Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-09-07
LAFAYETTE AND marine
DAY DOUBLY OBSERVED
Patriotic Exercises Held in Now
York, Philadelphia and
Many Other Cities.
THOUSANDS PARTICIPATE
Tributes Paid to French Hero, Who
Helped America to Liberty, and to
Modern Armies Which Sent Ger
many Staggering Backward.
tBy Associated Press. I


NEW YORK. September 6.-The dou-
BILE anniversary Of tho birth Of La
fayette and the battle OF the Marne
was celebrated here 10 day while SIM
liar exercises were held In many other
cities in tho country.
Prior to tho principal ceremony in
tho New York celebration at City Hall.
there were exercises in Union Square
and Brooklyn. At the former. John
Quinn made an address ut the Lafayette
monument. In Brooklyn. Stephanne
Lausanne. editor of the Paris Matin.
made a short address at tho Lafayette
statue in Prospect Park, which was
unveiled by Marshal Jonre. Tonight
there was A banquet at which Ambas-
sador Jusserand was one of the speak
crs.
At City Hall. where the guests OF
honor. including representatives Of
France. Great Britain. Belgium. Italy
and Russia met. willard Bartlett pre-
sided. Mayor Mitchell made q speech
of welcome. Addresses were made by
DR.. Henry Van Dyke and Andre Har.
dicu. heads of the French war mission
in this country. Messages from Pres
ident Poincare. of the French republic:
Ambassador Jusserand. of France;
United States Ambassador Sharp, Ad-
niral Beatty, Of the British navy. and
General Pershing were read.
Representatives. of tho armies OF the
allies. now IN the country on business
or on furlough, were present In uni
form. The United States Army and tho
Navy were represented by attachments.
After the speech making at the City
Hall, all present marched up Fifth
Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street. The
parade was more colorful than any the
city has seen for some time. owing TO
the diversity of the uniforms.
MUST TELL AGAIN AND AGAIN
WHY SOLDIERS ARE FIGHTING
Chief interest centered In the after
noon address of High Commissioners
Andre Tardieu. who said, in part:
ITO our soldiers who have been
fighting through three whole years. to
you soldiers who are soon to fight side
by side with ours, let US go on telling
steadily. again and again, why they
are fighting.
Let us in this way keep up their
moral strength. Let US remind them
that there has been in Europe a ma
ton which. though enjoying an over
fulness of all the riches Of peace, with
unceasing guile planned. willed war
and let it loose. Increasingly. let US
bring back to memory the years in
which Germany forced war upon a
peace willing world and deliberately
doomed millions Of young lives to
death.
DAY after day. hour after hour. she
prepared. while. through their INSULT
cient preparations. shown at the be-
ginning of the war her present adj
versaries have evidenced how deep,
how generous, had been their faith in
peace.
Let us fasten the culprit to his own
crime. and. as he does still dare to ask
what are our war aims. let us answer.
as did Lafayette. as the President has
just been doing .gain, that we have
one aim only-to prevent any possible
reiteration of the crime. and in this
way to lay the foundation of the
worlds peace"
mitchell. PAYS HIGH
COMPLIMENT TO JOFFRE
Mayor Mitchell. referring to the dou-
BILE celebration. paid a high compliment
to Marshal Joffrc. He said:
1--WE recognize now that had your
great Marshal Joffre failed to stop the
Germans at the Marine. the onward
march OF autocracy would not have
been stayed at the Atlantic Ocean.
The people of this country would have
been compelled to fight on this soil the
battle for liberty which Is now being
fought in Europe.
THE United States. in sending its
young men TO the trenches of Europe,
is returning only some of the benefits
which we received from France when
Lafayette came to this country to lend