New-York tribune., 1919-07-07
Plan Reception
For President.
Due Tomorrow
Governor and Mayor to Go
Down the Bay to Meet
Transport, Which Will
Dock at 4 O'clock

The transport George Washington,
with President and Mrs. Wilson aboard,
is expected to dock at Hoboken at a
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Three
quarters Of an hour later, if the sched-
ule of the Mayors Committee of We'll
come is followed, Mr.. Wilson will be
seated on the platform of Carnegie
Hall in the midst Of reception and
entertainment arranged in his honor.
Arrangements for the reception and
entertainment are to be completed this
afternoon at a meeting in the Hall of
Records of the executive committee of
the Mayors Committee of Welcome.
Rodman Wanamaker is chairman and
Grover Whalen, Commissioner of Plant
and Structures, is secretary. Joseph P.
Tumulty, secretary to the President.
has been invited to attend the meeting.
Commissioner Whalen said last night
that he platform at Carnegie Hall is
to be occupied by the President, the
members of his Cabinet, others Of his
omclal famlly and the three hundred
members of the Mayors committee.
Governor to Meet Steamship
The George Washington will be met
down the bay by the police boat Patrol.
having on board Governor Alfred Smith,
Mayor Hylan, Rodman Wanamaker and
others Of the Mayors committee; the
steamboat Correction, with other mem
bers of the Mayors committee and in
yited guests; the ferryboat Mayor
Gaynor, with relatives and friends of
troops returning on the George Wash
lngton, and numerous feet Of smaller
craft, all dressed with flags and bunt-
ing and with bands playing.
From the foot of West Twenty-third
Street, where the Presidential party
will be landed, if present plans are
followed, to Carnegie Hail. the process
sion will be headed by a squad of
three platoons of mounted policemen,
then an army band from Governors
Island and an automobile containing
eight New York police detectives.
Next will come the car of President
and Mrs. Wilson, containing also, ac-
cording to Commissioner Whalen, Gov
ernor Smith and Mayor Hylan.
Thanking that car and slightly be-
hind it will be two automobiles filled
with United States Secret Service men.
Notables in the Procession
In the next car will be Vice-Pre
dent and Mrs. Marshall, Secretary Jo-
seph Tumulty and Rodman Wana-
maker.
In the third car will be Miss Mar
garet Wilson, William Gibbs McAdoo,
former Secretary of the Treasury, and
Mrs. McAdoo, daughter of the Presi-
dent, and Miss Behan, secretary to
Mrs. Wilson.
In car number four there will he
Secretary of War Baker, Secretary of
the Treasury Glass and Judge Martin
I. Manton, chairman of the Mayors
general citizens committee.
In the fifth car will be Postmaster
General Burleson, Secretary Daniels of
the Navy Department, Secretary Lane
OF the Department Of the Interior and
Secretary Houston of the Departm ent
of Agriculture.
In the sixth car will be Secretary
Redfeld Of the Department of Com
mer and Secretary Wilson of the De-
partment of Labor, and in Car other
members Of the Presidents staff in
Paris-Bernard Baruch, Vance McCor-
mick and Thomas Lamont. In car 8
will be Rear Admiral James H. Glen
non, Major General Thomas Barry,
Judge Ebert H. Gary and Harry F.
Sinclair. Members of the general citi-
zens' committee will follow in auto
mobiles, travelling three abreast.
From the foot of West Twenty-third
Street the procession will 20 east to
Fifth Avenue, thence north to Fifty
seventh Street, west in Fifty-seventh
Street and then south on Seventh Ave
nue. to Fifty-sixth Street, where the
President will enter Carnegie Hall
through the stage entrance.