The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-20


 be restored during the next two years. thanks to the financial aid of group of wealthy Americans, and already the village is beginning to assume busnessltke aspect Here again huts being erected the scene of the First Division's conflict Sept 13, 1918, and plans under way for the restoration of the chateau from which the village takes it's name.
 Hearty Welcome Awaits Any
 American Who Visits St. Mihiel
 But if American wants to get a hearty welcome, let him drop in between trains at St. Mihie1, from " here Gen. Pershing and his staff directed operations after the Germans had been chased over the fortified hill by the Thirty-nintn French Division.
 The Cafe de la Conedie, at the end Of the lane leading from the Place des Moines where Gen. Pershings headquarters were situated in the two story stone building with heavily barred windows, still does a thriving business. but not as in the days when all ranks fr0tn orderlies to staff cap tains dropped in for a "bracer." The pro prietress is still generous in her measures in the days when gratitude made her hands tremble while pouring out stiff glass of Frances best cognac, dug up from be- meath the floor of her cellars
 As to the town itself, rapid progress has been made toward repairs. Dozens of build ings have been made habitable while the debris of buildings along the Mouse bank has been neatly piled, ready for the Gov ernment's contractors to carry on their work.
 Gen. Pershing's headquarters are being used by relief workers, but a movement is on foot to rename the Generals private office "Salle Pershing,' and to create a museum wherein will be kept records of the allied operations in the vicinity and vari- ous war souvenirs, not the least of which is a photograph of the American commander by cure.
 Down in the "quiet sector'' of Nancy Luneville-St. Die there are thousands who remember the cheerfulness of the American F<.O,J inr1 foS& ~F% Nancy h;8 either been repaired or is being repaired, but greatest interest of course. centres in the Hotel d'Angleterre, where cor respondents. stuff officers and distinguished nason representatives as well as diplomatic visitors were able to separate themselves from the motley throng. Henri is still there. but his face doesn't wear it's old-time smile.
 The Cafe Stanislaus, whihc the doughboys were wont to frequent at times, likewise is thriving, but it's staff has changed. The buildings used by the Americans as mess halls have all been turned over to their civilian owners.
 Few Of the trenches in the Luneville Raccarat and St. Die areas have been re- pared In the former town. the Hotel des F9sges still has it's remarkable register of American military visitors and the town it. self is rapidly resumng it's pre-war life Likewise, at St. Die, where the Buffalo Divi- sion got used to life in the trenches and where other divisions made merry with the eVer-ready feminine population, there are constant mementos of the Americans visit, chiefly in the presence of a street named after President Wilson, and an Ave nue des Etats Unis but most of the troops of the S1st and sgd divisions will make at once for the little building where the first geogfaphy giving the name Of the Western Continent as America" was printed
 Anne Morgan 10 Aid in Movement
 For Bar-1e-Duc War Memorial
 Bar-le-Duc, like Nancy still retains "1es meilleurs souvenirs" of the iovial American continsents which quartered there dur ing more than six months, and it is indeed remarkable that more American visitors have not discovered the charm of the old city, the stronghold of the ancient Dukes of Barr1os Within easy train journey of Paris, Nancy or Metz it should attract any eS-doushboys who may have happened to pass through on their way (ither to the slent sahents in the Vosges or the mighty conflicts around Verdun
 Tens of thousands have passed aIonp, tha Sacred Way, as the hig,Iway between Rar Ie-Duc and Verdun iS now known. and in memory of the thou~Inds who failed to re- turh a movement Las been started for the erecr1on Of an Area of Triumph on the ont skirts Of Bar-Ie-Ouc, for which tha naus papers of all tie allied countries ,uitJ, +bs assistance of honorary committees will so- Hc1t suoscr11tfons. The American commit tee is to be headed by Miss Anne Morgan Tn recognition Of her continued efforts in behalf of devastated France
 But in the city itself the ex-so1dier will Lilu ne IS not forgotten. The Hotel Moderne anu I1oIel ue MetE once reserved for Aneri- can ana french officers, as well as the Gaia oe commerce, are still lively as ever with scores of postcards from former Aneri can clients displayed pron1iscuousIy The harracks in the Rue Antoine have been reno Vated throughout. The "offcers' borne,, maintained in the magnificent home of Narin-Bernier, the Bar-le-Duc banker ts no longer open to the public generally for M Farln-Bernler has again taken possession Other buildings adjoining in the Boulevard de la Rochelle in which the '. M C. A held its dances and parties are also occupied hv civilians, some of them refugees from toa Verdun area.
 Even the renowned gathering place in the Rue Polva1 is quieter than ever aIthougb the proprietors, despite the absence of Amer ican troops, paid taxes last year on 2 nat profit of s5,0OO francs.
 And who doesn't remember the C-inen, and the Cafe des Oiseaux the latter with Itz marvellous collection of stuffed birds and animals ancient pipes and relics of the war. of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nina teenth centuries.
 we still miss the groups who used @~ come in and sing Home, Sweet Horne, 'Suwanee River and Over There loud enough to drown the music in the cinema up stairs" said one of the attendants "Yes we'd be glad to see them back again or even to get letter from them once in a wbiIe 4 few have written, but in most cases they have forgot to put their addresses on their souvenirs that some of the Tanks have wanted for their friends, but you can tell them all in THE HERALD that this place, like any other in Bar-1e-Duc, always has 0 placs for them beside the big freplace.''