The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-07-14

ed The scene in which fulI-threated
French applause was the dominant note.
But in the unprecedentedly great mass
of people lining the route and packing
the overlooking windows and balconies.
there were many moving manifestations
of the most bitter grief From these
windows bereavei parents and children
wept at the thought that kindlier fate
would have allowed their kin 10 share
IN this unparalleled spectacle and not
as Clemenceau eloauently in the cham
Der Of deputies have been laid down in
4 shroud Of glory on the field of battle"
But the pathos of the situation was
dimmed by the most rousing demonstra-
ton ever seen in the French capital
Today it is as though the peoples Of the
earth were united in welcoming
millennium. What in fact is happening
in Paris today is that the greatest men
Of Europe have joined the humblest
in a feverish apothesis OF peace
Before the reioicings began today
FraNce paid tribute 70 her more than
million and a half dead last night in the
most mournful ceremony in the history
Of the republic. a Death vigil" took
place beneath the Arc de Triomphe.
where huge tomb of death was built
on a huge platform sprinkled with the
soil OF many battlefelds \ mammoth
plaster figure of victory stood at each
Of the four corners. All night picket /
Of honor stood with aims reversed with
A multitude of people. thousands weep
ing hled beneath the arch TO the s. pull I
chral monument in silent homage to the |
fallen heroes. The Candelabras were
lighted at nightfall and cast pickering
streams Of light on the people as they
passed solemnly before the tomb in the /
sullen gloom of the vast arch
Early this morning the sepuIohre was
removed TO a corner Of the Place de I
rEtoile to allow the troops TO march be
meath the arch.
The route of the march from the I,
Porte Moillot to the Place de la Repub-
lique was scene of Babylonian SPLEEN !
dor. At Port Maillot through which the /,
allied armies made their official entry /
into the city stood a great triumphal /
arch
Along the Avenue de Ia Grande Arme /
and then along the Champs Elysees TO
the place de Ia Concorde. were festoons
of gilded bunting which swung from I
Venetian masts placed at thirty foot in
tervals Adjoining the masses we're
luminous globes. flower baskets. clus- /
ters of allied flags and the coat Of arms
OF French cities.
Displayed on the pyramidical columns /
at frequent intervals were trophies Of
war. the steel helmets. rifles, haversacks /
and grenades mingling with the gar
lands of flowers the whole war-like dis
play in each instance being surmountcd
by Gallo cock. emblematical OF French
military victory
The Arc de Triomphe stood in its
splendor amid a riot of flags and sur
by a mammoth grandstand on
the Place d'Etoile.
That section Of the route from the
Arc dc Triomphe down tho Avenue des
Champs Elysccs to the Place de la Con-
-orde. was officially STYLED "Triumphal
way" and here the biggest decorative
fleet was accomplished. Midway on the
spacious Rond Point des Champs Ely
secs base reliefs were erected on affairs
to the martyred cities Of Yer ;
sun. scissors. Rheims and Arras. (
the day clouds OF vapor. j
pumped UP by electricity flowed out {
from votive urns GROWING these affairs.
Here. BY special request Of Premier I
,Iemenceau. captured German guns
we're heaped up pen NELL with the
lZUTe Oh a VICTORIOUS game COCK
,earched upon each heap
Another plaster trumphal arch stood {
N the Place de la Concorde. at the {
ntrance to the Tuilleries Gardens It /
,ore on its entablature the word ITO I
,ur glorious armies while upon the /
oiumns were inscribed the names Of I
Prominent generals.
The whole length of Avenue des 5
,hamps Elysee was a row OF stands
pther giant stands were erected on I
he terrace Of the Tuilleries Gardens q
round the Place de Ia Concorde Here Z
he official decorative scheme ended
,ut the remainder Of the route up
he Rue Royale and along the Grand
70 the Place de la Con- a
orde through private initiation pro- I
ided a display Of flags banners. ori- r
.amnes and escutcheons. G
Brilliant though The scene was there '
vas a general complaint that the dec +
rauors. which were carried ont 5