The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-21
WASHINGTON. Sept. 20.

IT has been Pershing week in Wash
ington-Pershing's and the First
DIVISIONS. Presumably II has also
heen the last great ebullition OF popu-
lar feeling of the war. And 1t has been
a wonderful time.
The First Division boys, from Per-
ching down, have beep the lions of the
hour Every man, woman and child
IN Washington delighted In doing
them honor. AS for the giris-well, IL
they couldn't have a beau with the
little red al" on his sleeve they didn't
want any. If he had four golden SER
vice bars so much the better-or a
wound stripe or so, or few decora-
t,ons. and the fluffy bit of femininity
that had annexed him was treading on
sIr-but the red Il" he must have.
The parade over Pershing started
IN at the old Land Office, which has
been assigned to him as headquarters
while he is winding up the affairs Of
the A. E. f., with. figuratively. his
sleeves rolled up, to sort $50 tons of
AE.F. records. And" on the word
Of one Of his staff. Approximately $50
TINS of invitations to every known
junction. from a christening-they'r
naming all the babies after him--to
dinners, breakfasts. luncheons, mass
meetings, everything under heaven!
Such a mess!
II Pershing started in accepting in
vtations he'd be deluged with them.
He has not accepted any. He has not
a ctno-ln
marty since he came to town a week
ago. except Senator Warren's birthday
marty for him last Saturday. He and
the Senator, who is his father-in-law,
have always been singularly devoted
IN each other And the Generals
birthday party was really gathering
OF those who have right to honor
his birthday-relatives and old. friends,
tried and true.
Pershing "Neasures Up" rs Hero.
On the whole he measures up pretty
well as a hero. One likes the way he
shut down promptly on the women
who tried to start a kissing bee in
New York. even though one man ex-
pressed the opinion that it would have
been far more heroic to stand for
being kissed by miscellaneous feminin-
ity than it did to refuse the ordeal.
Still one likes his having put his
foot down firmly on that, and at the
same time picking up and kissing
the children who were doing their lit
tie part in welcoming him. People
who saw him down near the Peace
Monument, where the parade started,
said he was as gentle and friendly
as possible with the small boys in
the crowd awaiting the start.
II he hasn't been willing to be the
honor guest at any of the thousands
of parties people have been trying to
give for him, Gen. Pershing has not
hesitated to attend one party to my
certain knowledge, given in honor of
some one else. He was among those
present last Sunday afternoon at the
reception the Alban Buffers gave for
Major-Gen. and Mrs. Charles p. Sum-
neral. Gen. Summerall was in COM
mand of the Fifth Army Corps and
LATER of the First Division, and led
in the battle of scissors. Capt
Aban B. Butler, Jr., was his aid al
through the war.
The Butler home, at Eighteenth and
streets is a handsome. d!gnified
house designed after an Italian pal
ace, and a perfect setting for such &
brilliant company as gathered there
TO do honor to Gen. and Mrs. Sum-
neral, and stayed on to greet Gen
Pershing. There were probably 60C
guests, including the French Ambas-
sador and Nine. Jusserand, NJ. Pater-
notte of the Belgian Legation, and
others from the diplomatic corps, and
OF course, swarms OF army officers
among them Brig. Gen. and Mrs. VIII.
lam Crozier, Brig Gen. and Mrs
Arthur Murray, Brighten. and Mrs
James B. Aleshire and scores of lesser
lights. Gen. Summerall is under
orders to command the First Division
at Camp Zachary Taylor near Louis
vile, and Mrs. Summerall will prob.
ably Join him there.
Pershing's Winning Smile.
1t was pleasant to watch Pershins
his smiling cordiality in greeting oil
friends and his apparent readiness I
make new ones. OF course he ha
Dosts Of old friends in Washington, 70
washington has almost watched hir
grow up, so far as the army is con
eerned, as he had been stationed her
so much. Many in that company re
called the days when he was a Whit
House aid. Others were there who ha
attended his wedding when he marie
Frances Warren, Senator Warren
daughter, a brilliant woman, a grad
uate OF Wellesley and greatly believe
oy her friends. Her tragic death, alon
with her three little girls in a fire q
the Preside in the summer of 1911
while Pershing was on the Mexica
border, brought sympathy from a
Washington and was a real grief I
many. 1t explains also the General
passionate tenderness for little Wal
rem, the baby" of the family and I'll
only one that was saved.
Pershing was very much in tn
hands Of his friends that Afternoon
and one woman was even heard
remind him that she had poured {