Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-26 | Page 2 | Hob-Mail Shoes Tear up Floors

HOB-MAIL SHOES TEAR UP FLOORS Why U. S. Paid Damages of $126,000 to Pans Hotel is Explained MOW YORK. Feh ITob-nallod shoes of coo doughboj guards posted J at tho Hotel Crlllon, whore tho Anu r-! r-! loan ponce commission bad its head- quarter! In Paris, caused virtually all I nf the dnmage for which the owners charged the commission ? 126,870 I J. tho manager of the hotel, Henry Ds- quls. said hero Friday. It was this Item of damages In tho I expenses of tho delegation over which I considerable protest was voiced re- I cently in the house of representatives I and which among other expenses. ; President Vllson was asked to Item I lzo In a resolution adopted In tho house j Tho 200 American soldiers who guarded the commission In Paris damaged dam-aged tho Hotel Crlllon to the extent I of about $C26 each." said M DOQUie, quickly adding that It was not tho fault of themselves, but the shoes they wore "They were neither Impolite nor boisterous but they had to tramp in and out and all about the hotel all the time wearing hob-nallcd shoes over the polished floors and expensive rugs. It cost tho hotel 650,000 fran to replace tho carpets and 6.000,000 francs to put the hotel In order," he declared. M, DequlS thought the boots of the j Frenoh soldiers would have hail the same effect, ind said ho understood the British did even mre damage to ths Hotel Majestic. "It is very sad." ho sighed, "but Cost La Ouerre." OO