The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-18
America Asks Nothing for
Herself Except That She Has
Right to Ask for Humanity
Nation S Head Given
Splendid Ovation
New York Multitude Gives
Away to Intense Enthusiasm
In Greeting Americas First
Citizen-Tribute to Daniels

Citizen-Tribute to Daniels
New York. May i7.--For Ave
inmates today New YORK Showed
symptoms OF hysterfa in Its
greetings OF President wilson In
Fifth Avenue. Hundreds of
thousands OF persons. running Mp
that avenue I'm a frenzy. bafferen
down police barriers and gave the
President the greatest ovation
this city has given any man. hero
= or Presidents In many years.
President Wilson knew it and war
glad Perhaps he saw in it's the tenn
per of the people towards him this
time. At any rate he smiled and ~.
joiced more like a happy schoolboy
than a schoolmaster. or n Presidenr
vexed by an inter, ationai crisis, and
he must have had this impetuous wel-
come in mind when he spoke an hour
later az the luncheon In his honor &c
the Hotel Biltmore and said:
Il never GO on the streets of q great
| city without feeling that somehow
do not confer elsewhere than on ths
streets with the great spirit of the peo-
! pie Enthusiastically to he stirreds
| not only as individuals. but as mem
bers of a great union OF hearts thAt
| constitute patriotic people.
/ Force of Moral Principle.
! And there stood out In The prest-
dents speech these paragra phs ~
tokens of his spirit and the spirit ~
finds in Just such crowds:
mo threat lifted against any
man. against any nation. against
any interest, but just great sol
eun evidence that the force OF
America IL the force OF moral
principle. that there In not any
ching else that she loves. and that
there Is not anything else for
which she win contend"
And again;
america asks nothing for herself
except that she has right to ask for
humanity ITSELF And yet again:
/ $50 with every man i'm arms wls0
serves the nation. he stands and waits
10 do the hing which .he naftoe he
stres.''
/ IF President Wilson left washinE-
ton worried over events across the
seas. he gave no sign Of It when ne
! got here today, He was the Only one
aboari his yacht. the Mayfnwer. who
| did not suffer from seasickness on the
| trip into this narbor H0 came ashore
Mt West Forty-first street shortly alter
10 O'Clock, looking healthily bronxed.
good humored and ready to meet corr
diality half way. A
He rode to the reviewing stanI IN
front of the public library with
ECyclopean guard Of two troops Of
mounted policemen and three cars
of secret service agents, AT the re-
viewing stand there were five hundred
extra policemen and 325 detectives
in plain clothes.
Cheering Along Route.
Hand-clapping and cheering accom-
panied President Wilson along the
route to the reviewing stand and into
his place beneath the arbor OF dog
wood. carnation and iris blossoms
with a canopy of flags and with IN
boxes OF roses and lilies of the val-
ley, Rain fell, drizzied, and leaked
through the canopy. while the grand
stand and the sidewalks were awash
with q sea of umbrellas.
Many companies OF the bluejacketa
filed past the President with hardly
q ripple from the crowd. Not until B
the Louisiana's crew came swinging
along and struck up Dixie" did the
crowd warm their hands briskly,
This tune set the President asSmil.
ing and tickled Secretary OF the Navy
Daniels. who stood Mt his side. while
Acting Mayor McAneny and Admiral
Fletcher were the highest officers and
officials close about the President. Al
though there was baby Anna Cochran,
the Presidents grandniece. who waa s
held up beside the President. 3a
The parade was from 1890 to llsf0 I
passing. and then a young man with
megaphone shouted from the NTH
floor window OF building across from
the reviewing stand. avThf cheers y
for President wilson. II;
Crowd Wild Over Wilson.
That seemed to be the signal for thu
ma MA ef fha crowd Ia xhow all the