Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-18
|DR. PESSOA TAKEN
OFF DISABLED SHIP
Brazilian President Elect
Thanks President Wilson for
American Hospitality.
COMING TO WASHINGTON

President-elect Pessoa of Brazil and
his party, who were en- route to the
United States from Portugal on the
French cruiser Jeanne dare, were
transferred to the American Army
transport Imperator 1000 miles at sea
yesterday. after the cruisers engines
had been disabled. Dispatches to the
Navy Department today said the
without incident and that the Impera-
tor would arrive at New Yofk tomor-
row morning.
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American troops. and awtreiess mes
sage recalled the big transport. Later
the transport Mongolia. bound from
New York for France" arrived and
took the cruiser in tow Tor a.the
At last reports the Mongolia was
making good speed with her tow. -
Sends Thanks to President Wilson.
After boarding the 1mperator DR..
Pessoa sent this wireless message to
President Wilson at Paris: D.
owing to a breakdown Of the .efl-
CINE Of the French cruiser on which
I was travelling to New York. she ~As
unable to proceed on her, voyage. The
United States ship Imperator imme-
diately came to our assistance, and 1
am now on the way to the United
States aboard her. 1 take great pleas
ure in thanking you for this gener-
Gus example of American hospitality,
which, not content with keeping with
in the bounds of it's great territory,
now extends itself to the very ocean"
ant I'D r,
the State Department Of plans for the
entertainment of DR.. Pessoa in the
United States said the Imperator
would be met off New York tomorrow
by an American naval craft which
would take DR.. Pessoa and his party
to the Brazilian warship Sac Paulo,
at New York. They will be enter
tanned at dinner on the warship, the
Sac Paulo being Brazilian territory
and the president-elect being unable
to accept American hospitality until
he has paid his respects to the United
States government at Washington.
After dinner aboard ship" said the
announcement. "Dr. Pessoa will spend
the night in New York, and will pro
coed to Washington by special train,
arriving in Washington late Friday
afternoon, where he will be met by
the acting Secretary of State, Mr..
Frank L. Polk, and other high .akv-
eminent officials. He will be recSked
with the full honors of the head Of a
sovereign state. He will be given a
twenty-one-gun salute, and will be
escorted by q troop of cavalry to his
Washington home, the house of Mrs.
Benjamin H. Warder, which she has
kindly placed at the disposal of the
government for his entertainment,
Other Honors in Washington.
ION Saturday he will be received
by the Wee President at the Capitol
and the Vice President will give a
large official dinner in his honor on
Saturday night. On Sunday he will be
the guest of the Secretary Of the Navy
and will go on the yacht Mayflower to
Mount Vernon and will lay a wreath
on the tomb Of Washington. He will
also be entertained later by the act
ing Secretary of State, the Secretary
of the Treasury and by the Secretary
Of Commerce. Details of his further
entertainment will be announced
later. His first visit after he leaves
Washington will be at New York"
Officials who will welcome DR.. Pes
soa at New York will include Third As
sistant Secretary of State Breckin-
ridge Long, Maj. Gen. ]. E. Kuhn, U.
S. A.; Rear Admiral w. B. Caperton,
U. S. N: Hallett johnson. acting chief
of the division of Latin American af-
fairs, Department of State; @. Cornell
Tarler. secretary of embassy, Depart,
ment Of State: John Barrett. director
general of the Pan-American Union:
Commander c. s. Baker. U. s. NJ; Maj.
F. w. Cramer, U. S. A.; Lieut.. Com
mander w. Y. Boyd. U. S. N.
Accompanying the United States Off
Gals will be A. de Ipanema Motira,
charge d'afYaires of Brazil, and Sebas-
tian Sampalo. Brazilian consul at St.
Louis.
The French cruiser Jeanne dare left
Lisbon June IL with DIR. Epitacio Pes
soa, President elect Of Brazil, on board,
DR.. Pessoa having completed at Lisbon
trip to various allied countries, in
GLIDING Italy. France. Belgium, England
and Portugal.
The Jeanne dare is one of the old
style warships of the French navy. She
is ATS feet long and has beam of So
feet. She displaces 11,270 tons and her
normal complement is 626 men.
The Imperator. to which Dr. Pessoa
is reported to have been transferred,
was formerly one Of the crack German
liners and is the second largest ship
afioat. She was turned over to the
United States by Germany under the
terms of the armistice. She Is at pres
emf beinC used as a tranSDOrt