New-York tribune., 1919-07-08
Big Transport Will Land
Him in Hoboken at
l O'clock, Where Jer.
seyites Plan Welcome
Will Cross River
On Ferryboat
Procession Will Proceed
to Carnegie Hall, Where
He Will Make Address

The President comes home to-day.
The transport George Washington 10
scheduled to dock at Hoboken at
l O'Clock, and from 2 O'Clock until
o'clock Mr.. Wilson will be in New
York receiving greetings along Fifth
Avenue and in Carnegie Hall from tic
people he has represented at the peace
conference overseas for seven months.
The Presidents first thrill should be
the sight and sound of the gray, fat
hulk of the fighting ship Pennsylvania
booming a welcome salute of twenty
one guns. Possibly, too, there may be
an opportunity for a megaphoned
greeting from a silk hated group on
the deck of the Pennsylvania that will
include Vice-President Thomas r.
Marshall, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels and a number of Senators and
Representatives.
Bands to BIare Greeting
Then the big transport that was the
PAs0C VI tiAC A~OItH UcIutdu AIOyQ at
the outbreak of the war will be sur
rounded by q swarm of small harbor
craft that will reveal the emotions of
their passengers in gay flags and bunt-
ing, shrill whistles,' deep voiced sirens
and bands blaring all sorts of tunes
from "Home, Sweet Home to How're
You Going to Keep En- Down on the
Farm After They've Seen Par-ee"
The Pennsylvania will lead the way
past the Statue of Liberty and on up
the North River to Hoboken, where the
George Washington will dock. Presi-
dent Wilson will be met there by
Patrick r. Griffen, Mayor of Hoboken,
and committee of New Jersey citizens
Radio messages have informed Mr.
Wilson Of the programme outlined by
the New Jersey folk and he has agreed
to ride in an automobile procession,
starting at 1 o'clock and covering tho
following route: From the entrance Of
Pier q, Hoboken, north in River Street
to Fourth Street; past Hudson Square
Park in Fourth Street to Hudson
Street; thence one block west in Nud-
son Street to Washington Street:
thence south four blocks in Washing
ton Street to the City Hall; thence
east in Newark Street to the Lacka-
wanna Ferry.
Mayors to Greet Wilson
During his stay in New Jersey-his
own state--the President will be
guarded by 600 policemen from Jersey
City and 800 Hoboken police. In addi-
tion there will be mounted squads.
motorcycle squads and horde of plain
clothes men, secret service agents and
military police.
Mayor Griffen has invited Mayor
Hague of Jersey City and the mayors
Of other Hudson County municipalities
to participate in the welcoming cere-
monies at Hoboken. AS the PRESIDENT
comes ashore guns will be fired and
balloons released, each Of these carry
ing an American flag.
Ten thousand school children will
sing patriotic songs as the President
passes their station in Hudson Park
Leaving New Jersey on the Lacka-
wanna ferry President Wilson will
cross the Hudson River to Manhattan,
landing at Twenty third Street, where
he will be greeted by Governor Smith,
Mayor Hylan, and all the generals, ad-
mirals and other distinguished citizens
who have tickets and can get past the
rigid police lines that will be main
tanned there by Inspector John O'Brien.
Will Speak at Carnegie Hall
From the ferry house the Presi-
Dental party, including many of those
who have been overseas with him, his
official family (the part that stayed in
America) and the Citizens Committee
of Welcome, headed by Mayor Hylan.
and including some 800 citizens, will
proceed to Carnegie Hall where Presi-
dent Wilson is to make a brief adj
dress.
A regiment Of soldiers, sailors and
marines commanded by Colonel John
c. F. Tillson, commander of the
22d Infantry, stationed at Governors
Island, will act a. escort on the way
to Carnegie Hall,
The route from the ferry house to
Carnegie Hall follows:
East In Twenty-third Street to Fifth
Avenue; north in Fifth Avenue. Just
north of Twenty-ninth Street Fifth
Avenue has been torn up by the Water