Show claa U W TM 1 LIVELY LIVEL Y AS AN ARMY CENTER little city picked for Per ings headquarters Is now americanized HOTELS ALWAYS CROWDED hurrying officers everywhere while war was on pershing lived in castle founded on place of strategic value chaumont france ghisi alil little c city it y of tile the haute marne Is tile the home 0 of tile general headquarters of tho the amerlean amerl l fin expeditionary forces here lives the commander in chief find in the buildings of tile the french gar rason lire are housed tile officers of the general start staff bild nil all tile illary or that go with it the nerve center of the army A city of normally lly about inhabitants ife ills on the B railway lines lilies miles east cut of parts lt it was na formerly tile alie capital of unil und Is now tile lie of the department of the marne like most of the older cities of F france rance seems to 11 have ave been founded foun deil on oil it site of strategic value it crowns it high plateau between the alaine an ciul 1 I th 0 anti from the balls and towers of the lie old city to Is n wonderful view of tho the valley of the marne tho the river here being hardly as wide us its the marne ennui that hows flows 1 he side it between its ita bordered banks northward over the narrow vale of the the view takes lu in a wide cep of rolling lolling forest crowned hills removed from part paris Is general headquarter 4 iua removed from froin parla liere here lit in september of last bear chaumont being selected after a careful search of available locations it t lies iles la in the center of what ft hat was vaa tile the training 1 area every camp BS as well ell as the tout toul sector in which tile the american forces arst saw bittle battle and all the lines from tout eastward where we were located being within reach real it by motor the french post occupied ashead as head qua ter ollices ts Is typical topical of french gurr three long four story ml iced tile barracks bar form three sides of a great quadrangle facing a wide avel adellle lLe A group of lessor lesser buildings and the isie customary iron fron fence tin and or tal gates gate 4 lit in the remaining boundary on both gate posts fly the alie tricolor and tho the stars and stripes 9 sentries entries 1 pace act their posts on every hand ila nd the quadrangle Is tilled filled with v etli hurrying off officers leers and orderlies orde illes and clerks clerics lianda hands hosli lu lit salute bugles give their almost hourly calls for the various mil gitary events and periods of the day stun cars cm 8 and motorcycles motoi cycles roll lit in and out and now and then tho the sentry nr ar the gate stiffens even it more lore rigidly ani brings tits his piece up with inore snap when a 0 great olive drab car shining like a siw in tho the scarlet tab on oil the lie windshield four white stars signifying tile commander la in chief r frequently the generals cur car up pron clies sunhe unheralded aided and so swiftly that tho the sentry cry of turn out tile the la is too into inte and tile tn lit chief la Is gono gone before the ho gunhil call ann tumble front tile guardhouse until ll 11 last spring general pershing made ande tits his residence tit in a largo large villa neur near ile iio soon founie however that lint so near the lie workshop of the binny arm lie could not have havo the quat ind and hick 0 of intrusion necessary to his growl tig responsibilities and lie moved in may last tu to a beautiful chateau clin teall about live niles fionin tile the town toa here lu lit a great rumbling castle situated in tile marne valley among groves field wide sunlit lawns lie ho lived with his lit personal staff connected ly by tele with every divisional corps corpa and army headquarters tits his own ollices in chaumont 1 ond and with parts paris ho he did ills his work there when not alth the army chaumont itself hns has become americanized by tile the presence pre senco of tile the headquarters its little hotels are always crowded with officers oni cers it tins been very to tile tho american occupation 0 nearly every homo home with a spare room is thrown open ns as abil n billet for officers and many of the finest residences dences have been taken over en arely by tile hundreds of tu esses in many of them the oft leers have installed electricity mid and bathrooms and in sonic boino cases central heating plants and with french servants live comfortably luxuriously ns na measured in military terms Ilund hundreds reds less fortu unto or lacking in rank mill anke their chances clinn cea on whatever billet may bo be found in the alio crowded town where a 0 bed Is always nt lit it ft premium |