The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Bastille Day Observed in United States With Ad- dresses by the Nations
 Leading Men
AMBASSADORS ARE
 PRESENT AS GUESTS
 AT MADISON SQUARE
Washington Also Has Cele- bration, Showing Honor to France and Her Heroic
 Fight for Liberty

New York, July 14.-New York city celebrated Bastille Day with the same enthusiasm with which France this year observed America's Fourth of July.
 While the feature of the celebration was a meeting tonight at Madison Square Garden, in which official repre- sentatives of the allies participated, the city paid tribute to France in many other ways with a programme lasting from dawn until midnight.
 There was scarcely clergyman in the city who did not make mention of
 Bastille Day in his sermon, and in many instances. these sermons were delivered
 in French To this peaceful observance
 of tn day was added touch of contrast
 by the firing of naval salutes. h the afternoon. ceremonies were presented before the statue of Joan of
 Arc on Riverside Drive.
 syM essages were read from Rene viviani, former premier of France; IIihu Root, Maj. Gen Leonard Wood, Myron T. Her rick, former ambassador to France;
 Henry Morgenthau, former ambassador to Turkey. and Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former ambassador to Holland. These and many others were greeted with cheering by the thousands of men, wofn- en and children who hstd crowded into the building, and who, after singing pa triotic airs, shouted again and again: Long live America! yive La France" On the speakers patfrom were Secre-
 tary of the Navy Daniels. the French. British and Italian ambassadors, Rear AdniraIs Usher and Gleaves, United States navy; Admiral Grout of the
 French navy; Ignace Paderewski and Samuel Gomners, president of the Amer ican Federation of Lahor, who had .
 message for the workers of France. Charles F. Hughes presided.
 WILSON'S MESSAGE READ MT. Hughes introduced Secretary Dan elds, who read President Wilson's mes sage. .
 The Earl of Bedding. British amhassa- dor to the United States, declared that July IA. 1918, would be a memorable day for not only Bastille Day. celebrated in this country. which has never Jagged in appreciation of France, but throughout the British empire.
 After paying tribute to the herosm and endurance of France and asserting that
 the history of Great Britain, France
 and America showed th eia striving to-
 ward the common end of freedom, he pointed to the magma chaIta, the Amer
 ican revolution and the aid rendered
 America by France at that time.
 Those Frenchmen who in America had been present at tho birth of a na-
 tion, became the prime movers in the regeneration of their own country" he said. Little did they think that in after years America would send her best and
 bravest to help France ii her greatest struggle for liberty. and even less could they have pictured to themselves the great array of allied nations doing battle for the same cause.
 We are at new era in the world $ history. May the result Of this war be
 to spread throughout he world govern
 ments exercising control Y the author
 ty Of the peoples who gre governed. Men
 must pay the price, but they will not
 have died in vain. Those who have
 fought and bled together must always
 remain true and faithful comrades,
 Count V Macchi Di Cellere told his
 audience that Italy and France, the
 two Latin sisters, cannot in the course Of centuries long drift apart for we are
 just similar enough to feel the kinship of blood running deep within us, while our diversity is just suificent to make our affection interesting
 ..Fhe hearts of all Italy arc somewhere in France today Every one e us allies has somewhere in France not only a part cf the flower of the country's man. nOOd, DuI dlSO-dnu fspONt dil--ilio ipbit- innate pride in our common humanity. We are all fighting q dark bastiic which must some day be razed as the other one was, to make room for the light of lib- erty throughout the world.
 JUSSERAND SPEAKS Amba ssador Jusserand of France told the story of the fall of the Bas- tile and continued
 Your national fete and ours both have the same meaning--emancipa We owe so much to each other in our progress toward freedom. Those en- thusiastic French youths who served under Washington. Rochambeau and La Fayette, had seen liberty Aand equal ity put into practice and had brought back to France the seed which, sown at an opportune moment. sprang up and grew wonderfully.
 s.Tne two greatest events in our his- tories are closely connected. Between the end of your revolution and the be- ginning of ours, there elapsed only six years Our flag, devised the day after the fall of the Bastille. combining the same coiors as your own. is just a lit tie younger than your Old Glory. born also in revolutionary times. And the ltwo-floaying for the first time togetn- CT over the trenches in distant France,
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