New-York tribune., 1917-07-18
Welcomed at City Hall
Park by Mayor
Raymond
Tell of First GasAttack
Pipers Appeal to All British
ers to Enlist and Defeat
the Kaiser

Forssking for a few hours yesterday
New York's hospitality, the visiting
Scotch Canadian "kiltes" journeyed to
Newark, and there were received WIN
a hearty good will and "a storm oil
cheers. exceeding in volume even those
with which New York had greeted
them the day before.
Cheering thousands surrounded the
Canadians everywhere they went
Throngs ten deep watched them marcn
down Broad Street in the early after
noon, and almost stopped the progreSa
of the Highlanders and the 3OO Ne"
Jersey Guardsmen who were tnelr es-
cort. The police were swamped IN inc
rush, ana only when score OF motor
cycle and mounted men took the sl'ud-
ton i'm hand was a way forced through
the crowds for the troops to proceed 70
the place of official welcome by Mayor
Raymond in front of the gayly deco
rated City Hall. -.
the crowds. Following recruiting meet
ines in the afternoon in the parks, the
men of the Highland contingents dined
as guests of the city, while their ofil-
GERS and Brgadier General White were
entertained at the Essex Club, with
Peter Campbell, member OF Mayor
Ravmond's recruiting committee, as
host
When the klties left for dinner en-
thusiasm for a time died down, only
TO be renewed twofold when the vlsl-
tors marched to Military Park in the
early evening for a recruiting meeting
there Only three speeches had been
made when heavy thundershower
swept down on the crowd. For a few
minutes il stood its ground, and then,
as the rain came down hard, it fed.
Piped TO Crowd in Hotel .
The pipers sought refuge in the lobby
Of the Robert Treat, Newark's big new
hotel. and as result the city was
I treated to perhaps the strangest re-
cruiting meeting since the war began.
, The skirling of the bagpipes began in
the handsome room, and all of the
crowd that could find room rushed in.
Many of the men were coatless. The
! men and women were from every walk
and condition of life. and while the
pipes played, while pipers danced the
/ Highland fling and afterward while
T General white, Mayor Raymond and
others spoke the crowd filed through
the doors and pushed up the broad en-
trance stairs until almost 1000 persons
had filed the lobby. .,
The band and the pipers played
Dixie" "Marching Through Georgia
and other patriotic and popular Amer.
lean tunes. Then came the strains of
"The Star-Spangled Banner and last.
/ ". at the Mayors request, all joined
Z in singing "America" or God Save the
King" according as to the citizenship
of those in the room.
At 9 o'clock the men Of the two
Canadian commands returned to New
York, their seEd-otf being one OF the
outstanding features Of the day. Be
tween lines of members Of the Newark
Scottish societies, in uniform and at
salute, the visitors marched with bag
pipes PLAYING to the Park Place sta
tion. which was stormed by 5000 per
sons, who beat upon the gates and
cheered and sang Scotch songs in fare
well.
Gas Story Brings Recruits
Nor was the day devoid Of tangible
returns. Tor recruits enrolled at the
tents in the parks in large numbers.
Quick response was made 70 the Oft
told tale of the first German gas at
tack at Ypres, where Hindenburg's
armies. rushing on toward Calais, were
turned back by a perilously thin line Of
Canadian steel.
"Such men as those Canadians are
calling TO you out there now" was the
appeal. and the recruits feard. Def
mite figures cannot be tabuated until
to-day, but ia the hour after the first re-
cruiting meeting, at one ;ent out Of
many. thirty-three men applied for en-
lstment in the British armies. Re-
cruiting for the American army and the
New Jersey National Guard was also
brisk because Of the Canadians visit.
Seven men volunteered and received
rousing cheers at the meeting in the
hotel, in response to General Whites
and Mayor Raymonds words, followed
By Ma jor Robinson's appeal 10 all Irish
men TO join the Stars and Stripes or
the Union Jack. "to knock hell out of
the Kaiser and show him that he
counted wrongly on Ireland"
Waved Bonnets in Farewell
Newark's last look at its visitors re-
vealed a group Of the Canadians stand
ing on the rear platform of the New
YORK bound tram. waving their oonnets
and shouting insistently that some day
they would come back.
To-day the kilties will man recruit
ing tents in Madison Square, Union
Square and City Hall Park, and the
ppers will aid the work of recruiting
by riding TO many parts of the city
atop Fifth Avenue buses and giving
impromptu concerts. They will take
mart also in enccial rnnptiro IN tho
land battleshp Recruit, in Union
Square, which will be a send-off for 100
United States navy rockies.
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