loss of pictures and | the suc- | cessor of the Ampulla Remensis, which | AR LR s e ge s D, \ precious objects at Liege, Louvain and other cities, the Belgians determined to take effective precautions to prevent an even greater calamity at Antwerp. It is estimated that the art treasures of Antwerp are worth $1,000,000,000. It need hardly be added that to preserve them for unhappy and ruined Belgium is a really great national scrvice. Photographs have already been pub- lished showing the Belgians removing Rubens’ “Descent From the Cross” and other famous masterpieces from the cathedral of Antwerp, but it was not known what had been done with them. They were placed on trucks specially 2 A constructed for this purpose and car- to the military headquarters, disappeared behind closed | From the Cross” | colossal the won- derful representation of human figures, | its pathos and its tragedy, is by many picture ried away where they doors. “The Descent is the chief of the series works by Rubens that cathedral. This worl, of with | considered the painted. A thrill went through the thought that this might be destroyed by greatest great bullets or even taken away thor's lifetime, It is now known From the Cros were safeguarded how “The time being carefully injury and cracking by burlap and soft packing. was then inserted in a heavy Dropped Into River. 20 Pt o e o v~ SRS vy 7. decorated ts the world at picture bombs dropped from an aeroplane or shot to piec from country where it had been since its au- Descent and the other pictures Inside the military headquarters they were removed from their frames and rolled up, at the same preserved from quantities Each The rolls were then dropped from a nard ever | the roll water- tight metal container and sealed up. 0230, steamboat In various parts of the broad and deep river Scheldt. The position of each roll was taken by exact math- ematical measurements of various ob- jects on shore g The reasons for keeping the final dis- position of the pictures secret are ob- vious. Only the highest officers of the | Belglan army know where the objects |are hidden. Until they return to Ant- | werp these art treasures must be lost to the world. For the Germans to hunt |for them in the muddy bottom of the Scheldt would be than looking |for a needle in a haystack They can only be found with the aid of the charts made by the Belgians | “ If the Belgians never regain their city it seems probable that these works will be permanently lost. They may become | one of the mysteries of history, like the traditional burial place of Alraic the Goth. Many works of less value were re- moved to London, and it is probable that most of these will come to our market. Negotiations for their sale have already been opened with some American collectors. Antwerp was the birthplace and the home of the greatest masters of the old Flemish school. In its museums and galleries are many works of Quentin Matsys, Rogier van der Weyden, Ber- van Orley, Anthony Van Dyck worse by of n Press Association. OLI | estimated that not out was shown Saturday morning, Dec. 5 last, when an order of mobilization reached Troop Eightecn of the Iast Orange (N. J.) social settlement, with the information that the scouts were to turn out to search for Mrs. Walter at 8 o'clock on the morning before, be- ing last seen at the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad depot at Orange. time that the order of mobilization was in the hands of Scoutmaster William P. Burrell and Assistant Scoutmaster of Other them. the search. On the following a more extended search for < was made through the for- reservation, own- to the scene 1troops Saturda Ars. Bro est of the Eagle Rock ed by the county of Iissex, and a terri- tory two miles long and over a mile e, full of tangled clumps of bushes, thickets of junipers and scrub oaks as well as dense forests w scarched so thoroughly that the police a foot of the reser- vation but must have fallen under the eye of one of the scouts, and perhaps two. In the last few years the boy scot oined a Ars, ts Characteristic Scenes In Life of Boy Scout, 8 are tversary of the of ihe Boy The organiration Taft and Colonel Theodore Roos !as its honorary vice presic iciated with those in being | has as its honorary president President |from all walks of 1 he celehbration of Woodrow Wilson and Hon. William H. | bers of the nations elt | 1o so-|of th of| An nd of the 1l councils and towns country gl and Uie socicty the movement are prominent citizens | cial association of boy scouts works of northern New Jersey, Connecticut, Breck of Orange, who had disappeared | Mercer Burrell the boys were en route | Maine, 1llinois and of many other parts | the have been led to search townships and larger sections | for persons and in some instances { contributed materially to the clearing Jup of myste In the case of the |zearch for Mrs. Breck on Dec. 12 the kHMN] attitude of the scout movement country upon lost 10wn by a vote put to them when the search was assembled before on the he at