New-York tribune., 1918-12-25

state vii be 1oubly represented by
1overnor Whitman and Governor Elect
smith, who will meet for the first time
SINCE the close of the campaign on
BOARD the Presidential yacht.
Although only wearers of service
stripes will take part in the parade it.
sell, there will be another parade half
an hour ahead of the official one. This
one VIII consist of 5000 to 1000 boy
scouts, who will march down Fifth
avenue. form in lines on both sides of
the street, thanking the reviewing
stands. AS Tie sailors parade. the
boy scouts will sing patriotic songs of
welcome.
Polce arrangements are said to be
AS thorough as ever provided for any
such parade. 1t Is expected the crowds
will he greater than at any of the nu-
merous patriotic demonstrations dur
ing the last months of the war.
Turkey For Men Now Here
There is just one way in which the
men of the West Atlantic Flcet-the
tighting ships that now arc tied up in
the river awaiting the arrival of their
more fortunate sisters from overseas
have the best of the present situa-
tion
While the service hardened crews of
the overseas fleet are eating a Christ
mas dinner of whatever the ships de-
pietcd lardcrs otfer-and the wireless
operators have not said what this is
the crews, of the ships now at anchor
OFT Manhattan shores, will have all
the turkey they can eat. Their turkey
dinner will include plenty of sweet
potatoes, mince pies and othor deli
cacies, all prepared i'll a way that be-
longs to battleship cooks" alone.
There will be many visito>s to share
Christmas joys with the sailors.
Launches will do a prosperous bust
ness between the docks and the big
their places just off 129th Street late
yesterday. The Mississippi and the
New Mexico, biggest of the ships now
in the harbor, were the chief objects
of interest as usual, and it is expected
that they will continue to be the goal
of the crowds to-day.
Many Entertainments Arranged
Friends of the bluejackets have
found many ways of entertaining and
feeding them when they come ashore
to-day.
In order to provide for them, the
New York War Camp Community Serv-
ice, has made arrangements to keep
open the five headquarters units
twenty-four hours each day until Janu-
ary q Men will be provided with sleep
ing quarters if they apply to any of
these five units, which are: Brooklyn
headquarters, 1913 Schcrmerhorn Street
the Trinity Service Club, 90 Trinity
Place; Unit No. 5, 55 West Twenty
seventh Street; The War Camp River
side Club, Riverside Park at Ninety
seventh Street, and War Camp Unit
No. 2, at 70 Manhattan Street Busses
Will run from these units all day and
night, and sailors will be taken to their
sleeping quarters at any hour by this
transportation. Additional beds and
cots have been placed in various units
OF the War Camp, so that it will be
possible to take care of MANY more
thousands than usual. The New Perish
ing Club for officers, Madison Avenue
at Forty-fourt Street, will have 500
extra cots: the S. A. T. c.. barracks at
Columbia University will also be avail
able. and the War Camp has loaned 500
cots to the Y. NJ. C. A. for use in their
! buildings
In addition to the sleeping accommo-
dations, the War Camp has arranged
tor Its clubs and canteens to take
care of all the sailors who care to eat
IN them. Many entertainments have
been arranged, the chief of which is
dance at the list Regiment Armory
"here partners will be provided for
more than 5000 men. The War Camr
also has thousand of theatre tickets
which will be given the men Of the
fleet during Christmas week.
Original Plans Nav Stand
Herbert c. Hoover, American Food
Administrator, and Edward N Hurlcv
chairman of the American Shipp;ne
board, called on President Wilson bv
appointment late yesterday. Mr.. Hoo
ver's visit was in connection with the
great problem of provisioning sections
OF Europe where great food shortage
exists or is threatened as the result
OF the overrunning Of the country by
German troops, or by exhaustion OF
the inability of the inhabitants to
find labor to till the soil.
Suggestions that relief work ir
these sections be placed in the hands
of an international committee have
come from some Entente countries, but
II now seems assured that the origina
| plans of the Administration in thi:
matter will be adhered to.
Hoover Probable Director
1t is probable the work of supplying
food will be retained under one heaC
in the interest Of rapidity Of actor
and efficiency. This head, it seem.
certain, will be Mr. Hoover who has
prepared tentative plans for the ex
tension Of the machinery he already
has created for the relief of devastated
portions of Belgium and France.
Mr.. Hurley talked with Mr.. Wilson
on shipping subjects. One feature o,
the problem under consideration is the
application Of the French government
for permission to rehabilitate it's mer
chant marine through the use Of grea
American shipbu!lding plants which
were developed to meet war needs
The French government already has
through Captain Andre Tardieu, wher
he was French High Commissioner tc
the United States, reminded Mr. vii
son that France was compelled, in the
common interest of the Entente. tc
completely suspend the construction O
merchant ships.
Can't Replace Sunken Ships
M. Tardieu at that time told tht
President that France could not ever
undertake to replace ships destroyed
by German and Austrian submarines i
she turned her great shipbuidin.
plants into munition factories to sup
ply the Entente armies with artiller,
and ammunition. He explained tha
the end of the war therefore woult
find France almost without ships ant
dependent upon foreign bottoms 70,
tonnage if her appeal for aid wa;
unheeded.