Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-11-04
FOCH CAPTURES
AMERICAS HEART
Skyscrapers Rock to Cheers Of
Millions as Marshal Lands
in New York.
GUNS BOOM SALUTE
Not Since Armistice Day Has Gotham
Staged Such Demonstration az
That Accorded World War Hero
In Horizontal Blue.

IN horizontal Blue.
New York-Marshal Foch captured
New York and then sped away to con
Quer the rest of the country.
New York surrendered without
striking blow For long, long
time the city had been waiting to
pay off just little of it's debt of graft
tude to the small man in horizon blue
whose skill and daring at martial
chess had reduced the proud armies
OF Germany, and it seized its oppor
tunity.
Millions Hail Hero.
Not since Dewey returned from
Manila, not since Armistice day, did
the city's millions turn out with such
spOntaneity and in such numbers.
Had the hardy little Frenchman
who led 100000 soldiers to victory
ridden up Broadway in a war chariot,
dragging captives behind him like the
emperOrs of Rome, he could not have
received greater welcome than was
accorded him as he rode up the his
t0ric thorOughfare in twentieth cen
tury motor car, enveloped in delug
ing shower of paper hurled from sky
scraper windows
From the Battey, where he was
greeted by Governor Miller, to city
hall, where he was welcomed by May
or Hylan, he moved in a great tr-
umphal procession, after steaming up
the harbor to the boom of guns, the
ceaseless blast of whistles, the roar
of airplanes' motors, the shouts and
cheers of countless thousands.
Pershing Rides with Marshal.
BY his side General Pershing, who
in the dark days of the war led across
the Atlantic Americas fighting men
who took their places under the ban
ner of victory. 1t was General Per
shing who 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 up town. This
time it was along Fifth avenue he mo-
tOred, and Fifth avenue proved as wild
with enthusiasm as lower Manhattan,
the financial heart of the world which
had tossed it's days business worries
out the window with its paper show
eFR
More Cheers at Station.
At the Pennsylvania station there
was another display Of enthusiastic
welcome Cheers were still resound-
ing when the special train taking the
Marshal to Washington ON the first
leg Of his journey to Kansas City for
the American Legion convention pull
ed of the terminal.
The Marshal's welcome began hun
dred miles out at sea. There the
liner Paris, bearing him to the New
World, was joined by II American de
stroyers. For time the warcraft had
it all to themselves, but soon through
the mist broke. a squadron of sea
planes The Marshal raised his head
as the familiar sound of sputtering
motors was heard.
The Paris was passed by the George
Washington which had raced into port
with General Pershing in order that
he might be first to grasp the mar
shals hand on American soil.
At Quarantine came another well
come. Transferred to the navy cutter
Vigilant, the Soldier of France clasped
hands with Ambassador Jesserand,
with Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Roosevelt, and with many other not
ables.
But the series of receptions had
hardly begun. The next came off Fort
Jay, when guns Numbered q generals
salute
And then the climax
Near Lafayette's Landing Place.
Landing a few yards from Castle
Garden where his famous countryman,
Lafayette, had set foot on American
soil, the Marshal found awaiting him
reception that even his imagination
could not have conceived.
The wide stretch Of open ground had
been converted into a great stadium,
the walls of which were skyscrapers
stretching stories high. At every win
dow, on the PTS, even out on dizzy
cOrnices 20 stories above the street
were perched men and women waving
the flags of America and France. On
the streets below were massed great
army of welcomers-men, women and
little children. Indeed, it seemed as
II all the little girls in New York
were there with bouquets which they
wished to press iato the Marshal's
hands
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