New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-15
100000 Persons Line
Boulevards and Cheer
Executive and Wife ON
Way to Murat Mansion
Poincare and High
Officials Greet Him
Nations That Start War
Must Pay, President
Declares in a Formal
Luncheon Address

Luncheon A dress
PARIS, Dec. IA (By The Associ-
ated Press).-This is a greater night
IN Paris than armistice night. The
city is ablaze with Examinations, the
boulevards are thronged with
crowds, dancing and singing and
throwing confetti The Place de Ia
Concorde has been turned into a
great dancing pavilion, where Amer
lean soldiers are favorite partners.
America is the predominating word.
President and Mrs. Wilson made
their entry into Paris this morning,
greeted by two million persons, we'll
nigh half the population not only of
the city but of the surrounding dis
tricts. They were attended by Pres
ident Poincare, Premier Clemenceau
and others among the most eminent
figures of France. Flowers were
dropped around their carriage, air
planes winged overhead, guns
sounded.
All Classes Pay Honor
But observers were impressed with
something more than the magnitude
and beauty of the reception-by some
quality Of warmth that made it diff
ferent from the visits to Paris re-
Gently made by the sovereigns of the
Allied nations.
The imagination and interest of
France have been stirred by the
President of the United States as
by no other leader beyond the bor-
ders. All classes and parties in this
country have united to pay honor
to the United States through it's
President. They greet him as the
representative Of ideals now dawn
ing upon Europe.
In the eyes of the immense
crowd welcoming him." says the
Temps" president Wilson repre-
sents two invincible forces-the
material force which permitted the
war to be won, and also the force
which will sanctify peace"
10000 Poilus Guard Him
Thirty-six thousand soldiers, the
flower of the French army, lined
the avenues from Dauphine Gate to
the Murat Mansion, which during
their stay in Paris will be the home
Of the President and his wife. AL
pine chasseurs and zouaves, fresh
from the battlefield of Champagne,
and colonial troops, from whose
uniforms the mud of the Somme
had only few days ago been re-
moved, occupied the post of honor.
They gently, but firmly, /kept
order among the enormous crowds,
which ever pressed forward in
eagerness to have a closer look at
the guests of France.
President Poincare, Premier Glenn
enceau and other French officials
met the Presidential party at the
railway station, together with
French and American military Of
ficers and prominent civilians, while
the Republican guard band, called
out in his honor, greeted him with
the strains of "The ar-Spangled
Banner"
Bares His Head to Throngs
After the presentations and other
formalities of welcome had been con-
cluded, the President, with Mrs.
Wilson and the other members of the
party, entered open carriages of state
and drove under overcast skies along
the appointed route, escorted by the
mounted Republican Guard between
solid ranks of French troops.
The route was lined for miles with
captured guns and other battle tro.
phies, and every available space was
crowded by vast crowds waving and
shouting their welcome-such crowds
as have rarely been seen in Paris.
President Wilson was constantly
barring his head and smiling upon
the throngs in acknowledging hi.