New-York tribune., 1921-11-08
BRAND Here.
Pledges Aid
In Disarnain,e!,.:
French delegates to the Washington
conference.
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French delegates to the Washington
conference.
General Robert Lee Bullard. Robert
Woods Bliss, Third Assistant Secretary
of State. and the French Consul Gem
erai, CASTOR Liebert, boarded the
French liner with ambassador Snsse-
rand, slipping down the bay early
aboard the army tug Lexington.
As the huge craft steamed past the
Battery the police boat John f. Hylan,
code flags fiuttering, band of fire.
men aft alternately playing the "Star-
Spangled Banner" and the 'Marseil-
leise," and a high hat committee for
ward, took her place in the tugboat
escort.
The Fifteenth Street pier OF the
French Line sheltered an excited
throng of Frenca people, the men in
horizon blue and gold braided kepis
or displaying in their lapels bits of
green and red ribbon that testified to
valorous deeds beenath the tricolor.
Greeting Delights Visitor
Hardlg had the gangplank been run
onto the deck of the ship before the
stopped figure of Premier BRAND start
ed ashore. The dropping ends of his
thick, horseshoe mustache were wide
apart as he grinned happily in re-
sponse to cries of Vive BRAND!
''Vive la France!"
Then came Viviani, by now familiar
parsonage to French people of New
York, trailing by the hand Mne.
Viviani, charmingly arrayed in fu-s
and with a long brown veil trailing
behind in the faces of the others of the
delegation. She is the only woman,
except Tor stenographers, accompany
ing the delegation.
There were brief exchanges of cour-
tesies in the reception room at the end
OF the pier, Rodman Wanamaker as
chairman of the Ma ors Committee on
Receptions extending a welcome on be-
half of the city and the French states
men responding with handshake and
few fulsome sentences.
Downstairs in the street a platoon
of motor cycle police threw their legs
across their saddles and started their
engines with roar that drowned the
cheers of the small crowd held back
from the exit.
There occurred the one unpleasant
incident of the day. M. BRAND, Am
bassador Jusserand, Secretary Bliss
and Mr.. Wanamaker entered the last
named's automobile Mr. Wanamaker
had just seated himself when he was in
structed to vacate his seat. The man
who spoke to him was J. NJ. Nye, for
merly a Secre; Service agent, but for
some time past employed as an in
vestigator by the Guaranty Trust Com
pany.
Nye was peremptory and sufficiently
loud of voice to attract the notice OF
the visiting Frenchmen. Mr.. Wana-
maker, unruffled by the occurrence,
quietly explained that it was, after all,
his motor car. He kept his seat, and
Nye, who said he was there at the re-
quest of the State Department, rode up
town on the running board of the car
Nye on previous occasions has at
tracted similar notice.
There were a dozen machines in line
yesterday, most of them flying French
and American flags, and the procession
sped over Fifteenth Street to Fifth
Avenue, up the avenue to the entrance
OF Central Park at the Plaza, across
the park to Seventy Street and
then to Riverside Drive.
A brief stop was made at the statue
of Joan of Arc at Ninety-third Street,
and M. BRAND stepped down from his
machine and stood uncovered before
this likeness of the Maid of Orleans,
which he admired volubly as a beau
tiful example of French taste.
Grants Tomb Saluted
At Grants tomb the party again
stepped from the machines long enough
to salute the silent inmate Then the