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4 pete 2 : Ns “ eet ~ . - am 1 4 ben iJ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918 | Battles in the Air : MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1918 My Own Experience Bring a N ring a New Art | In the - or History Painting Paint attalion of Death” \ | s M bh , . , M7 * 7” i Wal , , “4 Lieut. Henry Farre, French Offctal Painter of War Scene BY LIEUT. FARRE, OFFICIAL, PAINTER OF THE FRENCH ARMY, WHO BECAME AN AVIATOR TO 4 tag First-Hand Story of the Heroic Women of Russia | Had to Fly for Five Months Before He Could Paint | GET MATERIAL AND WON A WAR CROSS. "Beaty Gal Beak Oe tak Oa nee | With New ‘Aerial Vision’ —Needed Long Hardship and Death That Their Example Might Familiarity With Clouds. Rekindle Their Country’s Patriotic Fires. ar Ns Ms ° 4 Publivhing Co, (The New York Evening World) B Né Eva Zai ntz j O Which Ul save to the world the gortel Gupletis of the hetous ign thee p who have lived and died tn the skies ever since the summer of W pace HAitsto FanEeWe an impetuous and warm blooded and M seat ‘ 8 — ussians. There are mad inconsistencies 1914, when the Germans first fn us; in our patriotism, which { ri began their march = through i % 8 unequalled; in our kindliness, Belgium. I enaraesreonee jn our hates and \ To explain this art to the man from daughters ot out tibet an or woman who hugs close to the Battalion of Death have bean mother earth and studies art in formed, u all its forms from afar would | 1, for instance, am a Jowess. My bo a diMcult task. Just how father and my great-grandfather Gificult it will be can be real- Petey merchants. My grandfather fzed by the statement of Lieut. ey as twenty-five years a Russian sol- Henry Farre, official painter of Tio Kagd oy ikea Gh Ue the French Army and Navy, int ¥ Wan hes a “gt to his death, “It was only after five months levary tate FemnNtlon ew aeaatiay of constant flying that I was | merely, where Jews may not even able to transform my way of | live or travel secing s0 as to paint things | Iam like my grandfather, who ale with an aerial viston. When I | ware onic thay there (Was ae firet attempted my duties, there lee eee He was a giant as something, dhe one some- Pete reseeitneieter ist | Ing which counted all, lacking : 2 al ue familiarity with the clouds above pivkiond 7 | an any mun the roaring battlefront.” LIEUT. HENRY FARRE. Some Famous | and short, my cheek bones Now America is to seo what Lieut, Farre eaw--not what the | ° high and my hair yellow, aviator artist saw with his mere eyes when he first went to the front, Spendthrifts I have thought for myself, always but what be has seen since he developed what he calls the aerial vis- ‘ It was inevitable that the education fon, which is as much a sense of feeling as that of sight. His pictures Of History « the gymnasium, forbidden to mow of the heroes of the air, the battles, the bombardments, daring raids ——_ tgs aur should implant in my by the French Aviation Corps and aerial warfare in {ts every feature, HE newest success UECeat CBS: UAB pine "Ob, SSV0le aaa are to be exhibited here by permission of the French military authort- for the doubttul title ofl Russia's sake, Iv "BAG ae ties. “Spendthrift” 1s one Edward! ooo) car ite eee Fi pet Lieut. Farre, who has taken an active part in some of the most Teer ices ae cena an! | mover whith will seve Usd remarkable exploits of the Allied aviators in France and Belglum, has ; ‘ 09 fortune has meited so com-| when 1 was seventeen, ‘To-day T aa been decorated with the War Cross for bravery, and bis work has IGHT BOMBARDMENT [ann ; ‘ ‘ a, Sam ee pletely in Atty years that bla yisiblo} ty Thus you may und @ttracted much attention in all the capitals of Europe. mS ee bom mee ; PR Poetseg i tts iaecserdand ley ertla i |_[stand how it was that I felt that “When I enlisted at the first call to arms,” said Lfeut, Farre, THE