At the residence of Mr.Herrick, in the Rue Francois Ier, there was an impromptu staff composed chiefly of young American bankers, lawyers, and business men.

They were men who inherited, or who earned, incomes of from twenty thousand to fifty thousand a year, and all day, and every day, without pay, and certainly without thanks, they assisted their bewildered, penniless, and homesick fellow countrymen.

Below them in the cellar was stored part of the two million five hundred thousand dollars voted by Congress to assist the stranded Americans.

It was guarded by quick- firing guns, loaned by the French War Office, and by six petty officers from the Tennessee.

With one of them I had been a shipmate when the Utah sailed from Vera Cruz.