The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-09-11
PERSHINC
REACHES HOME
Hundreds Of Thousands Greet World
Famous Commander Of
A. Z. +.

New YORK, ept S.-Generai J0nn j.
P~ershing. home from his victories in
France, today took Greater New York
by storm.
Representatives Of every part Of the
nation, gathered here. gave him one
of the greatest welcomes ever accord
ed a returning soldier.
Hundreds of thousands OF persons
afoat and ashore. shouted their enthus
iasm. From the time his ship, the
transport Leviathan. arrived at Am
brose light until the general reached
his headquarters In a hotel, there was
an almost continuous din of cheering
and screetch of whistles, in%terspersed
by the o a of saluting guns.
Pershing. greeted at Hoboken by
military and civil officials and present
ed with his commission as general.
was forced TO exert his famous stole
ism to the utmost to repress his emo
ton.
Standing on the bridge of the huge
Leviathan, itself symbolic Of victory
over Germany, the commander of the
greatest host ever gathered under the
Stars and Stripes. came slowly up the
bay today, world famed and hailed as
a conquering hero should be.
Sad of face. stern and impressive. q
splendid figure of a soldier, he might
have been thinking as the familiar
landmarks of New York came into
view of the day "a mouths ago when
he slipped secretly out OF he harbor
on his way to France to prepare the
way for the hosts that we're TO follow.
Then he was only a major genera.
He came back today with four stars
on his shoulders-the fourth man to
wear them under the american flag
The welcome given him would have
quickened the pulse Of the hero OF a
Roman triumph. Fresh from the
capitals OF Allied Europe where hon
ors had been heaped upon him, 1t re-
NAMED for New York to show the
first American to lead an army across
the Atlantic that Home Sweet Home"
has a meaning deeper than "Hail to
the Chief"
No foreign throats could voice the
cheers, no alien hearts could pulse
the greeting that was General Perish
ing's here today. There was a hint
Of tears I'm the welcome for those who
gave 1t knew that not even the plaud-
it's of a grateful people could Danish
from the sad faced soldiers mind the
memory OF his own ilfe's tragedy.
Dawn barely had broken when the
Leviathan doomed through the mists
of Ambrose Channel iightship. Steam
ing slowly through the narrow pas
sageway the great steamship was
greeted by a convoy of six destroyers
while seaplanes circled overhead. The
forts which guarded the harbor boom
ed a generals salute as the ship which
was once the pride of Germany, crept
past quarantine and nosed through
the narrows into the harbor under the
shadow of the statue of Liberty.
While the guns still echoed the whis-
ties OF merchant vessels from the
seven seas, sturdy tugs, gaily decorat-
ed ferryboats, excursion craft of every
kind and the sirens of factories on
shore Joined in a d~iscordant saluta-
ton.
The shores of Staten Island. Brook.
lyn, New Jersey and Manhattan werc
lined with thousands whose shouts OF
greeting came family across the wa
tiers of the bay to the familiar figure
on the bridge. They made up the van
guard of the vast army of the well
Corners who had already packed Bat
terry park and overfowed into the
streets beyond. waiting until General
P~ershing had been greeted by Vice
president T. r. Marshall and Sec
rotary Of War Baker and was ready
to cross the river to the great city
that was eager to pay him tribute.
The great liner came up to it's pier
az 500 a. M. ad as 1t was being berthed
there was a tremendous volley of
cheering from the crowd. General
P~ershing. smiling in appreciation,
with head barred, bowed repeatedly
Once he forgot his dignity in his en-.
thusiasm at returning home and wav.
ed his cap as he saluted the happy
thropg.
At the pier were many d~ignitaries
OF nation. state and city and it was
there he was welcomed on behalf Of
? the nation.
The First Divisions band of Ion
pieces on board the ship. the members
of which had served throughout al
the hghtRg in which the veteran uni
had been engaged. began playing II
response to the welcoming strain
from the pier and Cheer, Cheer. tn