New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-04-18
Joffre, Coming
Sunday, To Be
Widely Feted
Marshal of France Will Pass
Five Busy Days Here
Before Returning Home
From Trip TO the Orient
Public Dinner Tuesday
Legion. French Societies and
City and National Officers
Will Attend Function

Joseph Jacques Cesar Joffrc, Marshal
of France. is expected to arrive here
next Sunday. Preparations have been
made to welcome him. For five days
he will be feted, dned, received by vari-
( Gus organizations and escorted about
the city. Then he will return to
! France.
/ The most important function which
has been arranged for the Marshal is
public dinner to be given by the city
on Tuesday night at Hotel Pennsyl-
vania. The American Legion and SINH
lar veterans societies will attend. The
several French societies Of New York
will be present Among the guests will
be General Pershing. Jules Jusserand,
AMBASSADOR to the United States from
France; CASTOR Liebert, Consul Gen
eral for France; James NJ. Beck, Solc-
itor General; Charles NJ. Schwab, Gen
eral Robert Bullard and william r.
Deegan, state commander Of the Ameri-
can Legion. Rodman Wanamaker is
expected to preside. President Hard
ing has been invited, but it is doubtful
whether he will be able to attend.
Committee at Station
When the Marshal arrives on Sunday
at Pennsylvania station he will be met
by joint guest committee, on which
there are, among others. Rodman
Wanamaker, chairman of the Mayors
committee; William f. Deegan, r. +.
Condor, chairman of the American LIE
gion state committee for the reception
of distinguished guests; CASTOR Lie
bert and a representative of the French
war veterans societies.
The Marshal will have with him his
wife, daughter and four attaches. They
will be escorted to the Hotel Plaza,
where they Will make their head
quarters.
On Monday, April a. the joint com
mittee will call for the Marshal at 1915
q. m. and will convey him to City Hall,
where he will be presented with the
freedom of the city. A private lunch
con will follow
At o'clock Marshal Jofre will re
ceive the Committee for Open Air
Schools in France At o'clock there
cieties Of New York in the 18th Regi-
o'clock a dinner at the Ritz Carlton by
the Academy of Fine Arts.
Tuesday begins with luncheon at
the Plaza given by the Pennsylvania
Society. AT 8 o'clock the Marshal will
attend meeting of the Academy of
Fine Arts in memory of Moliore. In
the evening there will be the dinner at
the Pennsylvania Hotel.
Luncheon at Union Club
The Marshal will on Wednesday at
tend luncheon at the Union Club At
80 there will be a reception and tea
at the Army and Navy Club, and he will
review parade of National Guard
troops. He will then 60 to NJ, Lieberts
home, where there will be private din
ner. At 8 o'clock he will be received
by the Committee for Devastated
/ France.
On Thursday the Marshal will go to
the 23d Regiment Armory in Brooklyn
at 80 to review the 106th Infantry
There will be a luncheon at / O'Clock
at the Astor, given by the Military
Order of the World War, New York
Chaper. The Marshal will be at
| Grants Tomb at 3 o'clock, and from
there he will go to the Hall of Fame, at
New York University. In the evening
there will be a dinner by the Franco
American Society.
On Friday at $50 there will be q re
ception and tea at the home of Robert
| Underwood Johnson, former Ambassa-
dor from the United States to Italy.
That ends the program, so far as it
has been arranged
Marshal Joffre has been making a
tour Of the Orient. He arrived in Vic
toria, B. c., in the latter part of March
and went to Seattle From there he has
been making his way toward New York.
He is expected to be in Washington to-
morrow.
The last time Marshal Jof1re was in
| New York was in 1917.