The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1919, Page 2

eter Pere ere |THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1919) CITY WELCOMES PERSHING IN NAME OF 100,000,000 ‘TO-DAY Chamber, Chairman Rodman Wana-| “There is nething any one can say Be Higes 6r led forward Warren Pershing, | Uoder the circumstances. This re- {he Generar #on, aha introduced him | ception is overwhelming and over- ‘ to the gachering. The reception ac-| Powering. To aay I am glad to be A| corded the youhester was seodnd offly |home would be superfuous, and I am \Gen. Pershing and His Chiefs of Staff Sections | ey ana eb he Goer cme he Just Before Leaving the Leviathan Pershing bey! a reception om the pert, side of B deck and received the con gratulations of his staff and the of- ficets of the Leviathan. Capt, Durell of the Leviathan shook hands withy i One of the first wireless commumt- | cations to reach the Port of Inmbark+- | ‘*e that given hi Ingruished father, |Geeply grateful. 1 accept this reeép« tion from the Leviathan was ad-|the General and expressed his plews- After havisig bowed, young Pershing | ton In the name of the brave fellows tas gonanen AOE PEROOOEES Gressed to Elsie Janis, It was steosd | wre that the successor to Gkant, Stter- A foeie sean, uphind, ‘9 line of the Gen- | ho died over there.” Pershing” and swid: “Delighted 10! han and Sheridan’ waa returning on the openitig of his a REACHES PIER. 23 ¥ Ja o1 - ed fi trodusing tie Mayor, Chaired} Ay ine General reached the plor ho mediated +70) tiusinstie spectators at he vier. Ss] FREMBM BBY ADOPTED Wahimaker sata: kiswed bis two aisters, Miss May “It gives mo great pleasure to Intto- | Pershing and Mrs, Butler, of Linco, duce John Faithful Hylan.” Neb, and they hugged and kissed Gen, Porshing left the City Hal) young Warren Pershing, who was eve shortly before Hodh. Behind & poles! enjoying himself to the limit. and militaty escort he rode uptown! The staff and escort had to tore} to the Waldorf by way of Lafayetté/_ way for the General to the dain | * Street and Fifth Avenue, His prog-| which had been provided on the sec: ress was an ovation, There Was ah-/ond floor of the pier for the formal! other reception at the hotel and hb! reception, There Secretary of War Nad with her scores of letters from Mothers of soldicr#, Another notan'e > at the pler was Sergt. Dan Daly, por- | > sextor of three Congressional medas of honor. He is said to be the oldest man in the Marine Corps. mane Narr ‘COMPOSITE REGIMENT, CALLED BEST IN FRANGE, ON WELCOME HOME BAY: Pershing's welcome home day probe- | bly meant more to fourteen-yeurold Pierre. Michel Bourdain than to other youngster in New York, not warring Warren Pershing. “ Pierre's firat day as the adopted son of Arthur M. Murphy of No. 1469 Hast General was sincerely feliéved When | Baker, Senator Wadaworth, Congress- 29th erect and his firet day @@ an he was finally able to shatch @ few! man Mondéll and former Sectetary of BACK WITH PERSHINS anileae oomnities moments of rest if the privacy of bis) the Treasury William G. McAdoo de ‘According to Mr. Murphy's) affiderit, f £* ‘suite on the third livered their addresses and the Gen- 1 ore a . fied in the County Clerk's office, * As Gen. Pershing “arose on the! eral was presented with President! Pride of the A. E. F., to March in| Pierre's mother, a witow of Bordeaux, Leviathan to-day he was handed, the} Witson's letter of greeting and his gave her consent to the adoption. e Wednesday's Parade, All Picked . Men Prom Third Army Corps, With Gen, Pershing on the Levia- tian came 9% officers and 3,031 en- listed men, comprising a compowite following radiogram: “The City of New York thanks Goa for your safe return, and as Mayor of the city, 1 wish to @x~ tend to you the _ yeratulations of & grateful people, 4 “JOHN F. HYLAN.” commission General of the Army. As Gen, Pershing concluded his ad- dress pe handed thia commission to dis Warten, indtructing him to take good Gare of it. The cheeting of the crowds on the Surrogate John P. Cohalan signed the a@option papers. ‘Tho tittle French boy attwched hime ‘self to an American unit In which Mr. Walsh was a Sergeant and acted as in- terpreter forthe Ameri | plet and ashore as Gen. Pershing regiment of picked men selected | See ae Sieeas rece tastes Gee ease Be from the 34 Army Corps. In this | fata, Charman” tthe