Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-09
Chief Of 4. F. F. IS
GIVEN TREMENDOUS
OVATION ON RETURN
Thousands Greet General
With ThunderouS Cheers,
Sirens of N, Y, Harbor
Craft Add to Reception

NEW YORK, Sept. s.-John J.
Pershing is home again.
Standing on the bridge Of the huge
Leviathan, itself symbolic OF VIC
tory over Germany, the commander
of the greatest host ever gathered
under the stars and stripes, came
slowly up the bay today, world-fam-
ed and hailed as conquering hero
should be.
Sad of face, stern and impressive,
a splendid figure of a soldier, he
might have been thinking, as the
familiar landmarks of New York
came into view, of the day twenty
seven months ago when he slipped
secretly out of the harbor on this
way to France to prepare the way
for the hosts that were to follow.
Then he was only major general.
He came back today with four
stars on his shoulders-the fourth
man to wear them under the Amer
lean flag.
The welcome given him would
have quickened the pulse Of the hero
q
the capitals Of allied Europe where
honors had been heaped upon him. it
remained 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 threats could voice the
oh oil rfc
the greeting that was General Perish
ing's here today. There was hint of
tears in the welcome for those who
gave it knew that not even the
plaudits of a grateful people could
| Danish from the sad-faced soldiers
mind the memory Of his own life's
tragedy.
\ Guns Boom Salute
Dawn barely had broken when the
Leviathan 1oomed through the mists
off Ambrose channel lightship.
Steaming slowly through the narrow
| passageway, the great steamship was
greeted by a convoy of six destroy
ers while aeaplanes circled over
head.
The forts which guard the har-
Dor doomed a generals salute as the
ship which once was the pride OF
Germany swept past quarantine and
nosed through the narrows into the
harbor under the shadow OF the
Statute of Liberty. While the guns
still echoed, the whistles of mer-
chant vessels from the seven seas,
sturdy tugs, gaily decorated ferry
boats, excursion craft Of every kind.
and the sirens of factories on shore
Joined in a discordant salutation.
Hydrop1anes Drop Messages
Messages dropped by a police
hydroplane aboard the giant steam
ship Leviathan at daybreak as she
approached the harbor signalized the
beginning Of the three days recep-
ton to General Pershing by the city
of New York The moment the
Leviathan was sighted along her
harbor path, river craft let loose
whistles in a screaming greeting and
as the former German liner pro-
ceeded through the narrows to Quar-
antine, the din started by the craft
was taken up by sirens throughout
the city.
Vice-President Marshall welcomed
General Pershing from the deck of
the destroyer Blakely. In the vice.
presidents party were Secretary of
War Baker, General Peyton G.
March, chief of staff, other high
officers and members of congress.
Relatives at Pier.
Miss May Pershing and Mrs. But
Ter, sisters of General Pershing from
Lincoln, Nebraska; Mrs. Paddock,
the generals sister-in-law, and his
nephew, James Pershing, met the
communicated as he left the
Leviathan with his son, Warren
| Pershing, ten years old, and his
brother James Pershing.
Tr1umphal Entry
From the moment the Leviathan
reached Ambrose light, a score of
! miles from the city at o'clock,
her progress through the lower and
| upper bays and up the North river
was a veritabIe "triumphal entry"
The waters were dotted with gaily-
caparisoned craft Of all descriptions
darling here and there following
Importantly in the wake of their
colossal sister. Their footing whis-
ties and believing sirens WED with
the roaring cheers from their deck
loads of passengers and the crowds
on shore.
On Bedloe's island. Miss Liberty
stood in statuesque splendor and
paid silent tribute to the man who
had defended all he represents.
A small boatload of army officers
and ever-present newspapermen had
gone down the bay and boarded the
Leviathan off Ambrose light. The Of
fetal reception committee, however,
met the general at pier 4, port OF
embarkation, in Hoboken, after go
ing down the bay in a destroyer.
This included Vice President Mar
shall, Secretary of War Baker. Chief
of Staff March, Lieutenant denefsi
Billiard, Major Generals Barry, Coe,
Ham, Kinds, Ireland, Rogers,
Shanks, Menoher and Williams;
Brigadier Generals Langfitt Hines,
Nolan and Rockenbach; Colonies WAL
cult and Barnum. The group APP
pointed to represent President Will
son included:
Thomas Chadbourne. Allan A. Ry-
an, Harry Payne Whitney, Mortimer
Schiff, ]. l.. Replogle, Hugh Frayne,
Nicholas S. Brady, Cleveland Fl.
idson and William G. McAdoo. In adj
a congressional party.
CURED HER FITS