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| Pessoa and her daughter were charming.
| speaking English nuently and taking an
Interest In all of the lie of the ship. Ny
executive oficer. Commander White,
looked after the party generally, and I
assigned Ensign Leclerc as aid to the
President-eiect. II was q pleasant OUT
come to n ticlslish situation" The Nom
| golian was ordered 10 tow the Jeanne
dArc to the Azores. 600 miles away.
other Noted Passengers.
The Imperator had also as passengers
Mrs Norman Davis. wife of the financial
adviser to the American Peace Commits
sion. and her two daughters; Consul
General Thackera, returning on leave OF
absence from his post at Paris; Major
Gen. Wittenmyer of the Seventy-seventh
Division and Brig Gen. Aultman of the
Seventh-seventh's artillery. She carried
also s.s1s enlisted men and $50 officers
and men. including the Eighth. Seventy
ninth and Eightieth Field Artillery, the
full Fifty-ffth Infantry, the headauar-
ters Of the Seventh Division, the Fourth
Army Corps and the Thirteenth Infantry
Brigade, and numerous small detach-
ments, making q total OF about 10000
service passengers
Tho guns at Forts wadsworth and
Hamilton let go with a crash in n
the Imperator doomed under the green
bluffs at Quarantine in the early after
noon. President-elect PesSoa, his wife
and daughter and some of his stan were
with Capt. Morgan on the bridge when
the great ship slid past Quarantine and
started up the harbor. High overhead
scared an army airplane which showed
the Brazilian flag and skimming along
side were four Of the wickedest looking
destroyers In the American Navy, four
Of the new 40-knot boats. to pace the
giant transport up the bay and North
River From everywhere roundabout
whistles were footing and flags were
dipping. Down in State street. where
the Brazilian consulate 10 located, the
countrymen of DR.. Pessoa were so ex-
uberantly excited that they tossed tele-
phone books out OF the window and ad-
5ourned to dance In the street on
Tompkinsville the battleship North Da-
kota broke out the Brazilian colors and
banged out n twenty-one gun welcome.
as did pesky gunboat lying aft OF The
big gray fighter.
The Mayors Committee welcomsrs had
gone down the bay, Of course. but they
were. rather lost in the shuttle, what with
destroyers and State Department launch
es and other important craft knitting the
salty waters. On board the State De-
rartment boat were Breckenridge Long.
Third Assistant Secretary of State;
Major-Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn. Rear Ad-
mirai w. d. Caperton. John Barrett, Di-
rector General of the Pan-American I'm
ion, and some minor officials. and these
went aboard the transport to greet the
President-elect and to escort him ashore.
Visitor Much Interested.
For a time he was much too interested
In the first wonderful glimpse of New
York to pay much attention to ceremony.
On the bridge with Capt. Morgan he
turned this way and that, his eyes fash
Ing glances to every part Of the horizon.
And then. as the Imperator doomed past
the Liberty Lady. he did a very graceful
thing. He swept his hat from his head
and made the bow that a gentleman
instinctively makes to a lady. And at
that the quick-eyed doughboys crowdlng
the decks raised a terrific yell Of approx
al They were pretty glad to see the Big
Girl themselves, and when the Brazilian
dotted hat and bowed It hit them where
they lived.
Capt. Casey made a neat, quick job of
docking the Imperator He sent her
we'll up the river past Pier 30, as to
allow for the powerful Hood tide, then
swept her around. nose toward Jersey.
In a big beautiful curve, then laid her
nose up against the pier and gently piv-
oted her into her slip. the whole oper-
alton. even for that gigantic bulk, re-
curing little moro than half an hour.
On the upper deck Of the pier Brig
Gen. Peter c. Davidson. commanding the
Port of Debarhation in the absence Of
Major-Gen. David c. Shanks, was all
ready for the welcoming. He had deco
rated the 1000 foot length with the flags
Of all nations and had posted in that
hong corridor a double file of smart In
fantrymen. When President elect Pes
soa stepped over the gangplank with
vice-Admiral Albert N. Cleaves and. fol-
lowed by the other Brazilians and the
American officials, the port band played
the Brazilian national air. everybody
came to attention and the iiles Of infan-
trymen presented arms.
A storm had broken over the city by
that time and the rain was coming down
In sheets. The President-elect and his
party got into limousines waiting under
the sheds of the pier entrance and after
brief delay were driven to the Wal
dorf-Astoria. where they will remain
until they leave for Washington at
A. NJ. to-day.
Included in the party are Capt. Ar
mando Burlanaqui Of the Brazilian
the Brazilian Legation: Marucio Ma
buco of the Brazilian Foreign Office,
and Pessoa de Queiroz. secretary to the
President-elect. the whole party being
composed Of sixteen persons After
being received in Washington By the
United States Government DIR. Pessoa
will return to New York on Wednesday
for a stay Of three days.
To Re Cuest NJ Dsuusr
On Wednesday evening he will be the
guest Of honor at the Waldorf at n din
ner given by the Mayors reception COM
mittee. On Thursday the Pan-American
Society will give a luncheon in his honor
at the Aston, and on Friday Judge Ell
bert II. Gary will be the host at q down.
town luncheon. On Friday the Presi-
dent-elect will be entertained at dinner
by the Coffee Exchange of the United
States. After this round of entertain
ment the Brazilian party will leave for
st. Louis and other Western cities.
Until he has been received formally
by the United States Government DR..
Pessoa feels that his choice OF topics is
restricted. At the Waldorf last evening
he confined himself TO this:
II am very proud and happy to be
In the United States. The cordiality of
the welcome means that there IL real
here for my country and that
their relations will be even more cordial. |
I desire to thank the navy and Capt |
Morgan for the extremely handsome SER
vice they have rendered me, and my
family and stan join earnestly In this
Last night DR.. Pessoa was the guest
of the OfficAra of the BRA zIlian cr,,Iaar |