The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-08

awaiting him at the end of the gang
plank was Secretary Baker, with
hands outstretched, Senator Warren,
of Wyoming, Pershing's father-in-
law and Mrs. Warren, William G.
McAdoo, General Peyton C. March,
chief of staff and members of the
mayors committee of welcome.
After informal greetings were over
Secretary Baker welcomed General
Pershing on behalf of the United
States and read letter from Presi-
dent Wilson telling of his regret at
being unable to join in the reception.
At the close of the address Secretary
Baker handed General Pershing his
commission as full general in the
American army.
Senator Wadsworth of New York
and Representative Mondell, majority
house leader, expressed formal well
come of the senate and house amid
a roar of cheering at the close of the
ceremonies at the pier General Per-
shing and party were then taken to
the city hall for the big reception to
be rendered him there.
General John J. Pershing, the idol
of the American people, who led the
American army to victor in France
and Belgium, reached New York to-
day and was honored as few Ameri-
cans have been honored in this coun-
try in recent years. The reception
given him was greater than that ac-
corded to President Wilson upon his
return to Boston, from Paris last
March. Pershing was signally honored
asst week by the United States SEN
tie voting confirmation of his ad-
yance to the permanent rank of gen
raj, the confirmation being made by
| rising vote as special mark of
lonor.
Iew York Gives Noisy Welcome to
American Hero.
NEW YORK.-(By Associated |
'ress. )-Amid the shrieking of sirens
rom thousands OF factories and ships
he Leviathan, the greatest ship
float, taken from the Germans and
sed to transport several hundred
housand American soldiers to and
rom France, bearing General John
/. Pershing, reached it's dock in Ho-
oxen, few minutes after o'clock
1is morning.
Forts doomed the generals salute
S the ship nosed into the harbor
nder the shadow of the statue of
liberty.
AS the great liner was being warp
into her berth there was tremen-
ous volley of cheers from the crowd.
eneral Pershing, smiling his ap-
recitation, with head barred, bowed
,peatedly in response to the ovation
iven him
At the pier many dignataries of the
atoms, state and city, welcomed him
] behalf of the nation :
When Congress conferred the per- :
anent title of General upon John j. {
ershing he was the fourth man to !
I'D that coveted title in the army of :
e United States. The other three !.
ere Grant, Sheridan and Sherman.
AS the central American figure in =
e world war, with the single eecxp-
IN of President Wilson, so much has
en- written about Pershing, and his +
e and history are so fresh in the :,
blic mind that it is difficult to tell g
e average American anything new !,
out the man who commanded the :
n
eat army on the battlefields of !, =
lrope. D
When some of Pershing's friends - -
eak of his rise to a position of great ;S,
litary Importance in world annals, =,
ey refer to story quite commonly :, -
d of Charles M. Schwab, the iron =. -
lster, who is said to have remarked !, !,
his old Scotch gardner, a friend of ~ u,
childhood: u
You never expected to see me in u
S place, did you" M M
And the gardner is said to have re- ~ ~
ed: ~ ~
ou never expected it yourself" =, ~
IS late as the time of the Russia - -
,anese war in 1904, Pershing, over al al
still was captain in the regular w "
ny. His associates say he never -, -,
lmbled, but always kept plugging D. D.
his job. Reams and reams have -
n written about how he took ~ ~
minent part in the pacification of - -
PHILIPPINE islands and how Presi- "a. og
t Roosevelt made him brigadier a.
eral, jumping him over the heads