Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-18
Stands in Rain with Barred Head to Acknowledge
 Plaudits of Thousands.
G4 SEA FIGHTERS
 IN ATLANTIC FLEET
Two Suffragettes Receive Rebuke from Tnmulty When They Slight- ingly Refer to President, to Whom
 They Sought to Give Letter.


 New York, May 17.-President Will son reviewed here today the mighties armada the United States has ever assembled. In the morning he saw the sailors and marines march 1 through the streets with banners fly. l ing and millions of spectators cheer :! ing. In the afternoon he passed in 1 the yacht Mayflower up and down 1 miles of war craft anchored in the ! Hudson river.
 After the review the president was given the most enthusiastic reception he has received since entering the white house. The crowds on fifth avenue were so big that they blocked his way to the Biltmore hotel for fully ten minutes. The president violated all his own precedents and custom by standing up in his car with barred head in acknowledgement to the crowd in the drizzling rain.
 Two suffragettes, describing them selves as Miss Florence Harmon secretary to Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont president of the Congressional union for Woman Suffrage, and Miss Mabel Schofield, camped outside the dining room of the Hotel Biltmore today while President Wilson was a lunch leon. They said they had letter from Mrs. Belmont which they were to present to the president. Failing tc see him, they asked Secretary Humility if he would take the letter to Mir. Wilson.
 | MT. Tumulty said he would, where upon one of the suffragettes remark ed.
 ''The president is the finest little evader on the suffrage question we ever saw"
 Thereupon, MT. Tumulty said he would not take in the letter. When Mir. Wilson left the hotel the women tried to throw it into his car but failed.
 It was day characterized by the greatest patriotic enthusiasm here The metropolis was gaily decor ated Tens of thousands of visitors had come here from other points of the ] country. Everywhere the officers and men of the Atlantic fleet, the cabi- net officials and the presidential par. ty found a great welcome awaitine them.
 The naval brigade landed about nine o'clock this morning at West Twenty. third street from the war ships, which have been here nine days to let the men have the holidays they had earn. ed by months of drills, maneuvers anG target practice.
 While the parade was starting, thu president landed from the lMayflower anchored in the Hudson. and proceed ed to the reviewing stand built ir Fifth avenue before the public Ii brary.
 The line of march of the maya brigade was through Twenty-fiftl street to Fifth avenue. to Fifty-nintf street, to Central Park west, to Sev enty-seventh street, to the North riv CT, where the brigade embarked a West Seventy street.
 The crowds along the way hay. never been matched, not even at tn, time of the Hudson-Fulton celebra tion. The climax of the enthusiasm was reached at 10:30 when the hea, of the procession passed the presi dents stand.
 As soon as the parade had passed and the crowd had dispersed littl the president drove through cheering throngs to the Biltmore hotel, wher' luncheon was given by the commit tee appointed by Mayor Mitchell, Cor nelius Vanderbilt acting as chai1 man Acting Mayor George McAneny pre- sided and President Wilson made al address which was punctuated witt frequent applause.
 About one thousand guests sa down with the president. It wa } probably the most elebarote Luncheon ever given here Besides the presi dent the speakers included Secretary o } the Navy Daniels. Admiral Fletche and Major General Leonard Wood. , The president then returned to tn ], Mayflower, where he hoisted his fla at 3 o'clock this afternoon. He re ceiyed the flag officers and captain of the fleet. At 3:3O the Mayflowe
 got under way, followed by the Dol !. phin and the Yankton and steame north.
 The president reviewed the fleet a anchor, passing between the battle ships and the shore to the vicinity q i, washington Point and thence bac x between the battleships and the de l. stroyer ,flotilla, the latter being sta Il tioned to the west of the main In
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