The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1919-02-27
PRESIDENT WILSON
ARRIVES HOME
Given Great Reception On Landing
At Boston

Boston, Feb. 24.-President Wilson
landed at Commonwealth Pier at 11:42
a. m.
President Wilson was the guest OF
Boston today. The city was not alone,
however, in extending the chief exc
cutive a welcome home, for thousands
of persons from all parts of New Eng
land arrived to swell the throng in
the streets along which it was ar
ranged he was to pass on his way
from Commonwealth Pier to his hotel
For the greater part of the crowd this
was the only opportunity to see the
! president, for Mechanics hall, where
he was to speak, seats but 1000 per-
sons and tickets to its capacity were
allotted several days ago. The build
ings all along the route of the parade
were ablaze with flags and bunting,
! and recognition of the international
character of the presidents recent
activities was shown with the fire.
quent display of the flags of the ma
tions which were allied with the Unit
ed States during the a
The steamer George Washington
dropped anchor in the harbor late
Sunday night. The president and his
party remained abroad the vessel IN
ri morning
The most thrilling moment of the
voyage was on Sunday afternoon
when it was discovered the steamer,
steaming in a heavy fog, was headed
straight for Hatcher's island. off Cape
Anne. The engines were reversed
and the ship was stopped 1000 yards
from shore, in deep water.
A short DISTANCE from Boston har-
Dor the George Washington was met
by an escort of eight submarine chas-
ers. 1t had been arranged that the
Ossipee and the George Washington
should then leave for New York to
land the 1000 troops which had sailed
with the president.
The storm which had ragged over
the coast passed seward, leaving the
harbor calm. q
Along the water front crowds
watched the welcoming fleet meet the
George Washington, and both boats
and factories let loose their whistles
when the Ossipee went alongside the
steamship, and the din could be heard
sor miles.
Returning TO American soil from
his history making trip abroad, the
president, accompanied by Mrs. Will
son, was transferred in the lower har-
Dor from the steamship George Wash
ington and escorted by airplanes, sub
marine chasers and a fiotilla of other
boats and taken abroad the Ossipee.
The president looked as though the
journey had agreed with him His
step was brisk and his features show
ed rather more than a trace of sea
tan. In the great shed of the pier
built by the state and taken over by
the navy department at the beginning
of the war as a housing place for re-
cruits, there were assembled hum
dreds of state and city officials, legis-
lators, representatives of the federal
government and a committee of wo-
men appointed to receive Mrs. Wilson.
After the president and Mrs. Will
son and the members OF the party
had been transferred to the Ossipee
and as the boat came abreast of the
pier. the presidential salute OF TWEEN
ty-one guns was fired. Conveying
seaplanes swept overhead, flying in
circles, to keep abreast of the Ossi-
pee.
President Wilson's reception IN
Boston today was characterized by
| those who travelled with him through
Europe as being fully as demonstra-
tive as any he received in England
France or Italy.