Show T A t r V I 1 X S elra zul to am I 1 street scene in nancy ANCY the hs former capital ot of Lorr lorraane alne which was left to franco france by the treaty of frankfort lit in 1871 and tho chief city behind the sector which tile tho american troops took look over from tile french F Is of historical interest writes mine made do perrott lit in the hie new york tribune illustrious nt at tile lio time of tile dukes of burgundy their lost last scion charles the hold dold entile crime to a miserable end there thence the three last roman emperors went to be crowned lit in venna in 1014 1914 another german emperor kaiser Willi elm 11 II believed that nancy would fall three days after the hostilities began and according to ills his habit way already dressed for tile tho part had ills his face ninde made up like the actor lie ho Is for a triumphant entry but ho he lind fall reckoned without the defense of tho the grand couronne couronna Cou ronne and above nil all without tile indomitable will 0 of a nation As I 1 write I 1 seo see once again before TOO me tho the prino panorama I 1 know so BO well from the plateau blaye there lies before mo me n 1 I view ot of it long stretch of close roots roofs spires churches high iron frameworks this Is nancy itself united to its suburbs by secluded shaded avenues in tho the distance dis sparkles tho the lake of the sollie which forms forma a boundary for it Is german today to my right glides softly tile moselle no longer dashing impetuously through rough mountains and thick woods but na as for far as metz tilt and coblenz bordered by vineyards already so 0 o famous in the home of old where big clusters of purple or golden grapes reflect in tho the writer water their color and light close by the small iziver ame zule lule a tributary of at the lie Is dominated by tho the abrupt hill of Ain tince and tile tho woods of Champe nour where so many of our bravo brave lead dead tire lying for this was tho the theater of tho the first german attack in 1014 burial place of dukes all those who have visited nancy before 1014 will remember its churches end and public monuments tho the ducal chapel one of tile gems geins of tile the worlds architecture lins has been ever since tile eleventh century tho the burial place of those proud rivals of tho the kings of france the dukes of burgundy whose great greal ambition wits was to become rulers themselves and moke make of franco france and belgium one kingdom tito great french revolution dragged their bodies from their leaden coffins to put them into tile graveyard but the restoration of 1814 0 them back their legitimate place tho the last 40 years and tho annexation of alsace lorraine by germany have bestowed upon nancy which wits was left to us great importance it has bay taken moreover a literary cachet as well us as one of elegance find and become the intellectual brain and tho the center of influence of eastern france its faculties grouped in independent bodies boi lies deserve their honorary title and are rent real universities attracting students from nil all ports of the world As to the professors their renown for surpasses the narrow boundaries of a provincial town la in province as we disdainfully dain fully call all that does docs not belong to paris larla its industries also until tho the great w war ar were in a most nourishing flourishing state roost most of the manufacturers and workmen of metz lind and strasbourg took up their heir abode aboda here utter after 1871 proudly 1 styling themselves emigres emi gres to show that they had left their homes liginos to avoid rule bringing with their skill and activity great prosperity to tin tho former capital of lorraine I 1 remember as a small child during tile the of strasbourg playing sometimes in tho the sheltered garden of a brewer at and was much pleased alf asad to find twenty years or more later that lie had installed a brewery tit at nancy on it really gigantic settle scale cabbage pl kled in salt which Is a national dish of tho the Alsa alsatians tiang la is fabricated hero here fur fui tho aholo ot of alsace and Is tent ent till all over liu europe rope noted for many arts and crafts embroidery and abe making of boots and straw biats kop thousands sands of lond hands lu nancy which i izes the work woric of tile the villages and linni ham lets surrounding it before till tho tho the yearly export of boots and amounted to over divided among 25 manufacturers they were of ft a common variety sown by machine generally with nailed soles and anil were almost solely destined for export hut but the chief industry of nancy Is tile mak ing of straw lints hats which once abour dished nil all over alsace nud and after our defeats migrated to nancy in ili tile town itself us its I 1 saw flaw during roy my lato late visit most homo home workers tire employed nt at making hats while tho the large factories ofton often employed na as many as work people and two thirds of these were women this trado trade of which nancy has haa tho the monopoly in franco has been jcck it great loss tor for germany especially tor for the alio ethino and provinces where strangely enough most at af tho the towns continue to work woric tor for nancy tito plaits ho however which servo to make straw lints hats are quite tin na industry tn ili themselves in 11 their raw state they callif chiefly achl ally train from china und and tire sent to italy and switzerland for the blenching bleaching pr process icuss whence they are arc imported into france Fri england gland which to Is the chief nry ary yearly imported halt half a tons of plaits hut but even hero here nancy awas vaa making great progress pro gresa before tho the war und abid with groups which hail fall formed in lyons and sado wua was trying to make herself independent ot or both england lin gland and straw hat and printing press tito tho trade of straw hats gives rise to many others for nuncy nancy lifter after received tho the r MW a nv material turns out every kind of at at tri trimmed mined and really for export ind and for title this accessories ot of till nil kinds aro are needed want struck roost most when I 1 walked through tho the largo large workshops were thousands and thousands of 0 hell bell shaped lauts put one into inlo tile tho other forming pyramids it was the lint hat the light white lead head cover which Is so gr great cat a favorite find utmost almost endless la in its wear these hnton cliatt la in their primitive state are the product of tile tho bourbon Ilou rhon palm linam or lat lazarila arila and aro are sent ly by uio the republic of 0 ecuador the tha dressing ot of tile tho iannino Iann inu hata bats la Is ono one of tile great industries of nancy and it Is ID nil all tile moro more important at tho the present tilleo when our women have been compelled to tho the place ot of men for tills this la Is a light industry well within their powers the printing works of clerger lov form foria one of tile most interesting features of 0 nancy they are fumed not only all through franco france but I 1 allay tiny say tile the world more aero Is ili the printing dono done of almost all the branches of tho the french government and tile pro proprietors pirle are tile publishers for tile ministries of war finance police nud and many other departments tor for which they pro vide aldo millions of copies |