New-York tribune., 1921-11-20
FochJJndaunted
BY Barrage Of
Welcomes Here
From Breakfast Until Mid
night, Intrepid Marshal
Is Feted, Dined and Guest
of Honor at Cercmonials
No Signs of Fatigue
Columbia Joins in Tributes
to Visitor. While Thou
sands Cheer French Hero

Like the good soldier he is, Ferdi-
nand Foch, Marshal of France and the
worlds best beloved hero of the great
war, withseood yesterday New York's
second successive day of entertainment
in his honor. From shortly after
breakfast until close on to midnight.
NE man in horizon blue uniform
Nthht dropped little at its peak points.
ST in token that it, if not its wearer.
was beginning to curl up bit under
the ceaseless fire of speechmaking and
ceremony, had not more than two hours
to call his own.
The Marshal's sole respite from the
ceremonious cares OF the day came be
tween 4:30 and $50. when. at the
home of his host, De Lancey Kountze
at 122 East Seventy-eighth Street, he
rested briefly before going to the din
ncr of the France-America Society at
the Waldorf Astoria.
Through the day, however, the great
soldier never lost for a moment the
eager, interested attitude that has
marked his attendance at countless
affairs since his arrival in this coun-
try. When he did not understand
what was being said, as was usually
the case. Ambassador Jules Jusserand
was at his elbow to whisper to him
quick, sketchy translations of the high
lights of speeches. Frequently as he
followed his interpreter the Marshal
nodded briefly and the shadow of a
smile touched the corners of his grim
mouth. When he spoke himself in
reply to salutations or honors, it was
in powerful voice and with gestures
dramatically significant
No Trace of Fatigue
At no time was there a shade of
fatigue in pose, tone or movement of
the general, who said to a subordinate
who suggested that an attack had best
be postponed because the men were
tired: "Tha foe is more tired even
than we. Attack"
In the course of the day Marshal
Foch received at the home of Mr..
Kountze a group of representatives of
the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America, headed by the
Rev. John B. Moore, of Brooklyn, presi-
dent of the organization, and DR..
Charles MacFarland, it's secretary. He
listened to addresses by William
Sloane Coffin, chairman of the coun-
cils committee on relations with
France and Belgium. which has been CO.
operating with the Protestant churches
of France in rebuilding the edifices
destroyed by the war; DR.. John H. Fin
ley and DR.. MacFarland.
AS mark of the appreciation of the
French people for the work of the
council, Marshal Foch presented to his
callers the pulpit Bible from the
Protestant church in Rheims. The
shell-marked volume will be preserved
here as relic.
After this ceremony the Marshal re-
ceived members of the American Com
mittee of the Bienvenue Francaise Of
which organization he is the president,
and then devoted a few moments to
Sergeant Samuel Woodfill, who repre-
sented the infantry arm OF the service
at the funeral o. the Unknown Soldier.
Il am very glad to meet the first
soldier of the war" said Sergeant
Woodfill to Marshal Foch.
with Woodfill, who had called in COM
Philip J.. McCook, major of the SER
geant's old outfit in France.
At 1880 Marshal Foch and his party
were taken in motor cars to the little
house in East Twenty seventh Street
that was the birthplace of Theodore
Roosevelt. There they were received
by committee of the Women's Roose-
welt Memorial Association, of which
Mrs. John Hays Hammond is president
For several minutes the Marshal
chatted with Mrs. Hammond and mem
consisted of brief address by Fred
eric R. Coudert, to which the Marshal
replied, and the presentation of the
medallion of the association by Mrs
Hammond
Cheered by Thousands
Thousands of men and women in
windows of adjoining Office buildings
looked down on the scene ond ap-
plauded and cheered at moments which
as nearly as they could determine al
the distance, were appropriate.
From here the party went to the
Waldorf Astoria, where the Marshal
was guest of honor at a luncheon of
the Pennsylvania Society, at which he
was presented with the gold medal of
the society. He was received at the
Thirty-.hird Street entrance of the
hotel and escorted to the banquet hall
where 1900 persons arose and cheered
rs he entered with M. Jusserand and
Charles NJ. Schwab. Mr.. Schwab and
Governor Sproul of Pennsylvania sal
on either side of Marshal Foch at the
luncheon
Thirty thousand persons were on and
around the campus of Columbia Uni
versity when the Marshal arrived there
to receive the honorary degree of doc.
tor OF laws-the fourteenth conferred
upon him since his arrival in America
Nicholas Murray Butler president OF
the university. conferred the diploma
at the foot of the Daniel Cheste,
French statue of Alma Mater on ths
steps of the library DR.. Butler wore
the hood of the French University OF
Nancy, from which he and Marshal
Fcch received honorary degrees to-
gether year ago.
The Marshal was escorted from the
Waldorf to Columbia by Colonel vii.
liam Barclay Parsons, chairman of the
university's board of trustees. anc
Colonel William j. Donovan, also s
trustee. Colonel Parsons commanded
the 18th Engineers, which went to the
aid of Hagi's men with picks and shoy
els at Cambria. Colonel Donovan was
the commander of the old seth In.
fantry in the war as the t65th
Tribute to Universities
The Marshal listened with interest
to the address of DR.. Butler, in which
he recalled the fact that nearly 9,OOC
Columbia men went to the war, 1876 OF