New-York tribune., 1918-01-06
Getting Together
By Arthur Gleason

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Walter Berry, president of the American
Chamber of Commerce. and Hugh Reed Grit
Hh' ned themselves ready at a moments call
20 go 20 Serbia, Rome, New York or Wash
'n@Non to further any necessary piece of AL
he'd relief work, and they lent thei, aid
not to one but to many charities. "Tuvres'
Sprang up everywhere. 1t seemed as if al
most every street Of Paris had an institution
Of relief. The American resident fa;ljrc n
administer valuable work was the excent;on
Currents of Good Will
Added 10 these oldtimcrs-many of them
resident III France for from seven to TWENTY
three years-were the hundreds of vounc
workers. doctors, nurses. orderlies, ambulance
drivers Foreign Legionaries and fliers. who
came IN increasing numbers by every boat
INTO Bordeaux The heroism of our fiers
lighters and drivers was noted in orders of
iHe day lhe American Field Service. the
HafJes Formation and the American Volun-
teer Motor Ambulance Corps. known as the
Norton Corps. performed brilliant service for
their friends. the poius Such we're the her
aids and forerunners of the Great American
Invasion.
This gathering Of the currents Of good will
came to food on the Fourth Of July. when
American troops tried to march through Paris
ara were enguifed By an enthusiastic mob
The great Republic, friend of France. had
come
Then began the slow. wearing work Of
learning TO know each other. Up till then it
was long g-distance romance. heightened bv
comparatively few choice volunteers. II
had been the bridal engagement of the re-
publlcs, eliminating in the honeymoon on
mat Fourth Of July. Now we settled to the
oaliy grind OF close companionship Little
laults showed through both sides
number OF young Americans of volunteer
service. unconnected with the army, were left
az loose ends around Paris. A few of them
drank TOO much and few hundred were
rather noisy. know one hotel which housed
a hundred of them. live in it. Each night
they returned in twos and threes at midnight
ana at o'clock, with a tread of good Ameri-
can boots, audible through tho corridors
and IN the rooms Of residents long accus-
toned to a war bedtime Of 10 O'Clock. The
boys shouted out to each other across the
court, even held lively talks at q distance
between speakers of fifty feet Gradually the
trench people, with whom | had been living
Tor months. moved ont.
The manager Of the hotel wrote this notice
and posted it in the lobby:
NOTICE OF THE MANAGEMENT
Please don't forget that France ia at war. Tbincs
which may have been cxcusable before arc mot co
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. Ii "lil delight and entertain the sacrificing
fencn people to see nuoyancy our good sn;r;4s
our lricndhness. our alliance with them but 4 !
iurts to substitute rowdysm for these thinys
france measures America by each one of ,our
men Doht give the wrong impressions, the wrong
conclusions. TO country which, Fundamentally has
90 hVen the same spirit and national ideals and
history as has the United States '
rms pohcy begins in this hotel. Here the Trerc},
seopie who are equally guests with you know, ,, |
,s 'ssser 'l,ih yo" are known elsewhere They also
iemand the same degree Of fair pIay and on;s+ on
cyment of substitute home life aa vou ,.os.,.
demand. ' So"rSei1
Men guilty Of destruction Of towel. .,,,.:.
,ronnT 1yn'1 ana wiring. or other things of value
'iou"o the hotel. from wanton roolishnsss .
:nd not by accident. viii be proceeded ac.;nst T.; - f
egai way Only few have done these things hrt |
I Is Tor the sake OF the welcome of the mon to
friendly manner 'N'Ae0'''
The management s GLAD to do all Il ,.r ~ n
''ne TO cooperate in making your stay in Paris IN.
erestns. aud does not try to place anv barrsrs
''her 'han preservation and fair play to all guests
:ound any OF its patrons -
College Boy PilIage
saw the pile Of pilage collected by this
anne manager from the rooms of the Ameri-
an boys-ash trays, match safes, silver
7are, ilnpartially lifted from the better class
lotels of Paris. The proprietor himself was
sricved, because large silver goblet be-
lueathcd him by his mother had disappeared
'eyond recovery. explained to him that this
practice is known to Us as souvenir hunting
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