The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-24
President Wilson
 Is Boston's Guest
(Continued from Page One)

tCOnunueQ rom GaSe One)
 As the head of the parade passed the intersection of Washington, Sum- mer and Winter streets, the pressure on the guards became so great that | the line threatened to break. The . guards held firm, however, and the i way was kept open for the presiden- l tial cars.
 At the head of Winter street, enter 1 ing Fremont, the President got his l first view of masses of humanity i banked on the common and in frort 1 of the state house, where the review l ing stand was placed. Passing the famous "Brimstone Corner and up the steep incline of Park sXeet, the President heard a roar of welcome from thousands. Less than half an hour was con stunned by the greetings. As soon as | the presentations were completed the | presidential party entered automobiles and began a parade across the city | through streets lined throughout the | two-mile route with double ranks of | soldiers and sailors and banked with cheering thousands.
 | In the car with President and Mrs. | Wilson were Governor. Coolidge and | Mayor Peters. Secret service men
 were III lIle next car. l He ll1lI q
 contained Major General Clarence E. | Edwards, commanding the North
 eastern Department; Rear Admiral | Spencer s. Wood, commanding the | First Naval District; Major General | Henry P. Mccain, commanding at
 Camp Devens and Brigadter General
 Jobn w. Ruckman, commanding tho north Atlantic coast artillery district. i Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Peters, Ambassa-
 dor Francis and Rear Admiral Gray
 son were in the next car and in oth
 CTS were Assistant Secretary of the l Navy Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt, | Miss Renham, Mrs. Wilson's secretary,
 and Congressman Helyering, Norton
 and White.
 For the greater part of the crowd this was the only opportunity to see the President as Mechanics hall where he was to deliver his only ad
 dress of the day, seats but 1000 peo- pie and all the tickets for the meeting were allotted several days ago. Build ings all along the route of the parade were ablaze with flags and bunting.
 The great steamer George Wash
 ington, on which the President and
 his party made the voyage from Trest, dropped anchor off Quarantine
 shortly after dark last night. The most exciting moments of the trip
 came on Sunday afternoon when it was suddenly discovered that the steamer. running through a dense fog, was headed directly for Thatcher's Island off Cape Ann. It was the de- stroyer Harding, running ahead as a guard ship, which discovered the danger and gave a warning signal.
 Engines were reversed and the ship was stopped a thousand yards from shore. in deep water.
 A short distance off Boston harbor the George Washington was met by an escort of eight submarine chasers sent from the navy yard here. The
 ship proceeded to quarantine and the Presidential party remained on board
 over night. It had previously been
 arranged that they should be brought
 up to Comm onwealth pier this after noon on the coast guard cutter Ossipee and that the George Washing
 ton should then leave for New York
 to land two thousand troops who re-
 turned with the President.
 James 1T. Wilson. son of Secretary
 of Labor William B. Wilson, and a. private in the Medical Corps, was the only man among the returning troops who was permitted to leave the ship here, and others remaining aboard for : the trip to New orl. Private Will son had been ordered to proceed at
 once to Washington because of the . serious illness of his mother.
 The storm which had hung over the coast for two days passed off to sea
 last night and the day opened clear. , The meeting at Mechanics hall was : set for 2:3O o'clock in the afternoon. All the baggage of the Presidential party of 45 persons was brought . l a m ofa1 air,
 which was made ready to start for . Washington with the President and
 his associates at 4:S0 D. m.
 :, Joseph r. Tumulty, secretary to the President, spent the night aboard the
 George Washington with President ? Wilson and came ashore today with the Presidential party. He was be- 'i lieved to have the engrossed copy of . the six billion dollar war revenue bill ' with him and it was thought Presi- = dent Wilson might gn the bill before , he landed.
 The Ossipee, a former coast guard cutter now in naval service, was the leader of the welcoming f1otilla. She
 displayed the flag of Rear Admiral
 Spencer ;. Wood, head of this naval ! district, who was aboard and she car z ried also the official greeting party 4 including Mayor Peters and Major
 General Clarence NJ. Edwards. Six Q other steamers were crowded with f Bostonions. Led by submarine chaser and with eight other subma- ! rine chasers fianking them, the fleet f proceeded down the harbor with
 bands playing patriotic airs and coIors 7. flying.
 n Every ship at the docks and at an-
 chor displayed all the flags in its lock- = CTS and every passenger on the well
 coming ships waved the Stars and . Stripes.
 , The troops who came from France 7 with the Presidential party on the