New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-05
fillmore Employees Dine
as Peace Guests, Then
Cut Melon.
ppFSS AGENT, ON SLY,
ANSWERS SCOFFERS
,,o Man Cheered by ThrongS
m Leaving Hotel Before
Bryan Arrives.

/ ,...,.sd Upstairs a number Of clerks
Il ..v,sd and stretched with delicious
\ .,.s after weeks heart rending
] ORR Papers and cigar ashes and
..,ay clothing we're scattered over the
.;,b carpets, tables and chairs. In the
doorway loomed solemn faced gentle
man in walters garb.
aBenri!" shouted a clerk. "Give me
,yer.hing on the dill Of fsrel"
Me. too" shrilled a girl stenog
rspher.
aCaviare on toast. Henri" yelled an
other clerk.
Same here"
aAnd here
ats my last meal at Mr.. Ford's
c.pease,' said the first clerk MAKE
half dozen blue points, green tur-
e SOUP, flet miCnon with mushrooms
t-oiled under glass, roman punch, roast
oung guinea hen with truffies, salad
straw berries and Barbara wine and
sselrode pudding. By the way,
mi, don't forget wines with every
lrse. Cigarettes. cigars and coffee,
course. ThatIl do, Henri"
Henri dissolved, waiterwise.
But Henry Henry Ford-went out
the Hotel biltmOre at 1921 70 the
a Of & cheering multitude. He raised
hat; scores OF men threw theirs
ITO the air and danced around his
.aiomobiie. =,
FOR an hour previously Mr.. Ford had
been leaning against the cigar case IN
the foyer. Men and women milled
through the corridors, striving for a
glimpse Of the most-talked-of man IN
The United States. With a smile on his
lsan1act be grsspec the hands OF frlends
and strangers who came TO Wish MN
God-speed and a measure of luck. Mr.
Ford was so happy that he ehucked ms
rusty iieutenants under the chm, even
the undermost chin of chubby theodore
Uelavigne, press representative OF the
expedition, who had put one over on
the peace magnate earlier in the morn
INK.
The way Of it was this: At about
1890 O'Clock yesterday morning Mr..
Ford was asked II he had anything to
add 10 his oficia. message that had been
issued about half an hour before by Mr.
Delavigle. ~
"Messaee? Message queried Mr..
Ford and he arched his eyebrows in
surprise. "What message / know moth
nothing of any message"
But you wrote it, didn't your
"Not that / know of" Mr. Ford re-
nlied. with a netw1 TX Of bewilderment
about his eyes. TEDDY, do you know
anything about message that ! was
supposed 20 have given out"
Almost Ford Joke.
Il DO" answered Delsvigne. I'm
guilty, boss"
And that was how the official attack
on Billy Sunday, Chancellor Day, OF
Syracuse, and Alton Is. Parker all Oh
whom have made sarcastic comments on
the Ford eXpedition, was proved to be
the fruit of Teddy Delavigne's fertile
Imagination.
81 am calling" the message began,
with the firm belief that great good
will come Of this mission. The dele
gates 20 the peace conference have IN
d;cated that there is in them the spirit
that appreciates the uselessness ana
waste oil war. as well as the horror
and unnecessary"
In rereading the message to the re-
porters, Delavigne frequently inter
ruptod himself 10 wink or voice com,
ment Of approval on "Mr. Fords"
fOrceful. literary style.
Little harm can come Of the vent
ure and great good may result. 1t Will
keep alive The thought that peace IS
possible as well IS desirable pretty
good, eh, boys p. Ny heart is in this
work for peace, and for that reason
stood behind the trip 10 help the people
reach common meeting place 70 DIS
cuss the possibilities Of peace with
representatives. Of other neutral eoun-
tries great stuff. eh p.
at first there was much so-eaIled
fear Of international complications re-
aulting from the trip. That was not
hit, 50 riaicule was brought in TO try
70 stop the trip. That might as we'll
have been saved for Billy Sunday, Al
ton 3. Parker, Chancellor Day and
ether comedians, who expressed them
selves as against the plan with the
knowledge that IL would appear promi-
hently IN the papers"
There is a certain gang OF death
pedlers that would like 70 see this
thing 20 70 smash, but ! believe they
aye going 10 be disappointed"
Az IL o'clock the peacemaker made
last hasty survey of headquarters TO
resssure himself that nothing had been
eft undone.
A few minutes after he left the
nuch-littered rooms the telephone bell
rang Louis Lochner. the secretary,
PICKED up the receiver.
Hundreds for Tips.
Hello, Dir. Bryan. Mr.. Ford just
left There's a machine downstairs for
you and you may be able 70 catch up
WITH him before he gets TO Hoboken."
u. Bryan drove of in the Ford
Ford.
Before Mr. Lochner left headquar-
hrs he intrusted several checks 20 one
81 the home-remaining lieutenants Of
ne peace magnate. The checks were
signed by Ar. Ford and will be divided
shong The employees OF the Biltmore.
he elevator boys, twenty-five of them,
are 70 share 800. The telephone oper-
s'ors, ten Of them, will get $50 each. The
waters will cut little melon of $500,
and the ehsmbermaids, bell boys. etc,
gu not 20 hungry. II Is estimated
isst al least $1,000 was the total Of
we gifts % the hotel employees.
ShucksN calculated one Of the bell
,sys IN deep disgust THE least he
lnghi s-done was TO give "a Ford
apiece"
have got peace going. and ! am
te'ng 10 pound peace 70 the end" said
~. Ford few minutes before quitting
we hotel NY last word 20 America
=, Every one try for peace; down with
Preparedness do not believe in the
1stt, and armies are not necessary 20
stsssrys peace. believe In the
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