Show Tm T E BATTLE Of OP WATERLOO I I- I BY FREDERIC FEDERIC J. J I 1 years tI ago today tol on on N June 18 18 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte I met with wih and cr crushing eff nt 1 in the battle batte of Waterloo Th The Issue sue of of that bal battle Ie broke the tho Inflexible wi will Doomed to disappointment the ihu maui maui- able anio ambition and ant d for v r r the lie stat star of destiny of tho the greatest soldier the greatest lawgiver lawgiver law law- giver tho the greatest financier and the tho G greatest politician mod modern Europe had r known Theodore Theodoro Roosevelt Reese Roose cit velt In is dun dua du duto to u uIn c Vt r In lii New York toda today after an absence of ot 11 something more than a year most of ot which tm time hRs has been ben spent In the wilds of ot f Africa beyond the pale of ot civilization ton Tho The fact faC that Mr 4 Roosevelt's return to the United States i K lisa has been en compared Frederic by some politicians n S to the return of Xa- Xa a. a from exile exie In the Island of or Elba Elba the c more ioro or less mythical existence of or the Elba from club cub and aid the fur fur- ther tact fact that Mr Roosevelt Rosevelt Is 18 the most remarkable personality In American pub pub- lc lic life toa today adds Interest to the curl curi ous coincidence that thal the tho da day of the Roose Boose velt vel homecoming should be b the M Ear of oC th that t f tragic trac event c In which tho the orl original back baek from Elba Elb movement came to its Is terrible end In March 1814 tho the troops troop of th the tho allied powers of Europe en entered Paris Pris The Emperor Napoleon then was waa defeated but wa not discouraged Ho Ito abdicated the tho Im- Im penal peral throne and nd the tho French Frech people invited In In- Louis head of ot tho the house of Bourbon to reign over them Napoleon was to retain the rank and title tte of emperor and was to rule In Imperial state over the Island of f Elba Elba- In ln the thc Mediterranean sea sea Liberal pensions were provided pr Iod for tor forthe torI I the Imperial ram family I The Bourbon Burbon rule was as stupid tactless and unpopular Na Nn roleon kept careful watch over events from om hIs hIs' Is position of or vantage In Elba Finally the time came camo to strike I Napoleon accompanied only b by a few retainers set sail Mi from Elba on ar Sri nJ f 26 On J th the first da day of 0 M MArch reh he landed on b French rench soil 1 on the thc shore shor of or the gulf ul of oC Juan He lie began at once his march toward Paris Pails At first Ort the people e wore were distrustful and afraid But when Napoleon Napoleon reached reache that part of or the country country coun coun- try garrisoned b by the soldiers who had followed his hla eagles to victory victor the tho soldiers ha and the tho people threw away tho the white flag of oC the tho Bourbons and hoisted the tho color tri fag of their greatest hero On March 1 15 Na Na- approached the outskirts of Paris at fiT thousand the ceo head hea S I- I French of a a great Teat reat army army- An hundred troops were drawn up In battle array J to oppose W C him and to defend the lilies of Louis Loui Curiously questioningly excitedly Napoleons Napoleon's Napleon's own soldiers wa waited ted to receive an from Napoleon But even e they did not know rm their emperOr For Instead of a B charging column there came an open carriage ase and nd In It was seated the tho Little Corporal the tho great gat Cor Cor- slean sican He lie stood up tIp In the carriage and with wih ono one wave of his hand captured a hundred thousand soldiers sworn to de do- fend the tho king of oC France That night Louis ned fled OCd from Crom Paris and Napoleon on en en- en the and again assumed the dignity power and authority of ot emperor of the tho French Fench Napoleon was back from wa bak Elba Elb One Ono hundred days das later on the thc plains the tiny tny Belgian Belgan village viage of ot Water Yater loo be Napoleon apoleon engaged In battle against the lie combined forces fores of ortho tho British batte Dutch Flemish and German Geran armies under the command of tho the duke of Wellington ton That day oay a Napoleon saw his matchless army routed and cut to pieces Then and there the British empire was saved the thc German empire made mado possible tho the