The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-11-18
FOCH COMES TO-DAY,
EAGER AND WILLING
Strenuous Three Days Mapped
Out for Sturdy
Sightseer.
MORE DEGREES READY
Will Lay Wreaths at Joan of
Arcs Statue and at
Grants Tomb.
MORE DEGREES READY

Marshal Foch will devote to-day, to-
morrow and Sunday to adding New
York city to his impressions of America.
He has seen and heard Kansas City. st.
Louis, Minneapolis Chicago, Washing
ton. Detroit and Pittsburgh, not to men,
ton the country lying between, and Is
prepared for virtually anything from an
air raid to an earthquake. AS matter
of fact We will have to stage one or the
other or something just as good to
amaze the old Gascon soldier now.
His special train arrives at Pennsyl-
vania Station between and this
morning. He will be taken to the home
Of De Lancey Kountze. 122 East Sew
enty-eighth street. where he viii live
while in New York. And then. begin
ming at II 10. when he receives a dele
cation from the Salvation Army, he
will fare forth upon programme that
would convert a Pacific coast booster
into heap of wreckage.
The Marshal thrives upon such pro-
grammes. His staff may show signs Of
weakening. The American Legion's re-
ception committee may sag at the knees.
Reporters and photographers may fall
by the wayside from sheer exhaustion,
but the leader of the victorious allied
armies (71 years old but as straight
and as strong as Jack Pershing him
self energies always smiling and re-
GREETING that there aren't more children
to salute, more sights to be seen, more
speeches to be made and answered and
greater crowds to watch.
At II .4J This morning hc raceiyeS
Rabbi Silverman of Temple Emanuel,
who will be accompanied by a commit
tee of representative Jews. At 1 he
goes to Sherry's to luncheon with the
Union Interallie. q French organization
of which he is president. The commit
tee in charge of this affair consists of
Frederic r. Coudert. Paul D. Cravath,
Otto H. Kahn. Thomas w. Lamont
Clarence III. Mackay and George w.
Wickersham.
The special train on which the Mar
shal is being whisked hither and yon
over America does not adhere more rig
orously to set schedule than the Marshal
himself. At 80 he goes to the Seventh
Regiment Arlnory. where 5000 school
children will sing for him and deploy
themselves in a bit Of pageantry that
will depict Frances part in the making
of America.
AIter tildt ne lays Wreatn upon the
statue of Joan OF Arc. Ninety-third
sti eet and Riverside Drive and another
upon the tomb OF Gen. Grant. At he
Is due at New York University, where
he will receive another LL.D.--the thir-
teenth such degree since he landed at
the Battery three weeks ago. He is due
20 travel out to the Pacific coast. One
member of his encourage estimated that
he will have broken all LID. records
before setting forth for France again.
lie probably will have amassed more
than fifty
At Z 80 tonight he attends the dinner
Of the American Iron and Steel Insti-
tute at the Hotel Commodore. To-mor-
row he will visit Columbia University
and receive another LID. He will bo
taken on a tour of Greater New York,
stopping here and there to see places
particularly noteworthy. One OF them
will be the Bronx Zoo. He will merely
look at the place and will not have time
to stop off to see Theodore, the bob
cat given him in Kansas City by the
Montana delegation to the American
Legion convention. Theodore Is now
doing time in the Bronx Zoo, having
outgrown o railroad car. Eventually he
may land in the Paris Zoo. The Mar.
shall hasn't decided.
On Sunday morning the great French
warrior will attend mass in st. Pat
rick's. On Sunday night he will con-
clude his visit to New York with the
American Legion's official celebration in
the Hippodrome. If everybody desiring
to attend this function tries to enter
that theatre Sixth avenue will be blocked
from Thirty ninth to Forty-ninth streets.