Show Re building On n Ruins In France Begun 1 s. Ii frs rs William H. H Crocker Furnishes Funds for Reconstructing ReI Re- Re I constructing Vitrimont T France via Ia Paris Doc Dee 20 This O This village which like its was was destroyed cd rl ray In the war will have e tho the honor ff t f being the first village o reconstructed France o and this Is due duo to Amoran Amor- Amor in an n enterprise and generosity Tho building Is already under way a the tho of ot the tho first group of ot having haying been laid Sunday Sunda b by ho bo American ambassador William raves ra Sharp who had been invited o a participate In the tho ceremony b by oso Interested in this distinctly Jean mez-Jean undertaking Mrs J Irs William H H. Crocker er of ot San ancl co who has furnished tho the ands for tor reconstruction was unable fro o see sec the practical realization of ot her I cork rork o To She o was mas represented p by J Miss IJA I jaisy atsy oiK i-oiK U 01 U. oan an I. I l Known nO nOnn n tho the as Mademoiselle Ia e Chez or One Ono of or Us Us ho he o Is Js superintending tho the work Old Olden Olden en en n and youths unfit for tor military ervice are being employed on the tho building Miss Polk's taske task ta Js e 8 not without difficulties such as often confront American building conI con- con I actors She has had her first strike n a the last week that of ot masons who ought bought hl higher wages ages but sho suc sue succeeded in settling nettling tho the matter Th The cornerstone laying 1 was an event C eventa n a Grouped about the ruins nd cd tho t foundation of ot tho ho first iture ure were tho the inhabitants and soldiers an n n leave of ot absence Tho The American go aK beside be the tho tricolor of France as In evidence hero here and there and Respite espite the gloominess of ot tho situa situation tion ton Ion of ot tho tiro destroyed d village there hero ras as a manifest feeling of or jo Joy that its Restoration after ater original plans would Je e seen soon Leon Pobe mayor of ot Vitrimont and o of Nancy ancy anc prefect of ot tho of ot Et Moselle Et poke thanking the American p people brough the ambassador for or their gen gen- rous rous initiative c toward the rebuilding pf f tho the ruined places of ot France and arid the Id ild when 1 tho the United States had given en 1 n so IO many ways 18 Replying Ambassador Sharp said sl It Sad ad not only given him much pleasure o see eo such highly useful work be begun un by y his own countrymen for tho those so who had ad been made matle homeless b by the fornes fortunes for for- tunes unes nes of ot war but ho he was greatly in In- In In tho possibilities to which I I this work so auspiciously begun I might lead leal lIe He hoped earnestly that this beneficent aid might bo ho extended to other villages in tho the province of ot Lorraine upon which like destruction I had been visited Tho rho little girls of ot tho rho village who vho excel excl In the art of ot embroidery wore j presented to the ambassador and they i J gave him handkerchiefs rs examples of ot their work worle as souvenirs I IOn IOn On the return trip to Paris Parl Ambassador Ambassador Am Am- Sharp rp stopped at nt Rheims I Am-I and Inspected the tho cathedral tho ruins of ot the tho palace and the tho devastated devastated dev dev- sections of ot the elt city Only the I nl night ht before fifty shells from tho rho German German Ger Ger- man suns guns had been thrown Into I I |