Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-27
IN THE CHILL OF A DRIVING SNOW STORM MIL, LIONS WAITED FOR E1TrRS IT'LL Ar
 MADA APPEARED
LEADING CIVILIANS IN THE CHEERING WERE
 WOUNDED SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM FRANCE
Memory of Their First Anz Voyage Fresh and They Paid Unstituted Tribute to Brothers in Arms Who Had Guarded Them Cover

who were able to stand came to at- tention and then at the end of the Anthem. broke into a prolonged cheer,
 Guns that waited in vain the chal- lengc of German sea power thundered today Iii salute to the secretary of the navy and to the sovereign citizenship he represents when the flower of the i American battle fleet, home from the war. passed the Statue of Liberty in Q review staged in a setting of Wind- driven snow and low-lying lead en clouds
 Ten uper-dreadnau2hts were fight ing units of the nations wartime arm ada which passed by the secretary on the presidential yacht Alayflower at anchor close 10 the island upon which the statue was scarcely d;scernible in the sWirling snoWstorm. A din of whistles shriekcd welcome but on the shores a vast thr0ng watched in silence, as if awed by the spectacle. As the ships dropped anchor later in the lower eXpanse of the Hudson river, sunshine came through the clouds and touched the decks. and the snow ceas- ed falling
 Secretary of War Baker and host of other officials, national, state and municipal, participated in the cele- bration
 Ten thousand sailors were hurried ashore in launches after the dread nanghts had reached their points of anchorage. and assembled for par ade which took them through Fifth Avenue. They were led by Secretary Daniels himself and the fleet con- mander Admiral Mayo, riding in an automobile, and Admiral Rodman on foot.
 The war fleet entered the harbor as a battle squadron, decks cleared for action and devoid of decorations, save the national and admiraPs flags and the hundred yard long streamers of red. white and blue buntinb, nome bound' pennants denoting foreign service, which trailed gracefully from the main masts.
 | AS the leading vessel came abreast the Mayflower, her band struck up the national anthem and five inch rifle parked in salute. Before the nine teen guns accorded the secretary of the navy had been fired, the second dreadnaught was opposite the presi- dential yacht, joining in the salute. and until the last ship had passed on up the bay the cannonade was continu OuS.
 1 Sailors and marines, approximately | 1000 to a vessel manned the rails, plainly visible through the SHOWS and , mist to observers on the Mayflower and accompanying yachts. i When the fleet was at anchor off Ambrose channel lightship the snow fell so thickly that the dreadnaughts and their escorting cruisers could not be seen from shore.
 Led by the superdreadnaugh Ari-
 zona ten great battleships in com-
 mand of Admiral ->Henry T. Mayo
 the vanguard of America's victory
 fleet in European waters-steamed
 maiestically up New York harbor to- day in review tefore Secretary of 1 thes Navy Daniels and were greeted l with tumultous reception by har-
 bor craft and hundreds of thousands
 of persons who lined the shores. The fleet reached Ambrose channel late yesterday afternoon and rode at an
 chot within sight of the city's lights last night.
 Tic ships weighed anchor at 7:3o o'clock today and escorted by a fleet of 21 airplanes. proceeded slowly up
 the harbor to the Statue ot Liberty
 where Secretary Daniels and party of distinguished guests on the pres
 ;demtial yacht Mayflower reviewed the inspiring procession. The shr1eks of welcoming sirens and whistles
 were drowned by the thunderous sa-
 lute of 19 guns from each battleshlp as it came abreast of the Mayflower
 The dreadnaughts passed up tns Hudson and anchored from 55th te
 I25th streets and preparations ther
 were made for 10,650 men to disem
 bark for the land parade down Flftf
 avenue this afternoon.
 The ships welcomed home alter 's
 months of strenuous patrols of seas
 infested by enemy submarines were the Pennsylvania, the Arizona, ths oklahoma. the Nevada, the Utah, th' T New Pork. the Texas, the Arkansas inc Wyoming and the Florida J Tn addition to Secretary Danleis : tha reviewing party included Secre tary of War Baker. Secretary Of Az 'ricnltnre Houston General Peyton C ,: March. chief of staff of the United States army; Admiral Cant a,,,ee of tn! Continued on page four)