The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-08-05

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ed. The President looked over in
our direction and raised his hat and
smiled one of his characteristic
broad smiles.
! He fooled the crowd for they were
expecting him to come out of the
hotel. I saw his car from behind,
and the shortness of the number at
tracted my attention. Most of the
cars over here have long numbers.
Motorcycle cops would have to have
pad pencil mighty handy if ever one
of these cars wanted to get away
from them. The numbers are some
thing like "US1S7695BX" all run to-
gether. The PRESIDENTS car had U. S.
on one side and below that was 1921.
Add these figures together and you
will find that it gives you "13", which
I believe is the Presidents lucky
number. Do you suppose that was in
territorial or just coincidence?
We passed along the north side of
| the Place de la Concord and turned
| into rue Royal. Here you find the
| famous Maxim's cafe. I never 60
there any more because they raised
| the price of drinks. You pay three
and a half francs for an ordinary
martini coctail. And then it is the
headquarters for class of young
women who style themselves the elite
of demi-mode. Usually they are very
pretty and always dressed in the
very last thing in clothes.
There are three or four nice cafes
on the Place de la Madeleine. Even
by this time every chair was taken.
When we got to the Cafe de la Paix
we found the same thing there. The
Cafe de la Paix is perhaps the best
known cafe in Paris. There is room
on the sidewalk to seat three hundred
people anyway and it is said that if
you sit there long enough you will
see every person in the city. By this
time the crowd was so thick that we
lost the aviator lieutenant and the
Boston Pioneer lieutenant and that
decided us to keep closer together,
so we went along each holding to the
belt of the other. After trying four
or five other cafes along the boule-
wards we gave it up and decided that
il we wanted drink we'd have to 60
inside and stand up at the bar and
get it that way. This we did. The
Georgia Engineer lieutenant whose
nickname is "Parson", not because
he resembles a parson, but because
his real name is not far removed from
parson, ordered beer. That suits
me. They didn't have any French
beer (sold out) but. they could give
US some "Stoot" by which they meant
English stout. The captain decided
on something with bit of a kick IN
it and called for "un cognac" (bran-
dy). The girl behind the counter
looked very severe for a minute and
said that it was "defendu pour les
militaires" forbidden to soldiers)
but a happy thought wreathed her
face in smiles and with wink she
said that she could give him some
tea. He got his brandy in teacup.
You see it is the same the world over.
But here they very seldom refuse a.
soldier anything.
But let me tell you about the
grand boulevards. Over here they
don't give a street name and let it
20 at that. Not at all. Everybody
of any Importance in the history OF
France must have street named aft
er him. Of course there are not E.
nough real nice streets to 60 around
so two blocks of one street will be
named after one fellow, the next
two after another, and the next two
after still another and 80 on and so
on. Les Grandes boulevard is the
collective name for the boulevard
which runs from the Place de la
Madeleine to the Place de la Repub-
lique and is really the main street OF
Paris. 1t is very wide and has trees
on both sides. If you want to see
the whole population of the city get
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