The taxicab army that saved Paris is one of the few legends of the war that time has not demolished. In that long, swaying line that ran from Verdun past Fere-Champenoise and the marshes of Saint Gond almost to the gates of Paris--German cavalry were in the town of Claye for a few hours, but fifteen miles away--it was the army of Gallieni, on the extreme right flank of Von Kluck, that began the counter attack which dislocated the German line and gave Foch his chance to break through. Thus these old cochers of the boulevards who drove an army of thousands to the battle-ground saved, if you will, not only Paris but much besides, as most Americans are glad to remember.

It is a typically French sense of the fitness of things that is to place one of these battered vehicles on exhibition in the Invalides, where are France's great military relies of the centuries. There its two cylinders will come to rest amid the armor of kings and banners of Napoleon. Upon a tablet will read the words of one of these chauffeurs spoken to Gallient on that memorable September 7, 1914: "One must do as one's comrades do: one must go where it is necessary." After all, neither Roland, nor Bayard, nor Henry of Navarre, nor Guynemer did more. New York Tribune.