The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-22

don has put it's stamp upon that |
many documents after having salts
he'd itself through painstaking inves- !
tigatiou that each document contain
ed facts absolutely true. which could
be sworn 10 be true under oath II
Is a bald statement covering the OPEN
ing and closing points OF a story
which would fill many volumes full
OF tragedy and comedy. pathos and
hurnor. melodrama and ridiculous
farce. Simply 10 he alive To tell the
tale-which probably Will never be
told by the hero-is enough IL make
Ambassador Page the subject for pa
triotic eulogies !. the present and
give him a place in the American his
tory OF the future.
Mr.. Herrick's Hard Task.
! Up TO a wv weeks ago Ambassador
Herrick lad been good-naturediy
keeping o, he Paris post ever since
president Wilson was i~naugurated.
patiently waiting To be superseded
whenever the President could find a
man who was willing 10 pay for such
an expensive honor as being American
Ambassador to France. 1t cost Mr..
Iterrick something like $4,000 the
hrst year. when he had TO buy the
furniture for his house. It had. ac-
cordinS to a conservative estimate.
cost him regularly $4,000 or more a
month since that time.
titt Vel A~illIdSSdi OT.
Baron Won Schoen. received his pass
ports from the French Government
on August 4 and quilted the country.
MT Herrlck was sitting in his dis
mantled house in the Rue Francois
Premier waiting to hand over to his
successor, Mr. Sharp, the duties of
the post. Trunks were packed. He
ana Mrs. Herrick were ready to go.
But the avalanche of letters, tele-
grams and cables swept over him as
over his American diplomatic col
leagues in the other capitals, the
ever increasing mob of tourists beset
his office and the doors of his home,
the resident colony added TO the gen
eral panic their CONSERVATION, un-
able to get away on O of do
nestle or business ties. afraid to re
main with the possibility of Paris
being under siege.
The thousands of American tourists
already in Switzerland and the thou
, sands more trying to reach Switzer-
land from Northern Europe and
Southern Italy were all under Am
bassadOr Herrick's guardianship until
: they could be brought down to Paris
: and put on board the ships waiting
to convey them across the Atlantic.
: The ships were wanting and had to
be obtained. Money was wanting for
the tourists. 1t had to be found. In
+ Vulnerable embarrassments, d;tFicul-
: ties. obstacles, presented themselves
= cases of distress to wiring the heart
t and OF lnSratitude to turi
it into stone. Working all day anC
all night with the assistance which
e was volunteered was never WOrkin;
S long enough to get necessary thing
r done. They increased and accumu
v lated.
Opened Their Home and Gave
Their Cars.
Tho Am ha Scadnr an1 Nv IJorric1
s Immediately placed their otto car
at the disposal of committees carini
S for the tourists. They opened thei
dismantled hOuse as soon as the
could and gave a home to the home
less and FOO to the hungry. Thei
money has flowed like water to hea
n n financial wounds made upon thei
country people by the war. Both o
them fell i'll, but kept on, night a
n we'll as day. The returning tourist
g have, some Of them, been 1OquaciOu
r Tin praise Of the American bankers i
l. Paris who cashed their letters c
d credit or advanced money upon thei
d checks. 1t was after the AmbaSsado
had given the guarantee and made tn
y request, but one has heard nothin
1t Of that in the angry denunciatiOn
If over the inconveniences Of the voyag
y and the Inadequate accommodation
t. of the vessels, the best that could b
, Obtained.
n Mr.. Herrick now remains almost tn
d only accredited Ambassador in de
serted Paris; the representatives c
q Germany and Austria have gone home
the majority of the others have gon
for safety with the Government t
el Bordeaux. Mr.. Sharp, Ambassado
j. to-be, and former Ambassador Rob
G. Bacon are there with him. But it
IL he who has done the principal labo
re and who deserves the credit. He ca
iry console himself for lack of apprecia
ton from his compatriots whom h
" has served with such signal devotio
D. by the knowledge that he will pre-
badly figure in the history of tn
e. war as the American Minister t
a. France, Mr.. WaShburne, figured i
Of the FrancO-Prussian war of 1870
j. the only diplomat of importance viii
~ ing then to brave the terrors of tn
r stricken city.