The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-12-07
TELEGRAM FROM D'0LIER, IN
CHARGE OF FOCH'S TRAIN,
GIVES ASSURANCE THAT MAR
SHAL WILL GREET ABBE-
WILLIAMS.

WILLIAMS.
A telegram has been received
from Morris Lumpkin of Col
umbia, state commander Of the
American Legion, in which he
informs J. D. Fulp, chairman of
the local arrangement commit
tee, that Marshal Ferdinand
Foch, generalissimo of the
French armies, now on tour of
the United States as a guest of
the American Legion, will ap-
pear on the observation plat
form of his special train which
passes through Abbeville Friday
afternoon, for FIVE minutes,
which addad to the time requir-
ed to change engines, will
cause the marshal and his party
to spend about ten minutes in
Abbeville. Mr.. Lumpkin has re-
ceived that assurance from Past
Comm, nder D'Olier of the Am
erican Legion, who is in charge
of the train.
At meeting yesterday afternoon
the committee, composed of repre-
sentatives of the Chamber Of Com
merce and the American Legion,
made a tentative plan to welcome the
marshal to the city. In the Green
wood Index of Tuesday it is said that
a reception committee composed OF
Morris Lumpkin, Governor Cooper,
Col. ]. Monroe Johnson, Ernest Ros-
enberg of the Greenwood Legion post
and others will meet the special train
bearing the Marshal at Abbeville'
where introductions an dother for
malities will be gone through with so
that the reception which has been
arranged may get under way without
the loss of valuable time after the
arrival of the train.
Due to the short time which the
Abbeville reception committee has
been granted, no pretentious pro-
gram will be attempted here. Only a
few simple courtes:es will be ex-
tended. The mayor, j. Moore Mars,
will welcome the marshal in a short
speech, which will be addressed more
to the Foch party than to the citi-
zens which it is expected will be as
sembled. j. d. Fulp, formerly cap
tain in the World War, will welcome
The generalissimo in behalf Of the
American Leg on and Mrs. Fanny j.
Marshall will present the great
Frenchman with a bouquet Of lovely
Abbeville flowers. Marshal
Foch will be presented with a histori-
cal sketch of Abbeville, written in
French, prepared by the Rev. A. j.
Derbyshire.
The Foch special will arrive in
Abbeville at 1925, approximately and
the train will leave for Greenwood
at S:35, arriving at the latter place
al 4 go o'clock. The streets about the
Seaboard station will be roped off,
no automobiles being allowed within
the vicinity. The train will draw up
at the station, remaining there all
the time allotted, not stopping at the
shops. Every precaution will be TAX
en- by the police to prevent conges-
ton about the station that will OBJ
struct the view of the party.
A meeting of all ex-service men
has been called for tomorrow after
noon at o'clock in the court house
to arrange the part they will take in
the program. 1t is planned to have
all who have uniforms form in a
body and march to the station, acting
as guard of honor during the cere-
monies. The arrangement committee
discussed the advisability of asking
stores to close so that everybody could
turn out at the station, but it was de-
cided that this step would not be nee
essary, since the Marshal is a suf-
fciently strong drawing card to
cause this anyway. Only once in a
lifetime does such an opportunity
q l.