The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-26

Bridgeport will pay honor today to the officers and men of the destroyer tender Bridgeport. and the subna- rines R-9 and R R-22. which arrived here yesterday to participate in the celebration of Navy Day tomorrow. The navy vessels were thrown open to inspection at o'clock this morn ing and visitors will be welcomed on board during their stay here. To- days program includes a parade of blu ejackets under command of Com
 rnander H. c. Cooke. through rns principal streets of the city shorr,x before noon; show for the enlisted men, and luncheon rendered officers
 and 25 enlisted men by the Kiwanfs
 Club.
 Since the visit of the naval vessels
 is intended by the Navy department
 primarily to reawaken interest in the
 first line of defense. angements
 Gave also been made for tha officers today to visit city schools where they will address the students. So far as navy Visitol are concerned, Mayor
 Atwater has thrown the key to the city away and the town is theirs
 HIga seas yesterday made rough going for the submarines and caused me Br1dgeport to anchor well out rom shore. The same high seas pro- V1oed an uncomfortable quarter of n hour for the reception committee which went out to meet the navel yes seIs and which had serious doubts for a time whether they would ever re- turn. The members of this commit tee got back very damp and very chilled and we'll content to let the pro h1bitionists and the navy rule the deep.
 Those on the committee, who went out in E. c. Mayo's cruiser .eVir ginia," were Edmund s. Wolfe presi- dent of the Chamber of Commerce; George lAnox, Veterans of Foreign " wars; George Moore. American Junior Chamber of Commerce.: Wal ter M. Bangs, president Kiwanis club: Attorney William w. Bent, vice presi- dent Lions club; George c. Waldo, president of Rotary club: Albert W Smith, chairman Navy Day cornrnit+ee. James L. McGovern, Collector of Port: Herman c. Feydt, Seward W. Price, Chamber of Commerce and D. Ear1e Gariick, prosecuting attorney.
 Although a naval parade was scheduled for yesterday it was found necessary to postpone it until today but the reception committee. welcom- ed to the city a landing party which avenue bridge and which was com~ posed of Commander H. c. Cooke, Lieut.. Commander H. c. Boynton, Lieutenant Commander L. P. Pamper- in; Lieutenant Commander F. E. Woodland; Lieutenant Commander c. c. Copp, Lieutenant H. R. Sobel, Lieu tenant K. Rundquist, Lieutenant A. Langfeld and Chaplain s. w. Sails
 
 warmly extended the visiting seamen when officers paid a formal call upon Mayor Atwater.
 Battling their way from New Lon don in what they described as the toughest weather ever encountered on the Sound Lieutenants T. D. Carr and M. D. Moore brought the sub marines R-22 and R-9 into the har- Dor safely, but three hours overdue. 1 Both officers had been drenched by | breakers surging over the coming | towers during the trip. An official egation headed by Assistant Prosecu- | tor Clarence Lister.
 The ships will remain here until to- morrow night Visitors to the Bridgep ort anch hored out near the breakwater, will be welcomed from | g d. m. to 11:$O a. m. and from l D. m. to 4:30 p. m. Inspection of the 1 which are tied up near | the Stratford avenue bridge, will be | held tomorrow from a. m to II a. | m. and from l to D. m.
 The twelve destroyers which were | recently sent to the Near East to aid l in the rescue work there were fitted | out before sailing and repaired by the Bridgeport, destroyers' tender, which Is here today. It is appropriate that this ship should be named after Br- dReport with it's important and | factories, because she is really a floating machine shop. 1 see shops which can repair the most delicate watc hes and instrum ents, l shops which can turn out patterns i for all kinds of machinery, and foun- | dries which can mold brass, iron ana copper; machine shops that can make | any and all sorts of delIcate mechan- isns needed to run destroyer. There