Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1919-09-19
Thirty-ore Warships Pass Before
President in Harbor
at Seattle.
PEOPLE MASS STREETS
Executive Post in Peril When Launch
Comes in Collision With Naval
Boat-Speaks to Audience Of
Seven Thousand.

Portland, Ore, Sept. 16.-ouot-
ing from an address made in 1915,
by Senator Lodge, chairman Of
the senate foreign relations COM
mittee, suggesting that nations
must unite as men unite to pre-
serve peace, President Wilson told
Portland audience that the
league Of nations covenant carried
out what Mr.. Lodge had suggest.
ed. It was the first time during
his tour that Mr.. Wilson had men,
TONED by name any Of the sena-
tors opposing the league.
When the President went from
his hotel to the auditorium for
his night speech he again rode
through denseIy crowded streets
and was cheered all the way. The
audience stood ~ and appIauded
several minutes when he entered
the hall.
Seattle, WASH, Sept. 15.-President
Wilson, standing on the forward turret
of the old battleship Oregon, reviewed
81 warships Of the new Pacific feet in
Puget sound and closed a strenuous
IL hours later when he told nearly
1000 persons that those who had been
partisans of Germany in the war were
becoming interested in the debate on
the peace treaty. The presidential
party rested Sunday and left for Port.
land at night.
The president combined the great
est naval event in the history of the
Pacific coast, when each OF the latest
modern fighting ships in the sound
doomed a salute of 81 guns to the com
mander-in~chief, with parade through
the streets of Seattle and an address
in behalf of the League of Nations.
Seattle Like eedIam.
Arriving from Tacoma at 1870 p. M,
the president found the streets massed
with people-the town aflame with
bunting and patriotism. He proceeded
up Second avenue in his automobile
in the face of roar that sounded like
world series day. Soon the air was
filed with blizzard of confetti
Massed choruses along the curbs sang
bars of the national anthem as he
passed. Every side street was packed
for a block or two with clinging fig.
ures. The mob nearly broke away
from the police.
President Reviews Fleet.
After half an hour parade through
the city, the president and his party
went to the docks and took launches
and scows for the old battleship Ore
gon, which lay at anchor in the fair.
way.
AS the presidents launch got under
way to review the feet, another naval
boat cut across its bow. The one
carrying the president bumped the
other gently on the side. The presi-
dents launch backed away and made
a new start, getting clear.
Previous to the collision with the
motorboat, az the presidential launch
was leaving the dock, it lurched vio-
as If about to capsize. An officer
yelled trim ship" and the boat was
righted.
There vas hardly sea room for the
feet to maneuver and so the Oregon
weighed anchor after Admiral Hugh
Rodman had paid his respects to the
president and had gone on board his
flagship, the New Mexico, and passed
along to starboard of the dreadnaught
and battleship, as q general would
walk while reviewing his troops.
The presidents nag flew at the Ore
CONS masthead. Marines and sailors
manned the sails. AS the Oregon
passed each ship their crews came to
attention, their bands played THE
Star Spangled Banner" and the presi-
Dental salute was fired. After this
the Oregon hove to and waited for the
destroyers. They came in from the
ocean at a fast rate, about rs knots
an hour, a bone in their teeth" the
scout cruiser Birmingham leading the
way, and the 26 destroyers circled
around the Oregon. Airplanes buzzed
overhead, the air was dimmed with the
smoke of the guns.
R0uMANlAN Cabinet. FALLS