New-York tribune., 1919-10-03

came director Of the bureau of finan-
cial questions in the ministry Of eco
nomic affairs. He has been secretary
to the King since last January. He
is forty years old.
Charles Graux is secretary to the
Queen. During the war he was in the
health department of the army. He
is forty-two years old.
Lieutenant Colonel Nolf is a grad
uate of the School oe Medicine vi
Liege, where he is now professor
He is the physician to their majes-
ties.
When everybody had been introduced
Vice President Marshall cscorting
King Albert, started down the lane Of
soldiers, followed by the rest Of the
party, as nearly paired by rank as the
almost distracted breckenridge Long
could fix it, Queen Elizabeth was with
Mrs Marshall and Prince Leopold with
Secretary Lansing, but who followed or
IA what order may never ne known to
any but those In the proces5lol, for
none had eyes for any but royalty in
this place whele royalty seldom come S.
The German Line piers in Hoboken
are long. Major General Shanks didn t
have enough soldiers available, evi-
IDENTIFY, to line both sides clear to the
exit, and about half the distance was
guarded by lines of Red Cross workers.
Salvation Army girls, both in overseas
uniform and in the black frocks and
poke bonnets of the reyivalists; Y. NJ
c. A. girls, knights OF Columbus girls
and stlll other girls in the uniform of
army signal corps telephone operators
Longshoremen First to Cheer
King Albert. who has accustomed
himself to walk long distances with his
hand at his cap visor, travelled almost
the entire length of the pier with his
hand in that position, smiling now and
then at the young women on either
side
1t was not until he had descended
the stairs to the pier portco end
climbed into a glass inclosed auto
mobile that anybody remembered that
he hadn't been properly cheered But
the longshoremen eating their mid
day meal from newspaper wrappings
did not forget and it was from their
throats that the Belgian rulers got
their first idea Of real American
greeting.
Then the line Of motor cars started
out the gate, turning into River Street,
lined on both sides by boy and girl
scouts, who had been there for more
than an hour, oblivous of the rain.
AT 12:2S p. N. all of the party in
their motors were aboard the ferryboat
Ithaca, of the Lackawanna, bound for
Twcnty-third Street Manhattan, which
they reached in twelve minutes, every
one remaining in the automobiles dur
ing the short voyage
New York had not been informed in
advance of the route to be followed
by the party from the ferry to the
hotel, due to some diplomatic ex-
changes between the State Depart.
ment and Mayor Hylan, who did not
want the splendor Of to-days recep-
ton dimmed by the memory of any
thing that had gone before-so with
the exception of a throng about the
Waldorf the procession passed through
normal street throng, followed by q
DIN Of cheers that might have made
larger crowd proud
Police Open Up Lane
Police Inspector John OBrlon was
at the Twenty-third Street ferry house
with squad of motorcycle policemen
and these opened lane through
traffic east OH Twenty y-third Street to
Fifth Avenue and then north in Fifth
Avenue to the Louis Sherry entrance
Of the Waldorf in Thirty-third Street
The George Washington weighed an
chor off Ambrose Channel about 8
O'Clock yesterday morning. Soon after