Evening star., 1921-10-29
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 2s.-Marshal
Foch captured New York yesterday and
then sped away to conquer the rest Of
the country. New York surrendered
without striking blow. For long.
long time the city had been waiting
to pay off just a little Of its debt
Of gratitude to the small man in
horizon blue whose skill and daring
at martial chess had reduced the
proud armies of Germany, and 1t
seized its opportunity. Not since
Dewey returned from Manila, not
since Armistice day, did the city's
millions turn out with such spon-
taneity and in such numbers. Had the
hardy. little Frenchman. who led ten
million soldiers to victory. ridden up
Broadway in a war chariot. dragging
captives behind him like the en-
perors Of Rome. he could not have
received a greater welcome than was
accorded him as he rode up the his
toric thorouehfare in a twentieth GEN.
tury motor car, enveloped in delug-
ing shower of paper hurled from sky
scrapers' windows.
Moves in Triumph.
From the Battery. where he was
greeted by Gov. Miller. to city hall.
where he was welcomed by Mayor
Hylan, he moved in greater trium-
phal procession after steaming up the
harbor to the boom of guns. the
ceaseless blast of whistles. the roar
of airplane motors, the shouts and
cheers of countless thousands. BY his
side rode Gen. PerShing, who in the
dark days Of the war led across the
Atlantic Americas lighting men who
took their places under the banner r
h tpG VI 1n
was first to welcome his old comrade
to these shores.
Upon the marshal the city conferred
its freedom. and then he continued
his triumphal march uptown. This
time 1t was along 5th avenue he
wild with enthusiasm as Lower Man
haitian, the financial heart of the
world, which had tossed Its days
business worries out the window with
it's paper showers.
Display at Station.
At the Pennsylvania station there
was another display of enthusiastic
welcome. Cheers were still resound-
ing when the special train taking the
leg or his journey to Kansas City
for the American Legion convention
pulled out Of the terminal.
The marshal's welcome began
hundred miles out at sea. There the
liner Paris, bearing him to the new
world, was Joined by twelve Ameri-
can destroyers. For time the war
craft had it all to themselves. but
soon through the mist broke a squad
ron of seaplanes. The marshal raised
his head at the familiar sound OF
sputtering motors overhead.
On moved the Paris. passed by the
George Washington, which had raced
into port with Gen. Pershing. in or
der that he mi ght be first TO grasp
the marshars hand on American soil.
Clasps Hands With Jusserand.
At quarantine came another well
come. Transferred to the Navy cutter
Vigilant, the soldier of France clasp
with Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt and with many other
But the series of receptions had
hardly begun. The next came off Fort
Jay, when guns thundered generals
salute.
And then the climax.
Landing a few yards from Castle
Garden, where his famous country
man Lafayette had set foot on Amerl-
can soil, the marshal found awaiting
him a reception that even his imag-
nation could not have conceived.
The wide stretch OF open ground
had been converted into a great stadi-
UNI. the walls Of which were sky
scrapers stretching stories high. Al
every window. on the roofs. even out
on dizzy cornices twenty-five stories
above the street were perched men
and women waving flags of America
and France. On the streets below
were massed a great army Of well
comers-men. women and little
children. Indeed. it seemed, as if all
the little girls in New York were
there with bouquets which they wish
ed to press into the marshal's hands
AS soon as the soldierly little figure
in the light blue uniform of France
stepped off the pier a mighty shou,
arose. A few minutes before Gen
Pershing had appeared to the SOUND
of rufnes and f1ourishes. and thes,
were repeated for the French wal
| hero.
Advances to Meet Pershinx.
Forward stepped the marshal. hi
scarlet cap at a rakish angle. There
was nothing of the merciless warrior