The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-07-15
"BASTILLE DAY"
VAS OBSERVED
nv MONTPELIER
Crowd Of a,ooo People Attended Exercises
Held in Honor of France-Repre-
sentative of the French
Army Present.

Army Present.
Montpelier did its part among the cit.
les Of America Sunday evening in eel.
ebration of Bastille day, in appreciation
Of what France has done for the United
States, by appropriate exercises in city
hall that were attended by about 1000
persons. Every seat in the auditorium
was taken, many extra ones were brought
in and some 400 persons stood in the
rear Of the seats, in the aislcs, and in
available places in the balcony. The hall
was tittingly decorated with the flags OF
the allies. The Montpelier Military band
played several selections, while a chorus
OF II male voices, under the leadership
of Herman D. Hopkins, sang popular pa.
triotic selections. Miss Kathleen LeBar.
ron Of Waterbury Center, recently grad
uated from conservatory of music in
Boston, sang French song, responding
to an encore with a second song in
French. 1t was her first appearance in
Montpelier, and she certainly made her
sell popular with the music lovers of the
city. Perley Pitkin sang a portion of
hlpllngs "Recessional' in his usual ex-
cellent manner. Among the selections
played by the band was the "Marsel.
laise," the French rational anthem.
Mayor F. W. Mitchell called the meet.
ing to order, explaining that owing to an
unforeseen reason Gov. H. F. Graham
was unable to come to Montpelier TO par
ticipate In the exercises to represent the
state, and he then introduced Alderman
Il, G Shurtleff, who presided over the
meeting. During the evening Mayor
Mitchell presented resolution of con.
siderable length, in which Montpelier |
pledged itself to stand back of France
and fight this war TO victorious end. |
1t was adopted by a rising vote of the |
citizens attending the meeting.
Alderman Shurtleff introduced as the
first speaker Lieut.. A. Morize of the |
2slst regiment, which was raised in
France, and which has seen
service in the defense of his
country. Lieut.. Morize has suffered |
wounds and is therefore unable to con. |
tinue his services. He came instead of |
Col. Azan, who filed another engage.
ment. Lieut. Morize said he was nothing
but French soldier who has seen serv- |
Ice and excused himself because of his
difficulty with the England language. He
said that when he was detailed to come
10 Montpelier he remarked, II am going
home He referred to appreciation Of
the American people celebrating his Holt
lay and that he is looking forward to
one celebration by the two nations last.
ng for week. He discussed the history
which brought about each holiday. He
5aid the past is gone, but the nations
must look closely TO the present and FIJI,
.ure. He said the morale of the French
soldiers is not broken; they viii fight, if
heed be, as long as one man or a woman
s living in that country. When the war
broke out they had 100000 soldiers and
n spite of 100000 men who had died
n action, not mentioning those who have
lied in prisons, France to- day has AGO..
700 soldiers fighting. When the war broke
nut, there were 1900 women employed
n factories; to-day there are 100000
women employed making big guns and
urning out many hundreds of shells
lay. He said Italy, Belgium and the
British soldiers and women have done as
veil as his own nation. "The war is 60
ng to last long time." said the speaker.
lie seemed to think two years anyway,
'erhaps longer, He said there will be no
'erman revolution because of the patri. /
tism OF that people. He discussed at |
ONE length the conditions following the
var, and urged that great deal will
ave to be done then, or the whole effort
viii be lost. Each person must ask him /
elf or herself, "Have performed all my \
uty to my country and myself2"
Prof. Richard Gottheil Of Columbia !
gave an interesting talk upon :
he conditions of this country when
rance came here to help us, how she t
'as the first to recognize our freedom i
rom Britain, and that we are returning
he efforts given, but that we are going c
arther than that---we are fuating for il