New-York tribune., 1909-09-22
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through the rest OF the day. The speech was
lost after ths opening words.
Nearly a hundred reporters and forty photog
raphers We're in the crowd the Grand Re
public besides those who boarded her from the
CIilkinson- They held the explorer a close pris-
pner in his stand by the stairway, and then
asked that he go TO the upper deck. where the
photographers could have a better light The
move was made in press which was but little
ess headlong than the one from the boats side'
and the doctor and his wife and children were
.ast iip upon a low deckhouse near the paddle
wheels
The photographers rnassed opposite them.
climbed TO the guardrail and from there to a
high brace which ran along the outside OF the
BOAT. The cameras cracked and thumped to a
running fire of requests to Look up please
Get out OF the way, won't you?" ~Doctor. Dr.
Cook" Won't you take Off your hatF can
you pick up the little grip
SPEECH UNDER DIFFICULTIES
Then the explorer tried TO turn in the jam
and reach a group Of his relatives, who had
come from Sullivan County 10 welcome him. 1t
was q feat of sheer strength. hut he accom-
piished It. and then resigned hirnselfto the stu
alton and made a speech
ITO a returning explorer he began. there
can bono greater pleasure than the appreciation
make a demonstration that makes me very
.syvhee, V71ee! TVhee-e-ee!" screamed a tug
which was coming down the bay with schoon-
ar piled high with casks"
(Which makes me very happy and should fra
the''-
..yy7ooo, V-hooo, Hhooot" roared the Grard
Rep,hlic. while her decks qufvered-
should fire the pride Of all the world. 1
would have preferred 10 return first TO Ameri-
en- shores. but this pleasure was denied me"
INST then q staten Island ferryboat came up
from behind and beloved another salute, which
had 10 be answered punctiliouslv by the Grand
PepuhHc. other steam craft followed her. for
the boat MAS nearing the crowded waters on
The BATTERY. Or cook finished his speech
for such as We're close TO him, and later ne
wrote the rest of il out. II reads:
I came TO Denmark and the result has come come
n you by wire [ was stranger IN a stranse le+
lsnd hut 7he Danes with one voice rose up
with enthusiasm. and they have guaranteed to
all other nations our conquest Of the poe
You have come forward in numbers with a
voice 0f appreciation still more forclble can
oFly say that accept this honor with cue az
prerfzrion ~ its importance. heartily thank
vfu
C0LFR OFFICIAL WELCONER
Bfrd s CoIer made a speech Of welcome on be
haIf Of the Borough II Brooklyn, Of which the
rro-t audible part was the wish that New York
had , Mayor as hig as the city" Captain oshon
reed telegram from Rear Admiral Schley re-
grettirg that the admiral. as president Of The
Arctic C1gh was unable n be present ~ vel
corne 'The valiant Cook
A. the Patterv the steamer swerved and held
or M the North River. footing endless responses
=, the incessant salutations Every floating
O. ing with q boiler in II spoke 70 her as she
o. ssed. from rumhling. throaty liners ~ squeal-
fr : launches and the fire patrol boats with their
rious coughing snarl
only the three hunpbacked French ironclads
were silent and that was because they lay
s-chaYed with their fines banked. but the hand
~ the Verite struck up The star Spangled Ban
rer' as the Grand Republic swept past and the
crews Of all three crowded 10 the rails and
-teered The band Of the Grand Republic re-
sronded with the "MarseiUaise'
The North River trip was made 10 mark tins
urru the parade was ready to carry the explorer
IN triumph from the Brooklyn pier. The Granc
P4public went on upstream To the public land
rr AZ 10Th street, where she SET ashore sucl
ss had 10 catch trains and then circled ont he
tween the brown Palisades and the green slope
NJ Riverside 70 turn south again
WILD GREETING FROM RIVER CRAFT
The greetings from passing aft were as vii
s. ever. Beyond the French ships the Gran
Republic met the FUnboat Morales. anothe
Hudson Fulton week guest. with the Me>dca
her flying She blew the three blasts NJ greet
snE and se she passed the crew lined np al Al
tSution by the raiI and her officers saluted-
Thsn came longer and more excited whist
tnan common Those who looked for the reaso
ssv fae John X. GuFinson. the ship of honor =
two hours before. painting upstream lashed 10
Sow - dingv cotton waste
II Then. as the Grand Republic swept under y
4 Brooklyn Bridge. came the climax Of the riv
4 ooUuHsies 4 little dirty white banana boat b.
gan if- Not being in the stream she had stea
~ spare for an interminahle howl. A black Gu
~arper across the river followed her. and fh'
spond boats and waiting tugs and more
'H ships until their din reached 10 Broa'
ana ssnt the office boys crowding 20 n
Old boaimen said one might be Z
iA' 'IF@f Tor years without sailing through SUD
racket.
''F fn'Fs who had the privilege Of fr
0Ails ihe cpctor's hand when he stepped z
american soil He was caught in another ja
( ofa seated somehow in Il n automobile with NJ
yS~ ana Brooklyn friends surrounded by for
4 ss' Back from The nierbead there was
l'T'iAe ianzed solid from the open lar
'ail-'hat IS. from fifteen 70 twenty dee
'-sh vas compact as far back as the er
,b-- 10 u7e Williamsburg Bridge almost
~. VI mile. Every window vas crowde
-, pile of hoagds and every slope Of II
ra "as flled lfuH In the lane there wei
~uhfEea auto mobiles waiting In Line. brisE