Muv0"s| Ny York ais popes Treximent is ote company ot marines {| How Do You Sleep? maker, Chairman of the Mayor's! New York side. The progress of the Cen at company ot mann : “og own country vel the potgeching of steasashly and $ mi called {No finest military organisa- estiess, uncomfortable, “God's oye country welcomes the screeching of steamship and face) tory Whistles, ahd the witldows of the bie office buildings Weré patches of white waving handkerchiefs, The air wakeful? to get a complete rest night after night on an OSTERMOOR tion In France, It will be offe of the outstanding features of Wednesday's jparade, Also on the Leviatiian were 3 offi- you hom WAVES HIS CAP AS HE RECOG- NIZES INDIVIDUALS. | ‘Ae the Leviathan lipped along. (00? Miled WHA bits of torn paper cers and 87 enlisted men of the 465th tage for sound side the dock at Hoboken Gen. Perah- | ‘#iling and drifting like flakes of Motor Transport Company, 38 offi- ing stepped to thé starboard side of snow. cefy returning a# casuals, 71 army Bscorting the General were Rodman Wanamaker, Becretary Baker, Chief of Staff March, former Secretary of the Treasuty McAdoo, Miss May Pershing (the General's sister), War- fen Pershing (his sun) and the Gen- efal’s staff, ‘The party landed at the: Battery fat 10.15 o'’clotk, greeted by a multi- tude, while all the sirens in the river screamed. the lofty navigating bridge and looked down at the seething crowd awaiting him, "Hé waved his cap as he recognized individuals, As tho Y gangplank was connected with the ler a swarm of reporters and pho- » tOogtaphers swept abroad and for the ho -time Being took charge of the re- ‘ception. ~.- Gen. Pershing appeared on the boat deck and braced himself for the shock fleld clerks, 9 ¥. M. C. A, workers, 9 soldiers’ wives, 1 soldier's ohild land #2 civfian employees who were Members of Gen, Pershing’s party. This is the nineteenth voyage the Leviathan hes made as a transport and it was stated officiully in Hobo- Ken to-day that it would be her last. Those who arrived with Gen. Per- shing as members of hie staff were Grand Phone Serine 5 jb Q PER DAY | RENTS WH » |Col. G. C, Marshall, Cob. J. G. Quek- Any High-Class Electric } of the oncoming brigade, His staff Matias De natant ee . meyer, Major J. €, Hughes, aides; VACUUM i 4 “© qurfounded him, wut the photog- . Brig. Gen. Fox C . Chief of | raphers broke through the escort and| Th the midst of the excitement just Left to Right, Front Row—-Brig, Gen. Davis, Adjutant Gene ral; Brig, Gen, Sane Chief of Staff; aker'C Gen, Summerall; Gen, n(n pasate jel Ewe meee triudiphanty rushed the Ganeral te |petore the landing at the Bawtety the | John Joseph Pershing; Majot Gen. Brewster, Inspector General; Major Gen. Hines; Brig. Gen, Bete Back Row, Left to Right—Lieut, Col. |Inepecior | General; | Major Gen. CLE. ANER fn exposed position on the Boat deck wpe @ 4 *) Gr C ‘ham if j Charles P. Suinmeri!l, Major Gen. | ae ph orton 4 tor Bis|hia tom @Warren was copied on an Ngee ets de Chambrun, French officer on Gen, Pershing’s staff; third and fourth, no names; fifth, Col. J. G, Quekmeyer, aide to Rath har a, Gon HA. For Twe De: j photograph. Upper bridge, and the General called ; Gen. Pershing. Bottel, Brig. Gen. Robert C. vis,| Rental Dept. Phone Bryant 6280 * At léast twenty cameras werelout to him: 9 eames “| adjutant General: Col. Aristides| Vacuum Cleaner Specialty Co. leveled at him. ‘The irreverent| “Look ow for that commission.” | igh Rodman Wanamaker and mem-| dows the steps to the curb and helped | traffic jam in the river was so great}, “Home, Sweet Home," the bdetls|Morono, General Staff: Lieut. Col. 131 West 42d St. photographers shouted directions un-| Gen. Perahing,.wag in excellent bers of the welcoming committes,|the General out, one at each elbow, | that serious accidents were feared. | pealed forth, echoing across the wa- |14oyd (arisqam, Lieut. Col, De Cham- #° Ul the General shouted back: humor, patient with everybody who} With him were members of his staff, | And then the handshaking and cheer- , Yachts and tugs, all with pennants and flags waving and whistles blow- ing, were everywhere. Wireless calls were sent for police ter, until the guns of Fort Hami on the Brooklyn side and Fort W: worth, on Staten Island, beginning _ “Say, 1 can't look at all Weeee | brun, caméras at once.” _ The photographers