New-York tribune., 1921-04-19
Harding Visits
City To-day to
Honor Bolivar
Presidential Party Will Ar
rive at 2 O'clock, Lunch
At Hotel and Later Aid
in dwelling Monument
Closer Tie To Be Urged
venezuelan ENJOYS Deco
rate City Flag With the
Order of the Liberasor

President Harding will pay New York
hr;cs visit to-day. He is coming to
participate in the unvcilng. of a statue
.f the South American liberator, Cen
sral Simon Bolivar, in Central Park.
This bronze equestrian monument is a
iii from the people of Venezuela to
sbe City of New York
For the President the occasion offers
an opportunity to express his deep
rooted conviction that the welfare of
.hs Western Hemisphere depends upon
.hc Knitting Of closer ties of trade and
friendship between the peoples of North
snd South America. His speech this
sway from Washington and outside an
oficial setting since his Inauguration.
When MIR. Harding arrives aboard a
special train at the Pennsylvania Sta
ZION at 9 o'clock this afternoon he will
at foot in New York for the first
time since the uncertain pre-conven-
lion days, when he was merely one of
. number of dark horses in the contest
for the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation.
It has been planned for him to go
directly from the station to the Wal
orf-Astoria. escorted by detachment
n mounted police. George b. Christian
H.. the Presidents secretary, and
military aide will accompany him from
the capital.
Meets Mission at Waldorf
Al the Waldorf Mr.. Harding will
rrcet DR.. Estaban Gil Borges, Minis
Ter of Foreign Relations of Venezuela.
and the other members Of the special
mission, the function of which is to
bestow the Bolivar statue upon the
city.
others who will await the President
at the Waldorf-Astoria will be the
members of the Latin American diplo-
matte corps, Cabinet members, Cover
nor Miller, Mayor Hylan and other city
officials. All these are to be guests
of the Venezuelan Republic to- day at
luncheon.
From the hotel the distinguished
group will proceed, as part of parade,
10 Fifth Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street,
vest to Central Park West and then
north to Eighty Street. the near
est entrance to Bolivar Hill in the
park
After the unveiling and dedication
this afternoon President Harding Will
postpone his return to Washington
just long enough to pay a visit to the
lighthouse for the Blind, in III East
Fifty-nnth Street. BY his visit of
Inspection there he wishes to register
his complete approval of a S2,000,00C
campaign now being waged by the
Committee for Lighthouses for the
Blind.
Personal Interest in Blind
The President has sympathy for
the blind which is deeper than most,
because his youngest sister lost her
sight when she was a little girl, and
Died about ten yeaps ago in an institu-
ton for the blind in Columbus, Ohio.
"a preliminary OIL to-day's Bolivar
usebration was held yesterday at City
Hall, The Venezuelan special mission
beaded by DR.. Gil Borges, was well
coned officially by Mayor Hylan. The
exchange of Fluctuations was marked
BY the presentation to the city of its
first foreign decoration. DR.. Gil
Borges pinned to the municipal flag
the plaque and medal of the highest
class of the Venezuelan Order Of the
Liberator
This decoration is named for Simon
Bolivar, whose military genius won for
tae Latin American republics freedom
from Spanish rule. To-day is the one
nunaredth anniversary OF TINS tree
dom. AS the gold medal, with its red,
blue and yellow ribbon, was pinned to
the city's flag the fremen's band played
the Venezuelan national anthem
Guests Greeted at City Hall
The Venezuelans arrived at City Hall
escorted by troop of mounted police
and Rodman Wanamaker and Grover
Mhalen, of the Mayors Committee on
receptions tc Distinguished Guests.
ihe Mayor greeted the South American
guests in the aldermanic chamber.
In appending the Order of the Liber-
stor to the Aag DR.. Gil Borges said:
The Order of the Liberator is the
most ancient in South America, and is