Show barricade in street riots the men and women who erected the barricades around which so much blood flowed during the recent riots in glodz russia were following time tried precedents for the street barri cade is the first thing which an other wise defenseless population puts up when it means to fight authority history has been made at barricades nearly years ago paris the home apparently 0 this sort of fighting barricaded its streets against the fu ture charles V and two and a ter centuries later resorted to similar defense when mercenaries were marched in by henry III to overawe the council jot sixteen the barricades were terribly successful then for the soldiery would have been annihilated had not the court con dented to negotiation in time to save the remnants of the 4 during the three days revolution in paris seventy five years ago the lace showed that it bad not forgotten men women and children worked to build ramparts in the streets tearing up the roads and pulling down build ings and trees for their materials louis phelippe pe tell when the first bar ricadel of the revolutionists was run up there was a terrible fight to tol low in comparison with which that at glodz was insignificant sixteen thou sand people were killed or wounded and half as many taken prisoners the damage done amounted to 6 when louis napoleon seated him self he remembered barricades and their power and determined that he would have none ot them he made falde boulevards which cannon could sweep with grapeshot macadamized the roads and did all that he could think ot to make the barricading of the streets impossible but the days ot ohp commune showed that the old art was by no means gone nor the possibilities exhausted london also has had its barricades on the occasion of the funeral of queen caroline in 1821 the crowd barricaded the route by which the body was to have been smuggled out of the capital |