PLANES. Pils Ne . citer inde : Bt og Oia a ee eeeng [of all others, must march with the had two objects in view. First, to help my country in her our of . ——s . : yi ta atill 4ey the re eiee | ny OF peat need, and second, to snatch every spare moment to put on canvas "Yer itstancer la nn,| Tene the call, slened ae everything posstble pertaining to the war.” Beate Atcitbo wa aa ume of Mme, Batchial The French War Office, however, soon learned of Lieut. Farre’s nicknamed Prince of Modern Oe ea ee of Tagai work, and he was given the rank of Observer-Bombarder and attached Spendthri Ho won’ this olaitn t13; was @ hengane to weo'du dice taind: to the first group of bombarding squadrons, where he remained until royalty by spending $1,000,000 a year|, wiih pee rc ee eae his recent dopartyroe for the United States, at the time he was twenty-two. H9/ written upon the envelope. ot a It was in this position and through constant touch and association said, “We don’t keep books in our Sarélite, Hollie (he HW nea with his comrades of tho Aviation Corps—sharing thelr sufferings and LoD UE Ane ALE before me in our house in Cabecion misfortunes, their happiness and thel* joys—that the bindman-artist PAE A Jom Ot Bis Bore, sbpaiagu Sr They gid net speaks Bul my mother has during more than three years preserved on canvas for the world i Re himself free from his wept, All our sufferings from @old and history some of the most interesting features of a war that has stl aide and h rrow for the dead reached out to grasp practically every nation of the earth, iia peas ae0 000) A 41 ecp. But she did Hvery picture he has painted tells {ts own story just as that story pearla , ho sf my father. One was told on the battlefield, There is no imagination, for imagination > his bride, $100,¢ ‘ 1 soldiers In our house as unnecessary. No artist living, saye Lieut, Farre, could begin to with friends of peter ite wit ’ ner s@, {magine the acta of bravery and the poenes of horror that have actu h clearest recollection wus eee Sone aa ee salve ally occurred in the theatre of war, where Verdun and the Marne havo “Rome howled, that time!"), $20, fouae isbn. uaa tues bes een only two places along hundreds of miles of dattle ground where @ ecklace for a girl he loved, $ 4 in od whole herotc nation has dripped blood. tus Beis lea mets don a hote Russian. ‘suet. -Claaeaee To witness these horrors from an observation point on the ground, of celebrat Bh ue pe en need be,” 1 said, (Phe as one might view a herd of oattle or sheop, and to eee it from a seat Since SHUGUR Rea 7 ! untaught and miak ta the skies, gives an entirely different atmosphere to the whole oene, Wing ar Gide nce bit of thos welll 3 fur Russia if they he explains, and it 1s thf difference he wants the public to understand, SN EROIRE SRE RDA ee sto set them an ex- as well as possible, when they view the pictures. ‘To those who visit Here AGRE arr tn Tam ft to go and I am willing the exhibition, he asks that they put themselves in his position—that studies to the White Way. His e ata fs to say, as observers In another machine. leks CRRIpMSLWda at BVORAWAY aG0liituc in n eee ‘To attempt to rocount all the herole deeds of the French Aviation 4d Wireats, Ho. decided thet. G4 the | reteree ee ee ae Corps, Licut, Farre declares would be impossible, “But 1 cannot re age of twenty money ie too common|verisemens he Bis Waele Orn Salts sist mentioning the exploit of Lieut. Partridge,” he sald, “The Lieu- tar KESD CAOREAIGR Aerahite belle ctlonie ee eee tenant, and bis pilot, acoompanied by two other aviators, during a night bought eighty-seven suits, with a|peath to Petrograd. The setae of bombardment behind the lines of Verdun at the time of the great offen- hand embroidered waistcoat for each. |enteen of us from Tacaur og. aye sive, were overcome by asphyxlating gases. ‘They were unoonsctous Hla royal dad cruelly interfered just (were