New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-27
Hvlan Deserts His
Welcoming Board
To Join Daniels
Occupies Place Apart on the
MayHover, While Hearst
and 1000 Others Gel,
Aboard Motley Squadron

Mayor Hvlan deserted his commit
tee o. welcome yesterday morning
when that depleted body went down the
bay to meet the incoming battleships.
The Mayor occupied place apart on
the Mayfower, used for the official
review by the Secretary of the Navy.
The Mayor was to have sailed ON
the police boat Patrol, which carried
the most important members OF the
committees, with their guests, and his
change of plans was not announced
until just before the vessel left its
landing at the Battery. Then Grover
Whalen, the Mayors secretary, told
newspapermen that the Mayor would
be on the Federal craft instead
Many OF those invited were plainly
piqued by this last minute detection
of the Mayor, but their feelings were
assuaged shortly by an al fresco
breakfast Of sandwiches and coffee &C
companiod by band, and the first
sight of the gray-clad dreadnoughts.
1000 in City Party
The committee, city officials, Tam
many henchmen, their friends and
families, to the number Of 1000, made
up the party which left the Battery at
9 o'clock in the strangest squadron
ever gathered together in the river.
One ferrybo one fishing steamer,
one craft used ordinarily to take in
mates to Blackwell's Island and other
corrective institutions and another
city-owned boat, in addition to the
Mayorless welcoming party.
William Randolph Hearst with Mrs
Hearst, was among those on the Patrol
Special Deputy Police Commissioner
Rodman Wanamaker, chairman of the
Mayors committe Sir Frank Bar
nard, Governor of British Columbia;
Ebert H. Gary, Police Commissioner
Richard Z. Enright, John McCooey,
Charles L. Craig, Robert f. Moran, act
ing president OF the Board of Alder
men; Maurice Connolly President of
Queens; Colonel William t. Wood
George W Loft Dr.. John A Harriss
and Deputy Police Commissioner Fred
erick A. Wallis shared in the disap-
pointment.
Mayors DAUGHTER on Boat
The Mayors daughter. Miss Virginia
Hylan, stayed on the Patrol, too, and
consoled the women of the party, in
Guiding Mrs. Gurnee Mum. daughter
of Commissioner Wanamaker; Mrs.
Lydig Hoyt. Mrs. Charles T. Murphy,
Mrs. Enrght, Mrs. Wallis and Mrs.
Craig
The five vessels, each almost hidden
by canvas coverings on which We're
painted mayors Committee of Wei
come" took their anchorages off the
Statue of Liberty The Highlander was
E -,
the ferryboat Queens, the Department
of Correction boat Correction, the
Fidelity and the Patrol, but when the
excursion boat did not appear by 9
o'clock, the fishing boat Taurus was
impressed. and a thousand impatient
guests piled on board.
The substitution of the Taurus at
the last minute resulted in an event
not on the regular programme-the
arrest of the vessel for violating or
ders for harbor craft during the re-
view. When the Mayors fleet Of five
boats. after the review, was following
the Mayhower up the river, a speedy
patrol boat shot up to the Taurus, and
an officer hailed the captain.
Fishing Boat Interned
you're under arrest. Put in to
the nearest dock was the curt mega
phoned command. As the officer in
question happened to be Captain Car
den, Captain Of the Port, the Taurus
started TO obey. Then it was learned
that the fishing boat had been interned
because of the order that no vessel
was to pass Fifty-ninth Street until
given permlssion
The Taurus, having been selected at
the last minute. bore no official banner
or insignia, and was mistaken for an
excursion boat. When the error fl
nally was communicated to Captain
Garden, after delay of half an hour,
an inspection of the written orders to
the Taurus followed and the boat was
permitted to continue its trip.
The Mayors fleet went up to 10th
Street before making it's first landing.
Here many OF the junketers landed. al
though they were offered a long vow
age around the battleships and down
again to the Battery.
The Correction, of which James A..
Hamilton, Commissioner of Correc-
tion, was host, was another of the
Mayors fleet to suffer Inconvenience.
Submarine Chaser Clears WAY
, The boat was Just about to droD
y ancnor IN Favorable spot near the
Statue OF Liberty when a submarine
chaser rushed uD and ordered her TO
move on. he Correction steamed to
another anchorage and took up her
stand IN back of the Taurus.
-. supreme Court Justices John M.
Ilerney, Barlow S. Weeks. James G
Van Sicklen. John b. McAvov and
isaac vi. kapper were among the Cor
rectlon's guests. Others were sheriff
David Knott, DR.. William l.. Ettinper.
superintendent of Schools; Police In.
spector John J. Cray. David Hersh-
relo' Commlssloucr Of Accounts;