The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-09
Voice of Army Leader in World
War Trembled With Emotion
as He Acknowledged Demon
strations of Recognition.
COMMISSION AS FULL
GENERAL PRESENTED
Secretary Baker, in an impress
sive Address, Pays High Tri-
butte to Man Who Led Ameri-
can Army to Victory.

New York, Sept. S.-General PerSh-
! ing was greeted with a tumultuous
roar of welcome from hundreds o.
i thousands of throats on returning
home today. Secretary Baker pre-
sented his commission as full general.
Pershing's voice trembled with emo
tion as he replied to greetings.
When he first landed Pershing
seemed embarrassed. On the route of
March TO the city hall there was bed
lam of noise and a riot of color. AT
the city hall a woman broke through
the lines and implanted a sound kiss
on Pershing's cheek. Another tried it,
but the general raised his hand, say
ing: "Oh, madam, please don't. Not
that"
Messages dropped by police hydro
airplane aboard the giant steamship
Leviathan at daybreak, as she APP
preached the harbor, signalized the
beginning of the three days reception
to General Pershing by the city of
New York. The moment the Leviatha.
was sighted, steamers along her in
bound path let loose their whistles
in screaming greeting, and as the
former German liner proceeded
through the narrows to quarantine,
the din started by the harbor craft
was taken up by sirens throughout
the city.
The messages dropped by the police
flyer welcomed the general on behalf
of the city, and We're signed by Mayor
Hy1an and Rodman wanamaker.
chairman OF the mayors committee of
welcome to home coming troops.
From aboard the city steamer Patrol,
Mayor Hylan, Governor Smith, and
other notables greeted the returning
soldiers on behalf of the city and
state. Vice. President Marshall well
coined General Pershing from the deck
OF the destroyer Blakely In the vice.
presidents party We're Secretary of
War Baker, General Peyton C. March.
chief of staff, other high officers, and
members of congress.
FROM a. m, when the Leviathan
arrived at her dock in Hoboken. until
late tonight General Pershing's first
day on the home shore was filled with
receptions and luncheons and con-
ciuded with a theatre party.
MISS May Pershing and Mrs. Butler.
sisters OF General Pershing from Lin
coin. Neb, Mrs. Paddock, the generals
sister-in-law and his nephew, James
Pershing. met the commander-in chief
as he left the Leviathan with his son.
Warren Pershing, 10 years old and
his brother, James Pershing, of Chi
cago.
General Pershing with his staff will
occupy the entire third floor of the
Waldorf Astoria hotel. A force of ho-
tel employees has been working for a
week to get the generals, private suit
OF ten rooms in readiness TO rthe dis
tinguished visitor and the decorations
and arrangements. for the big banquet
night will surpass anything
ever achieved before by the hotel.
for this dinner have been
and the mayors COM
mittee will send tickets to applicants
in the order in which they were filed |
so that the late reservations will not
be accommodated.
Standing on the bridge of the huge
Leviathan, itself symbolic of victory
over Germany, the commander of the
greatest host ever gathered under the
Stars and Stripes, came slowly up the
bay today, world d-famed and hailed as
a conquering hero should be
Sad of face stern and impossible, a
splendid figure of soldier, he might
have been thinking, as the familiar
view. Of the day twenty-seven months |
ago when he slipped secretly out of |
the harbor on his 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
since Washington to wear them under
the American flag
The welcome given Shim would have |
quickened the pulse of the hero OF a
Roman triumph. Fresh from the |
capitals of allied Europe, where honors |
had been heaped upon him II re-
mained for New York to show the first /
American to lead an army across. the
Atlantic that Home, Sweet Home, i
has a meaning deeper than Hail 10 /
the Chief
No foreign throats could voice the
cheers, no alien hearts could pulse the
greeting that was General Pershlnss
here today There was hint or tears
in the welcome for those who gave IT
know not even the plaudits of CRATE
full people could Danish from the sad
faced soldiers mind the memory or
his own life's tragedy.
Dawn barely had broken when the
Leviathan loomed through the mists