The sun., 1919-06-02
British and I. S. Ocean
Fliers HOisted to ShOul-
ders of Seamen.
HOLD FRIENDLY CHAT
Cheering Crowds Separate
Heroes From Their Of
ficial Parties.
BRITON SHOWS MODESTY
Insists Upon American TAX
Ing the HOnOrs Alone After
First Outburst.
BRITON SHOWS MODEsTY
By RAYMOND G. CARROLL.
special cable Despatch to TuE srS and IA,
Public Ledger.

sPe1a! Cdofe Despatch 10 Tue suN and fAe
Public Ledger.
Copyright. 1919; all ri0hts reserred.
LONDON, June when Lieutenant
commander Read In his sea green
navy uniform stepped from a railway
carriage to the platform at Padding
Ton Station at o'clock this afternoon
his first handshake came from a little
man In blue suit and checkered hat,
who simply said II am Hawker."
Mrs. Hawker for a few minutes was
with the Australian until the cheering
from the threats of two hundred Amer
lean sailors and four hundred dough
boys died down. then she lost him. In
tact, brother officers OF the American
Navy and members of the Royal Aero
Club in silk hats lost Read at the
same time.
Two husky doughboys grabbed Read
and up he went on their shoulders,
while two Yankee bluejackets raised
Hawker aloft. Breaking away from
the reception party and surrounded by
wildly shouting soldiers and sailors
with Red Cross man with a mega
phone leading, the two men were
taken up from the station to Cam
bridge Terrace, where Sunday crowds
joined in the succeeding peals Of yells
Read and Hswker Chat.
noticed Hawker and Read both grim
ming as they talked to each other, max
ing acquaintance and cementing friend
ship from the shoulders of the quartet
Of bearers who kept together as they
ran. First there was a voiley of cheers
for Read, then volley of cheers for
Hawker. Perfect naturalness without
planning. but simply spontaneous, gave
the reception its charm like nothing Lon
don has ever seen. Having carried the
pair of sea heroes for half a'dozen
blocks with the Union Jack and Stars
and Stripes waving before them, Hawker
remembered he had left his wife and au-
tomobile behind. Read bethought him
self OF his brother officers and their
plans. which he had not yet learned,
so back trotted the mob to the station.
Here Hawker entered his car and Read
WAS deposited in a small open motor.
which the sailors and doughboys at once
circled and started Off up Edgwar road
toward Marble Arch in Hyde Park, push
ing and pulling It.
All Reads Show This Time.
Waving his arms Hawker shouted to
Read: Better let them nave you! I
went through it at Kings Cross Station
last Tuesday" Read replied: 81 will
stick. So long, old chap. see you later y
Hawker wanted 1t to be all Reads
show and It was. Singing Hail, Hail.
the Gangs Al. Here" dancing from
curb to curb. now and then stopping to
cheer. Tommies. clerks and girls joining
in the throng, Read was mobbed all the
way to London. Never once would the
escort let the chauffeur put on power.
Behind came a procession OF army cars,
big and little runabouts and taxicabs
containing the amazed British and
American newspaper men.
At Marble Arch there came near being
riot. A procession Of motor buses
with cheering toploads and people afoot
got tangled up and II took half a dozen
hobbies coming on the run to straighten
out the maze Then on through oxford
street to New Bond street went the mad
crowd. It was more like armistice day
in Paris than anything 1 have witnessed.
Read finally was drawn up before the
Royal Aero Club in Clifford street.
where. giving him a final cheer, the
crowd dispersed. In this fashion did
the first man to fly over the Atlantic
enter London, the greatest of European
cities. The whole affair was impromptu.
none of the morning newspapers carry
ing notice OF Reads coming. The only
word that he was on the way reached
the American army and navy headquar-
ters half an hour before the train ar
rived.