would ha French Army: Capt. G. EB. Adamson, private seeretary to Gen. Pershing, and Lieut, Ralph A, Curtin: wanted to shake hands with him and] Secretary of War Baker, a committee |ing and congratulations started all take bis picture. He shook hands aj from the House of Representatives, | over again. LP WANTEO—MALE, dozen times with Becretary Baker for] the official welcoming committee of wash ” boats and five |the General's salute, 17 guns sound- . ite regiment was in| PIANO PLayens him posing for an hour, but he was the DeweNt of newspaper photowra-|the tate of Miasourland, of cole, MAYOR'S COMMITTEE USEC | ciudad, ‘They werp asclated' id | os the bote-comise of Pershing ond|ccanvana of Col, Comrea Babcock, & a i Me éontent with ofe exposure on the bout. var Worreti Pershing, * Master Warren THREE BOATS. regulating traffle by an equal nums| awakened the sirené of hundreds of | regwiar army officer. vesionre, Deve | ’ He wore at that time on the breast] Gen. Pershing first set foot on the| came mighty Hear being one of thé! THe Mayor's Reception Committee | er of fireboats. These ‘latter had} vessels that lay im Quarantine and! 4; 2 o'elock Friday afternoon Gen, | 8m. Reet 4 Pot his tunio’ only one riphori,’ that soll of Manhattan Island after nis] big tittle teatures of & great big 00- lused three boats to greet the Gen-| Previously saluted thé” he: Hi thé ‘Narrows, bs KL designating the Distinguished Service |) Medal. a ‘The first soldier to greet him was ». Major Gen. McAndrew, who was his © ohiet of staft tn jee. In response to @ request for ‘his impression of as it had proceeded, Gen. Pershing eatd: Jong absence at 10.28 o'clock, Ianding| gasion, ‘Ts ade Rin acknowledge the efal, Rodman Wanamaker, Commis- at Pier A, the Battery, approximately | greetings of the crowd was worth sioner Enright, Commissioner Mur- whore Gen. Lafayette jJanded when hp | fighting one’s way*through the jam ray Hulbert, Allan R. Hawley, A. A. revisited the United States. in lower Broadway. Post, Grover Whalen, John H. Me- The Yankee commander got a re-| Other members of the Welcoming | Covey and John I, Sinnott, the Committee came along on the Depart-' Mayor's secretary, were among the meat of Charities boat Correction. A|180 persons who sailed on the Patrol. Jong line of automobiles was waiting | The steamer Correction and the to take the party to City Mall, ferryboat Richmond were also crowd- Buildings in the neighborhood of | ed with guests and members of the the Battery were swathed in red,|Mayor’s Committ The Zephyr white and bite, Confetti and great | brought Gen. Pershing’s home State streamers began fluttering down from | inte prominence. It swung proudly lofty windows, There w all of 4 great 20,000 men, women and children stretching across the deck jammed around the end of the pier | reading: and the police hag their hands full, “Porshing’s Home State.” ONLY GREAT ROAR GREETS HIM) Escorted by the large welcoming | AT PIER. boats and an armada of small) craft, ‘There was fo ceremony at the pier ri ysidviceve neg rhaytrg mets beyond the ceremony of a great roar- * the accompaniment of bundreds of ing which meant “Well done, old boy, | screeching whistles, It was 1.55 when with great streams of water I straight up in the air. at All the dig ships at the piers on both sides of the river were dressed from stem to stern and the crews, most of them in white uniforms, lined the rails, Especially striking were the’ decorations on the Imperator, ister ship of the Leviathan, which lay on the north side of Pier 4 at Hoboken, Big British and French Nners at the Chelsea piers also were | guy with flags. COLORS DROPPED AT INTER: VALS OF THREE SECONDS, As the Leviathan passed each ves- sel dipped her colors from the taff- rail, The Leviathan, her whistle blowing continuous blasts, attempted | to answer each salute by dipping her own colors. The responses to the greetings were so fréeqient the colors were ipped at intervals of about ROAR OF WHISTLES AS THE LEVIATHAN DOCKS. Sweeping up to the city the roar of whistles incrensed in volume until {t } was one continuous outpouring of sound that continued until the great ship docked at Hoboken. Crowds began gathering early on Staten Island shore, Wounded #ol- | diers and other patients came down from the Fox Hi Hospital and | nurses and doctors from Quarantine swarmed the water front. In all Manhattan and “rooklyn thousands arose early and made their way to points from which they hoped to see the Pershing ship pass. Welcoming parties that went down the bay hoping to board the big ship before she docked were disappointed, for the Leviathan did not st proceeded straight to her pi . 