New-York tribune., 1919-07-09
Parade in HobOken Is
Featured by Singing
of 10000 Children;
Mayors Guard of Honor
Cheered by 1000
In Carnegie Hall
Arrives in Washington at
Midnight to Find City
in Holiday Attire in
Honor Of His Return

Woodrow Wilson, President OF
tho United States, came home yes.
terday, after seven months overseas
during which he helped to change
the map Of the world. But, like any
Of the homesick doughboys who have
entered the harbor since the armis-
tice was signed, he found unlcvely
Hoboken beautiful when he walked
down the gsngplank Of his ship into
that Jersey town.
His country began TO welcome him
when his ship, the giant transport
George Washington, still was miles
out at sea, and the Vice President
Thomas r. Marshall, and the mem.
bers of the Cabinet shouted greet.
ings from the deck Of the gray Penn.
sylvania steaming at the head Of a
column Of destroyers that formed q
lane through which the George
Washington passed on her way 10
Quarantine.
First he heard the guns Of mora
than thirty ships booming stimuli
taneously a twenty-one-gun salute
and then, not long afterward, the
cheers of as many Of his country
men as could line the hills about
New York harkor or get themselves
aboard one Of the myriads Of tiny
craft that sailed gsyly out to meet
him.
10000 Children Sing Greeting
Then he came through the Mar
rows and into a din Of shouts that
never stopped until he left New
York shortly before Z o'clock in tho
evening for Washington and his
own bed in the White House.
It was almost 3 o'clock when the
President arrived at the Hoboken
army pier, formerly the dock Of the
Hamburg American Line. He was
back in New Jersey, the state which
first honored him with a political
office, and 10000 school children
dressed in white were singing for
him as he rode through Hobokcn.
After that he crossed the Hudson
River on a ferryboat and set foot
on Manhattan. Here he received .
formal welcome from the Governor,
the Mayor, gold laced admirals and
medalled generals. But the greetings
that seemed to mean most to him
we're the shouts and cheers OF thou
sands Of his countrymen who lined
the streets through which his auto.
mobile passed on the way 10 Car.
negie Hall.
1000 in Carnegie Hall
But the shouts and cheers in West
Twenty-third Street and Fifth Ave-
nue. we're as nothing to the pro-
longed din that came from nearly
four thousand throats as he entered
Carnegie Hall.
The greatest demonstration, in
length and volume, came when he
stood on the platform of Carnegie
Hall and earnestly declared that the
peace concluded at Paris was "a just
peace, which, if it can be preserved,
will safeguard the world from un-
necessary bloodshed."
The speech at Carnegie Hall was
short and the only recognition the
President gave his opponents was
when he said:
II am afraid some people. some
persons, do not understand that
vision. They do not see it. They have
looked too much upon the ground.
They have thought too much Of the
interests that were near them, and
they have not listened to the voices
, Of their neighbors. ! have never had
a moments doubt as TO where the
heart and purpose Of this people
, lay"
Few Minutes viii Family
There was another mighty roar Of
approval when that short talk was
finished and Mr.. Wilson was nearly
Ipvssxhslmsd BY thu rush Of pssson(