whole course of or the history of oC the nineteenth century cony con con- tury y 18 chac d and shaped anew If I not th the most momentous battle of history It was the thc most mot Interesting A A. greater grater number of ot Americans will wil visit the tho battlefield of wi Waterloo this sum sum- mer than In any any of oC the ninety five years since the battle was as fought This will wiil ear be on account of oC the wi account great International expo Seat slon being held hed In fn Brussels which exp Is serving sering to attract aUret to beautiful Belgium more than the ordinary proportion of of the 1 American sightseers sightseer's In Europe Europ The rhe traVeler traveler trav trav- eler In the tho old world frequently demands the ancient and ond refuses to waste wate his time on anything less Tess' than five centuries old In n spite spie of the tho eror efforts of th the guides to elaborate upon the beauties beautes of or a n brand branc new i railway all ay station or theatre Guides In Washington a anno annoy European travelers by P pointing out houses holy hoh wih with the halo of or a hundred years ear whereas the ess travelers i Intention have havo come COIn to te with wih the of refusing to see any anything any any- thing over ten years old nJ Tho ho battlefield 10 o of 0 Waterloo Is tho the one notable sight which Is a compromise between be be- t tween een the tho ancient and tho the modern Commanders Corn Cora manders of two Scotch regiments on the morning morning of or that fateful eighteenth of or June muttered mutiny against the great duke because ho had given gIvon tho the second forty-second regiment a prominent part In fn the early maneuvers and therefore according to the the- Scotch colonels tho the forty second would get all an of tho the praise Jn tnt the news news- new American papers colonels who were accused ac ae ac- ac of spectacular lighting fighting for fOI thc the bone bone- fIt It of ot newspaper correspondents during tho the war with Spain were tho the subjects 01 of much sharp criticism because they had so de degraded the tho world-old world martial martal art But the two Scotch colonels provo prove that the soldiers soldier's desire to figure In iii the special dispatches of a n war correspondent was as born simultaneously with wih the thc first war dispatch Tho Thu first frt war corre correspondent was it John Robinson who went to the continent continent cont conti conti- nent In 1807 to report the tho Napoleonic wars for tor the tho London Times Ii In In- Inthis this phase the tho battle of oC Waterloo is intensely mod mod- ern em One may leave leavo Waterloo now at noon and end be In fri London at midnight by traveling traveling travel travel- ing with wIh special speed London did not know of the tho battle batto of ot Waterloo for tor four fOUT days das the tho Times printing a dispatch on Juno 22 2 which was followed the next day by the tho publication of oC the duke of ot Wellington's Wel Wel- lington's official report The news of oC the thedo do defeat eat of the great Napoleon first became known know in America on ott July 31 when the tho Boston Doton Dal Dally Daily Advertiser announced A gentleman has Just arrived from a ves yes vessel vessel sel set which he ho left In the harbor bringing London dates datos to Juno June 24 and then follower follower follower fol fol- fol- fol lower a n reproduction of the tho duke duko of Wellington's Wellington's Wel Wel- I. I lington's report of or the battle The Thc news newl went from BoI Boston ton to New rew Y York rk by stage ge and first was printed In the American AmerIan me me- more than six weeks after the bettl hail had taken place pale In Iii this this' pla e. e Waterloo y to 10 L bei lulb to ancient his hIs- tory try of or Water Water- The he mor lo to the tho battlefield ion 10 oo toda today he ho be a military expert cannot but r feet l tt a u sense en of disappoint dIsappoint- bv be haUle Water Water- ment moot To b ouch auen a gra great 10 10 oo Q was upon such an un Absurdly b smal small field was six miles micH of battle batte lIne Ino In at Gi burg JmJ milts t i t L Jap Jap- incao receIved receded with f ih thc advance of or nearly nanny a n million R Russians In Manchuria It I Is I hardly a mile mie from one end nd of the f Held field ld of oC to another If I the tho mu muskets