New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-10

Special correspondence 10 ne iri"uhe'
Paris. Sept. 1S.-"Vive la France"
Nive la France,"
was in the thick OF the huge crowd
gathered on the Esplanade des In
valides to see the President of the re
public present the colors to two rew
regiments soon to 20 to the front.
Next to me, standing on camp stooi
to see over the heads OF the crowd,
was woman Of the working classes.
She was bareheaded and wore a cheap
black skirt, with a blue checked apron
and not too clean shirtwaist, and on
her shoulder she carried a three. year
old baby in a pink striped cotton dress.
Tears ran down her cheeks as she
cried again give la Francel Vive Ia
France!"
Have you anyone out there ! asked
her.
"My husband" she replied.
It. liked with her further and leai ned
that she was from the Faubourg SAINT
Antoine and had tramped clear ael os'
the city that morning with her baby IN
her arms to see her husbands legl-
ment receive its colors.
It was the FaubOurg Saint Antoine
YOU remember. that tore down the bas-
tile. and in the days of the Revolution
when the holes and corners Of the Eau
bourg gave up their sans-culottes
Robespierre cringed and even Danton
trembled | do not know how many
from the Faubourg were in the crowd
Yesterday morning, but from their
spirit they might all have come from
there. Saint Antoine is working
quarter and this crowd was largely OF
the working classes.
Working People See Spectacle.
There was the woman with the baby,
and beside her little man in sab pts
and baggy corduroys, with wide Tue
cash around his waist. Four workman,
all white with plaster. were balanclhg
on two barrels that they had up-ended'
and a window cleaner had set his lad
der against tree and filled It with
his friends, himself on the top round:
One looked down on a sea or caps ana
old straw bats and derbes OF many
shades OF green and the bare heads OF
women. II was the crowd one sees IN
the Champ de Mars on Sunday, when
the people" take their outing, but yes
terday they were in their weekday
working clothes.
The remise du drapeau was the
greatest spectacle Paris had seen since
the beginning Of the war, and the peo-
ple had turned out 10 do honor 10 their
poilus. for not only were two new regl-
ments to start for the front. but loo
wounded officers and men were 70 re
ceive the Legion d'Honneur and tbs
Medalle MilItaire from the PresideaL
Of the republic. and the Minister OF
War. General Gallieni, and dozen
other noted leaders were TO take mart
IN the ceremony
The two regiments were massei IN
the esplanade in long ranks OF morn,
ION bleu. while 10000 people ringed
them round. President Poincare. with
/ NJ. Millerand. General Gallieni and all
his staff was in the centre with the
flags, and at the upper end were the
blesses 10 be decorated. Behind WAS
the terrace of the Invalides. with its
carnishment OF cannon dating from
/ the wars Of Louis XIV 20 1870. the
statue OF Prince Eugene de Beauhar-
nais. the long buildings OF the Hopi-
tal DIES lnvalides and vet oehl1d ana
above them the Gilded dome o. the
Tomb OF Napoleon.
"Guillaume Kaiser Over the Rhine.
, In that setting there was nothing
commonplace about the remark Of the
while mustached Garde Civil, with the
Medaille Militaire won in Malaga scar
Timed on his Breast, who pointed 20
the dome and said:
IF we had him here. Guillaume
Kaiser would be over the Rhine"
One recalled that there was a Third
Republic instead OF Third Monarchy
only because the people of France had
refused in the black days Of lS70-Vl to
exchange the trieolor Of the Revolu-
ton ana Napoleon and the grand armeo
for the white flag Of the Bourbons
And one understood the barred heads
and the murmuTed LA drapeaU" tina
rose like the long roll Of the surf on
an ocean beach and the reverence OF
I the deep tones Of the organ Of Notrc
( Dame ST vespers, as President Poincaire
I advanced with the flags 10 the color
guards Of the two regiments
The ceremony yas yerf slmnlc. In