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Show U. S. DELEGATES FIND QUARTERS Peace Mission Comfortably j Settled in Offices in the j Hotel Crillon. i By &ICHAKD V. OULAHAN. (New York Times-Chicago Tribune Cable, Copyright) PARIS, Dec. 2l The American peace delegates are now comfortably settled In. the1 Hotel Crillon, a big structure facing the Place de la Concorde. Each has living liv-ing apartments and a handsome suite of offices. Secretary Lansing's private office is a large room furnlehed in the style of thg Second empire, and is altogether sumptuous sumptu-ous and attractive. The windows on one Side look out on the Place de la Concord, a great open Space, with no building to shut the light from Mr. Lansing's room. Here he receives visitors, Just as ,in his office at the state department. If they are old-time friends, he does not hide the I pipe. he smokes constantly while working, i in Paris, aa Well as In Washington. I t The rooms adjacent to the offices of, i the delegates, furnlahed in the conven- j j tlonal hotel style, contain desks and type- u writers, at which the secrstaries and; clerks work. The, messengers are solUlers, i t mostly men who have been here a year or, more., AM are keen-eyed, alert , young "Americans, who were evidently picked for V their intelligence and courtesy. :t Next door to the Crillon offices aro pothers connected with the peace mission. 'including those of Secretary Qrow and C Assistant Secretaries Harrison and i Palchln. This building was formerly the Paris club, Corela Royal. Soldiers also! aerve here as messengers and doorkeepers doorkeep-ers and some as cierks. The Crillon Is an American center In the vicinity of i which Americans get the Impression of; hbelng in a prominent street of their homo ytcity. Familiar faces are spen everywhere ; y'and warm greetings In the hearty Amer- : "lean style are exchanged constantly, j il American officers and women Red Cross . Workers are always to be seen in this irpart of Paris. There is a distinct American Amer-ican atmosphere here. In fact, Americans .are seen everywhere on the boulevards .And in the principal shopping streets, h The Crillon is still run as a hotel, but i,!lt Is Intended to get out everybody not "connected with the American commission t or not havlnr business there. To insure n'thls privacy orders have been issued that llevery pereon authorised to enter the ho-e;tel ho-e;tel including newspaper men, must obtain a pass bearing hlB photograph. A touch ii of home Is given the lobby of the hotel g by a booth presided over by a young woman n-where popular brands of American tobao- II co, cigars and clgarets are obtainable. |