Milford chronicle., 1915-05-21
WILSON GIVEN
Great OVATION
No President Ever Before so
Acclaimed in New York.
SEES PARADE; REVIEWS FLEET
Declares at Banquet America Asks
Nothing For Herself Except What
She Can Ask For Humanity.


Nothing For Herself Except Wha
She Can Ask For Humanity.
The greatest ovation ever given tC
a president of the United States was
accorded President Woodrow Wilson
when he came ashore in New York to
review the naval parade.
Half a million persons, who turned
out despite the wind and rain, fren-
ziedly cheered and waved their hats,
and as the brass bands from the bat
tleships in the harbor crashed out
martial music, the demonstration
passed all bounds.
Afterward Joseph Tumulty, the sec
retary of the president, said:
"The president is more affected by
this reception than by anything he
has experienced lately. 1t is the
greatest patriotic outburst have ever
seen."
Following the review, President
Wilson delivered a patriotic address
at the civic banquet in his honor and
stirred an audience of 500 citizens and
officers Of the Atlantic feet into a
wild tumult of applause.
In the course of his speech, which
because OF the present strained state /
of International affairs is taken to be |
highly significant, the president de- /
clared the interesting and inspiring
thing about this country is that it asks
nothing for itself except what it has
a right to ask for humanity. He said
America wants no nations property
and questions no nations honor.
America stands for that which every
nation should wish to stand for, he
said. When a crisis comes in this
country, he declared, it was as if you
put your hands on the pulse of a dy-
namO. He said this spirit was now pre-
vailing in New York, where the great
feet is assembled, not as a threat
against any man or nation, but Just
as evidence that the force of America
is lifted for great moral principles.
The country will contend for nothing ..
else, he said.
Rain continued to fall for about If
teen minutes after the president en-
Tered the reviewing stand He stood
put IN front on the platform, with
Acting Mayor McAneny at his right !
and Secretary of the Navy Daniels at Il
his left. Every time an American flag
,ame into sight in the parade the I
president tipped his hat, and rain, I
tripping down from flags strung y
lcross the top of the platform, spat-
cred on his head.
The rain ceased, however. before
he parade was finished. Both Secre.
ary Daniels, Private Secretary Tu- Al
lulty and other members of the party
7ere thoroughly soaked.
The president took the keenest in ts
crest in the bluejackets. His face n,
canned with smiles as the sailors h,
larched by. His little grandniece, Ann OF
othran, stood with him during a part 81
the parade. His daughter Margaret tn
lso was with him. OF
The program called for Mr.. Wilson's
sturn to the Mayfower Immediately
tier the luncheon. Then the raising til
the presidents flag was the signal tn
lat the commander-in-chief of the
eet was ready to receive formal calls nc
ON its flag officers and captains. tn
This ceremony aaG1pleted, the May 46
)wer weighed anchSr for the review. mi
er course, cleared of all other traf. ed
:, was north between the battleships
Id the Manhattan shore. The May.
,wer's escort was a division Of de.
rogers, followed by the dispatch IA
'at Dolphin, carrying Secretary Dan
Is, and by the feet tender Yankton,
e police boat patrol and the auxil- wa
~ cruiser Dixie. t1a