The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-02
BELGIAN RULER
ARRIVES;NATION
TO HONOR HERO
King, Queen and Prince
Will Step Ashore at Hobo
ken This Morning.
GUESTS HERE TOMORROW
Great Welcome Planned for
Royal Party-Will Leave
Sunday for Boston.
GUESTS HERE TOMORROW

heroic ruler VINO spurned peace wnen
it involved dishonor. will set foot to-
day on American soil for the second
time in his career. The transport
George Washington, bearing the King,
his consort Queen Elizabeth, Prince
Leopold. Duke Of Brabant and heir
apparent to the Belgian throne, and
the members of their suite, dropped
anchor off Sandy Hook last night and
will proceed into the harbor at dawn
this morning.
After the formalities at Quarantine
have been completed the vessel will
dock at the army piers at Hoboken,
where the royal party will be received
with fitting honors by Vice-President
Marshall, Secretary Of State Lansing,
Secretary of War Baker, Gen. Peyton
c. March, Chief of STAFF; Breckenridge
Long, Third Assistant Secretary OF
State; Gov. Runyon Of New Jersey
and Mayor Griffin of Hoboken. Major
Gen. David C. Shanks, commander Of
the Port of Embarkaflon, and his staff
and a number of other military off,
GERS and civilians also will be in at
tendance, Admission to the pier, how
ercr, wtn be limited strictly to those
who have passes signed by Mr.. Long
who Is In charge of all arrangements
for the progress OF the royal visitors.
second Visit TO the United states.
1t is twenty years since King Albert.
then heir to the throne, visited the
United States. He was then unknown
save as the possible future ruler OF
little European State about which
Americans knew little and thought less
and his arrival and the extensive tour
he undertook in this country excited
little notice. He comes to-day as the
representative of people who have suf-
fered all that war waged by a relent-
less foe can infiict, and triumphed at
last In his own person he stands
as the personification OF Kingship in it's
ancient and true sense. He comes too
to express the gratitude of his country
men for the timely aid which came to
them from America. aid without which
they would in all probability have been
swept from the earth.
King Albert is the personification of
all that moved the American people to
sympathy with the allied cause even
before events impelled this nation to
take part in the great conflict against
Germany, and he will receive a popular
reception such as few visitors to this
country have been accorded.
The official ceremonies at Hobokcn.
however, will be brief Vice-President
Marshall will welcome the royal visitors
on behalf of President Wilson. whose
illness prevents his presence, and Gov.
Runyon also will speak. Then the King
and Queen and their attendants will
be taken In automobiles 10 the Waldorf
Astoria by way OF the Twenty-third
cupy the rooms used by Gen. Pershing
on his return from France and addi-
tional apartments along the Fifth ave-
nue. and Thirty third street sides OF the
building on the third and fourth floors.
Mr.. Long was solicitous yesterday that
the royal couple enjoy complete rest and
quiet until they become officially the
guests OF the city on Friday. He said
he hoped the public would permit them
to remain in complete seclusion.
Real Welcome Tomorrow.
Representatives of the Mayors COM
mittee OF Welcome will go down the bay
to meet the George Washington this
morning and several vessels of the mu-
nicipal fleet will escort the transport
from Quarantine to the Hoboken pier.
but the official greeting of the city will
take place tomorrow. At IL 80 to-
morrow morning the royal party will
be taken in automobiles to one of the
North River piers, whence they will
proceed by boat 10 the Battery. A
guard OF honor composed of two COM
panies of regular infantry, two COM
panies of seamen and two compa nies
of marines will give the honors due a
visiting sovereign az Pier, A, and the
Mayors committee will escort the King
and Queen and their attendants to the
City Hall by way Of Broadway and
Park Row.
At the City Hall Mayor Hylan will
extend the freedom OF the city to the
royal couple and the King will make
brief address in reply. The King and
Queen. accompanied by the members of
the Mayors committee and the guard
OF honor will then return TO the Wal
dorf. The guard OF honor will be under
the command OF Major-Gen. Barry, com
manding the Department of the East,
and Rear Admiral Glennon, commanding
the Third Naval district.
On Friday afternoon the royal party
will see $4,000 school children in Central
Park and In the evening they win at
tend gala performance at the Hippo
drome.
Saturdays programme includes visits
TO the Woolworth Building, the Stock
Exchange and the Produce Exchange
by the King, and luncheon at the hank
he -
for Relief In Belgium. In the afternoon
the royal couple viii receive the rep
Continued on NintA Pogo.