the widows of ecldiccy mete for more than ten minutes, during which time the machine, left to when the sirens of Broadway were|were young women tr m the \tselt, dropped to within 600 yards of the enemy's lao, ‘The fresh air s forward to a luxurious old factories and the metal works bea awakening the pilot, he was able to tip the asphyxtating bomb over. Bo. Ho had already ed $30,000 | were impoverished and starving. board and bring his observer to life. on few of these dams One of the seventeen was Suen “Was their first {natinet to return to thelr lines? Not much. ‘They . sda nye hae 814 10 vin, Who had bean oy Game continued their way and bombarded the railroad station, ‘Thetr mis j Loam Haare enaearla ss of $800,000 @ |) mate and friend from the days when\ ston accomplished, they returned, cot something hot to drink, got new The Ores ‘ * (aie get. ee ee bg in| Oar tie: cache ib Syracuse, botle we were children, She lived in a finer tviona and mounted anew for another rald some 900 kilometres dis bah ey ee : . ‘ ay Sia ee ee ean, meean, fo on $8u0 and end /and larger house than ours, Seven ” HEIGHT OF loo METRES.m ii ~egs ieee vee ‘aig es Reemenar) Bh % Tt took his son a scant five years to|”, unded. Mcldiste ware. thee oem Aside from his paintings and his War Cross, the things Lieut. ‘ ‘ on i ie ie: ‘ . aquander this hard won hoard, was engaged to marry a young Bel- Farre holds dearest to his heart are four letters from four of the most aan tae hn ae | ‘Theodore Hostetter, the ae |slan whose father owned the princ!- valiant and celebrated aviators: Capt, Roekel, killed on the fleld of Pittsburgh Croesus who died in ee Beial Works. 18 Teaeeh ae honor; Capt. Heurtaux, commander of the famous Stork Esquadrilie, to roa York of pneumonia in 190% threw one llregy to serve as an office: which Gaynemer, the national hero of France, was attached; Capt, | Ptomai nes and Army Ci t away more than $1,000,000 In a single in t ry algian Army, Hes eee Ver! and Lieut. Partridge. | on rac ors year in local gambling houses, ne ee eee a RA ore | paisa CR Was ald Tint Gh OREA Ac ee bhie Aa MADE RTE ey AReS when ve ae | + a Fs E million to New York gamblers when eis i 4 Ae 5% thee cd "Ona “ q ‘ ' t ether for Rus- The Dreaded Enemy, Gas Gangrene! Reoosal aioe Geography Teaches Us That an Island Is a Body of Land En- hie dled. giman (who. died in tonny tz, Suiny of our friends wopt and AS GANGRPNA, almost un-|tained from the use of tho Carret drely Surrounded by Graft, Where Profiteers Have One Motto, Raw Prices ssh to Ge Uae Ge ine oat ce heey f Known in ordinary fe, 1» the| P thod, devised. by Dakie ot| for Raw Materials-But, Pshaw! Washington Knew All About That and EBraie BROAN Incomesloa 3e 1 ae te ee ae ere ee of the army surgeon. It| England an . 4 >: A Pye, S A 7 . asa an; Dyladoniion’ an Nida © flags—Russi ist papa cia meat x Aer ga laean sree weenie? ae Eee Ci Anew Just How to’ Treat the Fake Hessians Who Built Phoney Shoes for Income variously astitnated An |ftugs of tho Hocial Democracy, and ively legit ain by a bac-| feller Inatitute, ‘The institute hee re. | His Soldiers. $130,000 @ year up, His Hifestoar was | /Pecnes Wet gride ann cheais be atus, Its preser made known ¢ tried out as a prev ‘ | Copyright by the Pr eae * 3 mo! died doing his*best. He Me by - yonsaper' harge ar parapets ye 4 preventive of| ARABS Bat Aa Lari WHITE latte hee eee pia ene Sn nen mean when hg won't even ive used to order beer by the carload, and)” O° Re ee unmistakable odor and a bub In tho above method an antiseptic rarattdnvsatecdanat ice Guana) heise ein hs you ptomaine poisoning for nothing had it shipped to his ranch in specut| Y ; a i fi the statlen wo crackling sound when the swollen ition Is placed in a glass con. any IMHO Wa BUDDORad ts bala God oF land entirale aume : ped And during the Revolution the daddy of his country was UP against Lap one nd’ swore again each ‘ote poy