The Cordova daily times., 1919-05-21
PEACE TREATY BE SIGNED IN
 HALL MIRRORS

tentions of hundreds of energetic young American soldiers count for anything. It would be difficult to find Yankee warrior who, having got as near as Paris, has not come to Yer sailles to express his approval or dis approval of the place where the real treaty will be signed, and to subscribe his name to peace document of his own for the folk back home. Having sought out the wonderful Hall of Mirrors, doughboy and officer alike invariably make their way to the table upon which it is said the treaty will be signed, and with much mixing of fingers from leaky pens indite post card memorial which begin:
 'This is being written in the fa- nous Hall of Mirrors in the chateau of Versailles, upon the very table," etc. etc.
 The doughboy is by no means alone in his desire to see the renowned pal ace in which the world peace will be concluded Thousands of French peo- pie have been flocking to Versailles for many days on sightseeing tours In fact, Versailles has become sort of Mecca which is drawing the national ties of the world who wish to worship at the shrine of peace.
 All the pre-war splendors are rap idly returning to the palace under the practiced hands of expert workmen who are renovating the vast halls and replacing the priceless relics for the advent of the peace delegates. When the Germans were threatening Paris the chateau was stripped of all portable valuables, which were taken to Bordeaux and other places for safe keeping. During the past few days ancient tapestries of untold value and furniture worth the ransom of kind have been reappearing in their ac- customed places, and the dust of many months has been cleared away from walls and floors.
 Today being Sunday people 1ocked to Versailles in great numbers, for it was the first really sunshiny holiday of the season Hundreds of American officers, doughboys and nurses were among the pilgrims who filled the huge chateau and overran the lawns and already green woods of the. beau tiful grounds.
 The doughboy for once was seeing something which had no counterpart at home. The Woolworth building was higher but-well, they could hardly be compared after all, they were sol different. His first impression was one of amazement at the grandeur, and the thought came to him: What lot of money it must have cost" Then he got interested in art for arts sake.
 The Hall of Mirrors, where the treaty will be signed, held him long, as he gazed in awe at the myriad re- factions and the superb decorations of the ceiling. He found his way tol the exact spot where in 1871 stood the dias from which the foundation of the German empire was proclaimed, and heard his guide say that for req sons of sentiment the table upon which the treaty will be signed would probably be located in the same place.
 The great hall, the doughboy was told, will be reserved for the treaty makers, but the ceremony will be wit messed from adjoining rooms by mem- bers of the press from many coun- tries and by some distinguish ed guests. The wife of President Wilson will probably be one of those who will see the President and other delegates place their names to the most import ant document of history.
 There was little that the dohghboy didn't see today. The apartments of King Louis the Fourteenth. the coun- ell chamber of that monarch and his successors, all of which will be used for conference purposes, proved at- l tractive to his imaginative mind. The boudoir of Madame de Maintenon, | which also Is to be sacrificed to com mittee work, drew wise shakings of the head from the doughboy. who said little but looked as though he could tell a great deal about the fair occu- pant of bygone days.
 The Gallery of Battles with its painted history of the glories of France on the field of honor appealed to the boy in khaki immensely, per haps because he himself had been liv- Ing similar martial scenes over all ready historic ground. This gallery Is to be assigned to the press of thel IL