The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-01-04
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(BS Raymond lr. t-aEToii, SkN"ihi Wa
respondent OF tho Public Ledger)
PARIS. DEED. Sword comes overseas
He has sailed.
France is throbbnGly anxious TO see
our president. Journals IN tail. thuadrr-
Gus headlines toll u his bringing N"
American idea" rs II i; were new
kind Of nigh explosive have answered.
M end OF questions from French friends
about him. For our crtryi into ,he war
long ago they had made Nm al God IN
their hearts.
Now hr approaches!
he is tho most talked OF man in the
entire world: he IS in cveryhodY's mouth
His attending the Peace Conference not
only marks an epoch in history. but has
already done much good by bringing
from, n long hiding place many food and
DRINK Ingredients We now have the
wilson cocktail. the Wilson Etacs. and
The Wilson pudding. IN further Aono9
the famous I.'Abha%e-.Nh"rt on tho
Place PiEallc. after four years OF death
like darkness has shook OF the coo~ees
and re-opcacd in blaze of electric cS-
trava=2Hcs
T an, 20 tell Of him and those about
him: make daily peace patrols 10 the
places whcr> We have shculdrrcd into
= European nipVTIEit'N 'tsto Yin tN'>''
! buildings X is different from dodSinS
shells v.t hardly loss exciting.
Transformation Of Correspondent
do Ia cllerrc' into q correspondent DE- In
raiS' Is simply a matter OF clothes
After sixteen months in tho nclted. BODY
twisting Uniform Of an officer which ~
tho prescribed sartnrial status Of an &C
; CREDITED war correspondent. wearing ci-
vil;an's clothes seemed Ike entry into
another state ~ being: no more SaIutinS
cross fi-.- 10 wear out ones elbows. no
further notice whatever from the hun
dreds OF, American Officers stCnllinS
along the p-efumed boulevards OF Paris.
. Yon may feel lonesome out Of a uniform.
hut you have resained your Individual
ism. and there is the throh Of detached
. COURAGE in your veins Putting aside
, Your soldier clothes will b. a novel c1-
.perierce TO millions: it is the first step
J into the ratified atmosphere or a dis
armed and denaohtlized world
Now wn can proceed
First OF. let us visit No. Place de Ia
Cnncnrde grim. gray. venerable build
ing o. four floors looking down from
the north side Of that historic square
unoi tho precise locations where Louis
NVI Char.nttr Corday. Marie Antoin-
ste Robes pierre and numerous others
y.r:> cui.lo;ined. When America liberty
was proclaimed at Philadelphia in 1915
this Very building was the residence OF
.ic Marquis d Cosl:a. IL having been
erected about ten years previously TOT
the reception cf ambassadors and other
DISTINGUISHED persons who canic to the
dazzling court OF Louis Nv. Think OF
This landmark OF Bourrnon imperialism
being to-day the executive headquarters
IN Paris OF III. American pcac" mission
III td-hA q
ard daughters O: peasants will delioer-
al. upon punishment tor and rcpnration
from a people who upheld another i'm
p"rialiST.
IN this building FOUND J. c. Grew.
secretary NJ The commission. He was an
S:tache IN Berlin 10 our Ambassador.
James ". Gerard, Slender. with small
r"r.. black rnouStacl,". he looked the dip
lnrua;ic mole. nnr canah,e of standing in
mos, any sort % crlhrasurc TO advance
the interests NJ America Actually. he
was wearing The first silk hat l have
scr upon n masculine head since my ar
rival in France. Nr. Grew was exceed
.nEly busy getting his FLOCK OF secretar-
III assistants into their p!Gcon-holcs and
ronStS upon the gilt percacS Of the Hotel
d. Crii;or a, No. 10 Place de la Con-
corfr which hostclry has been reGutSi-
tened by tho French government and
iu:nr5 oV..r in its entirety TO our com
I;ltS>inu.cS. One grouping that will have
Irucil work To carry forward is the In
tcrratiouai Law Division. In its two
occupied offices were NJ 0. Hudson. Hall
KinSlry. James McNerncy. VI. D. Simp-
SON. D. RI. Miller and E. Y. Warren. Jr.
Close A. hand 10 these men. who arc said
IL he sharps a; piercing the meaning OF
z DIPLOMATS phrase. is the Political and
Economic Division. where I located Cap
tain Walter Llp2man and V. Webb,
Lieutenant Charles S1erz and c. N.
Storey.
The executive officer Of the commits
sion IS Captain 4. c. Patterson OF New
York city. He is still the same rosy
cheekcd. afrable young man who vas
connected with the Mitchell adminlstra-
:1icn. He works in conjunction with
Mr. Crews two military aides. Lieuter-
ants r. c. Foster OF Boston and w. G.
wendell OF New York. Wendell used to
10 with the Guaranty Trust company.
Nearby is the desk of one Of the richest
men in America. Captain Marshall Field
OF Chicago, who is liaiSon oficer DC
tween the commission and the Ameel-
can >cxpeditionary force; all requests
for supplies from the army must pass
through Captain Field. also arrange