New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Big Crowd at Pennsylvania
Station Awaits King and
Queen as They Arrive AZ
ter Tour Across Country
Queen Visits Bronx Zoo
King Drives Car Down Bow
cry and Through East
Side; Trip in Westchester

King Albert and Queen Elizabeth OF
the Belgians returned to New York yes
terday, completing their tour Of more
than 5000 miles across the continent
and back. The trim started October s.
Long before the special train which
carried the royal couple and Prince
Leopold, heir TO tho Belgian throne,
sylvania Station crowd filled every
available spot surrounding the automo-
bile roadway which leads from the
Thirty-frst Street side of the station to
Seventh Avenue, Just before $3.50
o'clock the train arrived on track Nc, A,
and Bclgium's rulers received hearty
greeting from the tranmen, trackmen
and other railroad workers grouped oil
the lower level of the station. The
cheering was re9choed when the King
and Queen stepped out Of the elevator
which carried them TO the street level
and continued all along the route to
the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. The royal
party is occupying the same suite in
the hotel as on their first visit to New
York.
Whitiock With the King
King Albert, Brand Whitlock, United
States Ambassador to Belgium, and
Rear Admiral Andrew 7. Long were in
the first automobile, followed by Queen
Elizabeth and the Baroness Cartier de
Marchienne, wife Of the Belgian Am
the royal pair on their arrival from
Harrisburg Prince Leopold rode in
the third car.
Besides the Baroness Cartier de Mar
chienne, Prince Reginald de Croy, Of
the Belgian Embassy, and Colonel Jo-
seph A. Marmon, acting chief of staff
Of the Port of EmbarkAtion, represent
ing Major General Shanks, welcomed
the King and Queen at the Pennsyl-
yauia Station
Twenty days of transcontinental
eagerness for civic activities in tho
three crowded days allotted to the me-
tropoGs in this visit. Last night the
KING attended the banquet OF the Amer
lean Iron and Steel Institute at the
Hotel Commodore, while the Queen
dined privately at the Waldorf Astoria.
Cheered BY Steel Men
Twelve hundred or more members Of
the institute rose and cheered AZ the
King entered. The grand ballroom of
the hotel, where the dinner was held,
was decorated with the colors of tho
Allies. At one end of the speakers
table where King Albert sat, spot
light played upon a Belgian flag and
at the opposite end smother played on
the American flag, both ripping in an
artificial breeze.
King Albert was accompanied by
Prince Leopold Baron de Marchienne,
Ambassador Whitlock, Admiral Long
and Major General Wright. The
address OF welcome was delivered by
Ebert ii. Gary, president OF the in
stitute. Mr.. Gary referred. TO the firm
stand the King of the Belgians had
taken in 1914 against German aggres-
sion. 1t was this, he said. which
saved Paris, saved France and saved
the world
"That finest type of king" M. Gary
concluded, that every-inch-e-r that
soldier ruler, has honored US by his
presence"
The diners jumped TO their feet. A
tumult Of applause and cheering broke
out which lasted until it was seen that
King Albert was on his feet waiting
to speak.
hing AIbert's Address
King Albert's first words expressed
the hope that President Wilson soon
would recover his health. He proposed
a toast to the President and when il
mad been drunk delivered his address,
which follows:
"Gcntlemcn, I thank heartily Judge
Gary for his very kind welcome. He
is an old friend of Belgium. 1t is in
deed for me a great, kind pleasure and
real privilege to address an assembly