Bisbee daily review., 1919-08-24
PARIS IS ONE CITY WHICH WILL NEVER FORGET AMERICANS

many processions or to follow some soldier who was the leader of a paraGe all his own.
 Hard-hearted papas and soft-hearted mammas, and boys and girls, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers, little modistes and couturieres, bare headed midinettes and liveried chaus- seurs all with the flag of the awkward strange soldier who had come over seas to help them fight in the war.
 Out into the wide statue-girdled Place de la Concorde they thronged, just as in former days they had surg- ed, passionate, freedom-Ioying peo- ple, to see the heads of tyrants raii beneath the guillotine. The crowd was the same and the spirit was the same except that now it was in happy Joyous gratitude and not in stern judgment.
 Remembered Who Saved Paris.
 Several thousand of them con tented themselves by simply remain ing in the great squares and climb ed on platforms and carts which en- terprising spectators rented at un- heard of prices. Eager thousands passed on up the wide tree-lined Avenue Champ Elysee towards the Place de lena where most of the Parislan festivities start. The cele- bration was more in honor of the Americans than the signing of the armistice. The Americans who had held up the all-powerful triumphant Prussian Guard and blocked the road to Paris-and the Parisians were not forgetting who had block. ed the road to Paris.
 The stamina, pluck and dash of l.e Americans in supremely critical hour put the heart into all of France. After four years of heart-sore weari. ness and misery the French people knew that it was the American who turned the tide in their favor and Paris, their city, the light of their world, was free from the Prussian menace. And they were not a bit backward in telling us about it on this day. Gay warm hearted and joyous they poured out their pride, emotion and joy. It was a grand evening, full of warm fellowship among all the allies, on all the bouIe- wards; the crowd was condensed into
 
 place I got on the inside layer of one of these closely massed mobs and was an hour getting back outside again.
 NotabIes Take Back Seat.
 Every once in a while some noted French parsonage would be sighted They were greeted with cheers, but not with a real ovation. They were not the real stars in the play. Who cared for ministers, ambassadors and the great of the earth when the real heroes, the French and Ameri- can poilus. the preservers of their Paris, were here. Certainly not the Parisian on this day. Suddenly shout burst from the grateful hearts of thousands. Someone had just finished singing the Star Spangled Banner and all that excited sea of souls laughed and cried in the glad exultation over the country of free. dom and it's men who had fought so splendidly beside their own brave, disheartened poilus.
 And so with the bright lights turn ed on again for the first time in four years we danced, sang and drank with the American as the guest, comrade and friend and in the end Paris knew she was free.
 1 followed one procession, or rather a section of the continuous parade, and was carried down a boulevard past the Column Vendome which is made of melted cannon taken by Napoleon and with a bronze statue of himself on top; past the Tuilleries garden. the Palace of the Louvre, the famous Place de la Concorde, where form erly stood the guillotine and then up the broad avenue of the Edysian Fields to the magnificent arch of Triumph dominating the Place of the Star, then back again till finally l got out of the mob in front of the Cafe de la Paix.
 I descended on an evening aperi tiff at one of the little tables out on the sidewalk. This cafe is the most celebrated gathering place in the world and then at this place man may be. free from the pestering at tentions of many pestlent damsels- some quite young and some not quite so young. For in front of this cafe they cannot sit down with you and order drink at your expense which is quite customary at all other cafes. i