4, Hoboken. Tite craft that went out ww words about ception that almost took his breath © welcome as tar |away. He appeared almost stunned. The General came down the river + OR the police boat Patrol, with Chain ~_, Fre ga IS ASSURED, all the other ou seek in candy—QUAL- iry, WHOLESOMENESS. AND FLAVOR— must follow as a. «ural consequence. it, is the foundation stone upon which Loft Candy is built, and this quality is attested Chemist, who subjects every ingredient used in the making of Loft Sweets to a rigid chemical analysis. Gwe Big Dacty Specials - » His fighting face! HOW he looked at'St. Mihiel. An enlarged snep-shot close-up of . GENERAL PERSHING taken on the day of his glorious ; . { For Monday, Sept. 8th For Tuesday, Sept. 9¢ \viotory in France has been printed America ie glad to have you back.! 11, geeat gray hull first appeared off| three seconds all the way up the|!o meet her turned around and came “pworsvou suew || cuocoL arn Covent hk as a supplement and will be given Ra ee a eich toned ta ttnee (the Battery, Meanwhile the erowds | river. bas th By og RR te ap ey noe, aes te || fie gcholeent, ull "anvota "5 ceptions in this neighborhood to other | \ Hobok t crash of mote tha b per- i he theoas Sas freewith every copy of Wedn y's notables of the pest and present and | "*4 deen apprined of the approach of welsnealal phe suey Hien sone stormed the gates at the pier GENERAL Franklin Simon a Co, A Store of Individual Shops Fifth Avenue, 37th and 38th Streets .~, Im Honor of Store will be Closed All Day Wednesday, September 10th. PERSHING New York's brief verdict was that this “had thém stopped.” Men and ‘women in the upper windows of the great 20-story Whitehall Building were 40 hysterical in their welcome that nobody in the street would have into the crowd, Led by mounted policemen Gen‘ Pershing’s automobile headed slowly up Broadway. The. General was so time, Warren helped him out, with decoming dignity. Having run out of other kinds of paper with which to add to the “anowstorm” of & moderh weloome, @erks in many windows tore the of- fice telephone books into small pieces and tossed them down, A favorite form of confetti was ticker tape, ‘More than once this was around Gen, Pershing’s shoulders, CROWD BREAKS THROUGH PO- LICE LINES IN WALL 8STRE At Wall Street the General and the posi official automobijes behind him id wp ten minutes, The crowd Droke through the police lines. Men and women climbed upon the running board of the Pershing car and fyey the Commander of the A. B, . by the band. Finally the police straightened out the line dnd the parade proceeded to the City Hall The trip from the Battery up Broadway to the City Hall was @ co: | tinuous ovation—thronged sidewal | police pressing back the crow | toward the curb, windows alive with | | heads and handkerchiefs and fings, jolee and mo. olse—with the Gen- vera} gtanding om the seat of his auto. | mobile to look over the heads of the | cheering people, bowing, smiling, all the Hoboken As the been surprised if one of them tumbled | * the transport by the ever increasing din, and when the ship hove in sight through the mist there was a! mighty roar that could be heard a mile away, ‘The crowd at the Battery was prob- ably the greatest ever assembled re at such an early hour. All of the great office buildings were a mass of color, Great festoons of Dunting and flags hung from the win. dows of the 81-story Whitehall Bulld- eye except red, white and blue. HUGE BRITISH FLAG WELCOMES PERSHING. One of the features of the decora- tions at the ferry building was a hus¢ British flag stretched across the root —one of the largest flags ever seen in New York. In the centre of the flag ‘was & gold crown, emblematic of the British diplomatic service, Many of ‘the foreign consulates arc housed in this building. It was the first time this flag had been flown since #¢ visits of Marshal Joffre and the French High Commission and the British Mission headed by Sir Arthur Balfour, Ae the Leviathan swept slowly by the Battery the tremendous din oon tinued