mus- mus mUs- mUs s- s and nd the cannon had b been en stilled It 1 I would have possible for tor Napoleon I at La L Belle BeUc Alliance Alance to h have he e conversed cn with the great duko near tho the farm o of La lAHa Ha Hayo o Sainte acro across the tho two shallow val valleys 11 yai- yai leys intervening The best musket known In those thos days dars could not be depended upon to do execution at at a 0 distance of moro more than 20 yards ardA Armies had to get close together if I they fought ought at all al and us as u they their did lid come close together there was waN al a always always' a great Jat coso deal of ot to hand-to-hand righting fighting This made it necessary fur for the tho troops to be kept lu In compact formation On One kno knows known th these there things things- and one ono remembers remembers ber bers that thai there were not more than troops all aU told engaged In this battie buttle bat bat- tie tle te and yei ye Cl ht hc Il It not prepared to find the great reat field feld of Waterloo a a theatre too small Fret for Cor c a respectable skirmish in modera modern mod mod- mal mo ern era warfare to the tho battlefield and they are go out from Crom Brussels by tho the trolley car cor or over a beautiful road through the beech forest by motor car cr Tho The of W Waterloo Is little Itc changed perl perl ps by uy ly tao tn of or a century and It Is ts 18 S colorless and uninteresting as at It I was wa ninety five years au It saw Haw nothing of oC tho tito battle hatte and Its name was Immortalized only b by th the mere accident nt that the thc duke due of Wellington on the night of the battle batte hero here found an Inn in which to re rest rest himself and from tr which he wrote the thc report of oC his victory over the tho great Frenchman Tho The Inn In which Velm Wellington Welling Welling- ton slept and the hOIE house In which Victor Hugo Huo lived when gathering material for Cor his celebrated account of or tho the battle are the only hoW chow places In the village la e. e By Bythe Bythe Bytho the tho way It Is 15 Interesting to recall recal that this great battle batte Is lI known by three different different differ differ- ent names name English speaking people call caU It Waterloo Germans call cl It tho Batte Battle of La Beno Bello Alliance and the thc French re refer rea me- Alance fer to It Il as the Battle Battlo of Mont Mont St. St Jean On his arrival at the tho Held field the thc te first frt thing one asks to see sec Is tho the famous sunken thing unk road where so many brave French caal cavalrymen mon perished It I Is not here The he dirt lint from each side was as taken away ana anu the ground leveled le by honest but misguided ed Dutchmen who used the earth to erect a n pyramid in honor of oC William prince of oC Orange who was wag wounded In the bat bat- bt tie tle This pyramid of or earth surmounted surmounted sur sur- ur mounted tc by the Dutch lon lion Is the tho mo most t Imposing feature of tho the landscape of ot the Held field There hero are aro but two other feld marble marblo shaft marking meats ments Ono One Is a shaf the tho position of oC tho the which was erected soon oon after the batte battle The Tho Theother Theother other othor is the monument to Napoleon The memorial to Napoleon marks maiks the spot where Napoleon stood when tho the old guard made Its final effort In his behalf Is efort It Is a bronze eagle cagle tailing falling to earth with witha a wing a broken transfixed b by nn an arrow arroW The Tho win field of ot Waterloo l lips lies s peaceful under Its feld carpet of wh wheat t and n rye but bu I tho the marks of the dread conflict conOd are ar no noall not all obliterated The garden wall at al still stands and there thero arc ar the broken marble terraces of or the burned chateau there Is la the well el which was tilled hued with the blood blod of English defenders fied there Is tho the sanctuary of tho the chapel Into tere which the profane flames fames dared not nol to goTho go 0 filled with Tho The gates of aro are fled bullets tho the marks of or fire Ore arc aro still sti upon the stones and brick of or tho the wals walls and before the thc garden stand the tho fow few survivors of or a veteran garen forest still tl nursing In their hearts a heavy weight of or En English Ie lead at and French stool steel nc |