Montclair. Comimissioner Gray addressed the boys and r 1 a description of the person for whom they were to search, how she was dressed when she disap- 1 said “No scout is to risk in this search If you come to a liff in the forest you are to go around up over its front if it looks dangerous, but do not leave any space of it unsearched. It is contrary to the |cthies of the scont movement to accept dollar of reward that may have offered. We are making this for the good of the general they were be n gle Rock outlook Scout it and not 1 | e | 1y search | publi Thes are not training to be- |come soldiers, and it is not the pur- [ pose of the organization for which such Irnest Thompson Seton and rd have stood sponsors to fit auzment the United States when they become men. It is {rather to train them in a knowledge of | woodcraft, of the fore and streams, |how to give first aid to the wounded and how to take care of themselves in | the wilderness. 1t is to give them strong, hardy bo 1 lov, W1 wild ings and to stand with en Ladn or wney they o se boys men as Daniel D | boy's |army WALTON WILLIAMS to pe | with | shirt” | mation of white | Iina | measures would be resorted to if nec- | vocation < | States Within half an hour from the | | seventh | liant ONGRESSMAN CLAUDE KITCHIN of North Carolina, who, it is agreed, will be house leader succeeding Os- car Underwood, who goes to the United senate, has been in congress North Carolina since the Fifty- congress. His ability on the and means committee was rec- nized last session, and this by Rep- ntative Underwood, as Kitchin's hes in debate were of exceptional merit. Ils friends point out that he stands with Underwood on practically all questions of policy. Claude Kitchin started out with purpose of devoting himself to his chosen profession, the law, and lad held no office until elected to congre Ilis district was formerly Republi an and was represented several terms by the lone negro congressman, George White. The latter was not renomi- nated, and Mr. Kitchin was put in the conte; gainst J. J. Martin, a Repub- lican, and was elected by a large ma- jority. Claude Kitchin is but thirty- five years of age and his brother about threo years older. He first attracted public attention 1in his district and state through his prominent connection what was known as the “red movement. That was a combi- voters in North Caro- for the avowed purpose of elimi- nating the negro from office and poli- tics if possible. Outside of its sensa- tional and unique character its meth- ods were peaceful, but many regarded it as a warning and threat that stern from s the essary to sustain the dominancy of the white man. « ide tchin made | colonial days CPick Kitchin to Succe Hon. ty-sixth congress. On the side of the house the connect into the Arrington and who have been identified with North Carolina Membe the princlpal address at the first great gathering of the “red shirts” in 1898. Thousands of white people gathered in a great con- whose prevailing color was red. They came riding bay horses or | horses covered with red cloths and in wagons and carriages painted a bril- | red. They wore red shirts, red | trousers and hats. The ladies wore red | s and red ribbons and altogether the ithering was of a very sanguinary Young Kitchin was the orator of the day, and his fervid speech was the great feature of the meeting. It was undoubtedly that speech which attract- | ed attention to himn and later resulted in his nomination and election to con- gre Three of the Kitchins have served in the house, father and two sons. Wil- lilam W. and Claude Kitchin, brothers, served at the same timeé. William was elected governor of North Caro- also lin Z cong sional dremios came by for statesmanship and poli- their ta tics fairly amd honestly: W. H. Kitchin, was a representa- tive from his home district in the maternal | study n runs Alston families, prominently since the earliest s of these fami- ed Underwood Forest college, a Baptist institution ir North Carolina, and both took up the of law. The elder brother de- cided to leave his home town of Scot- land Neck, where his father had been established in the law for many years and he settled at Roxboro, N. C. Th younger brother remained at home an¢ or- Photos by American Press Association. Claude Kitchin (Left), Oscar W. Underwood and House In Session. lles have also sat in congress from that state. ’U- engaged in the practice of law at the |old homestead. Each has made a suc- The two Kitchin boys are the prod- |cess in his profession, and the younger uct of some of the oldest They Both chur nplary of exe of in ars men member domestl strain blood in North Carolina, and they show it in their refined and genteel bearing habita, | naping hi Bapt tastes. Their father, They are Luth xraduates of the Wake Jacquitted. of [brother at one time appeared in the Philadelphia courts as one of the coun- el for a Mr. Gregory charged with kid- own little son who was with wy, from wh busband separats The f r was WILLIAM SCOTw. st | Mrs. ( had B i