Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-14
AL Paris Thrills
TN Huge Celebration

Y next in line and was received with
equal enthusiasm. Forty American or
gauizations, soldiers and marines,
marching with wonderful precision,
were greeted by sea of waving hand
kerchiefs and flags and with deafening
cheers.
= Pershing Leads Americans
General Pershng rode at the head
of the American troops which were
separated from the French by a space
of 300 yards. General Pershing's per-
sonal flag, a scarlet field with row
OF four white stars, was displayed for
the first time, 1t was borne by a
mounted sergeant riding directly behind
Z the American commander in chief.
Behind General Pershing rode Major
General II. G.. Harbord. chief of staff,
4 followed closely by three aides, Colonel
George c. Marshall. Jr., Colonel John
G. Quekemeyer and Major Thurstop
Z Hughes. Behind these rode two army
4 corps commanders, Major General
I Henry T. Allen and Major General John
! l.. Hines.
Next came four rows of American
4 officers. In the first row rode Major
ipiNNS'ti' IsuuShtt, mCpluCH-
lin. LeJeune. Howe. Hersey and La
I titte. In the second row were Brigadier
Generals Poorc, Russell Bethel, Hartz.
Marshall. Rice and Sladen In the
4 third row were Brigadier Generals Nc
Jntyre, Walker. Cruikshank, Conner
4. Malin, Craig, Davis and Booth In
\ the fourth and last row rode Brigadier
(. Generals Mosely, Neville. Parker, BAN
ford, Mccoy and ID. F. Craig; and
Colonels John T. Knight and Collins
Colonel Babcock commanded the de-
( tachment of American troops that fol-
lowed The American military band
was composed of 126 men.
Composite American Battalion.
The American troops in line consisted
of a composite battalion selected from
all the regiments Of the American army
Of occupation. formed in four COM
panies. The first two companies in line
were separated from the second two by
detachment of men carrying forty
regimental flags. The color bearers
and guards numbered altogether about
200.
Last in the American section of the
procession came company of $50
marines commanded by Lieutenant
Meyer. Altogether there were in line
few less than 1900 Americans.
The marchers used the so called "tri-
umphal marching step" by direction of
Marshal Foch. This calls for 12S steps
to the minute.
The parade was viewed from advan-
tageous points by about 5000 America n
army officers and enlisted men.
During the parade this morning the
roof of house on the Boulevard st.
Martin collapsed. Eighteen persons
were injured.
The celebration began Saturday night.
Soldiers and civilians participated in
open air dancing throughout the night.
Y American soldiers were very popular
/ as dancing partners and, despite the
tnclement weather, joined with the girls
Y OF Paris in the intricacies of tango
steps on the wet asphalt pavement of
the Place de la Bourse, the Place de la
Repubiique and the Place de la Made
\ leine.
Mourning at Arch
{ There was one spot in the city, how
4 ever, where there was no dancing. In
the shadow Of the Arc de Triomphe.
sad-eyed and black garbed widows and
orphans gathered to watch the work.
men finish the erection of the cenotapb
! In memory of those who died fighting in
: the war.
The boulevards, Champs Elysees and
the line of march were crowded all day
Sunday.
Families brought their lunch boxes
with them, camped in the Champs
Elysees and around the Place Etoiie,
! where they kept company with the spe-
7 rial night guards over the cenotaph to
the dead in the war. In all the squares
of the line of march the gayety, which
was dampened Saturday night by the
rain. was in full vent last night, the
most cosmopolitan crowds that ever cele-
! brated Frances national holiday dane
( ing and singing to the music of more
than a hundred bands and orchestras,
This form of rejoicing was interrupted
only by the break of daylight, when
the dancers Joined the rest of the popu-
lation in a rush to the boulevards.
The attaches of the American peace
mission saw the parade from the win
7, dows of the Hotel Crillon and a plat
I form erected on the roof of the hotel.
4 Officers and civilians connected with the
y American services slept in their Offices
last night so as not to be barred out
fron, them this morning by the density
of the crowds.
After the parade there were free mat
inees and concerts and the official
program will end in great pyrotechhic
displays set off from various points
along the Seine. while huge bonfires
will be lighted around the column where
the Bastile was taken 130 years ago, and
also on the heights of the Montmartre.
5000, 900 In Paris
According to an estimate of the pre-
( feet of police 1000 900 visitors from
the suburbs and provinces Joined with
4 the 4 1000, 900 persons living in Paris in
the victory celebration. Many quaint
: provincial costumes of the country folk
were seen in the throngs in the streets.
Million Go Sleepless
One million people went sleepless in
Paris last night, three quarters of them
4 from choice and the others because they
failed to obtain shelter.
At 8 o'clock in the evening the rail-
road stations were still disgorging upon ]
the already overcrowded city thousands
i of belated arrivals, bearing loaves of
bread and victuals. Most of them,
-haa ring the unmistakable stBmp of pro-