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Even before this speech, Frenchmen were giving voice to the idea, soon echoed in Washington, that no more welcome a successor to Ambassador Herrick could be found than General Pershing...
Pallbearers for Ambassador Herrick were six, including besides the three Orateurs Funèbres, Owen D. Young, Chairman of the Second Dawes Committee (see International); Aristide Briand, the cello-voiced, bushy-eyebrowed Foreign Minister of France; and Mr. John Ridgely Carter, Paris Morgan Partner, representing J. Pierpont Morgan. Although suffering from a heavy cold, Mr. Morgan at the last moment disregarded the advice of physicians and sped by motor to attend the simple service held for Mr. Herrick at the Paris Pro-Cathedral. That edifice is capable of holding less than 1,000, and an appalling crush ensued...
Surprisingly from the Cathedral dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...Dieu Herrick! In a special railway baggage car - redecorated with potted plants and burning candles to resemble a chapelle ardente - the remains of Myron Timothy Herrick left Paris for Brest by special train...
Because the coffin was going to be conveyed from Brest to Manhattan on the French cruiser Tourville, and because women are positively not allowed on French warships, Mrs. Parmely Herrick sped by a different route to Cherbourg, caught the Aquitania...