flesh 1s pressed. When these tainer, from which leads @ tube with| by water, But since the eRMRAEIHBIA a All ve ane the same marked cards, They even dealt ‘em from the bottom of the Aen time th would fist ml oe Aftions exist the surgeon knows that|Pranches w nenetrate 2 & clinic we know now that deck then, Although the Spanist Renee re ety | dozen time he Joy of b hat W 1d die, if need be, for, saaualng urt of the ; Ate Into every} an Island is @ body of lind entirely surrounded by graft. The profit h the Spanish-American War contractors insisted — saved over and over again and to ‘ wa vat all throug! the germs are at work, producing a]! e wound, At regular inter-| eers made a m per cent. on raw materials, ee AES G0: 4 RrOtt on fF ine polaoning, the contractors in 1776 used to sell | watch the amaze of the barbers at t rate io Petrograd. At? gas which burrows deop into the sur.) vals tT Jury te irrigated with the| prices for raw Materials, ‘These army seageage AE Te Re FORT our new soldiers paper shoes, ' hg and silver he every town more women ea 70 in th rounding tissue n. The placing of the tubes ta} We don't claim th Learn deiag- se price yaaypeaean gaia contractors would disguise themselves as Hessian sol- t th } : non OAM ae Quick and herote measures are de-|% ¢ ate operation, ‘but already the! ‘ t an army contractor ts croc AYES pein rauld: gieaiee: thon mle 4 ; he people wept and mandod, the wound must be opened|Plan has saved many lives, bosides| aim ty that we can pull a cork out of a bottle with him, We don't | rica ais can he would ohaso'the take Hessians and wear bielp aarieruq gab past f ve felt nn Inspiration Mie up wide and cs Hy cleansed after) Making unnecesary numerous opera.| 7°" to insint that voy oan’ trust An army. contsasior, Gila League © contractors would allow the soldiers to catch ‘em re babytah compared | thritted us to ur y vearts, It was every bit of infected tissue has been| tions, the reverse, You can trust am army contractor just as far as you | ‘ revue > BUY & Rew pal oF shigen Lena Ane cea ise cursing in Our Yelnm out away. A solution is applied to eo can throw a plino course, Washington used to hang these fake Iiessians, but a A Ox awed $700,000 we ig to save Russia, jes the germ, but if this is not effec- POLITE CRITICISM, Contractors soaked the Government Uke rain souks a Palm Beach apne hs J a a ing hanged just so long as he can charge = | F4mv!N ier an an you aM ‘ bis ange by the namie tive, amputation is necessary, ‘The| “Pa, wh 4 ; eult, Every time a botlermaker b: Pei rigs fe | je Government zor. the rope, oy aR Leaps: 4 mee Orcasalie cay ihe ertiaary ans \iney : watt of perwie G80 eben toped Unole Bam for tho vi mer ih es pontine peal They call ‘om contractors because they contract. ateactorcine [eee ei tote at Hon jpame.¢ 1 man's name, F called for removing an arm or leg, but the|cor arene sae got wore when th: SHiamRAChitn dae. ike. naka b tracts for building boats, he contracts for building guns, he contracts | tno wa “fi he ee $ neko ras she called mo BA ae-called “guillotine,” the limb being| “That's Just a polite way of saying} Contractors were port ia ti i § | mumps, measles and he contracts investigations ear cinnut eRAt apne Us ag There was a sith waaay _, OMt off straight across, leaving an'that he hus less than they Shae ee | wanted was two tens for ‘ pe All they A tractor contracts everything but honest Pelee Ae ; i gra : G te ne was Vera. open wound for further treatment, cessary for themselves." — Detroit | But thie contracting graft !s nothing new about a contractor that do: ct is his | spent $3,000 « Tie ries. fe pet Another Bescellent resulteure now being ob- Free Presa, ‘ American War we bou, b nothing Rew, During the Bpanisbe | $75,000 for one gol PAL aa ee ulled. “Petrova, pee = ne OWENS DLAmAIae PClRODIA Ott the Geet ontrectane veer f necklace he svent $500,000, i (Quorn. 118, be te he ae :