Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-02

stacles, with their carts hitched to stars that are flying rather lower than they, were when the young men set out to "Amerieanize Trance"
 | Most of the men really Are pioneers because they are striking out for | themselves, along new lines. AS yet there is no organization to put these
 men in contact with their fellows for
 the exchange of ideas and experiences. l Nearly nine thousand American Ex-
 peditionary Force men were released | here and it is estimated fourth of
 these have settled down to work in Paris The others are visiting, sight seeing or have gone home after a discoufagihg look at business pr6s- poets.
 Of the two thousand or so who are
 hard after French francs, according to American business men here who
 know most about the new ventures, several hundred found employment with large concerns. chiefly American firms preparing 10 do business in the
 devastated regions. Another group took various small places to pay their
 the men, it was said, started to make
 good by capitalizing American meth
 ods. Very many of them saw what
 they considered defects in French life
 and made ready to furnish the supply,
 and, if necessary, create the demand ' Most of them agree that easy money is not one of the natural resources ot
 France but a few have proved that il is. A negro made 125 900 francs buy
 ing and selling army and navy sup . plies at Brest. His case is voueied fol . ] by a well known American e6niinef.- , cfal executive.
 Il The most striking success reported {. is that of fThs Fox Trot Kings oi Paris" as they term themselves, Ger ald Kley, who droveI the Chicago I Press Club ambulance, and Harolt t Fitch of St. Paul, who was at thi | wheel of one Of Mrs. W. K. Wander 5 biit's afnbulanees and later went t, I the front
 , Kiley and Fitch, the former said 5 got their start over here when tn : wife of an American banker in busi . ness here Dressed 500 francs on us = when they played in a three man jag # band at a dance she gave. They or
 ganized Wilson Welcome ball at y leading hotel when the president ar f rived In Paris and netted more tha a 10000 francs on the affair. This sue el cess, they said. they often duplicate r at "The Dixie Club" dances they or | RdIl1Le0 Wltt du du1iA1SoiO1 Slidi So | 'e of 20 francs a person.
 . Knowing that "geed things" if1a, u,, not be overworked, the men took ovs m the ice-crear1 making equipment ,f the Y. M. C. A., which has a capacii ,,, D, of a thousand gallons an hour ar ,a late in October beran wholesalir re 'sDixie Ice Cream" cutting the mark
 price fifty to a hundred per cent. Tht
 said they invested 10000 francs " the venture. n Some of the most interesting of u ss American business experiences he es are those of men who married F'ren, at girls. Three Of these are farming ca oL of Paris, making more money tn; as ,s they ever thought possible in t ee.a United States" their business advis ut said. One man married into a diai ot shop. Another returned to his tra ,.e ne of tailoring in the safne way. Seor d- of American boys are in business WI lie their French fathers ifi-law.
 h. "Rebuilt' typewriters. familiar
 Americans, have been introduced
 the French bv Lieutenant J. l.. NJ 1is Cam. Of Tuscaloosa Ala, and Geor on F. Howard, Of Pasadena, Gal. Tn eW difficulty is too much business. w typical aggfessiseness they are bu au ing American used machines from .s French dealers 10 sell to other fref ca dealers. Meantime. Howard said. II ,- are sreparing to. open "The Aiiiefie sI, Stenographio Bureau" because, 'e' said, an American business man is. +he blind alley trying to find a put ,te ,he stenoerapher or to get out his corr ver pondence when an English Spoke nc variety can be located.
 ths Isadore Court who was pap hanger boldly set himself up in inc decorating Dusihess III iasiiiei'a roy suburb.
 the Lieutenant Stevens l.. Tyler, ine Memphis. began as afis import, and CT: port broker but became a rhereh!