without interruption. Owing to the necessity for turning to entor her "ple hugged the east bank of the river until nearly op- posite her berthing place. Capt. Bill MoLoughlin, dean of the Sandy Hook pilots, was on the bridge directing the course of the ship. Mcfoughlin -has piloted the Leviathan in on every trip to thie port since she waa taken over {by the Government as @ transport, “This, by the way, is the last voyage to be made by the Leviathan in the |transport service, | Owing to the mists the crowds at pler and along River By thie time remarkable demonstrations, saw stich efthusiasm before, Leviathan docked was swathed the gentle breeze. controlling the jam, biocked with people, vent adcidents. station, Mr, and Mrs. The fi cated Gen. March's rank, viathan he said: member." Gen, Pershing. Gen. Pershing caught the tire 1,000 feet of the pier Where the in As far as the eye could reach along River Street little could be seen save the national colors waving in It was seen early that the Hoboken police would not fe able to handle companies of the 13th Infantry were rushet to the pier and assisted in With the streets thousands climbed to nearby roofs, which were packed to such an extent that sol- dier guards were sent there to pré- Secretary of War Baker and his party boarded automobiles at the 38d Street entrance of the Pennsylvania Baker rode in the first maghine, which flew the flag of tho Secretary of War, and im- mediately beliind rode Gen. March, Lieut. Col. Milliken and Major Swain. ot the Chief of Staff indi- ‘When Secrétary Baker boarded the Blakely at 28d Street to moet the Le- “It is @ great day, a day that the city, State and Nation will long re- Mr, Baker sald that Vice President Marshall and Mrs, Marshall were un- able to come to New York to greet A gray mist swopt up tho Narrows from the sea early this morging, but it lifted. The blurred, black hulk of the Leviathan passed Quarantine and fret glimpse of his native land, Out from the Gfowh of the bill at Rosebank, 8, L, where stands St. John’s Church, tne Ciky een Surat hone the waterfront did not|rang the chimes that have weloomed weqahed Be! of the liner until she wad |eatiormen sMMrRing terete S00 Gov, Smith Walked almost opposite. peep hour before the Leviathan docked. River Street was jammed as never before. Window spaces were let by owners of houses along the waterfront at prices ranging from $1 to $10. Hoboken never saw such @ demonstration, not even to welcome the President, Long before 7 o'clock the jam at Hoboken got beyond the local police the buildings wefe @ mass of red, white and blue. Just off the pier at Hoboken Rod- man Wanamaker, Grover Whalen and John F. Sinnott, the Mayor's Seore- tary, were taken from the Patrol in & police boat to the Leviathan, which they boarded to escort Gen, Pershing to the waiting committee of honor, ‘The guard inside the pier sates con- sisted of four platoons of First Divis- fon men, two each from Companies I and K, 28th Infantry, in command of Capt. Thomas Henry, These were the first companies to land in France after Ametica entered the war. The entrance to the pier was flanked on either side by lines of war workers who had served with the First Divis- jon, These included Knights of Co- lumbus, ¥. M, C. A. Salvation Army, Hed Cross and Jewish Welfare Work- ers, All wore gold service stripes. The Port of Embarkation Band was stationed at the end of the pier and near the gangplank down which Gen. Pershing walked was @ composite band composed of Musicians from the Dands of the 16th, 18th, 26th and 28th Infantry Regiments, This band was in charge ef Ldcut. B. J, Fisher. Just before the arrivdl of the Le+ viathan at Hoboken two boys were arrested on the roof of the picr. How they got there unobserved by the Everywhere flags were flying and all) tim, crtepy, ot tate. ED MOLASSES PLA TATIONS —These anapoy | and @ special guard of troops was|I| Snveioned ng. Tee teu rowds, In respo' | busy returning the salutations of the | !2& th Ferry bullding and|‘be crowds. | 18 response to BUY | summoned from Governor’a Island ||| erinas ot our Unctoetied Hf | people that his hat was off all the| Barse Office presented little to the *lto ‘assist in handling the crowds. ||| frastant velvety Choce- A needy which never fails to please all Btores: New York. 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