WEAUY HUMANITY.
Throughout three? rotitee, probably ■fight miles long, a continuous flow of humanity dragged their weary way amkLst hundrette of vehicles, from the clumsy garbage cart to the modern automobile. Almost every person, and every vehicle carried luggage of some description, women staggwod under burdene they disliked to relinquish. (Stumbling over obstruotioHß r.f stone and entangling wires, Ditm liauled trunks on whec-J----bar shouJdenxl suit oa&es, bedding, or hoiieehold good*;. Som« trundled gocarts containing their eleeping children, an:l a ; sistcd their exhausted wives. Drivers of vehicles were di«regardful of the.-.o exhanst'LKi, hungry refugees, and drovo their animaU straight through th.' croT\(i. So dazed and deadened to all emotion were many of them that they were bumped aside, by carriage whe?l> or shouldered, out cf the way by There were persons with tho foamiest c-f cl-othing. men i:i F.hittsliK'v.fi ar.d wonmi :ji plain skirts au:l thc» thinnest of waists, many without liats. Ml-u and womju carried children
m their arms. It was a strange and weird procession.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12507, 21 May 1906, Page 8
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