Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-10-29
NEW YORK WILDLY
WELCOMES MARSHAL F0CH

New York. Oct. 29.--Marshal Foch
captured New York yesterday and
then sped away to conquer the rese
of the ceuatry.
New York surrendered without
striking a blow. For a long. long
time the city had been waiting TO pay
Off just little of its debt of gratitude
10 the small man in horizon blue.
whose skill and daring at martial
chess had reduced the proud armies OF
Germany, and yesterday afternoon IL
seized it's opportunity.
| Not since Dewey returned from Ma
Mia, not since Armistice Day. did the
city's millions turn out with such
spontanity and in such numbers. Had
the hardy little Frenchman who led
l 0 900 900 soldiers 10 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 acarded him
as he rode up the historic thoroughfare
in a twentieth century motorcar, en-
veloped in a delugihg shower OF paper
hurled from slxyscraper windows
] AAC 5oAAtA NlFIN Ht WAS
greeted. by Governor Miller, TO City
Hall. where he was welcomed by
Mayor Hylan, he moved in a great
triumphal 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 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 PERISH
ing. 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
J IL was along Fifth avenue he motor
ed, and Fifth avenue proved as wild
with enthusiasm as lower Manhattan
J the financial heart of the world, whi.h
had tossed its days business worries
out the window with its paper showers
: 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 les
OF his journey 10 Kansas City for tn,
American Legion convention pulleC
I, ost OF the terminal.
The MarshaPs welcome began 10
! miles out at sea. There the liner Pari
bearing him to the New World wa
Joined by ~ American destroyers. Fo
O time the warcraft had Il all TO them
selves, but soon through the mis-
' broke a squadron OF seaplanes. Tn
s Marshal raised his head at the familia
/. sound of sputtering motors overhead
s On moved the Paris, passed by IN
= George Washington, which had race
: into port with General Pershing /
a order that he might be first TO gras
the Marshal's hand on American sol
At quarantine came another we
come. Transferred TO the navy cutie
yigilant. the soldier OF France claspe
e hands with Ambassador Jusseran
with Assistant Secretary of~the Nav
Roosevelt and with many other notl
!. bles.
!, But the series Of receptions he
l. hardly begun. The next came off Fo
a Jay, when guns Numbered a General
p salute.
is And then the climax.
r. Landing a few yards from Cast
Garden where his famous countryma
N Lafayette had set foot on America
at soil, the Marshal found awaiting hi
=. a reception that even his imaginatiC
es could not have conceived.
m The wide stretch OF open grour
Or had been converted into a great sta
IN ium, the walls Of which were SIX,
81 scrapers stretching stories high.
&c every window, on the roofs, even o
2, on dizzy cornices 25 stories above Il
- street were perched men and won,
waving flags Of America and Franc
!. On the streets below were massed
q great army Of welcomers--men W
= men and little children. Indeed,
j, seemed as II all the little girls In NJ
e York were there with bouquets whi
81 hey wished TO press into the Marsha
ar hands.
The demonstrations OF welcome we
continued throughout the afterno
until the Marshal departed for Was
sngton, early in the evening.